SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut youth hockey assistant coach has been fired after grabbing an opposing player and causing him to fall to the ice near the end of a tournament game in New Hampshire on New Year’s Eve. Corey Sutherland was a coach for a South Windsor youth team that lost 6-0
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN McDonald’s is planning to cut some of its corporate staff, CEO Chris Kempczinski said in a memo to employees Friday. “We will evaluate roles and staffing levels in parts of the organization and there will be difficult discussions and decisions ahead,” Kempszinski said. “Certain initiatives will be de-prioritized or stopped altogether.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Costco Wholesale Corp., up $32.68 to $482.87. The warehouse club operator gave investors an encouraging sales update. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., up $12.23 to $84.27. Vince McMahon is returning to the producer of professional wrestling events as executive chairman of the
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Wall Street rallied amid hopes inflation may continue to cool and the Federal Reserve may ease up on its interest rate hikes following some mixed readings on the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 shook off a shaky start and closed 2.3% higher Friday, marking its first winning week in the last five.
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Orthodox Christians packed churches on Friday evening for Christmas Eve services, a holiday darkened for many by the conflict raging between Orthodox neighbors Russia and Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the world’s largest Orthodox denomination, led elaborate services at Moscow’s Christ the Savior
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said. Experts said a school shooting involving a 6-year-old is extremely rare,
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have settled the workers’ lawsuits. The suits claim the farms hired white laborers from South Africa and paid them more than the local Black employees for the same type of work. Federal court
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, CNN Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has re-opened her criminal investigation into fake electors who signed a certificate claiming former President Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 election when he did not, she said on Friday. Nessel, a Democrat who previously referred the matter to federal prosecutors, told reporters that
Continue ReadingBy TONY AIELLO Click here for updates on this story YONKERS, New York (WCBS) — A 16-year-old student was stabbed Friday inside Yonkers Middle High School. Police said a fight began around 8:30 a.m. inside a second-floor bathroom on the high school side of the campus, and then spilled out into a common area. The
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina U.S. Sen. Richard Burr says the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into investment sales early in the coronavirus pandemic has concluded with “no action.” An attorney for Burr’s brother-in-law also said on Friday the SEC probe of his client is over with no insider trading found.
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina U.S. Sen. Richard Burr says the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into investment sales early in the coronavirus pandemic has concluded with “no action.” An attorney for Burr’s brother-in-law also said on Friday the SEC probe of his client is over with no insider trading found.
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Al menos 10 personas resultaron heridas en un tiroteo afuera de un restaurante de Miami Gardens, Florida, donde el rapero French Montana estaba filmando un video musical, según declaraciones del restaurante y del Departamento de Bomberos de Miami Dade (MDFR, por sus siglas en inglés). “Nuestros corazones están apesadumbrados y estamos
Continue ReadingBy WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — A Chicago tourist is recovering at a Miami hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver and her husband is speaking out. Lena Chiang, 61, was let with a badly-bruised shoulder and knee and has bruises on her head and a broken
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — The Wall Street Journal exige respuestas al Departamento de Policía de Phoenix después de que un agente detuviera y esposara a uno de sus reporteros a la salida de un banco Chase, un incidente que, según los defensores de la libertad de prensa, plantea problemas relacionados con la Primera Enmienda y
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By Chandler Watkins Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND Oregon (KPTV) — A Portland bike courier is recovering after being hit head-on by a wrong-way driver in North Portland on Sunday. “I had just completed a bicycle delivery and I was on my way to another one,” said Jake Randall Peltier. “I was
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE GIMBEL Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH (KTVT) — The Fort Worth City Council will vote next Tuesday on renaming the Hillside Community Center in honor of Atatiana Carr Jefferson “as a tangible legacy and reminder to the life she lived.” Councilmembers Chris Nettles and Elizabeth Beck are proposing the
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers say they will move to increase state control of Walt Disney World’s private government. The Republican-controlled legislature announced its intention in a notice Friday, the latest development in a feud over the law that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” Lawmakers note that they
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El hombre acusado de asesinar a cuatro estudiantes de la Universidad de Idaho en noviembre había limpiado a fondo el interior y el exterior de su vehículo y también fue visto utilizando guantes quirúrgicos en múltiples ocasiones antes de ser detenido, según informó una fuente policial a CNN. Bryan Kohberger, de
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS TYE Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services takes in $1.5 billion of Illinois taxpayer money each year. The department is in charge of keeping the most vulnerable kids in Illinois safe – and alive. But in a just-released report, we got
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — La Administración de Alimentos Y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA) otorgó la aprobación acelerada el viernes para el medicamento contra la enfermedad de Alzheimer, lecanemab, uno de los primeros medicamentos experimentales para la demencia que aparentemente ralentiza la progresión del deterioro cognitivo. “La enfermedad de Alzheimer incapacita inmensamente la vida
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