By Web staff Click here for updates on this story LITTLETON, New Hampshire (WBZ) — New England is home to one of the very best places in the country to find a sweet treat, according to a new ranking. USA Today readers voted for their favorite candy stores across America, and Chutters in Littleton, New
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old boy was critically injured after falling from a carnival ride in Illinois, setting off an investigation by local police and state officials. The boy was attending the Taste of Summer Festival in Antioch on Sunday afternoon when he was thrown from the Moby Dick ride around 2:40
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Anna Chernova, and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Russian tour operators are pleading with vacationers to Crimea not to make decisions “based on emotions,” as Ukraine’s strike on the Crimea bridge on Monday played havoc on travel between the occupied Ukrainian peninsula and Russia. Hundreds of cars were waiting Tuesday to cross
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Continue ReadingBy MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons intertwined. The find comes from a site known as “China’s Pompeii,” where mud and debris
Continue ReadingPANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering. Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year’s general elections, but a judge sentenced him Tuesday to 128 months in prison in a case that revolved around the
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — A 3-year-old driving a golf cart struck and killed a 7-year-old on Monday afternoon in Fort Myers, Florida, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol. The 3-year-old was approaching a right curve near a home on private property when the front of the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA HAGER Click here for updates on this story YARMOUTH, Massachusetts (WBZ) — It was terrifying. When Yarmouth Police met a woman pulled over on the side of the road just before one in the morning, they said she was so upset, she was inconsolable. “She said it was so creepy and that she
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Robert Downey Jr. needs to work on his British accent, according to Kate Winslet. Besides playing Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chaplin, he once auditioned for “The Holiday,” opposite Winslet, who asked him what was up with his accent. Downey Jr. appeared on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s “The Howard
Continue ReadingBy EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen worried scientific progress seemed to be slowing down. They wanted to chage that. Collison and his brother, John — a Stripe co-founder — contributed and along with Cowen raised more
Continue ReadingBy DANA KOZLOV Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — It was a quiet lunch hour for a Far Northwest Side family Monday – until it most assuredly wasn’t. A loud boom from the family’s backyard turned out to be caused by a United Airlines airplane’s emergency slide falling down and hitting
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) — An Australian sailor who was rescued by a Mexican tuna boat after being adrift at sea with his dog for three months said Tuesday that he is grateful to be alive after setting foot on dry land for the first time since their ordeal began. Timothy
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Jon Rahm will take the PGA Tour money for staying loyal if they give it to him but doesn’t really think he deserves it. Rahm says the players who stuck with the PGA Tour don’t have to be compensated financially for not joining LIV Golf.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 125 million years ago, a feisty mammal the size of a domestic cat encountered a dinosaur three times its size and thought it looked like a tasty meal. A fossil unearthed in northeastern China captures the two creatures — a badgerlike animal called Repenomamus
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Every Monday through Friday, you may be running between work, appointments and family obligations — can’t the workout wait until the weekend? Maybe, according to the latest research. A new report published Tuesday in the journal JAMA found that people who exercised throughout the week and “weekend warriors,” who
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The 151st staging of the British Open is at Royal Liverpool. Cameron Smith will try to become the first repeat winner of the claret jug since Padraig Harrington in 2008. Rory McIlroy tries to end his nine-year drought in the majors. This is the 13th time for the Hoylake links to
Continue ReadingCNN By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Gawon Bae, Brad Lendon, Rob Picheta, Kevin Liptak, Oren Liebermann and Simone McCarthy, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The US Army has identified a soldier who crossed the demarcation line into North Korea as Pvt. Travis King, a cavalry scout who joined the military in January 2021. King
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S.-led United Nations Command is trying to secure the release of an unidentified U.S. soldier who entered North Korea from the South Korean side of a border village. It isn’t clear what motivated the soldier to cross into North Korea during a time of
Continue ReadingCOOK, Minn. (AP) — Officials say no one was injured and no hazardous material spilled when 10 Canadian National Railway cars derailed in northern Minnesota. The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that the derailment happened just before 8:30 p.m. Monday in a rural, unpopulated area about 6 miles north of
Continue ReadingBy ED DAVEY Associated Press Major American providers of oilfield services supplied Russia with millions of dollars in equipment for months after its invasion of Ukraine, helping to sustain a critical part of its economy even as Western nations launched sanctions aimed at starving the Russian war effort. The largest – SLB, formerly Schlumberger –
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