LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jim Harrick Jr., who played at Pepperdine and worked as an assistant basketball coach at Georgia and several other schools, has died. He was 58. UCLA says Harrick Jr. died at his home in San Marcos, California, after battling a glioblastoma brain tumor for 2 1/2 years. His father Jim Sr.
Continue ReadingCNN By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The US government is planning to change auto emissions standards in a way that means automakers would need to sell a lot more electric vehicles. By 2032, electric vehicles would need to make up about two-thirds of all the new cars sold in America. Without these requirements, electric vehicles
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The US government is planning to change auto emissions standards in a way that means automakers would need to sell a lot more electric vehicles. By 2032, electric vehicles would need to make up about two-thirds of all the new cars sold in America. Without these requirements, electric vehicles would
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Environmental authorities in Colombia say a hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV near Escobar’s hacienda. The hippos, which spread from the estate into nearby rivers and now number more than 100, have no natural
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Grocery prices finally dipped in March, falling for the first time since September 2020, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of six major grocery food group indexes, three fell from February to March. The meats, poultry, fish and eggs index fell 1.4%, pulled down by another
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as part of his panel’s investigation into the agency’s probe of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The House subcommittee investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government has made Twitter
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN If you’re cool, you’ll donate blood. That’s the message being sent in the latest American Red Cross partnership with “Peanuts.” Everyone who donates blood by April 23 will receive a T-shirt while supplies last, featuring Snoopy as his alter ego, Joe Cool, in front of the Red Cross logo with the
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have decided to move the key suspect at the heart of the corruption scandal rocking the European Union’s assembly from jail and place her under house arrest. The federal prosecutor’s office says that former parliament vice president Eva Kaili would remain under electronic surveillance while the investigation into the money-for-political
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected in the first inning against the Cleveland Guardians following a heated exchange with umpires over a play that wasn’t initially reviewed by replay. The Guardians had runners at second and third with one out when Josh Naylor hit
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The State Land Board is urging continued action to address the impacts of abandoned and derelict vessels on public waterways and funding for public schools.
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has returned to the New York prison system after spending nearly two years in California, where he was tried and convicted of raping an Italian actor and model. New York state prison officials say Weinstein will be housed at the Mohawk
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN The search for New York City’s first-ever “rat czar” has come to an end. Kathleen Corradi has been hired as the city’s director of rodent mitigation, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday. Corradi will coordinate city agencies such as the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Parks and Recreation, and Sanitation and
Continue ReadingBy Christie Ileto Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — This week, the School District of Philadelphia hit a grim milestone. District officials confirmed 100 students have been shot, with 20 of them killed since the school year began. For a lot of city kids, getting to and from school safely is
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — New video shows the suspects wanted for setting fire to a car – twice – at a dealership Mayfair section of Philadelphia. It happened on the 6300 block of the Roosevelt Boulevard. Police say the suspects set the first fire at 12:35
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Expecting a tax refund? It could be smaller than last year. And with inflation still high, that money won’t go as far as it did a year ago. The more than 100 million taxpayers who have had their returns processed as of April 7 got refunds
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Expecting a tax refund? It could be smaller than last year. And with inflation still high, that money won’t go as far as it did a year ago. The 90 million taxpayers who have filed as of March 31 got refunds that were an average of
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — ChatGPT could return to Italy by the end of the month if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries. The Italian data protection authority on Wednesday outlined a raft of requirements that OpenAI will have to
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a
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Central Oregon Community College is pleased to announce that students Adriana Altamirano of Bend, Claire Landon of Sisters, Nacho Ruiz of Madras and Oscar Tovar of Bend were selected to represent the college on the Oregon Community College Association’s 2023 All-Oregon Academic Team.
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