By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a drug-related street feud that resulted in the kidnapping and slaying of a woman and the shooting of a 6-year-old boy. Forty-three-year-old Dion Oliver was sentenced Thursday to a mandatory life term
Continue Reading LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from two weeks of monsoon rains rose to at least 55 on Thursday after at least 12 people, including eight children, died in weather-related incidents in Pakistan. The eastern city of Lahore had a record-breaking downpour the previous day, flooding many streets and disrupting
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The Imperial County Board of Supervisors awarded grant money to five local businesses affected by ongoing construction on Highway 98 in Calexico.
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Según información de la Fiscalía General de Baja California en los últimos meses ha disminuido el robo de vehículos en Mexicali logrando recuperar en lo que va de este año 700 automóviles que fueron hurtados ya sea por bandas delictivas o criminales.
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Miles de migrantes han cruzado frontera de Mexicali manera legal e ilegal, pero a partir de las nuevas reglas para solicitar asilo politico a través de la aplicación CBP ONE muchos se encuentran varados en los albergues esperando que sea aceptada.
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The two suspects arrested in connection to the homicide over the weekend, appeared in court Thursday afternoon.
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Inflation continues to rise and the Yuma Community Food Bank is having a difficult time keeping the shelves stocked up for those in need.
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The Yuma County Elections Advisory Committee unanimously appointed Francisca “Kika” Guzman as the new Election Services Director.
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El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos está apelando la orden de un juez que le prohibió a varias agencias y funcionarios de la administración de Biden comunicarse con empresas de redes sociales sobre cierto contenido.
Continue Reading By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta’s photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan. Despite
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The company that wants to mine for critical minerals in southeast Nebraska has signed a deal with Stellantis, giving the automaker access to the rare earth elements used to produce high-powered magnets needed for its electric vehicles. NioCorp announced the tentative deal Thursday. The companies
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says beauty salons have been banned in Afghanistan because they offered services forbidden by Islam and caused economic hardships for grooms’ families. The explanation comes days after the group confirmed they were giving all salons in the country one month to close shop. In a video released Thursday, a Taliban
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Tens of millions of Americans are facing sweltering temperatures in what’s being called the hottest week for the planet on record. Average temperatures around the world have reached all-time highs.
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending an anti-LGBTQ video his campaign shared online that attacks rival Donald Trump for his past support of gay and transgender people, despite some of his fellow Republicans calling it homophobic. DeSantis, in an interview Wednesday on the podcast of
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Honda is recalling more than 124,000 vehicles due to a potential problem with their brake system.
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that attempts to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years drew outrage and surprise from his political opponents, but it’s just the latest creative cut in a state that’s home to the most powerful partial gubernatorial veto in
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015 returned home the next day but he and his mother deceived officers by giving false names over the ensuing eight years, police said Thursday. Houston police detectives said prosecutors have declined to bring false
Continue Reading SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — A man has been charged with intentionally causing a fire five years ago which killed five people and displaced 200 others in San Marcos, Texas. Authorities say Jacobe De Leon O Shea Ferguson was arrested Wednesday. He’s charged with arson, and is accused of intentionally setting a blaze at the
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Meta owns Instagram and that company is releasing a new app called “Threads”, that looks a whole lot like Twitter. “It will be strategically, intentionally, unashamedly similar to Twitter,” says Social Media Consultant Matt Navarra.
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When archaeologists first discovered the 5,000-year-old ornate tomb in Spain, they assumed it was for a man. It held a rock crystal dagger, ivory tusks and other lavish items. But now they’ve determined the remains are those of a woman, and all it took was two
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