By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A supporter of former President Donald Trump who wanted to root out voter fraud is one of five people charged with election fraud by a Republican district attorney who is running for Wisconsin attorney general. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney said Thursday that
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of London’s Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, says she is resigning after a string of controversies that undermined public confidence in the force and prompted a falling out between her and the capital’s mayor. Mayor Sadiq Khan had recently threatened to oust Dick from her role,
Continue ReadingGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man in southern Oregon trying to protect his home from a bear instead fatally shot his brother by mistake, then killed himself. Josephine County Undersheriff Travis Snyder says the man called 911 around 7 a.m. Tuesday and told dispatchers he had “accidentally shot his brother while loading
Continue ReadingGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man in southern Oregon trying to protect his home from a bear instead fatally shot his brother by mistake, then killed himself. Josephine County Undersheriff Travis Snyder says the man called 911 around 7 a.m. Tuesday and told dispatchers he had “accidentally shot his brother while loading
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Even coming off its fastest rate of annual growth in 37 years, the U.S. economy is still bogged down by a persistent shortage of the computer chips essential to the technology that connects, transports, and entertains us. The problem has been building since pandemic-related lockdowns shut
Continue ReadingTURIN, Italy (AP) — Winter signing Dušan Vlahović has scored late for defending champion Juventus to squeeze into the Italian Cup semifinals with a 2-1 win over Sassuolo. The former Fiorentina striker did well to go past Mert Müldür and was fortunate his shot took a decisive deflection from Brazilian defender Ruan to finally beat
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent At one point at the beginning of the pandemic, there was hope that a popular and inexpensive over-the-counter heartburn drug might hold promise for treating Covid-19, but a newly published study shows mixed results. In the clinical trial, people with mild to moderate Covid-19 who took very high
Continue ReadingBLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The Indiana Hoosiers will be at full strength when they travel to No. 17 Michigan State on Saturday. Coach Mike Woodson says the five players suspended for Tuesday’s game at Northwestern have been reinstated following a curfew violation. Starting guards Xavier Johnson and Parker did not play in the Hoosiers’ 59-51
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago. Nine-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella of Hazleton was taken as she walked to school
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With the Super Bowl almost here, The Associated Press offers a guide to the basics of betting on the big game. The point spread is the amount of points by which a favored team must win in order for the bet to be a winner.
Continue ReadingBy Ross Guidotti Click here for updates on this story GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A woman said she may have died in a house fire if it wasn’t for a couple who knocked on her door. The fire happened at a home in 300 block of Harrison Avenue in Greensburg on Thursday, dispatchers said. The
Continue ReadingBy Meghan Schiller Click here for updates on this story ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A man and woman are facing charges for a string of inspection sticker burglaries in Ross Township. Jose Enrique Torres-Molinary and Kelly Mercedes Acosta are accused of breaking into the Jiffy Lube and Midas on McKnight Road and the Meineke
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has declined for now to allow President Joe Biden’s administration to require COVID-19 vaccinations for federal employees. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled 2-1 Wednesday to maintain a block on the mandate that a Texas-based federal judge
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Not long ago, Gwenyth Todebush began using morning affirmations to help encourage her 5-year-old son, Clark, to get out the door in the morning and off to kindergarten. The transition to in-person school in Michigan was hard on him, Todebush tells CNN, since the pandemic had kept him home for so many
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Team USA’s gold medal drought was quenched by Lindsey Jacobellis on Day 5, and 24 hours later, it’s a gold rush for the red, white, and blue.
Continue ReadingALICIA FERNÁNDEZ Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A shelter near the U.S.-Mexico border is hosting not only migrants and asylum seekers, but chickens, pigs and eventually fish as a local priest confronted with lengthier stays seeks a degree of self-sufficiency and stress-relieving activity for his guests. Fr. Hector Trejo recognized that asylum seekers
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El ministro de Exteriores de España, José Manuel Albares, llamó al canciller de México, Marcelo Ebrard, para aclarar los comentarios del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador sobre las relaciones entre ambos países, confirmó un portavoz de la cancillería española a CNN. La llamada, que se realizó en la noche
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The NFL has sent a letter to a Congressional committee explaining the machinations in the league’s handling of the investigation of misconduct at the Washington franchise. In the letter from the league’s law firm to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, the NFL
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A recent fundraiser raised $2,000 to help Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades care for the medically uninsured in Central Oregon through 10 Barrel’s Drink it Forward program. The funds will be used to provide lifesaving medical care, such as diabetes and blood-pressure management, to the uninsured.
Continue ReadingMORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a disruptive passenger prompted a flight from New York to Florida to divert to a North Carolina airport. Raleigh-Durham International Airport officials say Frontier Airlines flight 1335, which was headed from LaGuardia Airport to Orlando International Airport, was diverted around 8:15 p.m. because of a “disruptive passenger.” The airport
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