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Tejano singer and TV host Johnny Canales, who helped launch Selena's career, dies

Jun. 14, 2024 14:04 PM EDT

Tejano singer and longtime television music show host Johnny Canales has died. He was 77. Canales' family confirmed his death in a statement posted Thursday on the Johnny and Nora Canales Show Facebook page. The post did not provide a cause of death. “He was more...

Prison inmate accused of selling ghost guns through site visited by Buffalo supermarket shooter

Jun. 11, 2024 15:29 PM EDT

A former Louisiana prison inmate has been charged with selling ghost guns while behind bars through a social media operation uncovered in the wake of a white supremacist's massacre of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, New York City authorities said Tuesday. Hayden Espinosa,...

Trevino wins grant from MLB Players Trust for charity that teaches art to those with special needs

May. 27, 2024 15:40 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — When Jose Trevino took a teen leadership class taught by Sherri Davis in high school the New York Yankees catcher couldn’t have imagined the long-lasting impact it would have. “It changed my life,” Trevino told The Associated Press. “She taught me a ton of...

Rangers' Max Scherzer scratched from 2nd scheduled rehab start because of sore thumb

Apr. 30, 2024 23:44 PM EDT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers right-hander Max Scherzer was scratched from his second scheduled rehab start Tuesday because of thumb soreness. The soreness is similar to what Scherzer experienced last year before being sidelined for the end of the regular season and the...

Texas fined $100,000 per day for failing to act on foster care abuse allegations

Apr. 16, 2024 11:53 AM EDT

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A federal judge is fining Texas $100,000 per day for routinely neglecting to adequately investigate allegations of abuse and neglect raised by children in the state’s struggling foster care system. U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in Corpus...