BERLIN (AP) — Storms and heavy rain across a large swath of Germany have flooded roads and forced the closure of some major railway routes, but there is no immediate word of any injuries. Germany’s national weather service had warned earlier this week of severe storms with significant amounts of rainfall, which hit on Thursday.
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating addiction. Xylazine can cause severe skin wounds, but whether it is leading to more deaths — as suggested by officials
Continue Reading By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win reelection by a large margin. Opinion polls suggest the 55-year-old Mitsotakis and his center-right New Democracy party maintain a strong lead, unaffected by a
Continue Reading By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man scheduled to be executed in September for the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student plans to reject his chance for a clemency hearing, saying there is little hope the state’s Republican governor would spare his life. Anthony Sanchez, 44, said in
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Summer leagues for both boys and girls basketball and a baseball off-season travel team making up some of the ways local athletes are improving during in between seasons.
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Despite prep sports taking a short break before the fall season picks up, athletes across Yuma and the Imperial Valley are still ramping up the competition in all sports.
Continue Reading By HAVEN DALEY Associated Press LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s frosty treat. The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Oregon-based Salt & Straw uses the whey leftover from yogurt makers in upstate New York to make his lemon curd flavor. For chocolate
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By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Thanks to their recent success, the five teams in the NBA’s Pacific Division weren’t necessarily trying to draft one of the next generation’s hardwood superstars Thursday night. Instead, finding a good role player or two would be just fine. The five teams in the Pacific —
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is further squeezing the country’s battered civil rights community. Wang Quanzhang said
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence used a Friday gathering of some of the nation’s leading Christian conservatives to urge his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination to support a 15-week federal abortion ban at minimum. The exhortation at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — On a breezy morning at the height of the dry season six months ago, Rifkatu Andruwus and her children were chatting in front of their house in a displacement camp in the heart of Nigeria’s capital. Suddenly, security forces stormed into the camp, followed closely by
Continue Reading By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, tribal leaders and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in Nevada. Yet opposition to mining one particular desert tract for the silvery white metal used in electric car batteries is coming from unusual quarters: space. An ancient Nevada lakebed beckons as a
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris summit on finance and climate has wrapped up without a deal for a tax on the greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping. The gathering of world leaders and finance bosses aimed at tackling climate change and poverty ended without a major
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The fatal implosion of the Titan submersible has drawn attention to the murkily regulated waters of deep-sea exploration. It’s a space where laws and maritime conventions can be sidestepped by entrepreneurs who operate in international waters. Salvatore Mercogliano is a history professor at Campbell University in
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning that Republicans seeking a nationwide ban on abortion won’t stop there. He is urging supporters to channel their outrage into mobilizing votes for Democrats in 2024. Just a mile from where Biden rallied reproductive rights supporters on the eve
Continue Reading By PATRICK WHITTLE and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press A day after revelations that the Titan submersible imploded, officials are searching the ocean floor for evidence and determining who will be responsible for investigating the international disaster. The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday that a formal inquiry has not yet been launched because maritime agencies are
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Friday she is writing a book, with the focus more on leadership than on politics. In an Instagram post, Ardern said she is often asked whether she will write about her five years as New Zealand’s leader.
Continue Reading By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims streamed into the holy city of Mecca on Friday ahead of the start of Hajj next week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale after three years of heavy restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Saudi officials say close to 1.5
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The Regional Center for Border Health (RCBH) College of Health Careers offers a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) program.
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer A person with knowledge of the sale tells The Associated Press the Qatar Investment Authority is buying a roughly 5% stake of Monumental Sports & Entertainment as part of a $4.05 billion deal. Monumental is the parent company of the NBA’s Washington Wizards, NHL’s Washington Capitals and WNBA’s Washington
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