By WMTW Staff Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT, Maine (WMTW) — An athlete from Maine has earned one of the top awards in basketball. Maine’s Cooper Flagg has been named Male Athlete of the Year by USA Basketball. Flagg helped Nokomis High School of Newport win its first basketball state title in
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs, CNN Schoolchildren raise money for socks, mothers buy winter clothes and sleeping bags, community groups collect donations for body armor. Russian citizens are crowdfunding to equip soldiers deployed to Ukraine as winter closes in on the battlefield. Troops have complained they are short of basic equipment — and the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Denver Broncos will visit the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday as two of the most disappointing teams in the NFL meet for a nationally televised Christmas Day game. Quarterback Russell Wilson will return for the Broncos after being held out of their 24-15 win over the Arizona Cardinals as a
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By Michelle Bandur & Daniel Macht Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A Sacramento dog that vanished more than a year ago and ended up more than 1,600 miles away in Kansas is back home. Zeppelin the dog was recently found after having disappeared 14 months ago. After Heather Reichart
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By Gail Paschall-Brown Click here for updates on this story APOPKA, Florida (WESH) — Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson gave an update on the investigation into the death of firefighter Austin Duran Wednesday. “Until we change the culture in this department, this will happen again,” Michael Duran, Austin Duran’s father, said. It’s been an emotional and
Continue ReadingCNN, KING, WSOC, WCCO, GETTY IMAGES By Forrest Brown, CNN It’s enough to give anyone already nervous about the chaos in the skies yet another reason to pop an antacid: the prospect of delayed, lost or damaged baggage. The concern is valid. Especially when an epic winter storm sweeps across the land and one airline
Continue ReadingCNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN Music is supposed to soothe the savage beast, but it can also get some people riled up. Especially, when it comes to copyright cases. Throughout the history of the music industry, there have been incidents of artists accused of ripping off the works of others. Taylor Swift had been
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN States would once again be able to terminate residents’ Medicaid coverage if the federal spending bill working its way through Congress becomes law. The legislation would phase out the requirement that prevents states from disenrolling Medicaid recipients as long as the national public health emergency is in effect in exchange for
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Under court order, Michigan State University has released records related to multimillion-dollar donations by two wealthy alumni. Mortgage executive Mat Ishbia pledged $14 million to MSU a year ago, on top of a $32 million gift announced earlier in 2021. The documents don’t reveal much that’s new.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva Delhi (CNN) — El ministro de Sanidad de la India aconsejó a la población que tome precauciones contra el covid-19, como vacunarse y usar mascarillas, a medida que el país permanece en alerta ante posibles nuevas variantes que puedan surgir de la oleada de infecciones que azota a la vecina China. El
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By CBSLA STAFF Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — Los Angeles Police Department officers on Wednesday reported the discovery of what they called an “elaborate underground illicit drug lab” in Granada Hills. Photos from the home show a hatch in the floor leading to a ladder that drops down
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill Thursday that finances federal agencies through September and provides another significant round of military and economic aid to Ukraine one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dramatic address to a joint meeting of Congress. The bill, which runs
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press DAMASCUS, Oregon (AP) — At a woodsy retreat center in Oregon, some 30 men and women are seated or lying down, masks covering their eyes and listening to serene music. They are among the first crop of students being trained how to accompany patients tripping on psilocybin, as Oregon prepares
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason for allegedly passing information to Russia. Federal prosecutors said the man was arrested in Berlin on Wednesday. They said the apartment and workplace of the employee of the Federal Intelligence Service and of another person
Continue ReadingSHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A “Cousin Eddie” display in Kentucky apparently looked a little too real and police were called to check it out. After receiving the call, a dispatcher described the scene to responding officers as a naked male standing outside. WDRB-TV reports officers arrived at the Shepherdsville home to find a mannequin decorated
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge in federal court is questioning San Francisco’s tactics in homeless encampment cleanups, suggesting the city is violating its own policies. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu did not rule Thursday on a request by homeless plaintiffs to make the city stop encampment sweeps until it
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Jake Tapper, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The final straw for former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson with her first attorney, paid through allies of former President Donald Trump, came when he told her to stop cooperating with the January 6 House select committee even if she risked a contempt
Continue ReadingBy RAQUEL REDONDO and ELISE MORTON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Lawmakers in Spain and Scotland have passed gender self-determination bills allowing citizens over 16 to change their registered gender without medical supervision. Spain’s lower house of Parliament approved a law on Thursday that requires children ages 12 and 13 to have a judge’s authorization
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The weather will be frightful for the Saints and Browns. Their playoff chances are already there. With a forecast for temperatures in single digits and wind gusts up to 50 mph, both teams will lean heavily on their running games. The conditions would figure to hurt New Orleans, which plays in
Continue ReadingLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily barred the enforcement of a Louisville city ordinance that creates a buffer zone around health care centers, including a downtown abortion clinic that attracts protests. The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled the buffer zone infringes on the First Amendment rights of
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