ROME (AP) — Italian police say dozens of businessmen are accused of cheating the government out of 440 million euros in tax credits that were granted as part of government measures to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Police said 35 people were targeted with arrest warrants, home detention or other restrictive measures and
Continue ReadingBy BLAKE SUMMERS Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Monday begins the trial for Travis Reinking, the man accused of shooting and killing multiple people inside of a Waffle House in April of 2018. The jury selection was held on January 25 where twelve women and two men were selected, two
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER LIFSEY Click here for updates on this story SNELLVILLE, Georgia (WGCL) — Snellville Police say a 7-year-old was accidentally shot by a 9-year-old outside of a Chipotle restaurant. According to SPD, the shooting occurred while the adult went inside the restaurant to pick up food. They say the child got ahold of a
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER LIFSEY, MARIYA MURROW Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A viewing is set to be held on Jan.31 for a six-month-old child who was tragically killed during a shootout in northwest Atlanta. Police say six-month-old Grayson Fleming-Gray was caught in the crossfire. He was riding with his mother when
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars are rebooting their coaching search. And they’re broadening its scope. The Jaguars interviewed former Las Vegas Raiders interim coach Rich Bisaccia on Monday and lined up a second interview Tuesday with former Philadelphia coach Doug Pederson. That’s according to a person
Continue ReadingBy MARCY JONES, ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story NORWICH, Connecticut (WFSB) — Though Winter Storm Bobby ended on Saturday night, some communities around Connecticut are still dealing with its aftermath. Schools closed in Norwich on Monday as residents continued to dig out from the 22 inches of snow they received over
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Nick Cannon announced on his daytime talk show Monday that he and model Bre Tiesi are expecting a baby boy together. It will be his eighth child and his fifth baby in less than two years. “As everyone knows I have a lot of children and I love them all
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging U.S. governors to ramp up their construction plans as his administration rolls out a guidebook for accessing the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal. Biden welcomed governors to the White House on Monday as part of the winter
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN At first glance, it looks like a tree stump but the circular feature in a newly released image captured by the ExoMars orbiter is actually an ice-rich crater on Mars. Just as a tree’s concentric rings can give us detailed information about Earth’s past climate, the patterns inside the crater illuminate
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Hunt, CNN At first glance, it looks like a tree stump but the circular feature in a newly released image captured by the ExoMars orbiter is actually an ice-rich crater on Mars. Just as a tree’s concentric rings can give us detailed information about Earth’s past climate, the patterns inside the crater
Continue ReadingBy Anokhi Saklecha, CNN The first participants have been vaccinated in a Phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine that utilizes Moderna’s mRNA technology, the company announced last week. The trial, titled IAVI G002, is being conducted in partnership with IAVI, a nonprofit scientific research organization. It is testing a vaccine that delivers
Continue ReadingBy ASHLEY RK SMITH, ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story SEYMOUR, Connecticut (WFSB) — A Seymour homeowner accidently damaged a home on Saturday after trying to melt ice with a garden torch. The torch accidently burned siding on the home, according to the Seymour Fire Department. Firefighters said they were able to
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy and Laura Ly, CNN At least six historically black colleges and universities received bomb threats Monday morning, disrupting campus operations and launching police investigations. Southern University and A&M, Howard University, Bethune-Cookman University, Albany State University, Bowie State University and Delaware State University all received bomb threats this morning, according to campus
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (WFSB) — Two Bridgeport police detectives were placed on administrative leave for how they handled two different death investigations, according to the city’s mayor. One involved in the investigation into a woman’s overdose death last month. Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim said on Sunday
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Ed Upright, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to save his flailing premiership on Monday after a damning investigation uncovered multiple parties, a culture of excessive drinking and a “failure of leadership” in his government while the rest of the country was living under strict Covid-19 lockdown rules. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Alaa Elassar, Liam Reilly and Mirna Alsharif, CNN Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst died Sunday morning, said her family and the New York Police Department, which is investigating her death. She was 30. Kryst was an attorney who sought to help reform America’s justice system, as well as a fashion blogger and entertainment
Continue ReadingBy KMOV Staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Missouri lawmakers will hold a hearing for two Crown Act bills. The Crown Act protects against discrimination over Black hairstyles like braids, locs, and cornrows. The natural hair movement has been going on for years but has been increasingly popular during
Continue ReadingBy Julia Avery Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Kaitlyn Anderson was 22 weeks pregnant when she was killed while working for MoDOT. She was striping Telegraph Road near I-255 when she and two others were struck by a car. She was killed, along with her baby Jaxx and coworker
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Among the biggest challenges to transforming automobiles from combustion engines to electricity to fight climate change is the shortage of metals needed to make batteries. Early on, JB Straubel saw a huge opportunity from the shortage — rescuing metals from spent lithium-ion batteries and recycling them
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Dear Readers, the actress who portrays Penelope Featherington on “Bridgerton” kindly requests that you refrain from talking to her about her body. In the caption of a mirror selfie posted on her verified Instagram account, Nicola Coughlan wrote “Hello! So just a thing- if you have an opinion about my
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