ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia State has canceled its men’s basketball game Wednesday against Tennessee State because of COVID-19 protocols and injuries. The Panthers lost 94-59 last weekend at Rhode Island with a squad that included only seven scholarship players and nine players overall. One player was out after testing positive for COVID-19, others were unable
Continue ReadingMONACO (AP) — Moroccan runner Halima Hachlaf has been banned for six years for a second doping offense. Hachlaf tested positive for a synthetic steroid hormone at a race in Rabat in January. The Athletics Integrity Unit says she did not have an exemption to use it as a medicine. Hachlaf ran in the 800
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — He’s a legendary musician and two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, but the thing that Graham Nash never leaves home without isn’t his guitar. It’s his camera. The Nash in the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young started taking photos long before he
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods doesn’t have a lot of answers about his past or his future. He says he has no recollection of the February car crash in the Los Angeles suburbs that shattered his right leg. As for the golf, the 15-time major champion says he
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Lara Logan, a Fox News personality and host on its streaming service, was condemned by prominent Jewish groups and the Auschwitz Museum after she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to a Nazi doctor infamous for performing medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camp. In an appearance on “Fox News Primetime” Monday,
Continue ReadingBy CAROLINA CRUZ Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Health officials and leaders across the world are monitoring the spread of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. The variant, first identified by South African scientists, is believed to be potentially more transmissible which has led to a wave of travel
Continue ReadingBy TAYLOR JOHNSON, SHAIN BERGAN Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV) — Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, but the rush has just begun to now get a lot of those items to their recipients by Christmas. Amazon locations in Kansas City are ramping up their efforts by looking
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City says the first officially authorized safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics have been cleared to open in the city in hopes of curbing deadly overdoses. The city is calling the privately run facilities “overdose prevention centers,” but they’re also
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece says residents over 60 will have to undergo mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 or face monthly 100-euro ($114) fine beginning next year. The country’s first general inoculation mandate was announced Tuesday in response to a surge in cases and the emergence of the new omicron variant. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said
Continue ReadingBy TYLER FINGERT Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Mobile Police say a domestic situation turned double shooting left one woman dead. Neighbors say it happened in front of children. 28-year-old Marquis Gray was wanted for questioning after the double shooting turned murder on Ogburn Avenue. Police say he turned
Continue ReadingBy BRITTNI THOMASON Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, Arizona (KPHO, KTVK) — TGen is keeping a close eye on the Omicron variant and started testing for it on Monday. “We’re also doing some rapid testing to look at the presence of this variant,” said the Director of the Infectious Disease Division at
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Happy birthday to Hazel and Phinnaeus Moder! Their mom, actress Julia Roberts, celebrated their birthday on her verified Instagram with a photo of the twins being held when they were babies. “17 of the Sweetest years of life,” the caption read, along with with several emojis including a birthday cake.
Continue ReadingCNN By Kara Fox, CNN Tropical cyclones in Asia could have double the destructive power by the end of the century, according to new research, as scientists say the human-made climate crisis is already making them stronger. Using data from nearly four decades from 1979 to 2016, researchers found that the destructive power of tropical
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SPANISH FORT, Alabama (WALA) — The Spanish Fort Police Department is seeking any information from the public that could assist with the investigation of the burglary that occurred at the Best Buy store in Spanish Fort in the early morning hours of November 24. Shown
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — An armed robber took advantage of back door opened so an employee could take out the trash to enter a Hooters restaurant and demand money from the assistant manager, according to the Mobile Police Department. This happened at about 12:05 a.m.
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOTT POLAKOFF Click here for updates on this story TEMPE, Arizona (KPHO, KTVK) — Earlier this month, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of murdering protesters in Wisconsin. At the time, one of the surprises revealed in court was that Rittenhouse was enrolled in online classes at Arizona State University. Now, that is
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling, CNN Tiger Woods spoke about his golf future on Tuesday in his first press conference since suffering serious leg injuries in a February single-vehicle rollover accident. Woods is hosting the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas this week. The 15-time major champion said he doesn’t know when he would play again but
Continue ReadingCNN By Wayne Sterling, CNN Tiger Woods spoke about his golf future on Tuesday in his first press conference since suffering serious leg injuries in a February single-vehicle rollover accident. Woods is hosting the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas this week. The 15-time major champion said he doesn’t know when he would play again
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) — Decenas de millones de personas pasan hambre en América Latina y el Caribe mientras la pandemia de covid-19 agudiza una crisis de desnutrición regional a sus peores niveles en décadas, según Naciones Unidas. En solo un año —de 2019 a 2020— el número de personas que viven con
Continue ReadingBy BYRON TEACH, LAUREN MARTINEZ, MADDIE WHITE Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — Family and friends are mourning the death of a University of Nevada Las Vegas student following a fraternity-sponsored charity boxing event. Nathan Valencia died on Tuesday, Nov. 23 following injuries sustained in a charity boxing match that
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