By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths, byes and position is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths, byes and position is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the WNBA enters its final few weeks of the regular season, the race between teams battling for playoff berths, byes and position is heating up. Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are all vying for the coveted double bye. The Sun have the inside track
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NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey woman with the Instagram handle AntiVaxMomma sold several hundred fake COVID-19 vaccination cards at $200 a pop to New York City-area jab dodgers, including people working in hospitals and nursing homes. Prosecutors say Jasmine Clifford, of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, sold about 250 fake vaccine cards in
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers face tough economic and security challenges as they return to power in a country that is vastly different from the one they left 20 years ago. When they last ruled in the late 1990s, Afghanistan was a poor, agricultural nation, and the
Continue Reading By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare’s exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday. It’s a counterintuitive assessment that deepens the uncertainty around the nation’s bedrock retirement programs. Social Security’s massive trust fund
Continue Reading OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The wife of California’s new attorney general is leading in her race for his old Assembly seat. Mia Bonta was backed in Tuesday’s special general election by a powerful coalition that her challenger says makes her beholden to corporate interests. Bonta and fellow Democrat Janani Ramachandran are vying for the San
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A local mother says she was notified late about her child being exposed to a student with COVID.
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The City of Yuma warns locals that expected high winds this week may damage outside solid waste and/or recycling bins.
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Residents in the Fortuna Foothills area will soon have piece of mind knowing a healthcare facility is closer to home. Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) has announced plans to open up a multifaceted complex with an emergency department and several other services.
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By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business Pearl Milling Company unveiled a new ad campaign this week to remind pancake and syrup lovers that although the brand changed its name from Aunt Jemima earlier this year, it still tastes the same. Aunt Jemima isn’t mentioned in two of Pearl Milling Company’s new commercials, one of which aired
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There is never a good time to make a coaching change in college football, but the downtrodden Kansas program was forced into perhaps the most inconvenient of all: a month after national signing day and just as spring practices began. But new Jayhawks coach Lance
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There is never a good time to make a coaching change in college football, but the downtrodden Kansas program was forced into perhaps the most inconvenient of all: a month after national signing day and just as spring practices began. But new Jayhawks coach Lance
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — For Alicia Keys, “Girl On Fire” isn’t just a million-selling single, but the title and inspiration for a young adult graphic novel scheduled for next year. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that “Girl On Fire,” the story of 14-year-old Lolo Wright and her telekinetic powers, will come out March 1. The book
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MOUNTAIN VIEW Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January. The internet search giant is also to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Continue Reading MOUNTAIN VIEW Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January. The internet search giant is also to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic has started his bid to make history at the U.S. Open with a four-set victory over Danish teenager Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune. The top-seeded Djokovic is trying to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969 and collect a record-breaking
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic has started his bid to make history at the U.S. Open with a four-set victory over Danish teenager Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune. The top-seeded Djokovic is trying to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969 and collect a record-breaking
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler, Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The last US military planes have left Afghanistan, Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command, announced Monday at the Pentagon. The US departure marks the end of a fraught, chaotic and bloody exit from the United States’ longest war. “I’m here to
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has allowed dozens of truckloads of construction materials into the Gaza Strip, easing a tight blockade it has maintained on the Hamas-ruled territory since an 11-day war in May. The imports Tuesday came during a tense period in which Hamas activists have launched
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