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TAMARA LUSH and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across the country is now considered to be the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Samuel Little, who has been behind bars since 2012, told investigators last year that he was...
OAKLAND (AP) — Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the California-based social media giant denied any wrongdoing in a lawsuit settlement. The settlement notice was filed Friday by the plaintiffs in Oakland federal court. Advertisers sued Facebook in 2016 over...
DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is defending his agency's approval of a troubled Boeing plane while leaving open the possibility of changing how the agency certifies aircraft. Stephen Dickson made the comments Monday in Montreal, where he and other top FAA officials briefed aviation regulators from around the world on the agency's review of...
BERNARD CONDON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Ethiopian Airlines' former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy...
MURRIETA (CNS) - Pretrial motions were heard today ahead of jury selection in the trial of an ex-con accused of fatally shooting a San Jacinto woman and throwing her out of a moving car. Traevon Denae Stewart, 42, is charged with first-degree murder for the 2017 slaying of 40-year-old Latoya Calhoun. Along with the murder count, Stewart is charged with a...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A study released Monday by UCLA and UC Berkeley concludes mental and physical health care needs and traumatic experiences are "major factors'' afflicting unsheltered homeless people, especially women. "People experiencing homelessness face a number of challenges related to their health and well-being, but this new analysis suggests that people who are unsheltered are far more likely...
BASSEM MROUE and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Kurds accused the U.S. of turning its back on its allies and risking gains made in the fight against the Islamic State group as American troops began pulling back on Monday from positions in northeastern Syria ahead of an expected Turkish assault. U.S. President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to stand...
RIVERSIDE (CNS) - A brush fire that may been intentionally set erupted on Monday on the south end of Riverside, burning roughly six acres and threatening homes before crews got it partially contained. The non-injury blaze was reported at 11:15 a.m. in the area Taft Street and Granite Avenue, in an area known as Orangecrest, near the Riverside County boundary,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A San Diego federal judge on Monday pushed back Rep. Duncan Hunter's trial for alleged misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds by a week, from Jan. 14 to Jan. 22. U.S. District Judge Thomas J. Whelan changed the date at the request of Hunter's attorneys, who are seeking to have Whelan's prior ruling against dismissing the...
MARIA CHENG, CHRISTOPHER CHESTER and MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two Americans and a British scientist won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the body's cells sense and react to oxygen levels, work that has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee said. Drs. William...