By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Spirit Airlines shareholders are approving a $3.8 billion sale of the company to JetBlue Airways. Spirit announced the results on Wednesday. JetBlue was able to drive out rival bidder Frontier Airlines after a bidding war this year. Even with Spirit shareholders accepting the buyout, the deal could face a
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A woman has pleaded guilty to causing severe burns to a child after keeping him in very hot water. According to the St. Louis County Circuit Court, Mindy Kammer of Bridgeton placed a child who was younger than two years
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN The creator of “The Crown” has hit back at criticism of the upcoming new season, insisting he has “enormous sympathy” for the new monarch, King Charles III. Due to premiere on Netflix on November 9, the fifth season of the hit drama tackles the divorce of the then-Prince and Princess of
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist says Indian immigration authorities prevented her from flying to the United States to receive the award. Sanna Irshad Mattoo says she was scheduled to fly to New York on Monday to receive the Pulitzer Prize but was blocked by officials at New Delhi’s airport without any
Continue ReadingBy Cynthia Yip Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Recent drug busts related to fentanyl have some drug agents saying this is the most dangerous drug epidemic they have ever witnessed. The DEA is working alongside other law enforcement agencies, including the Honolulu Police Department to catch these drug dealers who
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Irán envió personal militar al territorio ocupado por Rusia dentro de Crimea para entrenar y asesorar al ejército ruso sobre el uso de drones construidos en Irán que Moscú ha utilizado con efectos devastadores en su guerra en Ucrania, dijeron dos fuentes familiarizadas con la inteligencia estadounidense. Rusia lanzó muchos
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — CrimeStoppers Honolulu is reminding students they can help report bullying and crime on their school campus. The Student CrimeStoppers program began in 1997, and allows students to report tips anonymously to help keep their campus safe. CrimeStoppers Sergeant Chris Kim said some
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Two senior officials from the Palestinian militant Hamas group have visited the Syrian capital of Damascus for the first time since they were forced to leave the war-torn country a decade ago over backing armed opposition fighters. Wednesday’s visit appears to be a first step toward
Continue ReadingCNN, AMERICAN AIRLINES, WJXT, WSOC, KLAS, KPTV By Natasha Chen, CNN Victoria Wade flew from the East Coast to Southern California earlier this month to go to Disneyland. On the day she was set to buy her ticket, she saw the news: Prices went up overnight at US Disney parks, including admission to the original
Continue ReadingFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Florida has seen an increase in cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year driven largely by a surge in the county hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. The state Department of Health reports that as of Friday there have been 65 cases of vibrio vulnificus infections and 11 deaths in Florida this
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Home building pulled back in September, as buyers faced spiking mortgage rates that have made homes increasingly unaffordable. September housing starts, a measure of new home construction, dropped 8.1% from August, and were down 7.7% from a year ago, according to the US Census Bureau. After a big drop earlier this
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Kelly Ripa is turning a negative into a positive. During a recent episode of the podcast “Not Skinny But Not Fat,” the morning talk show host was asked about Kathie Lee Gifford saying she doesn’t plan to read Ripa’s new memoir, “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.” “It’s really hard to
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A man and a child are now dead and a second child was hospitalized following a murder suicide in Shreveport Tuesday evening. According to authorities, a domestic dispute occurred around 8:00 p.m. at a mobile home on Klug Pines Road. Police
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that he has signed a law introducing martial law in four Ukrainian regions the Kremlin claims to have annexed, in violation of international law. The regions are Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia does not control the entirety of those regions and is in a
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A pair of U.S. Air Force fighter jets intercepted two long-range Russian bombers near Alaska on Monday. According to an Oct. 18 press release from NORAD, the joint Canada-U.S. defence group, the American F-16 fighter jets were scrambled on Oct. 17
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell Consky Click here for updates on this story Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the fact that no radiation is given off by the device. TORONTO (CTV Network) — New Canadian technology is allowing surgeons to more easily remove breast cancer tumours with minimal cosmetic defect and less pain for
Continue ReadingTerry Ward, CNN For as long as she can remember, Isabella Silvers has despised the taste of cilantro. The 30-year-old British-Punjabi journalist living in London says the herb has shown up in dishes served at family meals throughout her life — among them naan, dahl and mattar paneer. “I would have to awkwardly eat around
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in Nevada for another potentially significant test of the nation’s premier wildlife protection law in
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in Nevada for another potentially significant test of the nation’s premier wildlife protection law in
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in Nevada for another potentially significant test of the nation’s premier wildlife protection law in
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