By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan woman has been awarded over $400,000 by a jury after suing New York City and its police department, saying she suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was thrown to the ground while serving as a medic for protesters during 2012 Occupy Wall Street
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The series opener between the New York Yankees and Cleveland was postponed by rain, the latest weather issue for the Guardians, who have already played five doubleheaders at home. They’ll have their sixth at Progressive Field on Saturday as the teams will play two, starting at
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors are signaling that they want to pursue the same charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others in the Flint crisis over lead-contaminated water. The move comes just a few days after the state Supreme Court said indictments must be dismissed. The attorney general’s
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Restricted free-agent forward Brock Boeser re-signed with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, agreeing to three-year deal worth $6.65 million a season. The 25-year-old right wing from Burnsville, Minnesota, had 23 goals and 23 assists in 71 regular-season games last season. He has 121 goals and 135 assists in 324 career
Continue ReadingAngel Nakamura (CNN Español) — Este viernes falleció en el Hospital General de Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, en el noreste de México, Cinthya de la Cruz Martínez, hija del periodista Antonio de la Cruz, quien fue asesinado el miércoles, informó este viernes en su cuenta de Twitter el periódico Expreso de Ciudad Victoria, para el que
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Prolific Western author Rick Steber of Prineville claims Bend’s High Desert Museum has banned his books because they are going in a different, more progressive direction, sparking an outcry on social media. But the museum, which just turned 40, claims it’s not about politics or censorship, only that his books simply didn’t sell.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who once competed on the Philippines national decathlon team has agreed to plead guilty to bilking investors out of more than $28 million with a phony scheme to market cannabis vape pens. Federal prosecutors announced Friday that David Bunevacz of Calabasas will plead guilty to securities and
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who once competed on the Philippines national decathlon team has agreed to plead guilty to bilking investors out of more than $28 million with a phony scheme to market cannabis vape pens. Federal prosecutors announced Friday that David Bunevacz of Calabasas will plead guilty to securities and
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — La hermana del presunto narcotraficante colombiano Dairo Úsuga, también conocido por el alias “Otoniel”, fue extraditada a Estados Unidos para enfrentar cargos de narcotráfico, anunció el viernes la Policía Nacional de Colombia. Nini Johana Úsuga David, de 40 años, está acusada de lavado de dinero para el Clan del Golfo y
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Gov. Kate Brown on Friday ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff until sunset Saturday in honor and remembrance of Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, who died on Wednesday.“Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams was the embodiment of an American patriot. He
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN An apparent cyberattack this week on Florida-based IT provider Geographic Solutions has disrupted unemployment and workforce benefits for thousands of people in multiple states and Washington, DC. Unemployment payments are delayed for people in Tennessee, where about 12,000 people rely on the program, and in Nebraska, according to statements from state
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle charges that it falsified records about international deliveries of U.S. mail. The Justice Department said Friday that the European airline incorrectly reported when and where mail shipments arrived to avoid penalties for deliveries that were late or went to the wrong location.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle charges that it falsified records about international deliveries of U.S. mail. The Justice Department said Friday that the European airline incorrectly reported when and where mail shipments arrived to avoid penalties for deliveries that were late or went to the wrong location.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The major league batting average was .242 in June, down from .245 in May, and home runs are down 9% from last season at this point, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The season batting average is .242. Batting average was an especially low .231 through April. Last year, it rose
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website. That lapse exposed the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners. The website was designed to only show general data about the number and location
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled Arizona has been violating the constitutional rights of incarcerated people in state-run prisons by providing them with inadequate medical and mental health care. Judge Roslyn Silver said the problems stem largely from not having enough health employees to care for the roughly
Continue ReadingPERRY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a teenage girl was seriously injured when a shark attacked her off Florida’s Gulf Coast. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office says the attack occurred Thursday afternoon off Keaton Beach. The 17-year-old girl’s family says a 9-foot shark wrapped its jaws around the girl’s thigh. The girl poked the shark
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Conference realignment in college sports has been going on since 1984, when the Supreme Court invalidated the NCAA’s national television contract for football. The conference juggling has gone through ebbs and flows through the years since, from small schools bumping up to bigger leagues to power programs switching to
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Conference realignment in college sports has been going on since 1984, when the Supreme Court invalidated the NCAA’s national television contract for football. The conference juggling has gone through ebbs and flows through the years since, from small schools bumping up to bigger leagues to power programs switching to
Continue ReadingBy Kiely Westhoff, Samantha Beech and Shawna Mizelle, CNN New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed two bills into law that protect out-of-state residents seeking reproductive services and reproductive health care providers. The bills, A3974 and A3975, shield health care providers from other state’s inquiries and prohibit the extradition of any person who comes
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