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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Much of saturated California faced the threat of flooding Tuesday with winter storms blowing through, but so far the state has escaped the severity of damage from mudslides, wind and rain spawned by an atmospheric river only weeks ago. While the rainfall was focused on Southern California, thunderstorms and strong winds were reported across wide swaths …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The governing body of the world’s most famous sled dog race has disqualified the 2023 Iditarod rookie of the year from this year’s contest by citing a rule but not the specific infraction of it. After an emergency meeting Monday, the Iditarod Trail Committee announced Eddie Burke Jr. has been disqualified from this year’s race, just …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will not consider a dispute over a lawsuit filed by the family of a Mississippi lawyer who took his own life after he was arrested and accused of providing information to people who snuck into a nursing home and photographed the ailing wife of a U.S. senator during …

HOUSTON (AP) — Celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch held a special service Sunday dedicated to healing and thanksgiving a week after a woman opened fire in one of its hallways before being gunned down by security officers. Osteen’s Lakewood Church has not had services since the Feb. 11 shooting that sent worshippers scrambling for safety. On Sunday, Osteen, his …

ATLANTA (AP) — Desde que Jimmy Carter ingresó a cuidados paliativos en su casa del sur de Georgia hace un año, el expresidente estadounidense celebró su cumpleaños número 99, disfrutó de homenajes a su legado y perdió a la mujer que fue su esposa durante 77 años. Rosalynn Carter, que murió en noviembre, unos seis meses después que la familia …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — “Are you feeling good today, Chiefs Kingdom?” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas shouted to a sea of football fans fresh from their town’s third Super Bowl victory in five years. Less than an hour later — with music still blaring and the confetti of celebration still hanging in the air — the mayor and throngs …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Four men are dead following a drive-by shooting in an Alabama neighborhood, officials said. Dozens of shots were fired Friday afternoon outside of a Birmingham home, police said. A group had been standing outside of a house as people got their cars washed when someone drove by and opened fire, police said. Rescue workers pronounced three …

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Two young citizen-soldiers who became close friends after enlisting in the Army Reserve were remembered at funerals in southeast Georgia on Saturday, nearly three weeks after they died in a drone attack while deployed to the Middle East. A service for 24-year-old Sgt. Kennedy Sanders was held in the packed 1,200-seat auditorium of Ware County Middle …

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s attempts to throw out felony securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade. The decision by state District Judge Andrea Beall, an elected Democrat, keeps Paxton on track for an April 15 trial on charges that he duped investors in a tech …

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A 29-year-old Texas man died in a gunfight at a café Thursday that also left a central Michigan police officer injured, authorities said. Battle Creek Police Department officers were called to Café Rica at 3:42 p.m. for a report of an unwanted person, the department said in a news release. A female police officer received …