By Rex Hodge Click here for updates on this story HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — The “Mountaineer” is a familiar logo in Western North Carolina, representing Tuscola High School in Haywood County and Appalachian State University. While the schools are very different, they’ve ended up using the same logo. Now, App State wants Tuscola
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Whether you like (or love) what growth has meant to a place like Central Oregon, despise it or realize it’s had its share of good and bad impacts, new U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released Thursday show the High Desert kept on growing through the first year-plus of pandemic impacts – like it or not.
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has signed deals worth some 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) to buy three navy frigates and six additional Rafale fighter jets from France, as Athens strengthens its armed forces in response to tension with neighboring Turkey. Defense ministers Nikos Panagiotopoulos of Greece and France’s Florence
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Police say a man was killed and a woman critically injured in a shooting in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. The Seattle Police Department said in a tweet around 11:30 a.m. Thursday that police were responding to a shooting with reports of two victims. Spokesperson Patrick Michaud told The Seattle Times that a
Continue ReadingBy Karen Morfitt Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Today 16-year-old Keegan Pyron is back in class and working alongside his peers. Just a few months ago he was living a much different story, clinging to what little of life he had left. “When I went out, I only did fentanyl
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The historic Senate hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who’s the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court, have been joyful, combative and clarifying. The hearings are putting on display the full breadth of the nation’s partisan divide and the unresolved problems of its past.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN After causing a sensation with its (somewhat overrated) first season, “Bridgerton” returns, faced with the task of polishing a new diamond and mounting another grand romance. Deprived the company of the Duke (with Regé-Jean Page having opted to move on), the series remains frothy and watchable, if perhaps a bit
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday dismissed the challenge posed by a potential rematch with Donald Trump in 2024, saying he’d be “very fortunate” to face Trump again despite polling suggesting that such a contest would be very close. The remarks are especially notable coming during an emergency overseas
Continue ReadingBy Erika Stanish Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police are investigating several incidents of harassment and intimidation against two homeowners in Shadyside. Police said they’re working to identify two people after a homeowner reported his yard signs were defaced with political and anti-national messages. KDKA talked to the homeowner, who
Continue ReadingCésar López (CNN)– La estrella de UFC Conor McGregor fue arrestado por la policía irlandesa el martes por la noche y fue acusado por presuntantamente conducir de manera peligrosa. Unos videos publicados por McGregor en su cuenta de Twitter muestran al luchador conduciendo por una autopista, antes de que la policía encendiera sus sirenas y
Continue ReadingBy Emerson Lehmann Click here for updates on this story RICHFIELD, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Mask confusion at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport has left a father and son from Richfield grounded after Southwest Airlines wouldn’t allow the boy on a flight. “We were flying out of O’Hare and got denied,” explained Megan Kitze-Ward. “I just wanted
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has signed deals worth some 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) to buy three navy frigates and six additional Rafale fighter jets from France, as Athens strengthens its armed forces in response to tension with neighboring Turkey. Defense ministers Nikos Panagiotopoulos of Greece and France’s Florence
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he won’t be wading into any other primaries to oust incumbents in his own party, after taking the unprecedented step of endorsing Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary opponent last month. “This is a very special case,” McCarthy told CNN during an interview at the House GOP’s
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Stacker investigated the signature drink of Oregon history using information from official state websites, news, culinary profiles, and historic reports.
Continue ReadingBy Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story NAUGATUCK, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman in Naugatuck surrendered to police after learning there was a warrant for her arrest. Deja Rowe faces five counts of cruelty to animals, according to Naugatuck police. Rowe turned herself into the Naugatuck Police Department on March 23. According
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Schneider, Ethan Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against Texas’ Galveston County on Thursday, alleging the redistricting plan for its county government discriminates against Black and Hispanic voters. This marks the third lawsuit the Biden administration has filed in Texas related to voting rights in recent months,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New paperback editions of “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” and other fiction by the late Oscar Hijuelos will be published over a two-year period starting in 2023. Grand Central Publishing announced Thursday that “Mambo Kings,” for which Hijuelos in 1990 became the first Hispanic winner of the Pulitzer for
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN After a two-year hiatus due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19, the White House Easter Egg Roll is set to take place April 18, according to a release from the White House. The Easter Egg Roll is the most popular publicly attended annual event hosted by the White House, which
Continue ReadingBy Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story MANSFIELD, Connecticut (WFSB) — State police are looking for whoever abandoned a baby in Mansfield. Troopers said that on Wednesday around 4:15 p.m., they received a 911 call from a woman who said an unknown man placed an infant on the hood of her parked
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