EL PASO, Texas – The westbound lanes of Transmountain Road will be closed Thursday night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday. The closure will helps crews complete moving a barrier. ‼️🚧Transmountain westbound lanes close tonight 3/31 from 9PM-2AM to finish barrier move. 🚧‼️ pic.twitter.com/IX7awdqRUW— TxDOT El Paso (@txdotelp) March 31, 2022
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials are funneling more money to rural water projects in several states as the Biden administration looks to put a dent in growing infrastructure needs amid drought and climate change. The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that $420 million will be spent on projects
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By Brian Fung, CNN Former senior national security officials, including two ex-CIA directors and a past NSA director, are backing Apple’s app store practices as the iPhone maker fights a critical antitrust case. The nearly two-dozen security experts and former US officials argued Thursday in a court filing that proposals to force open Apple’s mobile
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Sunland Park City Manager Michael Martinez confirms to ABC-7 that Sunland Park Chief of Police Javier Guerra was placed on administrative leave. The New Mexico Department of Public Safety confirms they are investigating allegations of battery involving the Chief and a person in Sunland Park police custody. According to DPS
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By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — North Carolina’s Hubert Davis is relying on experience from his playing career and lessons from Hall of Fame mentors in a field of NCAA coaching giants surrounding him at this week’s men’s Final Four. Davis’ experience includes being a Tar Heels player in the Final
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation. Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant
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By Kyung Lah and Sarah Boxer, CNN Khrystyna Pavluchenko strokes the tiny hand of her newborn, Adelina. She had anticipated the profound joy of becoming a mother for the first time — but not the guilt. “(That’s) because I left,” Pavluchenko says, choking on tears, as her hours-old child sleeps in the crib next to
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By Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN A New York judge has blocked the state’s new congressional map, which would have given Democrats the advantage in 22 of the state’s 26 congressional seats, from going into effect for violating the state’s constitution. Judge Patrick McAllister ruled Thursday that the map “was unconstitutionally drawn with political bias” by
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By Mirna Alsharif, CNN Business A former Yale administrative employee pleaded guilty on Monday of defrauding the university of more than $40.5 million by reselling electronics purchased with school funds over at least an eight-year period, according to court documents. Jamie Petrone-Codrington, 42, who was director of finance and lead administrator at the medical school’s
Continue Reading CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland State has extended athletic director Scott Garrett’s contract through June 2026. Garrett has been in charge of the Vikings’ athletic program since 2019. Garrett’s original four-year contract was set to expire in 2023. The extension comes as Cleveland State is doing a national search for a new men’s basketball coach. Former
Continue Reading By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The ownership of a shuttered pharmaceutical plant in West Virginia has been transferred with the goal of finding new tenants. A nonprofit arm of West Virginia University took control of the facility Thursday. It formerly was owned by Viatris. The generic drug maker laid off 1,500
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CROWELL, Texas (AP) — Authorities say two people aboard a single-engine plane were killed in a crash near a small town in northwest Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Kitfox Series 7 crashed Thursday morning near Crowell, about 200 miles northwest of Dallas. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the plane caught fire
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Police say a Texas woman who said her 3-year-old son was killed in a road-rage shooting has been arrested on a child endangerment charge. Dallas police said Thursday that 26-year-old Lacravivonne Washington kept a handgun in her SUV where it was accessible to her unrestrained young children. She told police when she
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CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Michael Cohen, formerly one of Donald Trump’s top confidants before turning against him to become the star witness in the investigation into the New York real estate mogul’s business and finances, is “disappointed” by reports that the Manhattan district attorney has decided not to bring criminal charges against the former
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Lviv, Ucrania (CNN) — El Ejército de Rusia dice que ha pasado a una nueva fase de su llamada “operación militar especial” en Ucrania, afirmando que está cambiando su enfoque a la región de Donbás en el este de Ucrania. ¿Es esta reagrupación de fuerzas una maniobra, que permite a las maltrechas fuerzas
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EL PASO, Texas – The City of El Paso is now offering the second Covid-19 booster to eligible individuals. The group includes certain immunocompromised individuals and those 50 years and older. The second dose will be administered four months after the first dose for those who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. The second dose
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN Business) –– Los precios de las viviendas en EE.UU. se han disparado a nuevos niveles y continúan subiendo, al punto que ahora algunos investigadores y economistas indican que han visto señales de que se está gestando una burbuja inmobiliaria. Los precios de las viviendas aumentan más rápido de lo que las fuerzas del
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A seat at the 182-year-old French Quarter restaurant that invented Oysters Rockefeller and mastered Baked Alaska is virtually impossible to get this week. The first NCAA men’s Final Four without pandemic restrictions in three years is being held in New Orleans. And the tourism-dependent city
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A seat at the 182-year-old French Quarter restaurant that invented Oysters Rockefeller and mastered Baked Alaska is virtually impossible to get this week. The first NCAA men’s Final Four without pandemic restrictions in three years is being held in New Orleans. And the tourism-dependent city
Continue Reading By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN A child’s doll lies curb side, covered in dirt and debris, in the war-torn Kyiv suburb of Irpin. There’s not a sign of the child who owned it, or of any of the residents of the building next to it, which was shattered to
Continue Reading By JOHN NICHOLSON AP Sports Writer RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Jennifer Kupcho and Minjee Lee shared the lead in The Chevron Championship at 6-under 66 after the first round of the major tournament’s final edition at Mission Hills. Unable to find a sponsor willing to remain at Mission Hills, the tournament that started in
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Villanova has passed the torch of guards playing in the low post, from Ryan Arcidiancono to Jalen Brunson. Now it’s Collin Gillespie’s turn and it may be the equalizer for the short-handed Wildcats against Kansas in the Final Four. Gillespie learned to play in the
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The right-to-repair movement has scored another win. Samsung is the latest tech company giving customers the ability to repair their own mobile devices amid pressure from consumers, regulators and even US President Joe Biden to ease restrictions on fixing products. The company announced on Thursday a new program that
Continue Reading VENICE, Fla. (AP) — Ten-year veteran Brock Holt ended his bid to win a bench spot with the Atlanta Braves when he requested and was granted his release. The 33-year-old Holt signed with Atlanta on a minor league deal and was invited to the major league camp. He made his major league debut with Pittsburgh
Continue Reading VENICE, Fla. (AP) — Ten-year veteran Brock Holt ended his bid to win a bench spot with the Atlanta Braves when he requested and was granted his release. The 33-year-old Holt signed with Atlanta on a minor league deal and was invited to the major league camp. He made his major league debut with Pittsburgh
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aliyah Boston of South Carolina is The Associated Press women’s basketball player of the year. Boston received 23 votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes weekly for the AP Top 25. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark received six votes and Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith got one. Boston
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By Ben Morse and Homero De la Fuente, CNN The NFL approved a rule change on Tuesday which will ensure both teams get at least one possession when playing in an overtime game during the playoffs. It comes after the dramatic ending to the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills game in the playoffs
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — California took a big step this week toward becoming the first U.S. state to make some form of restitution a reality by tackling the divisive issue of which Black residents should be eligible to receive reparations for the atrocity and injustices of slavery and
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Yu Darvish will be making his second straight opening day start for the San Diego Padres when they open their season on the road against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 7. The right-hander was 8-11 last season with a 4.22 ERA and his late-season fade
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Having coach Shaheen Holloway get the head coaching job at Seton Hall wasn’t a surprise in the least. The Pirates’ career assists leader and star of the college coaching scene after taking Cinderella Saint Peter’s to the Elite Eight, was the only person athletic
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