CNN By Sharif Paget, Caroll Alvarado and Jeanne Bonner, CNN Abdul Sharifu, 26, left his home in Buffalo Saturday afternoon in blizzard conditions to get milk and other supplies. He never made it back. Sharifu is among at least 39 fatalities in Erie County, New York, from the winter storm that buried the city of
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Albert Rivera knows well how dangerous Mexico can be: He sometimes wears a bulletproof vest around the compound of bright yellow buildings that he built into one of the nation’s largest migrant shelters. His phone stores more evidence in the form of stomach-churning videos that gangs
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police say two German teenagers have died after skiing off the edge of a slope in Austria and falling up to 60 meters (nearly 200 feet). Police in Tyrol province said witnesses saw the 17-year-old boys skiing at high speed down an intermediate-difficulty red slope in the Waidring ski area Wednesday and
Continue ReadingBy Angela Williams Click here for updates on this story VICKSBURG, Mississippi (WAPT) — Vicksburg police are investigating after the discovery of human remains near a casino. The Vicksburg Police Department was notified Tuesday “of a possible deceased person” near Ameristar Casino, according to a news release. Officers searched the area until about 1:30 p.m.,
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Reggae musician Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marley, Bob Marley’s grandson and Stephen Marley’s son, has died at 31. His representative confirmed his death to Rolling Stone on Tuesday but a cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Born in Jamaica and raised in Miami, Marley followed in his family’s musical footsteps, taking the
Continue ReadingBy Matt Reed Click here for updates on this story BROCKTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A Brockton, Massachusetts, mother learned her fate Wednesday after being convicted earlier this week of killing her two young boys. After a nine-day trial, a jury found Latarsha Sanders guilty Tuesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2018 deaths
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Mars may seem like a dry, desolate place, but the red planet transforms into an otherworldly wonderland in winter, according to a new video shared by NASA. It’s late winter in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere, where the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are exploring an ancient river delta that once fed into
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN A Michigan federal judge sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to nearly 20 years in prison Wednesday. Barry Croft Jr. was part of a plan to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020 and practiced detonating explosives in preparation, prosecutors have
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Una única cifra parece ser suficiente para hacer el balance ambiental de 2022: la demanda de carbón crecerá 1,2% y superará los 8.000 millones de toneladas por primera vez en la historia este año, según la Agencia Internacional de Energía, pese a las advertencias, que ya no pueden ser
Continue ReadingBy TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on an Ivory Coast tourist beach nearly seven years ago. The killings in the resort area of Grand-Bassam by al-Qaida
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By Gladys Bautista Click here for updates on this story COLUMBUS, Indiana (WLKY) — The family of Julie Yow-Schmidtke says she was denied a restraining order from her estranged husband 10 days before she was killed in an apparent murder-suicide. “She was scared, very scared,” her sister Lori Griffin said. “She started changing the locks
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Nouran Salahieh, CNN An additional five charges were filed Tuesday against a Stockton man already charged with murder in a series of killings in Northern California, San Joaquin County prosecutors said Tuesday. Wesley Brownlee, 43, was already facing three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of Jonathan Rodriguez Hernandez,
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden regresa esta semana a St. Croix, uno de los lugares de vacaciones favoritos de él y de la primera dama Jill Biden, en busca de una última oportunidad para descansar antes de lo que se espera sea un polémico 2023 y la reelección. Mientras Biden se relaja en
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By Jim Keithley Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN COUNTY, Maine (WPTZ) — On Christmas Day, just after 7:30 a.m., the Lincoln County Communications Center received a 911 call. The caller told police that a 3-year-old child was not breathing. Rescue personnel and deputies from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department rushed to a
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Romanian swimmer David Popovici has been named Best Balkan Athlete of the year, according to the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) annual poll results released Wednesday. The 18-year-old Popovici won the men’s 100 and 200 freestyle world and European titles in 2022 and set a new 100 freestyle world record. Popovici also
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Chelsea is expecting Reece James to be sidelined for up to a month after the England defender sustained a recurrence of his knee injury in the 2-0 Premier League victory over Bournemouth. James missed the World Cup because of his long-term injury and looked close to tears when he was substituted after
Continue ReadingBy Jim Keithley Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN COUNTY, Maine (WYFF) — On Christmas Day, just after 7:30 a.m., the Lincoln County Communications Center received a 911 call. The caller told police that a 3-year-old child was not breathing. Rescue personnel and deputies from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department rushed to a
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security recently warned of potential domestic violent extremist acts related to the anticipated lifting of a Trump-era border restriction, according to a memo obtained by CNN, just days before the termination of those limits was halted by the Supreme Court. “So far, we have observed calls for
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn, CNN Many Southwest customers have been desperately trying something — anything — that will get them back home. But some passengers have been horrified to find other airlines posting last-minute flights to their destinations that can cost thousands of dollars. United and American Airlines say they have a solution: The airlines
Continue ReadingBy Janice Limon Click here for updates on this story ANDERSON COUNTY, South Carolina (WYFF) — A 91-year-old man who walked outside of his home Christmas night has been found dead, according to Deputy Coroner Ty Blackwell with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office. The coroner identified the man as Marvin Eugene Henley, of Anderson. The
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