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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan cut its economic assessment for most regions on Thursday but signalled its confidence that wage hikes were broadening, leaving scope for another hike in the country’s still-low interest rates. In a quarterly report on regional economies, the central bank said there was hope that smaller firms […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lost in the hubbub surrounding California’s new $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers is how that raise could impact public schools, forcing districts to compete with the likes of McDonald’s and Wendy’s for cafeteria workers amid a state budget crunch. The minimum wage law that took effect Monday guarantees at […]

Two lucky Southern Californians are the state’s newest winners after numbers for the $1.13 billion Powerball jackpot were drawn Wednesday night. The winning numbers were 11, 38, 41, 62, 65. The Powerball number was 15 and the PowerPlay was 3X. Two tickets matched five numbers and will take home $1,622,808. The winning tickets were sold […]

The winning numbers for the billion-dollar jackpot in the Powerball lottery have been announced. According to the Powerball website, the winning numbers for today were 11, 38, 41, 62, 65 and Powerball 15. The Power Play was 3X. The lucky winner gets an estimated $1.09 billion jackpot with a cash option of $527.3 million. What’s […]

WASHINGTON — The ex-military member who federal authorities say drove his SUV into a barricade at the FBI office in Atlanta on Monday had online ties to QAnon-related content and appeared to be a supporter of former President Donald Trump, according to an open-source investigation by the group Advance Democracy. Ervin Lee Bolling currently faces […]

Everyone in Japan could one day have the same surname unless its restrictive marriage laws change, according to a new study. But the country’s dwindling marriage rate could buck that trend and a rapidly declining population might render it moot entirely. Unlike most of the world’s major economies that have done away with the tradition, […]

A man who has been charged with murder following a fight that turned into a shooting has been indicted. Glen” Semaj” Sexton was indicted on two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault on April 2, according to Clark County Common Pleas Court records. According to a previous News Center 7 report, Sexton […]

Yahoo Sports Stefon Diggs trade changes the entire AFC landscape | Inside Coverage Jason Fitz is joined by senior NFL reporters Charles Robinson and Jori Epstein to discuss the breaking news that Stefon Diggs has been traded to the Houston Texans. The trio dive into the how and why of the blockbuster trade, including what […]

Apr. 3—Marilyn D. Gilbert, General Manager and CEO of the Brownsville Public Utilities Board, has been named Amelia Earhart STEM Woman of the Year by the Zonta Club of Brownsville. The award recognizes women who have made significant contributions in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math. Gilbert became the first woman to lead BPUB […]

Apr. 3—State officials have good news for motorists who have become weary of driving through construction zones on the La Bajada stretch of Interstate 25. There’s a light at the end of the project — and it might come sooner than expected. Rob Gross, project manager and estimator for Mountain States Constructors in Albuquerque, said […]