SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento Kings have fired coach Mike Brown less than halfway through his third season with the team mired in a five-game losing streak, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the firing hadn't been announced...
US Homelessness up 18% as Affordable Housing Remains Out of Reach for Many People
The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
Warren Upton, the Oldest Living Survivor of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dies at 105
HONOLULU — Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He was 105. Upton died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the...
An Online Debate Over Foreign Workers in Tech Shows Tensions in Trump’s Political Coalition
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the...
A 9th Telecoms Firm Has Been Hit by a Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, the White House Says
WASHINGTON — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials...
Madera Child Hit By Car in School Zone Gifted Bicycle by CHP, Local Supporter
A 9-year-old boy recovering from a serious crash in a school zone last year received a special gift from the California Highway Patrol and a local supporter, CHP Madera said in a social media post. Axel Hernandez Franco, then 8, was struck by a speeding vehicle on Sept. 19, 2023,...
CHP Makes 308 DUI Arrests Over Christmas Holiday Enforcement
The California Highway Patrol shared the results of its Christmas Maximum Enforcement Period, a focused effort that ran from 6:01 p.m. on Dec. 24 to 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 25. Over the two-day operation, CHP officers made 308 DUI arrests across the state and issued 3,835 citations for speeding, seatbelt...
Mavs Star Luka Doncic Will Be Out a Month With Calf Injury
DALLAS — Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will be out about a month before being re-evaluated for a calf injury sustained in a Christmas Day loss to Minnesota, a person with knowledge of the injury said Friday. Doncic underwent an MRI on his strained left calf, the person told The...
Robin Thicke Headlines a Busy New Year’s Eve of Local Events
Singer Robin Thicke will ring in 2025 at Eagle Mountain Casino, performing shows at 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Thicke is best known for his seminal 2013 hit "Blurred Lines" (featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams). It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains...
In Syria, US Hopes to Avoid Replay of Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — As U.S. officials engage with the rebel group now in control of Syria, they are mindful of a painful episode in recent U.S. foreign policy whose consequences continue to unfold: the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Three U.S. diplomats met last week in Damascus, Syria’s capital, with leaders of...