Meet Mango and Lyra, a bonded pair of kitties. These two girls have complimentary personalities. Mango is a little more shy and snuggly while Lyra is much more outgoing and playful. They are at Redmond’s Brightside Animal Center looking for a family who will take them both home.
Continue ReadingBy IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays are carrying 13 pitchers and 13 position players on their roster for the wild-card series against the Seattle Mariners, including former Seattle All-Star left-hander Yusei Kikuchi, who lost his spot in the rotation this season. The Mariners will carry 12 pitchers and 14
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Chen Click here for updates on this story GARDNER, Kansas (KCTV) — John and Nicole DeHaven are bracing for heartbreak. Every day is a fight for the Gardner couple. Any day, the state could take away the little girl they’ve been trying to adopt for the last three years. It’s a heartbreaking journey
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and Ireland have hailed a new spirit of compromise in a grinding feud over post-Brexit trade rules. After a meeting on Friday, both sides expressed hopes of making enough progress in the next three weeks to avoid a destabilizing new election in Northern Ireland. U.K. Northern
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain and Ireland have hailed a new spirit of compromise in a grinding feud over post-Brexit trade rules. After a meeting on Friday, both sides expressed hopes of making enough progress in the next three weeks to avoid a destabilizing new election in Northern Ireland. U.K. Northern
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians starter Zach Plesac will pitch out of Cleveland’s bullpen in the wild-card round against the Tampa Bay Rays. The teams finalized their rosters two hours before Friday’s scheduled first pitch for Game 1. Plesac recently returned from the injured list due to a broken hand and made the 26-man roster ahead
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A pink diamond was sold for $57.7 million in Hong Kong on Oct. 7, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, fetched close to $5.2 million per
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Webster Click here for updates on this story OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — A Shawnee woman whose toddler was killed in an arson fire while she was out buying drugs may avoid prison time due to a surprising sentence from a judge. Karlie Phelps pleaded guilty in August to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un buque de carga navegaba por el Océano Atlántico cuando el capitán llamó a su habitación a dos jóvenes cadetes de la Academia de la Marina Mercante de Estados Unidos y les dio un trago a cada uno. Poco después, los estudiantes empezaron a sentir que algo iba mal. Sin
Continue ReadingSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s election authorities are voicing concerns over widespread problems at polling stations and reports of irregularities and vote-rigging in the general election last weekend. They have ordered ballot checks at over 1,000 polling stations and promised to investigate all potential failings before certifying the results of the vote. The country’s central
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and quality control coach Josh Paul won’t be back with the team next season. Hinch announced a series of staff changes Friday, two days after Detroit closed a disappointing season with a 66-96 record that extended the franchise’s postseason drought to eight
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A former coach for Team USA Climbing has been sentenced to five years in prison for the sexual abuse of two girls. The Daily Herald of Everett, Washington, reports that 28-year-old Alexander Fritz was charged in February with four counts of third-degree child rape after two 15-year-old girls he met through
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes and Gabby Orr, CNN The new super PAC launched by top allies of Donald Trump has placed its first television ad buys, in Ohio and Pennsylvania, to boost Republican Senate nominees endorsed by the former President with about a month to go before the midterm elections. According to AdImpact, MAGA, Inc. has
Continue ReadingCNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The fever hasn’t broken yet for America’s employment market, but the temperature is coming down. The economy added 263,000 jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, slightly more than economists had estimated. While still robust, the headline number marks the second consecutive month of falling totals. That, coupled with job openings
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore and Christine Romans, CNN US factories are humming, and manufacturers are scrambling to find workers as the pace of hiring hits levels not seen in decades. Friday’s September jobs report showed US manufacturers added another 22,000 workers in September, increasing employment in the sector by nearly 500,000 over the course of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — During a getting-to-know-you dinner shortly after being named co-hosts of “Good Morning America” in 2009, George Stephanopoulos told Robin Roberts that he didn’t really want to do the job. Nearly 13 years later, they’re passed an improbable milestone without public notice. They’re now the longest-serving
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN A recent episode of “The Great British Bake Off” is drawing criticism from some viewers for its depictions of Mexican culture. In the “Mexican Week” episode of the reality competition series, which aired in the UK on Tuesday and was released in the US on Friday, contestants are tasked with making
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK and KELVIN CHAN AP Technology Writers President Joe Biden has signed an executive order designed to allay European concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are illegally spying on them. It promises strengthened safeguards against data collection abuses and creates a forum for legal challenges. Friday’s order builds on a preliminary agreement Biden announced
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Jody Miller, a Grammy winning crossover artist with her 1965 hit “Queen of the House,” died Thursday in Blanchard, Oklahoma from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, her record label announced. She was 80 years old. “Jody Miller’s talent cannot be overstated. She had this innate, God-given ability to interpret and
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The world may have a new supercontinent within 200 million to 300 million years as the Pacific Ocean shrinks and closes. Researchers at Curtin University in Australia and Peking University in China used a supercomputer to model the evolution of Earth’s tectonic plates and the formation of a future supercontinent. The
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