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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police commissioners this week ruled that officers were justified in shooting two people suffering mental health crisises, though the group echoed LAPD Chief Michel Moore's concerns over tactics officers used in one of the encounters.
The civilian-led panel unanimously supported Moore's conclusions that the officers were in line with the Los Angeles Police Department's policies on deadly force when they shot Evelyn Del Real and Grisha Alaverdyan last fall. The commission took the 5-0 vote while in closed session at the end of its weekly meeting Tuesday.
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Blues rocker Marcus King’s new album “Young Blood” is a deeply personal release amid the artist’s public bouts with depression. Fiery instrumentals are at the forefront as King blisters through the 11-track album. In his review of King’s new album, the Associated Press’ Ron Harris says the South Carolina native delivers his trademark throaty vocals and unmatched blues rock prowess while singing about pain and personal battles. The American Records/Republic release will be in stores and on streaming services on Friday.
The NAACP is supporting efforts to bar a New Mexico-based county commissioner from holding public office, alleging that the Cowboys for Trump cofounder has sought to disenfranchise voters -- including people of color -- and stoke insurrection. The nation’s oldest civil rights organization is urging a state district court judge to remove and disqualify Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin from holding future public office, noting Griffin’s presence at the Jan. 6 insurrection and his recent refusal to certify local election results. Judgement is pending after a two-day bench trial. Griffin has invoked free speech guarantees his defense, comparing himself to civil rights protesters.
SEATTLE — We can talk about droughts all we want — and we sure talk about them often with the Mariners. Few fans need reminding that they haven't made the playoffs in 21 years.
PHILADELPHIA — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, appeared during his time on the faculty of the Army War College in an official photograph while wearing a Civil War Confederate Army uniform.
LOS ANGELES — Three Texas companies agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal environmental charges and pay nearly $13 million in connection with the crude oil spill that fouled Southern California’s coastline last fall.
A soccer field that was paid for but never built. A school that diverted resources from its students. A mayor who ran city hall out of his mother’s home and avoided property taxes. Officials say these and dozens of other alleged acts of corruption cost Haiti’s government a “colossal loss” of some 500 million gourdes ($4 million) at a time when state infrastructure is collapsing amid political instability and deepening poverty. The allegations were released Thursday by Haiti’s antigovernment corruption unit. On Friday, a judicial official told The Associated Press he would act on the findings.
OXFORD, Ohio — An empty pedestal sits among those bearing nine bronze statues in the Cradle of Coaches Plaza outside Yager Stadium at Miami (Ohio) University.
Florida A&M communicated its concerns with North Carolina of a depleted roster throughout the day on Friday, which led to a wild three hours and speculation on social media that Saturday’s 8 p.m. opener at Kenan Stadium would not be played.
Taiwan welcomed its third U.S. congressional visit this month, as Sen. Marsha Blackburn began a three-day trip to the island that’s likely to further test Washington’s tense ties with Beijing.
PITTSBURGH — When trying to analyze every move Mike Tomlin makes with his three quarterbacks, including how he utilizes them in the final preseason game on Sunday, always keep this in mind:
BOSTON — On Wednesday evening, following a call about a boat in trouble off the rocky coast of Graves Light, two police officers in the Harbor Unit didn’t know quite what they were in for.
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for attacking a police officer with a Donald Trump flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Howard Richardson, 72, of King of Prussia, told the court in Washington “there’s no excuse” for his behavior and pleaded for mercy. But U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly responded, “Your presence and actions in joining other insurrectionists was an inexcusable attack on our democracy.” Richardson’s sentence is one of the longest yet among those who have been prosecuted for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Puerto Rican ‘solidarity’ group says FBI targeting it
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NEW YORK — A day after Jets wide receiver Denzel Mims’ public trade request via his agent Ron Slavin, it was business as usual at Florham Park.
California legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office are discussing a compromise over the future of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant that could allow operator Pacific Gas & Electric to seek federal funds for a longer lifespan for the reactors. It's possible a final decision on whether the Legislature supports an extended run for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant beyond its scheduled closing by 2025 could be months away. To qualify for the federal funds, PG&E needs state legislation to show it has a pathway to continue running. The governor has proposed extending the plant’s operating run to maintain reliable power supplies.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend the launch of the Artemis I moon rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Monday, according to a release from the White House.
The National Women’s Soccer League opened its first free agency period on Friday amid a dispute over which players are qualified. Players with expiring contracts and at least six years of service and are eligible for free agency for the first time under the collective bargaining agreement. The NWSL put out a list of 26 free agents. But the NWSL players’ association says that the list should include players with an option year on their current contracts — adding an additional 22 players.
A former Air Force sergeant who was linked to an extremist movement and in 2020 attacked law enforcement officials amid protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to life in prison in the killing of a Northern California sheriff’s sergeant. Steven Carrillo pleaded guilty in June to all nine counts, including murder, for the killing of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Als in June, a federal judge sentenced Carrillo to 41 years in prison for killing David Patrick Underwood, a federal security agent who was attacked along with a colleague while guarding a federal building in Oakland amid large protests against police brutality following the May 2020 killing of Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer.
Federal health officials expressed cautious optimism Friday about the trajectory and spread of the monkeypox outbreak, emphasizing that increased vaccination, harm reduction behaviors and educational and outreach efforts appear to be helping to curb the spread.
