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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...
Aug. 10—From the opening of the Curtain Theatre's latest Shakespearian show to comedy shows to a unique bat-themed evening, here's some interesting things happening in Marin this week. Indian celebration Celebrate India's 75 years of independence with a tree planting, classical Indian dance and live music, a flag hoisting, children's activities and much more from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the ...
The Michigan men’s basketball team was updated on Wednesday (Aug. 10), a week before the team will travel to Europe to play exhibition games in advance of the 2022-23 season. It’s a new look roster in more ways than one. Nine of the 13 Wolverines on scholarship essentially didn’t suit up last season: two redshirted, five are incoming freshmen, and two are graduate transfers. Let’s start with ...
Aug. 10—I'm writing this with a coffee at a breakfast place, the kind of place where they serve avocado toast and mimosas. It's in Overland Park, I think — those suburbs all run together, but it seems like Overland Park. I'm looking out the front window, straight into the grills of two Lexuses and a Tesla. Lots of guys holding morning business meetings on a Tuesday; some sort of dance remix of ...
Paris — Forest fires on the French Atlantic coast have flared up again, officials said Wednesday.Some 6,000 people had to leave their homes and 6,000 hectares of land had been destroyed by the flames, prefectural officials said in Bordeaux.The A63 motorway leading to the Spanish border was closed in both directions between Bordeaux and Bayonne.Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said 1,000 ...
In one of the largest deals in its history, Clearwater boat retail company MarineMax has agreed to acquire a Fort Lauderdale marina company for $480 million in cash. The acquisition of IGY Marinas, which owns and operates 23 marinas around the world — including St. Petersburg’s Maximo Marina — would expand MarineMax’s global reach at a time when its revenues are higher than ever. The company ...
Brussels — Belgium reported the country's first case of monkeypox in a woman on Wednesday, according to the news agency, Belga, citing Sciensano, the Belgian public health institute. Sciensano published the case at a press conference held by Belgian Health Minister, Frank Vandenbroucke, to announce plans to boost the country's monkeypox vaccination campaign. Vandenbroucke said the country's 12 ...
Joseph Cassara decided to head back to the emergency room when the pain made it unbearable to swallow. "I tried to eat a banana for breakfast," he said, "and it just felt like I was swallowing razor blades." Cassara, 33, was still waiting on the test results to confirm that he had monkeypox, but was suffering scorching fevers and gruesome lesions on his cheek and chin that felt as if they were ...
A massive debris flow triggered by flash floods that followed a wildfire in Northern California is believed to have killed scores of fish along a 50-mile stretch of the Klamath River last week. Intense storms sent flood waters coursing through an area recently burned by the McKinney fire, pushing charred soil, rocks and trees into the river near Humbug Creek, said Craig Tucker, natural ...