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Can't go to Coachella? This local brewery has music lovers covered

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

VISTA, Calif. -- The first weekend of Coachella is underway and thousands have already made the trek out into the Southern California desert to experience their favorite artists live at the three-day festival.With a stacked line-up for this year's event, it might be hard for San Diegans that aren't able to venture to Indio to quell the fear of missing out.But those music lovers sticking at home should not fret: a local kombucha brewery is bringing a little bit of Coachella right to their Vista taproom.Local Roots Kombucha, located at 1430 Vantage Court, will be hosting a live stream watch party every day this weekend from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.People will be able to sip on delicious hard kombucha while enjoying broadcast sets from some of the biggest names in music right now. Coachella-themed trivia will also be going on. Music festivals in San Diego this summer: A complete guide for concertgoers Drink specials will be available, from $3 kombucha shots to $5 desert-themed drinks. Anyo...

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp charged in parking lot shooting

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state charged former NBA star Shawn Kemp on Friday with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cellphone, saying that in a text message just before the shooting, Kemp wrote, “I’m about to shoot this (expletive).”Kemp was arrested after the shooting outside the Tacoma Mall on March 8. No one was injured, and Kemp’s lawyers have insisted he returned fire in self defense after tracking and trying to retrieve a cellphone that had been stolen from him earlier that day.One, Tim Leary, did not immediately return a text message seeking comment on the charge.A probable cause statement by Tacoma police, filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Friday, did not indicate Kemp was shot at. It said some of his statements were not corroborated by surveillance video, and that the text message sent just 13 minutes before he arrived at the mall showed his intent.The probable cause document said Kemp told police that after being ...

Mexico arrests 3 more officials in deadly March 27 fire

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors said Friday they have arrested three more officials of the country’s immigration agency for a fire at a detention center last month that killed 40 migrants.Among those arrested were the local head of supplies for the immigration agency and an official of the Grupo Beta migrant protection service, the the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.The director of agency for the northern border state of Chihuahua has been ordered to appear in court, but has not been arrested. The fire occurred March 27 in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, after a migrant allegedly set fire to foam mattresses to protest a supposed transfer.The immigration agency’s top national official, Francisco Garduño, is scheduled to make a court appearance April 21. At that point prosecutors will make their formal accusations and present evidence.Prosecutors had announced Tuesday that Garduño would face unspecified criminal charges in the case.President Andrés Manuel...

Video: Police shoot man after responding to wrong address

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in northwestern New Mexico on Friday released body camera footage of police officers opening fire and killing a homeowner after they showed up at the wrong address in response to domestic violence call. The video released by the Farmington Police Department — just over a week after the April 5 nighttime shooting — showed officers arriving at the home. They walked up to the front door, passing the address that was posted on the home and illuminated by an exterior light, knocked on the door and announced themselves. They also can be heard asking a dispatcher to confirm the address and to tell the caller to come to the door. The dispatcher states the address of a home across the street. The officers knocked again several times. Less than a minute later, the homeowner, armed with a handgun, opened the door and the officers immediately began shooting, firing multiple rounds as they backed away. The man can be seen dropping to the ground.About a minute...

On Nevada trip, Haaland celebrates ‘new era’ of conservation

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined members of Nevada’s congressional delegation and tribal leaders on Friday to celebrate Avi Kwa Ame, the state’s newly designated national monument, saying the recognition of the desert mountain heralds a “new era” of environmental conservation in which the federal government and tribal nations will work together to maintain protected areas. Haaland, the nation’s first Native American Cabinet member, said she visited Avi Kwa Ame on Friday to watch the sunrise and was moved by the desert mountain’s rich history.“I was struck by the power and presence of the ancestors in tribal communities who have prayed on, protected and drawn strength from this special place for thousands of years,” Haaland said later in Las Vegas at a celebration attended by tribal leaders and members of Congress.President Joe Biden established the monument last month, nearly a year to the day after U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat, introduced legis...

