RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi State University Extension Service researcher is hoping to help expand the niche for passionfruit growers. Demand is growing for the sweet, low-calorie tropical fruit, said Eric Stafnne, a fruit and nut specialist Eric Stafne at the extension service. Most U.S. production is in Florida, Hawaii, California, and Puerto Rico,
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By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said Friday he will refuse to take the field for the national anthem in a protest over the nation’s political direction following this week’s school shooting in Texas. “I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I
Continue Reading By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said Friday he will refuse to take the field for the national anthem in a protest over the nation’s political direction following this week’s school shooting in Texas. “I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I
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By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said Friday he will refuse to take the field for the national anthem in a protest over the nation’s political direction following this week’s school shooting in Texas. “I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I
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The El Centro Police Department says officers found nearly 130 pounds of illegal fireworks on Broadway in El Centro.
Continue Reading By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham slapped him prior to Friday’s series opener over a dispute about their fantasy football league. While the Giants warmed up in the outfield, Pham confronted Pederson and smacked him in the face before the pair
Continue Reading By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham slapped him prior to Friday’s series opener over a dispute about their fantasy football league. While the Giants warmed up in the outfield, Pham confronted Pederson and smacked him in the face before the pair
Continue Reading By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham slapped him prior to Friday’s series opener over a dispute about their fantasy football league. While the Giants warmed up in the outfield, Pham confronted Pederson and smacked him in the face before the pair
Continue Reading HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Ryan Ritter was 3 for 5 with three RBIs, including a two-run double in the seventh inning, and 12th-seeded Kentucky beat No. 8 seed Vanderbilt 10-2 in the SEC Tournament. Kentucky, which is slated to play in another elimination game on Saturday, has won multiple conference tournament games for the first
Continue Reading HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Ryan Ritter was 3 for 5 with three RBIs, including a two-run double in the seventh inning, and 12th-seeded Kentucky beat No. 8 seed Vanderbilt 10-2 in the SEC Tournament. Kentucky, which is slated to play in another elimination game on Saturday, has won multiple conference tournament games for the first
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Former All-Star pitcher Carlos Martínez has been suspended for 80 games under baseball’s minor league drug program following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Ibutamoren, which increases Human Growth Hormone. The 30-year-old right-hander signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox on May 7. Martínez made a pair
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Former All-Star pitcher Carlos Martínez has been suspended for 80 games under baseball’s minor league drug program following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Ibutamoren, which increases Human Growth Hormone. The 30-year-old right-hander signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox on May 7. Martínez made a pair
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By Virginia Langmaid, Christina Maxouris and Melissa Gray, CNN As a broken community tries to make sense of a massacre that took the lives of 19 young children and two teachers, authorities have offered shifting timelines of what happened inside the Uvalde, Texas, school. On Friday, May 27, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven
Continue ReadingBy Anjali Patel Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A couple said “I do” at Mission Hospital on Thursday to fulfill the wishes of the groom’s father, whose health has been failing. Derrick Marotta and his fiancee Caylea Lautner traveled from New York to North Carolina to spend time
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Vyvianna Quinonez was also ordered Tuesday by the federal judge in San Diego to pay nearly $26,000 in
Continue Reading By Curt Devine, CNN The law enforcement official who made the decision not to breach the Uvalde elementary school classroom where a gunman was shooting children and teachers was the school district police chief, officials said Friday. Col. Steven McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety director, didn’t mention the official’s name at a news conference
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man was facing multiple theft charges Friday after detectives found more than 1,200 catalytic converters packed into a storage unit, a case that highlights a national surge in thefts of the pricy auto parts that play a critical role in reducing vehicle emissions. The discovery
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El verano en el hemisferio norte está alcanzando altas temperaturas, reina el caos en los viajes y los turistas están decididos a tener un “viaje de venganza”. Y en Venecia, eso se conjugó en una serie de turistas con comportamientos indeseables. En las dos últimas semanas se han producido una serie
Continue ReadingBy Michele Munz Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — “He didn’t have any family,” Chandra White told the group before they left a hospital parking lot in a funeral procession to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. “But now, he does.” A U.S. veteran, who died alone in August
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A January 6 rioter and alleged White supremacist was convicted Friday on all five charges he faced after hitching his case to the claim that he didn’t know Congress met at the United States Capitol. “I thought there were several buildings called ‘Capitol building,’” Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an alleged
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