BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) — An earthquake has rattled the desert area east of Los Angeles but there have been no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 4.9 quake occurred at about 1 pm Monday. It was centered 13.7 miles (22 kilometers) northeast of the community of Barstow. Local
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Summer is the perfect time to get outside and exercise, whether it’s a casual game with friends or a recreational sports league. A mobility coach and a few of her colleagues share their tips for how to enjoy these activities injury-free. Here’s what else you
Continue Reading INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A 3-year-old Missouri child has died after falling from an apartment window eight stories above the ground. Battalion Chief Eric Michel told the Kansas City Star that the boy fell Monday morning at Independence Towers, an apartment building in the Kansas City suburb of Independence. The boy died at a hospital.
Continue Reading INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A 3-year-old Missouri child has died after falling from an apartment window eight stories above the ground. Battalion Chief Eric Michel told the Kansas City Star that the boy fell Monday morning at Independence Towers, an apartment building in the Kansas City suburb of Independence. The boy died at a hospital.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man who was charged in a June shooting that left a 19-year-old in critical condition had additional charges filed on Friday. Adonius Boykin is now charged with two counts of first-degree assault, three counts of armed criminal action and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon, court
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities late in Greece have ordered multiple evacuations due to a wildfire on the island of Evia, near Athens, with conditions worsening after nightfall when firefighting planes and helicopters were unable to operate. The evacuations were ordered in four mountainous areas in the south of the island, where several hundred firefighters
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Utility work in Downtown Jefferson City will cause intermittent lane changes this week in the 300 block of Monroe Street, a Monday press release from the Jefferson City Department of Public Works says. Work will begin Wednesday and is expected to be completed by Friday, the release says. Road work signs
Continue Reading Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution that supporters say is intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any mention of the word “abortion.” That’s partly because of disagreements about what the so-called Equal Rights Amendment would actually do, if passed. The state’s
Continue Reading LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Four years after Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as the head of Liberty University amid a series of personal scandals, he and the evangelical school founded by his father have announced a settlement. In a joint statement released Friday, the university and Liberty’s Board of Trustees said it has agreed to pay
Continue Reading By Tara John, Stefano Pozzebon, Mia Alberti, Jennifer Hansler and Avery Schmitz, CNN Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) — Protests broke out in several Venezuelan cities on Monday after authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro was formally declared a winner by the county’s electoral authority in a presidential race marred by accusations of electoral fraud. In the capital Caracas,
Continue Reading Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Innocence Project attorneys say a man who was identified as a possible new suspect in the 1991 killing and sexual assault of a Virginia woman who was visiting Hawaii killed himself last week after police took a DNA swab from him. In a Sunday court filing, the lawyers say authorities
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — An earthquake shook the Los Angeles region Monday afternoon. The US Geological Survey reported a 4.9 magnitude quake with an epicenter near Barstow, California – about 103 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The quake was at a depth of nearly five miles, according to the USGS. The magnitude was
Continue Reading AP Baseball Writer The St. Louis Cardinals have acquired right-hander Erick Fedde and outfielder Tommy Pham as part of a three-team trade that also moved hard-throwing reliever Michael Kopech to the Los Angeles Dodgers. St. Louis got Fedde and Pham from the major league-worst Chicago White Sox, who also sent Kopech to the Dodgers. The
Continue Reading Associated Press MADISON, N.J. (AP) — Want some doggie time, but can’t take care of one full-time? Animal shelters around the country will let you take one out for the afternoon, kind of like borrowing a library book. In New Jersey, the St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center plans to send 1,000 dogs on day trips
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Avery Schmitz and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — The video is as triumphant as it is gruesome. Rebel fighters, rifles slung over their shoulders, step among more than a dozen bodies strewn across the sand and rocks. Off camera, the pop of gunshots can be heard. The scene is from another battle in
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Camdenton man was seriously injured Monday morning in a crash on Highway 54 in Cole County, west of Pleasant Hill Road, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states that Adam Morgan, 22, was driving a 2007 Cadillac CTS on westbound Highway 54 when
Continue Reading Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge in North Dakota on Monday canceled a trial scheduled for August in a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban as unconstitutional. It wasn’t immediately clear why. State District Judge Bruce Romanick is expected to rule soon on whether to dismiss the complaint in the lawsuit originally filed
Continue Reading Associated Press SABAC, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people have rallied in several towns in Serbia to protest a lithium excavation project the Balkan country’s government recently signed with the European Union. The protests were held simultaneously in the western town of Sabac and the central towns of Kraljevo, Arandjelovac, Ljig and Barajevo. The deal
Continue Reading FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Police in New Jersey say a woman was fatally shot by an officer responding to a mental health crisis call. That’s according to the attorney general’s office, which investigates officer-involved deaths. The office says it happened early Sunday in Fort Lee. It says police said officers were responding to a
Continue Reading Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Dozens of Wagner mercenaries were killed by jihadis and rebels over the weekend in northern Mali in what one analyst describes as the largest battleground blow to the shadowy Russian group in years. At least two others were taken captive. The Sahel specialist, who says he counted bodies in
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