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Sierra Bancorp: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 10/27/2025 08:08am • PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� Sierra Bancorp (BSRR) on Monday reported third-quarter profit of $9.7 million. The bank, based in Porterville, California, said it had earnings of 72 cents per share. The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of Immigration crackdown stokes fear and solidarity at a Catholic church in DC 10/27/2025 07:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The imposing Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic church a short drive from the White House, was intended to be a sanctuary for worshippers. Now, its mostly immigrant congregation is steeped in fear. Church leaders say more than 40 members of their parish have been detained, What issues are bringing record numbers of Virginia early voters to the polls? 10/27/2025 04:32am • The ongoing federal government shutdown, increased immigration enforcement and the role parents play in public schools in Virginia were among the issues on local voters' minds during a recent visit at a Loudoun County early voting satellite center. The number of early ballots cast so far this Sermons urge youth to take part in public affairs in Morocco after wave of protests 10/27/2025 02:13am • RABAT, Morocco (AP) ��� Worshippers sat shoeless on the red-carpeted floor of a mosque in Morocco's capital in silence, listening to a preacher in a raised pulpit reading a government-written sermon urging parents to involve their children in public affairs. The sermon, heard in mosques across the k FAFSA Deadlines to Know 10/26/2025 08:00pm • For students seeking federal financial aid to pay for college, the deadline to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is June 30 for each academic year. But to maximize their chances of receiving aid, prospective and current college students would ideally submit the FAFSA pro Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit has died at age 93 10/26/2025 04:55pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thailand���s Queen Mother Sirikit, who supervised royal projects to help the rural poor, preserve traditional craft-making and protect the environment, died on Friday. She was 93. The Royal Household Bureau said she died in a hospital in Bangkok, adding that she began suffering from Proud parents change flight plans to watch Brazilian teenager Fonseca win Swiss final 10/26/2025 04:44pm • BASEL, Switzerland (AP) ��� Joao Fonseca's family arrived just in time to watch the Brazilian teenager win the biggest title of his career at the Swiss Indoors on Sunday. Fonseca beat Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 6-4 in the final and will rise to a career-high No. 28 in the world ranking 2 Virginia residents conquer the Marine Corps Marathon 10/26/2025 01:24pm • More than 40,000 runners are taking over the streets of D.C. and Arlington, Virginia, on Sunday for the 50th Marine Corps Marathon. Joining many first-time participants on the course will be thousands of veterans. The race started at 7:20 a.m. on Virginia State Route 110. Wheeled athletes started Russia targets Kyiv with drones, killing 3 and wounding 29 10/26/2025 12:33pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia targeted Ukraine's capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early Sunday. At least 29 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the second consecutive nighttime attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives. Ukraine's Interior Minister TikTok deal to be finalized Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says 10/26/2025 11:41am • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the TikTok deal announced last month is set to be finalized on Thursday when President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping."We reached a final deal on TikTok. We reached one in Madrid, and I believe that as of today, all the details ar Virginia gubernatorial candidates debate trans youth rights as LGBTQ+ voters weigh a fraught moment 10/25/2025 07:07pm • SALEM, Va. (AP) ��� Ren�� Harvey and her wife arrived at a Roanoke Valley pride celebration in October carrying deep-seated worries about all that could go wrong. The couple had been to the region's annual pride festival before, but this year felt different. Harvey keeps up with the news, and the June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from 'Lassie' and 'Lost In Space,' dies at 100 10/25/2025 04:25pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in ���Lassie��� or up in the stratosphere in ���Lost in Space,��� has died. She was 100. Lockhart died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, family spokesman Lyl A neglected and ancient trade in Spain gets a boost from African migrants 10/25/2025 06:10am • LOS CORTIJOS, Spain (AP) ��� The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain���s arid heartland. From dawn to dusk, Abdulmumen, 25, has looked over a flock of 400 animals for months in Los Cortijo Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it 10/25/2025 01:27am • For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged to its lowest recorded level. In 2005, Putin said the demographic woes needed to be resolved by maint Warning issued over spike in hand, foot and mouth disease in Prince George's schools 10/24/2025 09:01pm • A warning has gone out to parents of Prince George's County Public Schools students about a spike in hand, foot and mouth disease. So far students in more than 40 schools have reported cases of the virus, impacting students from preschool to high school, since the school year began in late August.