Think again before buying bunnies as Easter gifts

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 03/24/2024

SAN DIEGO – With Easter just a week away, animal rescue groups in Southern California are urging people not to buy rabbits as holiday gifts for children. They said that what begins as a well-meaning gesture often…

Former NBA player Rashid Byrd sentenced to 90 years in prison for sexual assault

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 03/02/2024

LOS ANGELES – Former NBA player Rashid Byrd has been sentenced to 90 years to life in state prison for a series of violent sexual assaults that occurred in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties from 2015 to 2020,…

Missing 60-year-old sailor found after a month lost at sea

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 02/06/2024

LONG BEACH – A 60-year-old man who set sail from Long Beach bound for Hawaii but failed to arrive on time, prompting a Coast Guard search, showed up safely in Hawaii over the weekend, officials said today.…

79-year-old man kills wife, 2 adult children in murder-suicide

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 02/04/2024

LOS ANGELES – The Medical Examiner’s office has released the names of two men and two women who were shot to death in a Granada Hills home in a murder-suicide. Police said the older man was the…

TikTok star shoots dead Fil-Am wife and her friend

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 11/06/2021

San Diego police arrested a TikTok influencer for shooting to death his estranged Filipina American wife and her friend in a jealous rage on Oct. 21. Police charged Ali Nasser Abulaban, 29, known as “JinnKid” on TikTok,…

California city to name park after Fil-Am labor hero Larry Itliong

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 06/27/2021

DELANO, California — Delano will name a proposed park in honor of one of the Central Valley’s most prominent labor leaders, Larry Itliong. The Delano City Council unanimously approved a community request to name a proposed park…

Senate confirms first Muslim judge in U.S. history

INQUIRER.net US Bureau, Reuters 06/13/2021

The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Zahid Quraishi, a magistrate judge in New Jersey, to the federal bench, making him the first Muslim federal judge in U.S. history. The Democrat-controlled Senate voted…

Filipino slashed in the face on NY subway train

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 02/09/2021

NEW YORK – A Filipino on his way to work on the L subway train was slashed across the face last Wednesday morning after he got into a dispute with another man. Noel Quintana, 61, told ABC7 Eyewitness News that the suspect…

California to ban sale of gas-fueled vehicles in 15 years

AP, INQUIRER.net US Bureau 09/27/2020

SACRAMENTO, California — California will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in 15 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, establishing a timeline in the nation’s most populous state that could force U.S. automakers…

NY mother and daughter, both nurses, beat coronavirus

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 05/13/2020

  LONG ISLAND, New York – Co-workers on Saturday afternoon, May 9, welcomed home with car horns and cheers Luz and Katie Naranjo, a mother and daughter who are both nurses and are recovering from Covid-19. Katie…

Filipino janitor in Canada wins $7M lotto but won’t quit his job

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 05/29/2019

SURREY, British Columbia — Vito Halasan, a Filipino, won $7 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot, but he won’t quit his job as a janitor. He will scale down his hours. Halasan’s ticket matched all six Lotto numbers in…

Imee’s ‘Princeton graduate’ claim is false — The Daily Princetonian

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 03/01/2019

PRINCETON, New Jersey – An independent student newspaper at Princeton University reports that “a Filipino governor has stirred up controversy recently after falsely claiming that she graduated from the University,” referring to current Philippine senatorial candidate Imee…

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