By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A police officer remarkably escaped injury Monday when a car careened across a highway at 120 mph while he conducted a traffic stop. Dashcam video of the crash released Tuesday by Fairfax County Police shows a black BMW sedan driven by a teenager coming within inches
Continue ReadingBy Peter Burke, Dave Bohman, & Matt Papaycik Click here for updates on this story WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPTV) — A series of “swatting” calls prompted a large police presence Tuesday morning at Palm Beach Atlantic University and several other South Florida colleges. Police were called to PBAU, where students received text alerts about
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced Tuesday night that its premier prize for press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian female journalists “for their commitment to truth and accountability.” The winners are Niloufar Hamedi who broke the news that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died last September while being held by the morality
Continue ReadingBy DOUG ALDEN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Connor Wong hit two homers, including a tie-breaking solo shot in the eighth, to help the Boston Red Sox rally past the Toronto Blue Jays. Masataka Yoshida and Christian Arroyo also homered for Boston and the Red Sox tied a season-high for hits with 14, including four
Continue ReadingBy BYRON KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Call hit a two-run double during a three-run seventh inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1. CJ Abrams had the tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh off Keegan Thompson as part of a 3-for-3 night. Victor Robles followed with an infield hit and
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Kevin Costner and his wife of over 18 years Christine Baumgartner have announced they are going their separate ways. In a statement shared with CNN on Tuesday, Costner’s representative Arnold Robinson said that “circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate
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OSU Master Gardeners have two free virtual seminars on vegetable gardening in Central Oregon, which has its challenges! More details here: https://ktvz.com/community/community-billboard/2023/04/27/osu-master-gardeners-offer-video-virtual-qa-free-booklet-on-growing-vegetables-in-central-oregon/
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Tras una búsqueda intensa de varios días, Francisco Oropesa, el hombre señalado de perpetrar un tiroteo en Cleveland, Texas, está finalmente bajo custodia, anunció el sheriff del condado de San Jacinto, Greg Capers, en la noche de este martes. Previamente, dos fuentes policiales familiarizadas con la investigación habían confirmado el arresto a
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Emma Tucker, CNN A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month with three others has been found dead in New Orleans, a sheriff said Tuesday, leaving just one of the four apparently still on the run. The body of Casey Grayson, 34, was found in a vehicle at a
Continue ReadingBy Vedika Sud, Rhea Mogul and Sania Farooqui CNN The women wake just after dawn at the makeshift protest site, their belongings stacked under mosquito nets as a row of mattresses line the pavement in New Delhi. By 8 a.m., they begin training — some run up and down the road, while others perform drills
Continue ReadingCNN By Donie O’Sullivan and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN President Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign has often been celebrated as the first to effectively use social media as a mobilization tool to capture the White House. In the 15 years since, the technology has gone from being a novel addition to a political campaign to transcending
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN President Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign has often been celebrated as the first to effectively use social media as a mobilization tool to capture the White House. In the 15 years since, the technology has gone from being a novel addition to a political campaign to transcending every
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A retired Seattle doctor died while climbing Mount Everest on Monday, according to University of Washington officials. University officials said on Twitter Tuesday that Dr. Jonathan Sugarman died Monday on the mountain. He was climbing the mountain as part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides. Company officials said
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A retired Seattle doctor died while climbing Mount Everest on Monday, according to University of Washington officials. University officials said on Twitter Tuesday that Dr. Jonathan Sugarman died Monday on the mountain. He was climbing the mountain as part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides. Company officials said
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas after they asked him to stop shooting his gun near their house hid out just miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico,
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Costner and his wife of nearly 19 years, Christine Baumgartner, are divorcing, a representative for the actor said Tuesday. “It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage,” Costner’s publicist Arnold Robinson said
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — La cinta que ha estado conteniendo la política migratoria de Estados Unidos se arrancará finalmente la próxima semana, y nadie parece estar completamente preparado para lo que se avecina: De cara a un esperado aumento de cruces fronterizos, el Pentágono enviará soldados adicionales a la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México
Continue ReadingBy Jean Casarez, Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts mother of three who was last seen alive in January, was having an affair with a man in Washington, DC, before she went missing and had spent Thanksgiving with him in Ireland, new court documents say. That man told investigators he had
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A retired Seattle doctor died while climbing Mount Everest on Monday, according to University of Washington officials. University officials said on Twitter Tuesday that Dr. Jonathan Sugarman died Monday on the mountain. He was climbing the mountain as part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides. Company officials said
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Joel Embiid’s began the long process toward NBA MVP as a towering soccer prospect in Africa who never picked up a basketball until he was a teenager. Once he changed sports for good, Embiid became a generational — albeit often-injured — talent. And, the affable center quickly became the
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