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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SAN JOSE – Ivar Stenberg had a hat trick and Mason Marchment and Igor Chernyshov each scored twice as the San Jose Sharks routed the Anaheim Ducks 10-0 on Thursday in their penultimate preseason game. Michael Misa and Stenberg each finished with four points, and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic earned the shutout with 21 saves as the Sharks picked up their first win in three preseason games.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s seizure of more than 650,000 ballots as part of a criminal investigation into possible election malfeasance was unlawful, according to a California Supreme Court opinion issued Thursday, Sept. 24. The court also found that California Attorney General Rob Bonta was within his rights under the state constitution to order the sheriff to halt the investigation and order Bianco to comply with Bonta’s directives.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JOHN RABY It’s already been an intense hurricane season in the Pacific Ocean — and there’s still quite a ways to go. Tropical storms have spawned in what seems like assembly-line fashion in recent weeks, as El Nino conditions that emerged in June have caused waters to grow warmer than normal, setting off a chain of unusual weather around much of the world.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SANTA CLARA — Nick Bosa has no sacks through two games, but he’s had a positive presence in both 49ers’ wins. Thursday, there simply was no sign of Bosa, as he missed a second straight practice ahead of Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals. “He’s been the most dominant player without a sack. He’s been awesome when he’s rushing the passer,” defensive coordinator Raheem Morris said.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By GENE JOHNSON and JULIE CARR SMYTH James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died in Pittsburgh, his lawyer said Thursday. He was 76. Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s right ear with one bullet.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JIM VERTUNO AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas court on Thursday rejected a ruling that a woman on death row for 18 years is innocent of capital murder in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter in a case that attracted bipartisan calls from lawmakers and celebrities to release her from prison.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MATTHEW BROWN Utah prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing in which newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him. Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was sentenced to death in 1985 after a jury found him guilty of murdering Eva Olesen, the aunt of a former Provo police chief.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more than 330,000 Americans lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, between May and June, the latest numbers available.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI employees involved in the criminal investigation into President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents have been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in a broad Florida-based conspiracy probe, their lawyers revealed Thursday as they asked a judge to clarify whether they can testify without violating an order restricting the release of information.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SAN JOSE – Macklin Celebrini said last month that part of the reason he wanted to sign a long-term extension with the San Jose Sharks before the regular season began was to avoid having the contract issue hanging over him all year. Still without a deal in place for next season, fellow Sharks forward Will Smith doesn’t seem to share the same concern.