Gov. vetoes Kansas bill on live deliveries during abortion

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that could have penalized doctors accused of not providing enough care to infants delivered alive during certain kinds of abortion procedures. In a statement on her website, Kelly, a Democrat, called the legislation “misleading and unnecessary.” The legislation could have subjected doctors to lawsuits and criminal charges in certain kinds of abortions and in circumstances when doctors induce labor to deliver a fetus that is expected to die within minutes or even seconds outside the womb. Kelly vetoed a similar bill in 2019. “Federal law already protects newborns, and the procedure being described in this bill does not exist in Kansas in the era of modern medicine,” Kelly said Friday. “The intent of this bill is to interfere in medical decisions that should remain between doctors and their patients.”Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature gave final passage to the bill earlier this month, and in both ch...

Officials: Paper mill worker dead from fungal infection

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A contract worker at a northern Michigan paper mill has died from a fungal infection that has forced the business to temporarily close for deep cleaning.The death was announced Friday in a release by public health officials in Delta and Menominee counties which said the worker died as a result of blastomycosis infection.The person’s name and a date of the death were not released.Company officials on Thursday said the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, which employs more than 800 people, will close for up to three weeks for scrubbing after authorities confirmed at least 21 cases of blastomycosis among workers since March and dozens more probable cases.The fungal infection is related to a fungus that grows in moist soil and decomposing wood and leaves, according to the public health department in Delta County. Blastomycosis does not pass from person to person, the department said. Common symptoms are cough, fever, shortness of breath, joint pain and weight l...

Food or medicine? Inflation squeezing retirees in Argentina

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — With trembling hands, the bingo players at a Buenos Aires retirement center put the buttons they use as markers on their cards. Small containers hold their betting money, coins and crumpled low-denomination bills that every day seem able to buy less. The twice-weekly game brings some enthusiasm to the eyes of the retirees playing it in the recreational center serving Caballito and Villa Crespo, middle-class neighborhoods of Argentina’s capital. The men and women participating are all over 80 years old and find themselves in a situation they would have considered unthinkable before they retired. “This center has middle-class people in it. We are deprived of many of the things we used to do,” said Betty Santucci, 85, who runs the place. She added quietly: “I did something I’d never done in my life: I asked for free medicine … nothing else can be done.”Monthly inflation was 7.7% in March, up from 6.5% in the same month in 2022, Argentina’s National Instit...

Trump reports little income from Truth Social, $1M from NFTs

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he’s not making much money from his social media network but estimates it is worth between $5 million and $25 million, according to his personal financial disclosure form filed Friday.He owns about 90% of his social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, but said he made less than $201 from it.He also reported he made between $100,000 and $1 million for a series of digital trading cards he released in December that portrayed a photoshopped Trump in a series of cartoon-like images, including an astronaut, a cowboy and a superhero. The report filed with the Federal Election Commission is the first glimpse into Trump’s finances since he left the White House and launched several new business ventures. The real estate mogul and reality TV star launched the platform Truth Social in 2022, a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.Althou...

Cubs & White Sox get a key player back this weekend

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:22 GMT

CHICAGO — Both Major League Baseball teams in Chicago are going to get a key player in their outfield back to start their respective series this weekend.For the Cubs, it will be the first time one of their bigger stars will take the field in the 2023 season.The Cubs have officially activated outfielder Seiya Suzuki off the 10-day IL ahead of their series with the Dodgers in Los Angeles. @WGNNews pic.twitter.com/aCdtDaJ9Ui— Larry Hawley (@HawleySports) April 14, 2023After missing the majority of spring training and the first two weeks of the season, Seiya Suzuki is joining the Cubs on Friday as they start a three-game series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. He's been sidelined with an oblique strain since February, which forced him not only to miss a lot of the team's work in Arizona but also the World Baseball Classic for Japan.Suzuki is in his second year with the Cubs the after making his debut with the team in 2022, posting a slash line of .262/.336/.433 with 22 doubles,...