CAPE GIRARDEU, Mo. (AP) — A man who set a fire that destroyed an Islamic center in southeast Missouri has pleaded guilty to hate crime and arson charges. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that 44-year-old Nicholas John Proffitt, of Cape Girardeau, pleaded guilty in the April 2020 fire at the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center. Videos show
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Free agent right-hander Ross Stripling and the San Francisco Giants have reached agreement on a $25 million, two-year contract. He’s expected to be a starter in a rotation featuring Logan Webb, newcomer Sean Manaea, Alex Cobb and Alex Wood. Stripling’s contract includes a $5 million
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Hay tensión diplomática entre Ecuador y Argentina luego de que el gobierno de Alberto Fernández le diera asilo a María de los Ángeles Duarte, exministra de Transporte y Obras Públicas de Ecuador sentenciada por corrupción en abril de 2020. Duarte se ha declarado inocente y ha rechazado las acusaciones en
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN The future of Title 42, and the situation at the US-Mexico border, remains in limbo for now. The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the controversial Trump-era border restriction will remain in effect while legal challenges play out, a move that ensures federal officials will be able to continue to swiftly
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A northeast Bend woman reported missing late Monday after she failed to return from an afternoon walk to a nearby convenience store was found “alive and safe” in Southern Oregon on Wednesday evening and is receiving medical attention, Bend Police said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brock Purdy is trying to heal from injuries to his oblique and ribs and prepare for a trip to notoriously tough Seattle on a short week for the San Francisco 49ers. Purdy got injured on a scramble on the second drive of the
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A court ruling says a Jewish death row inmate who was part of the “Texas 7” should have his conviction overturned and get a new trial because the judge presiding over his case “harbored antisemitic bias.” Lawyers for Randy Halprin have contended that former Judge Vickers
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after friends and relatives had last heard from them, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday. Kevin Hyde, 65, and Joe Ditomasso, 76, were sailing from Cape May, New
Continue ReadingMONACO (AP) — United States sprinter Randolph Ross has been banned for three years for whereabouts failures and faking an email to anti-doping authorities. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced that the back-to-back NCAA champion from North Carolina A&T will be suspended until June 30, 2025. That means he’ll be ineligible for the Paris Olympics in
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The remains of a Confederate general have been unearthed in Richmond a day after a statue bearing his name was taken down. As the remains of Gen. A.P. Hill were removed Tuesday, onlookers engaged in a sometimes-heated discussion with a handful of Sons of Confederate Veterans who also watched as workers
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Miguel Barbosa, gobernador del estado mexicano de Puebla, murió este martes. Así lo informó el Gobierno de Puebla en su cuenta de Twitter. Según el mensaje, el gobernador falleció en la Ciudad de México. El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador reaccionó a la noticia en su cuenta de Twitter: “Lamento mucho
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Statehouse panel is weighing whether to approve Gov. Charlie Baker’s recommended pardons of two individuals at the center of one the nation’s most high-profile sexual abuse trials of the 1980s. Gerald “Tooky” Amirault, his sister Cheryl Amirault LeFave and their late mother, Violet, were convicted
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in nearly two decades, according to a new FBI report that experts say is actually an undercount because thousands of police departments didn’t report their data. Major cities like New York and
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp is likely to miss the rest of the season with his sprained right ankle. Coach Sean McVay left open the slightest possibility the 2021 AP Offensive Player of the Year could return, but says it will almost certainly take
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A suspected officer with Russia’s Federal Security Service was among seven people accused by federal prosecutors with helping the country illegally obtain sensitive electronic components from U.S. companies to help Russia’s military efforts. A 16-count indictment unsealed Monday in Brooklyn charges the defendants with conspiracy and other counts related to what
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Amanda Musa, CNN Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, has reached a $2 million dollar settlement with the City of Louisville, resolving lawsuits Walker filed in response to “the unlawful police raid that led to Ms. Taylor’s death,” a news release from Walker’s legal team says. Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The streets of Argentina turned into a party Tuesday as the national team beat Croatia by a comfortable 3-0 and earned this soccer-crazed South American country a spot in the World Cup final. Fans poured onto the streets of the capital of Buenos Aires as
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press TCU football coach Sonny Dykes is among the many mourning the death of Mike Leach. Leach died this week at the age of 61 after a long, colorful career with stops at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State. Dykes says no one had a greater influence on him other than
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Con la victoria sobre Croacia en la semifinal del Mundial de Qatar 2022, Argentina vuelve una vez más al partido más importante de selecciones en el mundo. La albiceleste, que ha sido protagonista del fútbol mundial en la última década, llega a la final de la Copa del Mundo después
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El cuerpo sin vida de “Lalo” Rodríguez, conocido cantante puertorriqueño y recordado por “Ven, devórame otra vez”, fue hallado en el municipio de Carolina, confirmó la policía de Puerto Rico este martes. De acuerdo con el informe de la oficina de prensa, “se alertó a la Policía sobre una persona que
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