MURRIETA (CNS) - A 31-year-old woman suspected of hauling more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine in her SUV – with her two young children riding in the vehicle – was arrested today by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Murrieta.Ledi Vanessa Murillo was booked into the Byrd Detention Center on suspicion of transportation of controlled substances for sale and possession...
Sheriff's deputies closed off roads in Temecula while responding to a report of a suicidal person near the Promenade Temecula mall Saturday afternoon.The Temecula Sheriff's Station initially said in a Facebook post around 3:45 p.m. that sheriff's deputies were dealing with an unspecified incident near the intersection of Winchester and Margarita roads, close to the northeastern corner of the...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rejected a $13.5 billion settlement that Pacific Gas & Electric struck just last week with thousands of people who lost homes, businesses and family members in a series of devastating fires that drove the nation's largest utility into bankruptcy.
The decision announced Friday in a five-page letter...
DAISY NGUYEN
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's opposition to Pacific Gas & Electric's restructuring plan just a week after it struck a $13.5 billion settlement with fire victims is forcing the nation's largest utility to go back to the negotiating table and come up with a solution fairly quickly.
The San Francisco-based company needs to pull...
JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Leaving the European Union is not the only split British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to worry about.
Johnson's commanding election victory this week may let him fulfill his campaign promise to "get Brexit done," but it could also imperil the future of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland...
ALEXANDRA JAFFE
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Kim Motl doesn't work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her "Medicare for All" plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system.
"What about the little...
The Associated Press
The Xinjiang regional government in China's far west is deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified papers on its mass detention camps for Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities, according to four people in contact with government employees there.
Top officials deliberated how to respond to...
SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Change is afoot for the official measuring stick used to size up big places in America.
The reason? There are actually two different definitions of the 12-inch measurement known as a foot.
Some land surveyors use what's known as the U.S. survey foot. Others use the definition that's more accepted by the broader world:...
MIKE CATALINI
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials from states with strong gun restrictions have called for stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers, but the fatal attack on a Jewish market in New Jersey shows how fruitless those efforts can be.
Three civilians and a police officer were gunned down Tuesday by two killers with...
CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The promise of reparations to atone for historical ties to slavery has opened new territory in a reckoning at U.S. colleges, which until now have responded with monuments, building name changes and public apologies.
Georgetown University and two theological seminaries have announced funding commitments to benefit descendants of the enslaved people who were...