By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said. Within 20 minutes, they verified…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful…
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted a request by California and other plaintiffs to prevent President Donald Trump from ending the Deferred Action…
By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s decision to end special protections for about 200,0000 Salvadoran immigrants filled many Salvadoran families with dread Monday, raising the possibility that they will be forced to abandon their roots in the U.S. and return to a violent homeland they have not…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City fire officials say a fire in Trump Tower’s heating and air conditioning system injured two people and caused smoke to billow from the roof. The Fire Department of New York says the fire started around 7 a.m. Monday at the building that contains President Donald Trump’s home and…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) St. Louis native Sterling K. Brown is the winner of the best television drama actor Golden Globe Award for his role on “This is Us.” Brown plays a family man recovering from a nervous breakdown and the complicated dynamics of the family that adopted him when he was a baby. Brown…
By STEVE LEBLANC BOSTON (AP) — The blast of arctic air that engulfed portions of the East Coast broke cold temperature records from Maine to West Virginia and stunned sea turtles in Florida — although a warm-up is coming Monday. Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine set records, with Burlington falling to minus 20, beating a…
HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish national broadcaster SVT says a man has died after he picked up an unidentified object from the ground near a subway station in Stockholm that detonated in his hand. Swedish police could not immediately confirm the death. Stockholm region police spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson says the explosion took place Sunday morning just…
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke who struggled for decades to achieve his own stardom before clicking as the dim-witted sidekick in television’s “Coach,” died Friday in Arkansas, according to his manager. He was 86. John Castonia said Van Dyke died at…
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Mexican man acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a San Francisco woman that sparked a national immigration debate was sentenced Friday to time served for illegal gun possession. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Samuel Feng also denied a defense request to grant Jose Ines…