BPD search for missing 39-year-old near central Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Bakersfield police are asking the community to help locate a missing person last seen on Jan. 7. Jaime Lucas Cortez, 39, was last seen around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, in the ...
Stowaways on planes and inside landing gear raise worries about aviation security
What is going on with aviation security? People have been found dead hiding in the wheel wells of planes twice in the past month. Two stowaways were arrested on different flights in November and ...
Outdoor hockey is coming to Florida. The NHL will have games in Miami and Tampa next season
Hockey. Outdoors. In Florida. Next season, the NHL is making it happen — twice. The NHL announced Wednesday that the Stanley ...
NHL postpones LA Kings’ home game against Calgary due to wildfires, while NFL monitors the situation
The NHL postponed the Los Angeles Kings’ home game against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday with several massive wildfires ...
Senators introduce measure making daylight saving time permanent year-round
The golf industry has historically backed making daylight saving time permanent, for lighter evenings, while sleep experts say it would be healthier to keep clocks permanently set back, for lighter ...
Jimmy Carter’s life intersected with slavery’s legacy. His record on Civil Rights is complicated
Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag’s Palisades home destroyed in wildfire
The fast-moving wildfire in Pacific Palisades has torn through neighborhoods and destroyed many homes, including that of “The Hills” stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. On Tuesday, ...
More Americans jailed in Venezuela pose a test of Trump’s deal-making foreign policy
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in for a third term Friday, while hundreds of government opponents arrested ...
California gets 2 new national monuments
Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated President Joe Biden’s decision to officially establish the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla National Monuments in eastern Riverside County and the Medicine Lake Highlands in ...
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to ...
US will keep protecting more than 2,000 Rocky Mountain grizzly bears
The Biden administration will continue protecting about 2,000 grizzly bears in four Rocky Mountain states despite objections from Republican-led states, U.S. wildlife ...
Squabble grows as US government holds back 2024 funding from world anti-doping watchdog WADA
The U.S. government did not pay the more than $3.6 million due to the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2024, making good on a long-running threat anchored in unhappiness with the global ...