Though talks are progressing, the deadline to finalize plans to build the Buffalo Bills' new $1.4 billion stadium have been pushed back by 45 days, negotiators announced. Without revealing the reason for the delay, the decision to move the deadline from Sept. 1 was released in a joint statement by the stakeholders in negotiations made up by the Bills, New York state and county representatives. The framework of the deal carrying an NFL-record $850-million taxpayer price tag was reached in March. Numerous contractual details needed to be negotiated including the terms of a 30-year lease.
ATLANTA — Georgia's abortion clinics remain open and their phones are ringing off the hook.
The Big 12 is going into its 12th and final season as a 10-team conference. Oklahoma State's only Big 12 championship came in 2011, the league's first season with 10 teams. Oklahoma State come up inches short in last year's conference title game in a loss to Baylor. Mike Gundy and the 12th-ranked Cowboys return 10 starters on offense. Ninth-ranked Oklahoma and No. 10 Baylor are also in the AP preseason Top 25 poll. Three of the four new schools that will join the Big 12 next year are also ranked. They are No. 23 Cincinnati, No. 24 Houston and No. 25 BYU.
Xavier McKinney had a breakout season with the New York Giants in 2021 and there’s more on his plate this year. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale has given the third-year safety from Alabama the responsibility of relaying the defensive calls from the sideline to the team. Players who have that role wear a green dot on their helmets. McKinney, who led the team with five interceptions in 2021 and was third on the team with 93 tackles, has not had a problem adding the job.
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Helen Alfredsson shot her second straight 3-under 70 on Friday to take the second-round lead in the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. Aldredsson, the 57-year-old Swede who won the 2019 title at Pine Needles, rebounded from a bogey on the par-5 16th with a birdie on the par-4 18th on NCR Country Club’s South Course. Leta Lindley was a stroke back after a 72. Annika Sorenstam, the winner last year art Brooklawn, was third at 3 under after a 70. First-round leader Tammie Green followed her opening 68 with a 76 to drop to fourth at 2 under.
A woman who died in a two-car collision this week at a Delaware intersection was a former General Assembly candidate. The News Journal of Wilmington reports Catherine Samardza ran unsuccessfully for a state Senate seat in 2012 as an independent candidate. Delaware State Police identified the driver who died in Wednesday's crash near Hartly as Samardza. The passenger in her car and the driver of a pickup were injured. Police say their investigation determined that Samardza initially stopped at a stop sign before for “unknown reasons” she left and drove into the truck’s path.
When Murrah opens the Mississippi high school football season on Friday against Cleveland Central at South Jackson Field, the matchup will feature the first all-female crew to officiate high school football in the state. And it will be an all-Black female crew. Mississippi High School Athletic Association officials tell The Clarion Ledger that they believe it will be the first time in the nation that an all-Black female crew has officiated a high school game. Women from across the state make up the crew that will officiate at the Murrah-Cleveland Central matchup.
The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about a breach of voting equipment in a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office. The widening of the probe highlights the latest case in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Trump. Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections.
The Border Patrol says one of its agents rescued an infant and a toddler who were left alone in southwestern Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. A migrant in a group of border crossers arrested Thursday west of the Lukeville, Arizona, port of entry alerted an agent about the children. An 18-month-old was found crying, and a 4-month-old was discovered face-down and unresponsive. Border Patrol officials blamed smugglers. The children received medical treatment and were returned to the Border Patrol, which is urgently trying to place them with the agency that cares for migrant children picked up without family.
California Supreme Court Justice Patricia Guerrero won confirmation Friday to serve as the court’s next chief justice, following a hearing in which fellow justices and other legal colleagues praised her as uniquely qualified to lead the state’s judicial branch.
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Officials hope to fully reopen the main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix by early next week after a flash flood washed out part of the road through the Southern California desert. The flooding began Wednesday evening amid the latest round of monsoonal thunderstorms to hit the region this summer. The damaged roadway was part of a detour past a repair project along eastbound Interstate 10 near the small community of Desert Center, about 165 miles east of Los Angeles. The California Department of Transportation on Friday said crews are working around the clock to restore the detour lane by early next week, which would reopen both eastbound lanes to motorists.
Federal regulators have issued a final environmental impact statement that supports the demolition of four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon. The staff's recommendation, which echoes an earlier draft opinion, tees up a vote on the nearly $500 million project by the five-member Federal Energy Regulatory Commission later this year. The removal of the four hydroelectric dams would be the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history. The aging dams near the Oregon-California border were built before current environmental regulations and essentially cut the 253-mile-long river in half for migrating salmon.
South Carolina is using a recently approved method to stretch its supply of monkeypox vaccines as case numbers rise in the Palmetto State. Over two weeks ago, U.S. health officials authorized a method that involves giving the shot under the first layer of skin instead of deeper fat tissue. Doing so allows providers to increase the available supply by five times. Officials cite a 2015 study that shows 94% of people who received the lesser dose had sufficient antibody levels. Those eligible for the vaccine include men who have sex with men and have had either a sexually transmitted infection or multiple sex partners in the past 90 days.
Fred Funk bettered his age by a stroke with a 7-under 65 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ The Ally Challenge. The 66-year-old Funk closed his bogey-free round with a birdie on the par-4 ninth at Warwick Hills, the site of the Buick Open on the PGA Tour from 1958 through 2009. Funk won the last of his nine senior victories in 2014, teaming with Jeff Sluman in the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf. His last individual victory was in 2012. He also won eight times on the PGA Tour. Woody Austin, the 1995 Buick Open winner, was a stroke back at 66 with Brett Quigley and Stephen Ames. Scott Parel followed at 67.
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