JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — School district officials in Alaska investigating how students at a summer child-care program were served floor sealant instead of milk say the two products were not on the same pallet as first believed. A number of agencies are involved in the ongoing investigation into Tuesday’s incident at a summer program at
Continue ReadingBy KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics made an NBA Finals run nobody saw coming, going from a team that was three games under .500 in January to within two victories of winning the franchise’s 18th championship. Having those hopes disappear in the haze of three straight losses to the champion
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first three hearings, the House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection has laid out the beginnings of its case against former President Donald Trump — that his lies about the 2020 election, and his pressure on his vice president to overturn it, directly led to
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer and Ali Zaslav, CNN Sen. John Cornyn, the lead Republican negotiator on the bipartisan gun safety package, told a home-state crowd at the Texas GOP convention on Friday that he had “fought and kept President Biden’s gun grabbing wish list off the table,” yet still received boos from the crowd as he
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Phil Mickelson’s tee shot on No. 3 in the second round of the U.S. Open landed in the rough to the right. When he arrived at his ball, he saw a man sitting on the ground, holding an icepack to his right temple, with medical
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Vets for Trump co-founder arrested after driving a Hummer containing weapons and ammunition to a site where votes were being counted in Philadelphia in November 2020 will remain free despite violating bail conditions. A judge said at a hearing Friday that Joshua Macias had violated bail
Continue ReadingBy KPIX Staff Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND. California (KPIX) — A 25-year-old man from San Francisco was killed and four others were wounded outside a downtown Oakland sports bar on Thursday night, police said. The shooting occurred at Halftime Sports Bar on 14th Street around 10:30 p.m. The San Francisco man,
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By Steve Large Click here for updates on this story RANCHO CORDOVA, California (KOVR) — The Rancho Cordova gas station manager fired for accidentally selling 69-cent gas and costing his company thousands of dollars is now receiving attention from people across the country wanting to help him. As of Thursday night, John Szczecina’s family’s GoFundMe
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urged airline executives in a private conversation on Thursday to review their flight schedules and take other steps to soften the impact of summer flight cancellations, according to a source familiar with the call. The source said Buttigieg asked CEOs on the call to talk through plans
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By Logan Smith Click here for updates on this story SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — A rural Colorado sheriff criticized a sports car rally for endangering his county’s citizens following high-speed crash that killed two members of the event Thursday. The two men, whose identities have not yet been released, died when their vehicle
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tony Stewart’s all-star auto racing series begins its second season Saturday night hoping for another big summer. Superstar Racing Experience averaged at least 1 million viewers in each of its six Saturday night races last summer on CBS. SRX thinks it can be even
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for July delivery fell $8.03 to $109.56 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for August delivery fell $6.69 to $113.12 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for July delivery fell 17 cents to $3.79 a gallon. July heating oil fell 23 cents to $4.34 a gallon. July natural gas fell 52
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen has threatened to retaliate against the Minnesota board that oversees doctors as it investigates him for the fifth time. Jensen calls the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice a “juggernaut” that he’ll deal with if he’s elected governor. Jensen, a family practice physician
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy Gabe Sterling will testify publicly at the next hearing held by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the plans tells CNN. The hearing,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN In the trailer for her new reality series, “Leave It To LeToya,” LeToya Luckett laughs, “I’m really out here telling all my business.” Well, maybe not all of it, but plenty. The singer, actress and former original member of Destiny’s Child is opening up about her life on her new
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An elected official who was a central figure in a New Mexico county’s refusal to certify recent election results based on debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines has avoided more jail time for joining the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol. Couy Griffin was
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Killough, CNN A Dallas County judge granted a motion Friday to strike the Texas Attorney General’s intervention in a case where a doctor is fighting to continue providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth at Children’s Medical Center, a decision which essentially removes Ken Paxton’s office from the case. The decision was another victory
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Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Fredreka Schouten and Andrew Millman, CNN Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner, ardent election-fraud conspiracy theorist and founder of Cowboys for Trump, avoided more jail time on Friday for his role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack. He was sentenced to 14 days with time served, fined $3,000 and
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business TikTok has moved its US user data to Oracle’s cloud platform, the short-form video app announced Friday. The decision addresses concerns from US officials that the social media company’s Chinese ties could pose national security risks. In a blog post, TikTok said it has “changed the default storage location of
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