By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Technology firms including Microsoft have tried to disrupt a cybercriminal group whose malicious software has been used in ransomware attacks and other hacks around the world, the companies said Wednesday. The effort included a court order from the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia that allowed Microsoft
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The arrival of four women from the 2020 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team has thrust the NCAA gymnastics championships into the spotlight. Olympic champion Sunisa Lee as well as gold medalist Jade Carey and silver medalists Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum are all college
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The arrival of four women from the 2020 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team has thrust the NCAA gymnastics championships into the spotlight. Olympic champion Sunisa Lee as well as gold medalist Jade Carey and silver medalists Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum are all college
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un meteorito viajó muy lejos de su hogar para visitar la Tierra. Los investigadores descubrieron el primer meteorito interestelar conocido en chocar con la Tierra, según un documento del Comando Espacial de Estados Unidos publicado recientemente. Un meteorito interestelar es una roca espacial que se origina fuera de nuestro sistema solar,
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is defending his decision to again name April as Confederate Heritage Month. The Republican governor signed a proclamation Friday. It does not mention that trying to preserve slavery was Mississippi’s stated reason for trying to secede in 1861. Reeves responded to
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of fans filled the streets of downtown Columbia for a celebration of South Carolina’s second women’s basketball national championship on Wednesday. The Gamecocks closed out a wire-to-wire season at No. 1 with a 64-49 over UConn in the national title game in Minneapolis on April 3. Officials awaited coach Dawn
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board says its new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia does not discriminate against Asian American students and is not an attempt to achieve “racial balancing.” The Fairfax County School Board made that argument in its response
Continue ReadingRENTON, Wash. (AP) — Police in a Seattle suburb shot a man after responding to a call of a possibly suicidal person with a firearm near a park-and-ride lot. The Seattle Times reports Renton police say at 11:28 a.m. Wednesday, Renton police responded to reports of a man with a firearm and officers fired at
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The suspect arrested in the Brooklyn subway shooting that left 10 people wounded by gunfire also left behind a trove of angry YouTube videos. Police were studying them Wednesday for a possible motive. Frank James seemed to vent about nearly
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets were delayed getting to the arena for their NBA play-in game against the Atlanta Hawks. By a freight train, of all things. Tracks run all around State Farm Arena, a remnant of a time when the area was the site of the city’s two major passenger stations. Those tracks
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination suit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Denver-based Frontier agreed to keep or change several policies to address the needs of pregnant and lactating
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A Mobile woman accused of attacking her sister with a metal alarm clock has been charged with assault. Destiny Denise Martin, 36, was booked into the Mobile County Metro Jail Tuesday and charged with second-degree assault. She has since been released,
Continue ReadingBy Stetson Miller Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Eduardo Tejeda had a simple goal when he came to work for Amazon in 2020. “I wanted to prove that I’m able to do anything just as a hearing person. You know the one thing about is that I just can’t
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story GLENOLDEN, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Pennsylvania state Sen. Anthony Williams and the Delaware County Black Caucus announced Wednesday they expect the Briarcliffe Fire Company to voluntarily disband. Briarcliffe was suspended in February after a recording showed the chief and others making offensive comments about Black firefighters
Continue ReadingBy Brooke Shafer Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A Little Haiti mother accused of murdering her daughter and son is behind bars Wednesday afternoon. Police found Odette Joassaint’s children tied up inside her apartment. The children were bound by their ankles, wrists, and neck. The medical examiner’s office is
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — El mandato federal de uso de mascarillas en el transporte se extenderá por otros 15 días, lo que significa que las personas que viajen a bordo de aviones, trenes y transporte público en Estados Unidos deberán usar una mascarilla al menos hasta principios de mayo. El mandato, según confirmó el gobierno
Continue ReadingBy MARISSA SULEK Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Metro Police say a teen was arrested after stealing a car, plotting his escape, and carrying it out. That’s until early Tuesday morning when 16-year-old Quandre Beasley was arrested in Georgia. Metro Police says Beasley was transported to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Oleksandr Fylyppov, Sandi Sidhu and Julia Presniakova, CNN Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — All Vladimir Nesterenko wanted to do when he grew up was to play basketball. The brown haired 12-year-old dribbled and shot hoops with his dad Oleh in the village where they lived in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. He idolized NBA
Continue ReadingBy TRACYE HUTCHINS Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — A Fulton County school athletic director says your child’s school might not be safe from violence after he was suspended. Kenneth Miller says he was trying to prevent a possible school shooting, but instead, he says he is being punished for
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Hundreds of small earthquakes have been reported near a volcano in southeast Alaska believed to have been dormant for at least 800 years. The cause of the quakes under Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano near Sitka that resembles Mount Fuji in Japan, are not known. But officials
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