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Sierra Bancorp: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 10/21/2024 08:08am • PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� Sierra Bancorp (BSRR) on Monday reported third-quarter profit of $10.6 million. The bank, based in Porterville, California, said it had earnings of 74 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of fou Israel targets Hezbollah's financial arm and begins striking Beirut 10/21/2024 12:47am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Israel's military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah's financial arm and will attack a ���large number of targets��� in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut's southern suburbs about an hour later. Evacuation warnings affected southern Bei Directioners mourning singer Liam Payne leave tributes in London and other cities 10/20/2024 08:33pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Hundreds gathered Sunday in London���s Kensington Gardens to mourn Liam Payne as fans around the world grieved for the One Direction singer who died this past week. Directioners, as supporters of the massively successful boy band are known, left tributes in London, Glasgow, Paris, Sy Trump works the fry station and holds a drive-thru news conference at a Pennsylvania McDonald's 10/20/2024 08:15pm • FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) ��� Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window. As reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump How Much Student Loan Debt Does the Average College Graduate Have? 10/20/2024 08:00pm • Average student loan debt has been on the rise as families try to keep up with soaring college costs. Though 2023 college graduates who borrowed to pay for school took out, on average, $43 less in loans compared with the prior year, the average total student debt continues to hover above $29,000, ac 10 Best Growth Stocks to Buy for 2024 10/20/2024 08:00pm • Economists around the world are expecting muted U.S. economic growth in coming quarters, and some are still calling for a mild U.S. recession. It may become difficult for investors to find reliable growth stocks to buy if elevated interest rates have a lagging negative impact on U.S. consumers. Neve Volunteerism That Impresses Law Schools 10/20/2024 08:00pm • Whether you are applying to law school as a college student or are already in the workforce, what you do in your free time says a lot about who you are and what you value. Accordingly, law schools look to applicants' volunteer work for a sense of how they might contribute to campus and to the legal In New York, a constitutional amendment provides election fodder for the left and the right 10/20/2024 10:41am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York's ballot because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights. Republicans are now hoping the same amendment will ignite a fire under people upset about transgender athletes participatin Cameroon���s separatist conflict forces hundreds of thousands of students out of education 10/20/2024 12:01am • YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) ��� Jane Ndamei���s dream of becoming a medical doctor almost cost her life five years ago. The 20-year-old student from Cameroon���s restive southwestern region was taking her Grade 12 exam when she suddenly heard gunshots. Shortly after, armed men rushed into the school, for An off-duty Hawaii lifeguard helped rescue a teen kayaker stranded overnight 10/19/2024 08:59pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A teenager in Hawaii was recovering Friday after spending more than 11 hours clinging to a kayak before being rescued during an overnight ocean search by an off-duty lifeguard and the U.S. Coast Guard. Kahiau Kawai, 17, had gotten separated from his high school paddling team on Wed Harlem neighborhood remembers 4-year-old boy who prosecutors say was starved to death by parents 10/19/2024 03:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Residents in New York���s Harlem neighborhood are remembering a four-year-old boy who prosecutors say was starved to death by his parents. Community members lit candles and released balloons during a Friday night vigil in front of the apartment building where prosecutors say Jahmei Takeaways from AP's reporting on how Arizona voters view the economy with the election close at hand 10/19/2024 12:07pm • MESA, Ariz. (AP) ��� The Arizona economy by many measures is flourishing, but it doesn't feel that way for a lot of voters in the presidential battleground state as they consider their choices on Nov. 5. Voters are hearing Democrats and Republicans promise to help the middle class if they win. But v American despair: In Arizona, high home prices and limited prospects shape voters' presidential pick 10/19/2024 11:57am • MESA, Ariz. (AP) ��� Karl Peterson has been living the cruel inverse of the American dream. His rent keeps getting higher, but his apartments keep getting smaller. Peterson left the Midwest nine years ago for the epicenter of an economic boom, only to gradually learn that endless sunshine and desert California foster dad sentenced to 7 years for abusing child torture victims 10/19/2024 10:42am • RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) ��� A California man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for abusing foster children he had assigned to care for in his home, including some who had been previously tortured by their parents. Marcelino Olguin, 65, was handcuffed and led away by sheriff's deputies in Md. Democratic Party will spend thousands to target 'extremist' school board candidates 10/19/2024 10:17am • The Maryland Democratic Party will spend ���tens of thousands of dollars��� targeting at least 18 school board candidates that it says are looking to bring a ���hateful��� and ���right-wing agenda��� to schools. It is a first for the party, which has never before involved itself in the nonpartisa