VLADIMIR TRETYAKOV and DARIA LITVINOVA
Associated Press
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — A jetliner with 98 people aboard struggled to get airborne and crashed shortly after takeoff Friday in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 people, authorities said.
The Bek Air jet, identified as a 23-year-old Fokker 100, hit a concrete wall and a two-story building soon after departing from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest...
HEMET (AP) — A fast-moving fire in a Southern California apartment complex early Friday killed two girls and their father, who died after he got some of the family to safety but returned to try to rescue his other children, police said.
The man's 8-year-old son was also found gravely injured in the apartment in the city of Hemet and...
Although the city of Hemet has existed for more than a century, the Hemet Woman’s Club introduced a new event this holiday season. Harvard Street Holidays offered a festive celebration Saturday, Dec. 14, which drew hundreds of visitors to the Downtown Hemet Historic District to enjoy six hours of music, crafts and vendors that transformed the street and adjacent...
If you’re a Temecula resident and you haven’t experienced ringing in the new year with the city of Temecula and its annual New Year’s Eve Grape Drop event, 2020 might be the year to do it.Starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 in Town Square, right in front of Temecula City Hall, the event has been taking place since...
Everybody knows the Rat Pack – the coolest cats of all time – Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford.Sadly, they’re all gone now.But the next best thing is coming to the Old Town Temecula Community Theater Sunday, Jan. 5, in the form of the Big Band All Stars’ “Rat Pack: 104 Years of...
World-renowned concert pianist Jeffrey Siegel is quick to note that his Keyboard Conversations show that he’s bringing back to the Old Town Temecula Community Theater for the first time in five years isn’t a lecture by any means.“The short commentary I give before performing each piece makes a more enjoyable, entertaining and focused listening experience – it is not...
Menifee City Council took a hard look at the city’s growth and potential land needs during a workshop meeting to discuss adding in a sphere of influence where potential annexations might be beneficial to the city in the next 50 years.Since its incorporation Menifee has not designated its sphere of influence, or where the growth in homes and businesses...
Local ballerina Keara Nichols, who studies at Murrieta’s Academy of Ballet Arts, was recently selected as one of 84 dancers from all over the world to compete in the 2020 Prix de Lausanne in Montreaux, Switzerland, in February.“I’m like, super, super excited and in shock because this has been a huge dream,” the 16-year-old Nichols said. “I didn’t ever...
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Breakthrough singer-rapper Lizzo has been named Entertainer of the Year by The Associated Press.
Voted by entertainment staffers of the news cooperative, Lizzo dominated the pop, R&B and rap charts in 2019 with songs like "Truth Hurts" and "Good As Hell." Though she released her first album in 2013, Lizzo dropped her major-label debut,...