By Kirsten Mitchell Click here for updates on this story RICHFIELD, Minnesota (WCCO) — A new business is taking flight in Richfield, allowing backyard flock owners the opportunity for a stress-free vacation. Dana and Craig Heinen launched a flock-sitting business, where they offer visits and care to chickens and ducks across the metro while owners
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether safe injection sites can make a dent in the nation’s overdose epidemic. The grant, announced Monday, will study three sites where people can use heroin and other drugs and be revived if they take too much. The
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Plans for filming the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” has been paused due to the writers’ strike. Co-creators and co-showrunners Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, known as the Duffer brothers, tweeted a statement over the weekend on the account for the Netflix show’s writers’ room. “Duffers here. Writing
Continue ReadingCNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN Plans for filming the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” has been paused due to the writers’ strike. Co-creators and co-showrunners Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, known as the Duffer brothers, tweeted a statement over the weekend on the account for the Netflix show’s writers’ room. “Duffers here.
Continue ReadingBy Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story STORRS, Connecticut (WFSB) — Ray Allen left the University of Connecticut after three seasons to pursue a career in the NBA. After nearly 30 years, 18 of which were spent earning a couple of championships and nearly a dozen All-Star nods in the NBA, the
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The European Union says it has canceled a reception at an event in Tel Aviv marking Europe Day to prevent a radical ultranationalist Israeli minister from giving an address. The EU’s Delegation to the State of Israel said Monday that it decided “to cancel the diplomatic reception, as we do not want
Continue ReadingSTORRS, Conn. (AP) — Twenty-seven years after hitting his last jump shot in the building, Ray Allen walked back into Gampel Pavilion on Sunday wearing a cap and gown. The 47-year-old basketball Hall of Famer sat in the stands with other graduating students, under a banner commemorating the retirement of his UConn jersey, then took
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Hace más de una década se especuló que la estrella de “Glee” Dianna Agron y Taylor Swift podrían haber tenido una “Historia de Amor”. Ahora, Agron acaba de abordarlo. En una entrevista publicada recientemente en Rolling Stone, se le preguntó a la actriz por ser una supuesta inspiración para el
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States’ top international development chief is heading to Serbia and Kosovo this week to meet with leaders there. Samantha Power’s travel comes as U.S. and European leaders work to stabilize relations between the two former wartime enemies at a time of heightened
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN At least 400 people have died after floods and landslides hit the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province last week, officials told CNN. Heavy rainfall through last week caused rivers to overflow and created mudslides that devastated the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi in South Kivu’s Kalehe
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Six crew members of a Liberian-flagged tanker who had been held hostage by pirates in March have been freed. Pirates boarded the Monjasa Reformer southwest of Port Pointe-Noire, Congo on March 25. The French navy, which was patrolling the area, eventually found the abandoned tanker with 10 crew members still on
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN Golf fans are accustomed to hearing a curling putt described as ‘snaking.’ What they are less familiar with, though, is the sight of a snake dangling off the end of a club. During the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow on Saturday, Rickie Fowler was on hand to provide a safe
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Nearly 610,000 student loan borrowers have received debt relief from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program since October 2021, when the Biden administration temporarily expanded eligibility. The program promises to wipe away remaining federal student loan debt after an eligible government or nonprofit worker makes 10 years of monthly payments. Another
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III rested on the third day of his long coronation weekend. Monday was, after all, a holiday declared in honor of his crowning and he had spent several whirlwind days of elaborately choreographed public festivities capped with an off-the-cuff cameo on “American Idol.” Other royals
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court has opened hearing on suits filed by opposition parties to challenge the incumbent party’s victory in the country’s Feb. 25 presidential election. The hearing began at the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday amid heavy security. Armed personnel blocked major access roads
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL VIA ITN By Anna Cooban and Xiaofei Xu, CNN More than 20 million people in the United Kingdom tuned in to watch King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday, but the ceremony attracted far fewer British viewers than his mother’s funeral last year. Average viewing figures for the two-hour service at Westminster Abbey —
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer Lionel Messi has returned to training with his Paris Saint-Germain teammates after the club lifted his suspension. The French team announced Messi’s return on its website, posting a picture of the former Barcelona player running with a ball at the club’s training ground. PSG did not officially say whether
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN The young widow watched as the helpers wended through the Zone at sunrise, offering what they could: water, a bus ticket or a shelter bed — if one was open. Standing beside her tent, Rayann Denny sized up the sprawling camp of 900 or so people improvised along sidewalks in downtown
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From just the right book to just the right wheels, there are lots of ways to please all the mothers in your life when their special holiday rolls around. Some ideas: TECHNOLOGY Give the gift of a heartbeat. Bond Heart is a smart necklace in the
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN When the US Federal Reserve embarked on an aggressive campaign to quash inflation last year, it did so with the goal of avoiding a painful repeat of the 1970s, when inflation spun out of control and economic malaise set in. Inflation has been sliding, indicating that after 10 consecutive interest rate
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