By WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn, New York (WABC) — Three pedestrians, including two children, were struck after a car jumped a curb and slammed into a building in Brooklyn Wednesday morning. It happened around 8 a.m. on St. John Place and Nostrand Avenue in the Crown Heights
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor has vetoed a bill that would bar transgender girls and women from participating in school sports matching their gender identity from sixth grade through college. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday that the measure “most likely” violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection rights. The
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor has vetoed a bill that would bar transgender girls and women from participating in school sports matching their gender identity from sixth grade through college. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday that the measure “most likely” violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection rights. The
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Media critic Eric Boehlert, who created the Press Run website and wrote for Rolling Stone and Media Matters for America among others, was killed in a bicycle accident. The 57-year-old Boehlert was riding his bike near his New Jersey home on Monday night when he was struck and killed by a
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Todos tienen su forma de lidiar con un desengaño. Algunos recurren a sus amigos en busca de apoyo, algunos usan los servicios de transmisión de TV y otros recurren al helado. Pero, ¿qué pasaría si pudieras registrarte en un retiro sin alcohol ni tecnología para un largo fin de semana de
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law plans for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service. The measure is meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency’s financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery. The legislation cleared Congress last month after years
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Reilly Opelka came back from a set down while dealing with an achy shoulder and ended up with 15 aces in a 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory over qualifier Mitchell Krueger in the second round of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston. Opelka is ranked No. 18 in the world and
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Second-year right-hander Tylor Megill has been given the opening day starting assignment for the New York Mets against the Washington Nationals. The Mets do not have Cy Young Award winners Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer available for Game 1. And Scherzer’s status for Game 2 is
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thad Matta only stayed for one season the last time Butler hired him as head coach. Over the next decade, the Bulldogs celebrated unprecedented success including two straight national runner-up finishes. Now athletic director Barry Collier believes his 54-year-old former assistant can recreate the script —
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — La vista desde Wall Street es terriblemente deprimente. Los agentes están haciendo grandes apuestas contra los minoristas a medida que los temores de recesión ganan fuerza. Los inversores son cada vez más escépticos con respecto a los valores energéticos tras la subida de los precios del petróleo, según S&P
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Happy Wednesday, Central Oregon! Enjoy the beautiful warm conditions around the region while they last, because things are going to change very rapidly. We hit a high of 64 in Redmond on Wednesday and we’re expected to hit 79 degrees, which would challenge the daily record of 82. However, we have a weak cold front
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers have arrived in Toronto for their season-opening series. They had their entire expected opening-day roster on the trip to the country that requires all visitors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 at least 14 days prior to entry. Before returning to the
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The NCAA Frozen Four features a foursome that doesn’t include any teams from the East. It’s the first time since 2011 that the Eastern schools were shut out. Michigan will play Denver in the early semifinal on Thursday, with Minnesota and Minnesota State meeting in the
Continue ReadingBy Maya Brown, CNN After Tyson and Regina Bates put their kids to bed, they begin a nightly routine of reviewing paperwork in the exhausting process of attempting to buy a historic Black high school in a gentrified area. They had been planning to restore the Torrence-Lytle School to its original condition to turn it
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina women’s college says it’s renaming a building named for a white supremacist who supported unequal funding for schools based on race. The board of trustees of Meredith College in Raleigh voted at a meeting last month to rename Joyner Hall after finding out about the background of James
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law plans for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service. The measure is meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency’s financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery. The legislation cleared Congress last month after years
Continue ReadingWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new report has found that Wichita law enforcement officers weren’t adequately punished for joking about police violence and exchanging racist comments and images in a series of text messages. The Wichita Citizen’s Review Board released the 27-page report Tuesday. It details officers sharing an image of a naked African American
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and NBC agreed to a new Sunday morning package of broadcast streams that will start at 11:30 a.m. and noon EDT. The deal that requires all other big league games on those days to be scheduled to start no earlier than 1:30 p.m. The package announced starts May
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that it’s “hard to deny” that Russian forces are committing genocide in Ukraine following the horrific images that have emerged from cities like Bucha showing civilians brutally killed. “It is hard to deny this, of course. This is a crime which fulfills the
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Fifty-two percent of Americans say Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election in the wake of recently revealed texts Thomas’ wife, Ginni, had sent about the efforts to overturn the election, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday. The slight majority of
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