By JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Raina Perez and Camille Hobby scored 15 points each to lead No. 2 North Carolina State over Pittsburgh 89-54 in the ACC opener for both teams. Perez made three 3-pointers, and the Wolfpack shot 47% from beyond the arc. Hobby scored all of her points in 12
Continue ReadingOWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Patrick Mekari has been ruled out of Sunday’s game at Cleveland because of a hand injury. Mekari left last weekend’s loss at Pittsburgh in the second half and did not return. The Ravens also put cornerback Marlon Humphrey on injured reserve this week, another in a
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A federal judge on Friday upheld the Justice Department’s decision to use a felony obstruction law against US Capitol rioters, a major victory for prosecutors who have used the statute to charge hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who were involved in the January 6 insurrection. Several other defendants
Continue ReadingCNN By Derek Van Dam and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists A powerful storm racing across the central US will produce a range of potential hazards, including the possibility of strong nighttime tornadoes, heavy snow and strong winds to start the weekend. Severe weather is expected to develop late Friday from the lower Mississippi Valley to
Continue ReadingCNN, KRIS By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A jury in Texas has awarded the largest-ever personal injury compensation in the country to a family who lost two people killed by a drunk driver. The sum is symbolic, lawyers for the family say, but the eye-popping size of the judgment is meant to send a message about
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Public health officials have reported Idaho’s first case of the omicron variant of coronavirus in an adult who recently had traveled out-of-state. Central District Health is the public health agency that serves four counties including the Boise region and said Friday that the variant was confirmed
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There are 25 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including a 49-year-old Deschutes County woman who died Tuesday at St. Charles Bend and had no underlying conditions, raising the state’s death toll to 5,381, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Gloria Borger, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN In the weeks leading up to January 6, one of Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers wrote memos outlining how she believed then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject electoral college votes and overturn the 2020 election, including one theory that he could ignore a federal law.
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA CARDENAS Click here for updates on this story CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — An 11-year-old boy sprang into action and rescued all four of his siblings from their burning home on Sunday. Taken four days after their house caught fire, a Thursday afternoon snapshot of Kimberly Sims’ family is now the only picture of
Continue ReadingCNN By Carma Hassan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A former supervisor testified Friday in Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial that the then-officer had the right to use deadly force to prevent Daunte Wright from driving away and harming him in the process. Mychal Johnson, a former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police sergeant, testified that he arrived at
Continue ReadingBy AYAH GALAL Click here for updates on this story WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — Horses are helping out with patrols in Waterbury. The Waterbury Police Department has the only mounted police unit in the State of Connecticut. Downtown Waterbury is one of the many areas people could run into Sherlock and Robert. The two horses
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University police have arrested a 38-year-old homeless man they say is responsible for damaging Islamic literature and a copy of the Quran at the campus library. Police are investigating a motive for damage at the Hayden Library’s interfaith room on Wednesday. Before the
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer Duke is turning to Texas A&M defensive coordinator Mike Elko to turn around its football program after a two-year slide and a winless Atlantic Coast Conference record. The school announced Elko’s hiring late Friday. That ended a nearly two-week process to hire the replacement for David Cutcliffe. The school
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Dale Coyne Racing and Vasser Sullivan Racing have decided to end their IndyCar team partnership after four seasons. Coyne says the Vasser Sullivan team has opted to focus on sports car entries, though Vasser Sullivan says it still hopes to compete in the IndyCar Series. The move comes one day after Coyne’s
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A Nov. 1, 2022 date was set Friday for the start of the eight-day murder trial of Ian Cranston, a Redmond man accused in the Sept. 19 shooting death of Barry Washington Jr. on a downtown Bend street.
Continue ReadingBy DAESHEN SMITH Click here for updates on this story PENSACOLA, Florida (WALA) — Hundreds of drivers were headed down I-10 last night in Pensacola when their late-night trip turned dangerous “Out of nowhere a loud boom, and glass explosion happened in the middle of my face,” said Jessica Bailey. That glass explosion left a
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Dezenski, CNN Here are the must-read lines from a top story each day this week. Monday Trump allies are seeking election jobs up and down the ballot: “As former President Donald Trump prepares for a potential comeback bid in 2024, his allies are flocking to election jobs all the way down to the
Continue ReadingBy Winnie Dortch Click here for updates on this story KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A death investigation is underway near 26th Street and 23rd Avenue in Kenosha Friday, Dec. 10. “We heard a boom, boom, boom,” Donna Bianchi-Schultz said. The woman’s home is just feet away from the shooting scene. “I heard like several repetitive
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing six more people who the panel says were involved in the organization and planning of rallies that aimed to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, says
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A former supervisor testified Friday in Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial that the then-officer had the right to use deadly force to prevent Daunte Wright from driving away and harming him in the process. Mychal Johnson, a former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police sergeant, testified that he arrived at the
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