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Aug. 10—Members of the Northern Colorado Martial Arts Academy and Team USA recently returned from the Pencak Silat World Championships in Malaysia. Jackson Taggart, who trains at the facility in Ault, placed sixth in the world. He advanced to the quarterfinals and competed against other athletes from 22 countries. Though he did not medal in his weight class, Taggart was invited to train with ...
LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...
Brussels — EU member states are no longer allowed to import coal from Russia after the transitional period for the bloc's embargo ended at midnight (2200 GMT) on Wednesday.The embargo was part of the fifth sanctions package agreed by the EU in April and will be in full force from Thursday onwards.EU countries had agreed on a transitional period of 120 days to give the industry time to adapt to ...
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...
Aug. 10—I'm writing this with a coffee at a breakfast place, the kind of place where they serve avocado toast and mimosas. It's in Overland Park, I think — those suburbs all run together, but it seems like Overland Park. I'm looking out the front window, straight into the grills of two Lexuses and a Tesla. Lots of guys holding morning business meetings on a Tuesday; some sort of dance remix of ...
Joseph Cassara decided to head back to the emergency room when the pain made it unbearable to swallow. "I tried to eat a banana for breakfast," he said, "and it just felt like I was swallowing razor blades." Cassara, 33, was still waiting on the test results to confirm that he had monkeypox, but was suffering scorching fevers and gruesome lesions on his cheek and chin that felt as if they were ...
A massive debris flow triggered by flash floods that followed a wildfire in Northern California is believed to have killed scores of fish along a 50-mile stretch of the Klamath River last week. Intense storms sent flood waters coursing through an area recently burned by the McKinney fire, pushing charred soil, rocks and trees into the river near Humbug Creek, said Craig Tucker, natural ...
LOS ANGELES — In the city where the car is king, activists are pushing to claim strips of the biggest boulevards for bicyclists and walkers. Their fight has played out at Griffith Park, where streets were recently closed after a cyclist was killed. It spilled out along the steps of City Hall where advocates staged a die-in. And now, it could make its way to the ballot box in a vote that will ...
Authorities in Northern California have arrested a 75-year-old Hawaii man in connection with the rape and killing of a teenager in Sunnyvale nearly 40 years ago, using forensic genealogy to zero in on the suspect from his family tree. Gary Ramirez was arrested Aug. 2 at his home in Makawao on the island of Maui, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office said Tuesday. Once extradited, ...
Epic Games was blocked briefly from the world’s fourth-most populated country but on Tuesday complied with Indonesia’s requirement that it register with its ministry of information. The Cary-based creator of Fortnite complied with an Indonesian law that some internet rights groups have called invasive. For more than a week, the archipelago nation of Indonesia had blocked its 270 million ...