By Steve Minich Click here for updates on this story PHIPPSBURG, Maine (WMTW) — Alice’s Awesome Adventures offers a kayak excursion steeped in Maine history. The guided tour takes you to Phippsburg’s Malaga Island, where, a little more than a century ago, the state forcibly evicted an entire community because residents were of mixed race.
Continue ReadingBy ED KOMENDA and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press PUUNENE, Hawaii (AP) — Pets and people are recovering this week after fleeing Maui wildfires that claimed over 90 lives and decimated a historic town. Many did not make it out of the smoke and flames alive, and the ones that did emerged with marks of their
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Naspretto Click here for updates on this story WEST, Texas (KXXV) — April marked the 10-year anniversary of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. Fifteen people died, more than 100 were injured, and many others were impacted by the event. “Anybody that was around that explosion at the time of that
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s biggest detractors in the 2024 Republican presidential race offered mixed reactions Tuesday to the former president’s indictment by a Georgia grand jury. Trump has remained defiant in the face of the new charges against him and 18 others stemming from their efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral
Continue ReadingBy Pat Reavy Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSL) — A South Jordan man was charged Tuesday with shooting his teen girlfriend in the leg because he was upset she was going to a party without him. Fahd Mahdi, 18, is charged in 3rd District Court with discharge of
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said Tuesday that an auto parts supplier plans a $114 million investment to expand its facility in Auburn to support the production of electric vehicle parts. Shinhwa Auto USA Corp.’s expansion will create 50 jobs over the next three years and add a 170,000-square foot production
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By Web staff Click here for updates on this story COLORADO (KCNC) — A deputy in Arapahoe County is credited with saving a baby’s life over the weekend. Video of the tense situation was released on Tuesday by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. It is from the body camera of Deputy Nick Pacheco. On Sunday
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A handful of conservatives in the House are already raising concerns about the length of a short-term budget fix after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday night in a conference-wide call that Republicans would need to pass a measure extending current spending levels in order to
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, OBAMA WHITE HOUSE ARCHIVES, @POTUS By Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A handful of conservatives in the House are already raising concerns about the length of a short-term budget fix after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday night in a conference-wide call that Republicans would need to pass a measure
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Robinson Click here for updates on this story DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (WESH) — ABOVE: A look at today’s top headlines A Daytona Beach woman is accused of killing her roommate. According to court documents, 35-year-old Nichole Maks is charged with first-degree premeditated murder. According to an affidavit, an officer was flagged down on
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The new indictment alleging a conspiracy by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia includes charges against several people accused of illegally accessing voting equipment in one rural county. The security breach inside the election
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A statue that depicts a felled Native American pulling an arrow from his torso is being returned to the Boston-area organization cofounded by Paul Revere that thought it had been destroyed decades ago. “Wounded Indian” sculpted in 1850 was a gift to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Miller Click here for updates on this story SUFFOLK, Virginia (WTKR) — A driver was rescued after veering off the road at the mouth of the Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel Tuesday morning, according to Virginia State Police. Police say around 6 a.m., a trooper saw the vehicle overturned in the water. Around the same
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden continued Tuesday as prosecutors asserted that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation. While the agreement
Continue ReadingBETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was part of an unrealized plan to set off a bomb at a Pennsylvania music festival has been charged with involvement in the detonation of at least four other explosive devices. Federal and local agents searched the Bethlehem home of 53-year-old Robert Bowen Jr. this month.
Continue ReadingBy Emily Luxen Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — As the death toll in Hawaii continues to grow after the devastating wildfires ripped through Maui, help is pouring in from across the country and from Middle Tennessee. A five-member team from the Nashville-based nonprofit Aerial Recovery arrived in Hawaii on
Continue ReadingASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — President Santiago Peña said Paraguay and Taiwan are “not just allies, but also brothers” when he was sworn in as the South American country’s new president on Tuesday. Peña took the presidential oath outside the government palace in the capital of Asunción in a ceremony attended by several regional leaders and
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER, BERNARD CONDON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Awakened by howling winds that tore through his Maui neighborhood, Shane Treu went out at dawn and saw a wooden power pole suddenly snap with a flash, its sparking, popping line falling to the dry grass below and quickly igniting a row of flames. He
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Sherrod Click here for updates on this story WEST MICHIGAN (WXMI) — Heartbreak across Hawaii after wildfires left behind a trail of devastation in the historic district of Lahaina. More than 2,700 structures were destroyed and more than 90 people were killed. That number is expected to rise with more than 1,000 people
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — In his 2011 memoir, Michael Oher wrote that he had a special skill for forgetting his difficult past. “To get out of that world, I did have to forget,” he wrote in “I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond.” “To get to the
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