By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Duke Energy said it expects to restore power ahead of schedule to thousands of homes in a central North Carolina county that have been without electricity for several days after an attack on the electric grid. Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said the company
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Discover Your Forest, the nonprofit partner of the Forest Service in Central Oregon, will once again be offering winter interpretive programs, in collaboration with the Deschutes National Forest and the Mt. Bachelor Ski Area.
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean Investigators say the pilot of a private plane that crashed into power lines and cut electricity to 120,000 people was flying too low for miles. In a just-released report, data accessed by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the pilot was below key minimum altitudes required to land in poor visibility at
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A judge has ordered a 27-year-old Eritrean man to be held in jail following a knife attack on two students in southwestern Germany in which a 14-year-old girl died and a 13-year-old girl was seriously injured. Prosecutors said Tuesday the man declined to speak as he appeared before a judge at the
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police in Springfield, Missouri, are investigating after vandals spray-painted a swastika during a vandalism spree at an elementary school that is under construction. Springfield Public Schools spokesman Stephen Hall said the district immediately replaced the window where the swastika was found and removed graffiti on the exterior of the building. He
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Finally, shoppers are getting some good news about prices: Inflation is falling on discretionary merchandise just in time for the holidays, Walmart chief Doug McMillon said Tuesday. “In toys, sporting goods, apparel, categories like that, prices have come down more aggressively,” McMillon said in an interview on CNBC. “We’re still
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN It’s Election Day in the Peach State once again. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker are facing off in Georgia’s Senate runoff election. No candidate won more than 50% of the vote in the general election in November, with Warnock leading with 49.4% of the vote, Walker carrying 48.5%
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To celebrate what would have been the 126th birthday of namesake Marie Lamfrom, the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation distributed grants to nonprofits in honor of colleagues,
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Morocco became the first Arab nation and only the fourth African nation to advance to the World Cup quarterfinals by beating Spain 3-0 in a penalty shootout. Pablo Sarabia, Carlos Soler and Sergio Busquets missed their penalties for Spain. Sarabia hit the post and
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — The Prada fashion house has begun charting a line of succession on its business side by tapping a former LVMH executive as its next CEO. It also confirmed Tuesday that Miuccia Prada will continue in her creative roles. Andrea Guerra is set to be confirmed by
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators are investigating complaints that the engines on some small Jeeps can shut down while being driven. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 229,000 Jeep Compass SUVs from 2019 and 2020. Documents posted Tuesday by the agency say it has 15 complaints that drivers have
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A judge has sentenced former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company’s blood-testing hoax. The punishment announced Wednesday was slightly longer than that given last month to the CEO, who was his lover and
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Bennie Thompson, presidente de la Comisión Selecta de la Cámara que investiga el asalto del 6 de enero al Capitolio de EE.UU., dijo a los periodistas este martes que la comisión decidió que recomienda al Departamento de Justicia imponer cargos penales. “Hemos decidido recomendar imponer cargos penales”, dijo Thompson. Agregó que
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Some 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft-owned gaming studio ZeniMax are in the process of voting to form what would be the first union at the tech giant, organizers confirmed to CNN Business. The workers are organizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and have until the end
Continue ReadingBy Jasmina Alston Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — There has been an increase in sexually transmitted infections since the pandemic began, according to healthcare officials. DeWayne Ford, the AID Atlanta director of HIV prevention services, told Atlanta News First in metro Atlanta most of those rates are from Gonorrhea
Continue ReadingBy Jamarlo Phillips Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Investigators have busted a Georgia convenience store for allegedly selling drugs. The Haralson-Paulding Drug Task Force said that on Nov. 28, agents received an anonymous tip that a convenience store in Haralson County was selling pills that contained Tianeptine, a schedule
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University says it is hiring an external, third-party investigator to review the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of a student from a rival university. UNMSU Athletic Director Mario Moccia says Aggies power forward Mike Peake has been suspended indefinitely from the basketball team in connection with
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University says it is hiring an external, third-party investigator to review the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of a student from a rival university. UNMSU Athletic Director Mario Moccia says Aggies power forward Mike Peake has been suspended indefinitely from the basketball team in connection with
Continue ReadingCHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — The last two patients who were wounded when a Walmart employee in Virginia opened fire on his co-workers in an employee break room have been released from the hospital. A spokesperson for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital told The Virginian-Pilot that the two remaining patients had been discharged as of Monday night.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — There’s no contest between Brazil and Croatia in terms of pupulation. Brazil has 200 million and Croatia has 4 million. Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić put it this way: “So we are pretty much like a suburb of a major city in Brazil.” But Croatia has
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