PERRIS (CNS) - At least one person was killed and another person seriously hurt Wednesday evening in a fiery single-car crash that left a vehicle overturned on Interstate 15 in Perris, according to the California Highway Patrol.The crash took place on the northbound 215 Freeway at Harley Knox Boulevard about 6:50 p.m., the CHP said.Witnesses told responding CHP officers...
Jeff Pack
Staff WriterBert Kreischer is real, and that realness never stops, because he can’t turn it off. He was putting gas into his car for a trip down the freeway when he was called for an interview. “Jesus Christ that did not turn out the way I thought it would,” Kreischer said. “You ever get in the car and you're literally...
EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
A green jacket. A heart-melting embrace. A stirring return to the top of golf by one of the sport's all-time greats.
In choosing Tiger Woods' victory at the Masters as The Associated Press sports story of the year, voters went with the uplifting escape of a great comeback over options that were as much about sports as...
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 200,000 men, women and children fled their homes in northwest Syria in buses, trucks and cars in recent weeks, amid intense air and ground bombardment by government forces, a Syrian relief group said Wednesday.
Government forces have been bombarding southern and eastern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, since late November....
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered a Christmas message of hope Wednesday against darkness that cloaks conflicts and relationships in large parts of the world from the Middle East to the Americas to Africa.
The pope told tens of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and Romans gathered in St. Peter's Square for the annual Christmas Day message that "the light...
REGINA GARCIA CANO
Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore could wrap up 2019 with its highest per-capita homicide rate on record as killings of adults and minors alike for drugs, retribution, money or no clear reason continue to add up and city officials appear unable to stop the violence.
Police recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday, following a week of relentless...
CARA ANNA and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Associated Press
BUSHEKELI, Rwanda (AP) — It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the scuff of her slip-on shoes as Madeleine Mukantagara walked through the fields to her first patient of the day. Piercing cries once echoed down the hill to the road below. What she carried in her...
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — Lusian Hernandez's eyes watered when she recalled receiving a free pair of pointe shoes after arriving in Miami on a dance scholarship as her native Venezuela descended into an economic crisis.
On a recent night, Hernandez appeared on a South Florida stage in a burgundy gown for the opening scene of "The Nutcracker."...
JOHN SEEWER
Associated Press
The day Youngstown's steel mills began shutting down 40 years ago remains fresh in the minds of those who live in the blue-collar corner of Ohio. Community leaders don't want the recent closing of General Motors' massive assembly plant to leave that same lingering gloom.
The region is embarking on an ambitious plan to become a research...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she was disturbed to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be "total coordination" between the White House and the Senate over the upcoming presidential impeachment trial.
"And in fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed," Murkowski told KTUU Tuesday before saying there should...