By Alice Queen Click here for updates on this story COVINGTON, Georgia (Rockdale Citizen) — The Newton County Sheriff’s Office is blaming the August death of its K9 Officer Tom-Tom on faulty air conditioning equipment, which led to the dog’s death in an overheated vehicle. Sheriff Ezell Brown called it an “unfortunate and unintentional incident.”
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A consultant hired as part of a legal settlement has released recommendations for the Oregon State Hospital to at least temporarily ease a crisis of slow admissions and overwhelmed capacity. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Dr. Debra Pinals, a behavioral health director from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, delivered her
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A group gathered at Worrell Wayside Park in downtown Bend on Wednesday to protest plans for major changes. Last week, Deschutes County commissioners voted to redesign the park, to make it more accessible and increase parking, rejecting an option for a five-story parking garage.
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. Navy captain has pleaded guilty to bribery for accepting nearly $68,000 worth of dinners, hotels, parties and prostitute services from a Malaysian defense contractor. Prosecutors say Donald Hornbeck of Indiana entered the plea Wednesday in San Diego federal court. Authorities say Hornbeck acknowledged that in 2007 and 2008
Continue ReadingBy ED TRELEVEN Click here for updates on this story HARTLAND, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — A Hartland woman arrested last month in Cambridge, where Dane County sheriff’s deputies found the body of a man in the back seat of a car she was driving, was charged Tuesday with hiding a corpse. Angelina J. Ruesch,
Continue ReadingBy TYLER MASON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jaden Ivey scored 21 points and Zach Edey added a double-double of 14 points and 12 rebounds, leading No. 4 Purdue to an 88-73 win over Minnesota. Senior guard Eric Hunter Jr. scored a career-high 20 points and the Boilermakers had four players in double figures. Purdue
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, CNN The ongoing protest by Canadian truckers over Covid-19 health restrictions is now an “unlawful” occupation of the country’s capital, Ottawa officials said Wednesday. “We’re looking at every single option, including military aid,” Ottawa’s police chief Peter Sloly said during a briefing. He underscored the fact that such a request for help
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden has approved the deployment of 3,000 US troops to Poland, Germany and Romania to bolster NATO countries in Eastern Europe. The deployments, US officials have told CNN, are a show of support to NATO allies feeling threatened by Russia’s buildup of troops near Ukraine’s border.
Continue ReadingBy MARISSA SULEK, JOSEPH WENZEL Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Metro Police detectives are trying to find the driver who shot at a mother and her daughters along Interstate 24 this weekend. Ashley Evans, of Rutherford County, was driving on the eastbound side of the highway between the Hickory
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Fred Meyer announced Wednesday it is serving as an access point to free non-surgical N95 masks as part of its partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Continue ReadingOXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi freshman Daeshun Ruffin will miss the season with a knee injury that will require surgery. Ruffin was injured in the Rebels’ 76-72 win over No. 25 LSU on Tuesday night, when he scored 19 points in 20 minutes. Ruffin missed eight games after breaking his right hand in the season
Continue ReadingCNN By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN A mammoth storm dropping significant snowfall Wednesday threatens to paralyze parts of the Midwest and South with ice, snow, dangerously cold temperatures and power outages for days. More than 100 million people were under winter weather alerts, stretching from the Rockies to New England. Heavy snow has
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN A mammoth storm dropping significant snowfall Wednesday threatens to paralyze parts of the Midwest and South with ice, snow, dangerously cold temperatures and power outages for days. More than 100 million people were under winter weather alerts, stretching from the Rockies to New England. Heavy snow has been
Continue ReadingENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — New Denver Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett has hired former Packers tight ends coach Justin Outten as his offensive coordinator and former Broncos and Vikings assistant Klint Kubiak as his passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Hackett also hired Butch Barry as his offensive line coach. Outten (pronounced OW-ten) spent the last
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Italian short track skater Arianna Fontana can become the all-time leader in Winter Olympic medals for her sport with one more podium finish.
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The last time the Olympics came to China, Xi Jinping oversaw the whole endeavor. Now the Games are back, and he is running the entire nation. The Chinese president, hosting a Winter Olympics beleaguered by complaints about human rights abuses, has upended tradition to restore strongman rule
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Dos personas con leucemia lograron la remisión durante más de una década tras recibir una infusión de células CAR-T, células inmunitarias modificadas en laboratorio, según un nuevo estudio. Los resultados sugieren que este enfoque podría ser una terapia a largo plazo para la leucemia, y algunos investigadores lo describen como una
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials have identified the 56-year-old driver killed in a collision with a dump truck in a San Diego suburb as Savaii Seau, the brother of the late NFL Hall of Famer Junior Seau. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Wednesday that Seau was driving in the suburb of Lakeside on Tuesday afternoon
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL and LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writers Jim Harbaugh will stay at Michigan after all. He has ended his dalliance with a return to the NFL after interviewing with the Minnesota Vikings for their head coach vacancy. The Vikings have targeted Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell for the job instead. Harbaugh
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Sarah Moon, CNN San Francisco is formally apologizing to its Chinese residents for discriminatory actions taken during the city’s storied history. The Board of Supervisors passed the apology resolution presented by city supervisor Matt Haney on Monday, coinciding with the Lunar New Year. Citing heinous behavior from the mid-1800s when the
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