By Caleb Califano Click here for updates on this story PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (WPBF) — St. Lucie County firetrucks on Wednesday morning rolled up to homes of children with special needs with an annual delivery: Christmas gifts from the St. Lucie County Fire District’s Christmas 4 Kids program. Volunteers have been working hard for
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Dos ejecutivos de alto rango vinculados con la colapsada bolsa de criptomonedas FTX se han declarado culpables de múltiples cargos criminales y están cooperando con los fiscales federales, según registros judiciales desclasificados. Gary Wang, ex cofundador de FTX, y Caroline Ellison, que fue consejera delegada del fondo de cobertura Alameda Research
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A 14-year-old Idaho girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors said she and a friend both tried to kill her friend’s stepfather. Chloe Marks, of Lewiston, entered the guilty plea on Tuesday, The Lewiston Tribune reported. She faces up to 25 years in juvenile detention and prison when she
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A 14-year-old Idaho girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors said she and a friend both tried to kill her friend’s stepfather. Chloe Marks, of Lewiston, entered the guilty plea on Tuesday, The Lewiston Tribune reported. She faces up to 25 years in juvenile detention and prison when she
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A 14-year-old Idaho girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors said she and a friend both tried to kill her friend’s stepfather. Chloe Marks, of Lewiston, entered the guilty plea on Tuesday, The Lewiston Tribune reported. She faces up to 25 years in juvenile detention and prison when she
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN A driver told authorities that their Tesla’s “full-self-driving” software braked unexpectedly and triggered an eight-car pileup in the San Francisco Bay Area last month that led to nine people being treated for minor injuries including one juvenile who was hospitalized, according to a California Highway Patrol traffic crash report. CNN Business
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Noah Baumbach doesn’t often look for books to adapt. But early in the pandemic he picked up Don DeLillo’s 1985 classic “White Noise,” about a professor of Hitler studies at a generic Midwestern college, his blended family and the airborne toxic event that has everyone in a panic. In
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN Benjamin Netanyahu has officially informed Israeli President Isaac Herzog that he has successfully formed a government, his Likud party said Wednesday. In what was a last minute announcement, Netanyahu tweeted 10 minutes before the deadline expired, “I have managed.” Netanyahu, who had already served as prime minister for 15 years until
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By Brianna Borghi Click here for updates on this story COHASSET, Massachusetts (WCVB) — The Salvation Army’s red kettles are a fixture of the holiday season, and collecting donations has an extra special meaning this year for a Cohasset family. “He spent a lot of his winters bell ringing on the Cape,” Cam Roller said.
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Berlinger, CNN Tse Chi Lop, an alleged drug kingpin accused of running a multibillion dollar methamphetamine empire, has been extradited to Australia following a nearly two-year legal battle with Dutch authorities. Tse, 59, was arrested in January 2021 after he landed at Amsterdam’s Schipol International Airport on a flight from the Taiwan. Dutch
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The big earthquake that rocked the far north coast of California this week originated in an area under the Pacific Ocean where multiple tectonic plates collide, creating the state’s most seismically active region. The Mendocino Triple Junction is the meeting place of the Gorda, Pacific and
Continue ReadingBy Janice Limon Click here for updates on this story JONESVILLE, South Carolina (WXII) — A U.S. Army veteran and his family got a Christmas gift to remember this season after their mortgage was paid off by a nonprofit group that honors first responders and military heroes. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation paid off the
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Black man who was punched and kicked by police during a traffic stop in Colorado Springs has filed a federal lawsuit against three officers alleging they beat him “beyond recognition” and left him with significant PTSD-like symptoms. Dalvin Gadson’s lawsuit was filed in federal court on
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El máximo tribunal de Nepal ordenó este miércoles la excarcelación de Charles Sobhraj, el infame asesino en serie francés que inspiró la premiada serie de televisión “The Serpent”. El tribunal decretó la excarcelación por motivos de edad y salud, según su portavoz, Bimal Paudel. El Tribunal Supremo de Nepal ordenó la
Continue ReadingBy KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Nikiesha Barnett had knee surgery in 2006 and took unpaid leave from her job as a Georgia hospital coordinator while she was recovering. When Barnett wasn’t able to keep up with the payments for the surgery, she ended up owing about $4,500. That debt
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — El estado de salud de Pelé ha empeorado, y ahora requiere “mayores cuidados relacionados con las disfunciones renales y cardíacas” que presenta, informó este miércoles el hospital en el que el astro del fútbol brasileño está internado. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, “O Rei”, se encuentra internado desde el 29 de
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN House Republicans on Wednesday released a report focused on security failures at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, highlighting well-documented breakdowns in intelligence sharing, Capitol security and coordination between various law enforcement agencies that responded that day. Their primary recommendation centers around reforming
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Former Spain midfielder Isco Alarcón is leaving Sevilla less than five months after he had signed a two-year contract. Sevilla says in a statement that both the club and the player had agreed to part ways. Isco arrived in August as a star signing of Sevilla with the hopes of reviving his
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter has been hit with allegations from 100 former employees affected by mass layoffs at the company, including that it unfairly laid off more women than men, terminated employees who were actively on medical or parental leave and reneged on promises related to severance pay. The allegations were included as part
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuando las tormentas invernales nos obligan a prepararnos para la lluvia helada, el viento, el aguanieve y la nieve, las vidas pueden correr peligro. El desarrollo de una “bomba ciclónica” hizo que se emitieran alertas para decenas de millones de personas desde el estado de Washington hasta Maryland, según el Servicio
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