Griner’s WNBA return a mixed bag, but experience in Russia helps her keep perspective
By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — There was a time in Brittney Griner’s life when a mid-season coaching change might have been…
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Colombia honors searchers and sniffer dog that helped find 4 children who survived plane crash
By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president has handed out 86 medals to soldiers, Indigenous volunteers and…
Continue Reading Still Cruising: Tom premieres new ‘Mission Impossible’ adventure in Abu Dhabi
By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The red carpet unfurled Monday in Abu Dhabi for Hollywood action megastar…
Continue Reading US to send $500 million in weapons, military aid to Ukraine, officials say
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Pentagon will announce it is sending up to $500…
Continue Reading 5 teens killed after vehicle lands in Florida retention pond
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say an out-of-control car landed in a southwest Florida retention pond where it went underwater, killing all…
Continue Reading First UN investigator at US detention center at Guantanamo says detainees face cruel treatment
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo…
Continue Reading Fox News unveils primetime lineup with Jesse Watters in Tucker Carlson’s former time slot
Jesse Watters will fill the Fox News Channel time slot left vacant by the firing of Tucker Carlson, part of a dramatic revamp of the network’s…
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FTS Automotive receives award
A local business received national recognition for customer…
Continue Reading Diego Luna talks filming ‘Andor’ final season and the prospects for Latino actors in the Emmys race
By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diego Luna has mixed emotions about the looming end of his Star Wars series “Andor.”…
Continue Reading Chicago business executive and philanthropist Jim Crown killed in Colorado racetrack crash
WOODY CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jim Crown, an executive and philanthropist who recently announced an effort to rally other Chicago business leaders to…
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Health care job fair being held in Yuma
Arizona @ Work is hosting 14 healthcare employers at the MLK Community Center on Wednesday, June…
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Governor Hobbs to give “State of the State” in Yuma
Tickets this year are $100 as the chamber said this is an important fundraiser, and every dollar of profit will go toward their…
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Public Health officials identify mosquito pool positive for St. Louis Encephalitis
The Imperial County Public Health Department announced that a local mosquito pool had tested positive for St. Louis…
Continue Reading White Florida woman charged with manslaughter in shooting of Black neighbor
A white woman accused of firing through her door and fatally shooting a Black mother in front of her 9-year-old son in central Florida was charged…
Continue Reading Clock ticking for West Virginia to select leadership for opioid money distribution
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is finalizing the leadership for a newly created foundation tasked with…
Continue Reading Honduras adopts El Salvador-style tactics in anti-gang crackdown on prison inmates
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last…
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Five people arrested over the weekend for residential burglary and criminal trespassing
Three men and two women, between 18 and 42 years old, were arrested and booked on Second Degree Residential Burglary and First Degree Criminal…
Continue Reading Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP. Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that…
Continue Reading Pilot killed when small plane hits North Carolina home, 3 inside unharmed, officials say
SOUTHPORT, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a pilot was killed Sunday when a single-engine plane crashed into a home a few blocks from a North Carolina…
Continue Reading John Goodenough, a Nobel Prize-winning co-creator of the revolutionary lithium battery, dies at 100
By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the…
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