By Brendan Ponton Click here for updates on this story RICHMOND, Virginia (WTKR) — Advocacy groups and lawmakers spoke against the Youngkin administration’s updated policy on restoring felon voting rights Tuesday at the State Capitol. “Voting is a sacred right, not a privilege as the governor’s office would have you believe,” said Sen. Mamie Locke
Continue ReadingBy Penny Kmitt, Madeline Miller Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia (WTKR) — On January 6, a 6-year-old boy at Richneck Elementary School shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner. Now, over three months after the shooting, the boy’s mother is facing charges and Newport News prosecutors have asked for a special
Continue ReadingBy Blaine Stewart Click here for updates on this story NORFOLK, Virginia (WTKR) — Glen Yearling doesn’t want to save just one child from gun violence. He wants to save them all. Yearling founded the Berkley Timberwolves, a youth football and cheer organization, in 2004. The volunteer coach and mentor spends hours each day picking
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Wish list for shelter’s needs online BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – With warmer weather just around the corner, Kitten season will soon be in full swing. In order to prepare for the nearly 300 newborn and orphaned kittens that will be coming through our doors this year, the Humane Society of Central Oregon is hosting a Kitten Shower! Attend the Kitten Shower on Saturday
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, se dirige a China en una visita de Estado y se espera que las conversaciones con el líder chino, Xi Jinping, se centren principalmente en el comercio, así como en la guerra en Ucrania. Lula, de 77 años, originalmente tenía planeado visitar
Continue ReadingCarolina Calero (CNN Español) — Matthew McConaughey parece dispuesto a sumergirse en un nuevo papel. Días después de que el director de Paramount Media Networks, Chris McCarthy, confirmara en una entrevista con The Hollywood Reporter que McConaughey protagonizará un spin-off de “Yellowstone”, una conversación en un podcast nos dio una idea de qué está pensando
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tribal leaders in Arizona say they hope to persuade the Biden administration to create protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon, which they consider sacred. They said Tuesday they’re looking to build on the momentum of President Joe Biden’s recent designation of a national monument in
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Steve Murdock, a former state demographer of Texas who served one year as the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, during which he helped keep the 2010 census on track, has died. He was 75. Murdock died last Friday, according to Rice University in Houston, where he spent nearly a decade until
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke by phone with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday amid signs that the Saudis and Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen are making “remarkable progress” toward finding a permanent end to their nine-year conflict. The
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer METAIRIE, La. (AP) — All-Star forward Zion Williamson says he won’t return to the New Orleans Pelicans’ lineup until he’s confident his body will respond well to the way he wants to play. Williamson says he’s fine physically after working three months to recover from a right hamstring injury.
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their water use in the basin. An analysis released Tuesday considers forced cuts either based on an existing
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman is facing federal charges after she allegedly created a disturbance that forced a fight to be diverted to Kansas City. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Chloe DaSilva is charged with interfering with a flight attendant. DaSilva was a passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight from San Francisco to Chicago’s
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A prominent civil rights group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new North Carolina law that will increase punishments for violent protests. The law was passed in response to the 2020 protests against racial injustice. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Jarred Tinordi has agreed to a one-year contract extension with a $1.25 million salary-cap hit. The 31-year-old Tinordi was claimed off waivers from the New York Rangers in October. He has a career-high two goals and six assists in 44 games this season. Chicago also agreed to a three-year
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Rory McIlroy is missing his second designated event by pulling out of the RBC Heritage this week. He already chose to skip the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua. Players are allowed to opt out of one of the designated events. Missing two could mean
Continue ReadingCNN By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Alex Marquardt and Evan Perez, CNN The Pentagon has begun to limit who across the government receives its highly classified daily intelligence briefs following a major leak of classified information discovered last week. Some US officials who used to receive the briefing materials daily have stopped receiving it in
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN The highly classified leaked Pentagon documents posted to social media offer a pessimistic US viewpoint about the state of the war in Ukraine, highlighting weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses and predicting a stalemate in the war for months to come. The documents, which appear to date from February and
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Belgian forward Dante Vanzeir has stepped away from the New York Red Bulls indefinitely after using a racial slur during a match against the San Jose Earthquakes this past weekend. The Red Bulls issued a statement on Tuesday that said Vanzeir addressed his teammates that morning and left
Continue ReadingBy FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The streaking Tampa Bay Rays are running out of superlatives to describe baseball’s best start in more than three decades. Remarkable, incredible and unbelievable are words players have used to describe the dominant, all-around team effort that has carried them to an 11-0 record
Continue ReadingBy WTVR Staff Click here for updates on this story CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — A Cumberland man was arrested Tuesday after hundreds of gallons of fuel were stolen from a construction site off of Genito Road. Chesterfield Police said English Construction has been reporting larcenies of fuel from their site in the 2600 block
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