By SARAH HURWITZ Click here for updates on this story CENTRALIA, Washington (KPTV) — As the flood waters recede in Lewis County, now the focus turns to cleanup and recovery. Lewis County Emergency Management says most county roads are now reopen, after flood waters shut down I-5 near Chehalis on Friday. For David Madrigal, the
Continue ReadingCNN, WLS, WCBS By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN The number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 across the US is the highest it’s ever been, pushing officials to enact emergency procedures amid an ongoing case surge fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. More than 151,000 Americans were in the hospital with
Continue ReadingAURORA, Ind. (AP) — DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who vanished with her two young children in 2002. Indiana State Police announced Tuesday that Dearborn County’s coroner learned Friday the bone was confirmed as belonging
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a significant false claim on Friday about Covid-19’s impact on children. Sotomayor made the remark during a Friday hearing about the legality of the Biden administration’s attempt to require large employers to force workers to be vaccinated for the virus or undergo weekly testing. Here
Continue ReadingBERN, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer says she will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus. Chinese authorities require unvaccinated Olympians to enter quarantine upon arrival if they don’t have a valid medical exemption. Kummer is scheduled to arrive this
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the country has donated $500,000 to the United Nations for food, medical aid and other assistance for Afghans who fled to neighboring Tajikistan. The ministry’s director general says Israel is proud to be part of the international effort to help Afghan refugees from the Taliban takeover in August.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HANCOCK COUNTY, Mississippi (WALA) — A semi truck driver escaped without serious injury but a load of brand new automobiles burned after a crash late Monday night on Interstate 10. It was shortly before 11 p.m. when the Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to the crash
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, Pete Muntean and Barbara Starr, CNN Business An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday. The official says it was not a national ground
Continue ReadingCNN By Oren Liebermann, Pete Muntean and Barbara Starr, CNN Business An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday. The official says it was not a national
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A veterinarian says that a brown bear cub found exhausted in snowy woods in southeastern Poland has been diagnosed with a disease that will be treated with antibiotics. In a good sign, the young male bear named Ada was eating his meals Tuesday, after he was given medication and put in
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Meta, la empresa matriz de Facebook, retrasa su regreso a las oficinas hasta el 28 de marzo, y exigirá una prueba de vacunas de refuerzo a los trabajadores. La empresa ya exige que los trabajadores de las oficinas estén vacunados. Janelle Gale, vicepresidenta del departamento de recursos humanos de Meta,
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man who helped take people to the hospital after a deadly New York City fire nearly overlooked his own brother in the aftermath of the blaze. Yusupha Jawara rushed to the scene Sunday in the Bronx. At the hospital, he saw a
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A family member says the Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested over the weekend. Faizullah Jalal’s daughter says Tuesday her father was freed from Taliban custody. The group had accused him of “nonsense remarks on social media, which were provoking
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist It was warmer just after midnight Tuesday morning than it will be all day long in the Northeast. Since then, the temperature has been dropping, and it will stay dangerously cold all day in the region, leaving major cities like New York and Boston with the most frigid daytime air
Continue ReadingCNN By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist It was warmer just after midnight Tuesday morning than it will be all day long in the Northeast. Since then, the temperature has been dropping, and it will stay dangerously cold all day in the region, leaving major cities like New York and Boston with the most frigid daytime
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A Chinese broadcaster has been ordered to pay the English Premier League at least $213 million by the High Court in London over the collapse of the rights agreements. The league terminated the deal last year after PPTV failed to pay two installments of the rights fees owed, citing a change to
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A Chinese broadcaster has been ordered to pay the English Premier League at least $213 million by the High Court in London over the collapse of the rights agreements. The league terminated the deal last year after PPTV failed to pay two installments of the rights fees owed, citing a change to
Continue ReadingCNN By Dan Merica, CNN Both President Joe Biden and Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams are citing a scheduling issue to explain why the state’s most prominent voting rights activist will not be attending the Democratic president’s speech on the topic in Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon. Abrams, who used her 2018 gubernatorial loss to
Continue ReadingPOTSDAM, Germany (AP) — German prosecutors have said they will drop an animal cruelty investigation into an athlete and a coach who were shown striking a horse during the Olympic modern pentathlon last year. Prosecutors in the eastern city of Potsdam say the investigation will be dropped once athlete Annika Schleu and coach Kim Raisner
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Fees for bounced checks or lacking enough money in your account could soon be a thing of the past. Bank of America is the latest major financial institution to announce that it is ending fees for insufficient funds. It also plans to cut overdraft fees from $35 to
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