By Joshua Skinner Click here for updates on this story SUWANEE, Georgia (WANF) — In many ways, Wednesday’s softball game at Chandler Field was a battle between softball rivals Mill Creek and North Gwinnett. But this game was most notable for what happened before it. Before the first pitch, Level Creek Elementary School principal Daniel
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Rose Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — It’s a miraculous milestone. Roger Antonucci is 102-years-old. “Disbelief. Disbelief that he’s still well and still here,” said Lisa Messina, Antonucci’s daughter. Antonucci’s two daughters, Lisa and Melanie Thompson, organized their dad’s 102nd birthday celebration on Wednesday at The Oaks at
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — To inspire the most trust in those you interact with during video meetings, ensure you have plants or books strategically positioned behind you. That’s according to new research, which looks at how people’s choice of Zoom background could be helping or hindering them. Researchers from the United Kingdom’s Durham
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments are struggling to overcome obstacles to put a new asylum system in place three years after unveiling a plan to reform the bloc’s outdated asylum rules. Some fear the plan may never see the light of day. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal spy agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday. The recommendation came in a report from a three-member Democratic majority of the Privacy
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean on the heels of Tropical Storm Philippe. Forecasters said Thursday that any possible interaction between the back-to-back storms was making it too early to tell if Rina might strengthen further, given their close proximity. Rina had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed former Ukrainian soccer great Andriy Shevchenko as a special adviser and British actor Mark Strong as an ambassador to the charity the Ukrainian president set up to raise money for Ukraine. It was not clear what Shevchenko’s duties as adviser to
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on a former Sudanese government minister and two companies tied to the paramilitary force that’s locked in fighting with the Sudanese army. The sanctions imposed by the U.S Department of the Treasury will block all property in the U.S. and entities
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake, a Donald Trump ally who has refused to acknowledge her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor, will soon launch her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by independent Kyrsten Sinema, a senior adviser said Thursday. Lake’s entrance
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Hickey, CNN It’s been six presidential elections since a nonincumbent front-runner at this point in the primary cycle had a national polling lead larger than Donald Trump’s right now. That candidate, George W. Bush, would go on to handily become the Republican nominee in 2000. As the 2024 GOP candidates emerge from their
Continue ReadingLARGO, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at a Florida auto shop that killed two men was triggered by a former customer’s dissatisfaction with work done on his car two years ago, police said Thursday. The Largo Police Department said Eugene Frank Becker, 78, arrived at Stout’s Automotive in a rental car Wednesday and sought out
Continue ReadingBy Maria Wilson, Photojournalist: Marcos Figueroa and Ty Coney Click here for updates on this story SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (WGGB) — “After a jury-waived trial, this court finds you guilty,” said the Court’s clerk on Wednesday. Shortly after closing arguments ended, a judge found Miguel Rodriguez guilty of kidnapping and raping a young girl back in
Continue ReadingBy Matt Price and Ryan Trowbridge Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WGGB) — A jury heard the closing arguments in the Cara Rintala murder trial Wednesday morning. It’s a case that has attracted national attention with this being the fourth attempt to get a conviction. “You are about to hear closing
Continue ReadingWGGB, WSHM-LD, OBTAINED BY WGGB, CNN By Matt Price and Ryan Trowbridge Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WGGB) — A jury heard the closing arguments in the Cara Rintala murder trial Wednesday morning. It’s a case that has attracted national attention with this being the fourth attempt to get a conviction.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit seeking an order blocking any attempt from the state Legislature to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz. Her election to the court this year tilted control to liberals for the first time in 15 years. The court decided Tuesday not
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher is gearing up to resume negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers next week. Talks will resume between the actors’ union and studio representatives on Monday, two and a half months after the more than 160,000 members of the guild went on
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — If you want to keep your kids from drinking, start by looking at your own consumption. That’s because adolescents whose parents drank regularly or binge drank were four times more likely to drink themselves, according to a study published September 14 in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Binge drinking
Continue ReadingJOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot and wounded two people, including a sheriff’s deputy, along the South Carolina coast has been killed by officers. Law enforcement says Ernest Robert Burbage III shot a police dog searching for him on Johns Island on Thursday afternoon, then pointed the high-powered rifle at
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond and Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the construction of an Arizona library in honor of his longtime friend, the late Republican Sen. John McCain. The McCain Library will boast “a new multi-purpose facility to provide education, work, and health monitoring programs to underserved communities in
Continue ReadingBy Karl de Vries, CNN Washington (CNN) — Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley believes former President Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that he deserved to be executed after speaking with a Chinese general during Trump’s fraught final months in office is part of a broader swipe at the US military by
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