Day: May 27, 2022

Here’s the latest installment of our Miami Dolphins Q&A, where South Florida Sun Sentinel writers David Furones and Omar Kelly answer questions from readers. Q: If you had to guess, which rookie would you say will make the biggest contributions to the team this year? — @ayopyr on Twitter A: Channing Tindall seems like the…

Tina Satterwhite doesn’t follow San Bernardino city politics, but she knows Terry Elliott. Elliott is a local church pastor who has leveraged his service as a police chaplain and public safety commissioner into a coveted endorsement from the San Bernardino Police Officers Association as he campaigns to unseat 2nd Ward City Council incumbent Sandra Ibarra…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old…

“Mailbag” offers insight into comments and emails I get from my readers — good, bad or in-between — and my thoughts about their feedback. Inbox:  Readers think I’m missing a big piece of the highest-in-four-decades inflation story: politics. The feedback runs from “the real root cause of this hellish inflation is due to the policies…

USA Swimming appointed Teri McKeever to the 2019 World Championships coaching staff four years after the sport’s national governing body was informed of allegations that McKeever bullied and verbally abused swimmers at UC Berkeley, the Southern California News Group has learned. The U.S. Center for SafeSport is investigating McKeever after receiving reports of misconduct by…

US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Spacey was also charged with one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, the CPS said. The charges relate to two alleged incidents in London…

In a sport that has often seen Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine usually playing for a conference title or an NCAA tournament bid in late May, the season-ending three-game series that began Thursday night is unique for both teams. There is nothing at stake. UCI, the Big West champion in 2021 that battled Stanford…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Orange Lutheran has hired a new boys water polo coach, and San Juan Hills is losing its veteran boys and girls water polo coach. The Lancers announced Friday the hiring of former Huntington Beach girls coach Jacob Moore as their boys coach, replacing…

Jordyn Poulter finished a Zoom call and walked into her garage to grab dinner Wednesday evening when she noticed the center console in her car was open. The USA National Women’s Volleyball team member looked inside and realized several items were taken –  none more valuable to her than the gold medal she won with…

By Grace Gedye | CalMatters When Ashley Raveche and her husband bought their home in Mill Valley, they thought they were doing everything right. The 1,300-square-foot house already had vents with screens that make it harder for embers to get in and a tar and gravel roof, top-rated for fire safety. They installed double-paned windows,…

By Grace Gedye | CalMatters When Ashley Raveche and her husband bought their home in Mill Valley, they thought they were doing everything right. The 1,300-square-foot house already had vents with screens that make it harder for embers to get in and a tar and gravel roof, top-rated for fire safety. They installed double-paned windows,…

USA Swimming appointed Teri McKeever to the 2019 World Championships coaching staff four years after the sport’s national governing body was informed of allegations that McKeever bullied and verbally abused swimmers at UC Berkeley, the Southern California News Group has learned. The U.S. Center for SafeSport is investigating McKeever after receiving reports of misconduct by…

US actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Spacey was also charged with one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, the CPS said. The charges relate to two alleged incidents in London…

“Mailbag” offers insight into comments and emails I get from my readers — good, bad or in-between — and my thoughts about their feedback. Inbox:  Readers think I’m missing a big piece of the highest-in-four-decades inflation story: politics. The feedback runs from “the real root cause of this hellish inflation is due to the policies…

In a sport that has often seen Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine usually playing for a conference title or an NCAA tournament bid in late May, the season-ending three-game series that began Thursday night is unique for both teams. There is nothing at stake. UCI, the Big West champion in 2021 that battled Stanford…

ST. PETERSBURG — It’s like reunion week for the Yankees. A day after promoting one-time top prospect Manny Banuelos, the Bombers signed Shane Greene, who was their 2013 Minor League Player of the Year, to a minor league deal on Thursday. Greene had a decent rookie season in pinstripes, but was a cornerstone in the…

We are living in a digital era where gadgets from computers and smartphones to tablets have become an essential part of our lives. Even kids these days pick up an iPad and figure out apps like how a fish takes to water. With kids becoming more tech-savvy as time goes on, there’s no reason why…

There are many different cryptocurrencies on the network that are using Proof-of-Work (PoW) or Proof-of-Stake (PoS) algorithms. But have you heard of a coin that uses both of them at a 50-50 ratio? Well, that’s Verus coin. Verus is one of the most double-spend resistant public blockchains on the market. Because of its excellent Proof…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school was inside for more than an hour before he was killed in a shootout, law enforcement authorities said Thursday amid mounting public anger and scrutiny over their response to…

SACRAMENTO – Longtime Anaheim watchers, myself included, need to restrain from schadenfreude – the German word for “pleasure derived … from another person’s misfortune.” We’ve eagerly read the details of a federal probe that touches on a “cabal” of city insiders who, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, showed as much public-spiritedness as your average streetwalker. In…