SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Hank the Tank strikes again. The 500-pound black bear has damaged more than 30 properties around Lake Tahoe, and last week broke into yet another home in an endless quest for a quick meal. Known by residents as Hank the Tank, the giant bear has eluded capture for more than seven…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Defense attorneys in the federal trial for three officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights have rested their cases, paving the way for closing arguments. Thomas Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, rested his case Monday. Lane’s co-defendants, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, presented…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Monday that she was open to lifting interest rates by more than the traditional quarter-point at the central bank’s next meeting in March. Bowman’s comments came after several officials on Friday pushed back against the idea of a half-point increase in the Fed’s…
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La Mirada teen receives national award for photography La Mirada resident and Whittier Christian High School senior Christian Lee has received a 2022 YoungArts award in photography. Lee has been recognized at the honorable mention level, the organization’s second-highest honor, for his caliber of achievement. He joins 720 of the most accomplished young visual, literary…
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By Craig Trudell | Bloomberg The cargo ship that caught fire last week carrying about 4,000 Volkswagen AG vehicles could cost the automaker at least $155 million, according to one consultant’s estimate. Of the roughly $438 million total value of goods aboard the Felicity Ace, which went up in flames off the coast of Portugal’s…
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By Ivana Kottasova | CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly stepped up his rhetoric in the Ukraine crisis Monday in a highly choreographed meeting, accusing Kyiv of carrying out acts of aggression and saying he was considering a request to officially recognize the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent. Putin also accused the West…
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By ROB GILLIES TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday emergency powers are still needed despite the progress police have made in stamping out weeks long paralyzing protests by truckers and others angry over Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions. “The situation is still fragile, the state of emergency is still there,” Trudeau said. Lawmakers…
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By Ed White | Associated Press DETROIT — One word caught the ear of a young priest a few years ago when his father shared a video of his 1990 baptism at a suburban Detroit church. “Wait,” the Rev. Matthew Hood recalled thinking. “Something doesn’t seem right here.” Indeed, an error by a deacon who…
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By Mike Corder | Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Lawyers for Myanmar’s military rulers on Monday sought the dismissal of a case that accuses the Southeast Asian nation of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority, saying the United Nations’ top court lacked jurisdiction. Public hearings at the International Court of Justice went ahead amid…
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By Kelsey Butler | Bloomberg The monthly tax-credit payments handed out by President Joe Biden’s rescue plan lifted millions of children out of poverty. Now their disappearance is sending them back. Many American families are struggling to pay for basic necessities and over 3 million kids have been pushed below the poverty line, according to two new reports released…
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