By Mike TeSelle Click here for updates on this story ROSEVILLE, California (KCRA) — A team of volleyball players from Roseville’s Chilton Middle School accomplished a rare and unique feat for student-athletes. “This team’s story is truly one-of-a-kind,” said March Welty, a Chilton teacher and coach. That is because the Chilton Bobcats not only went
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year’s historic boost and reflecting moderating consumer prices. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, means the average recipient will receive more than $50 more every month beginning in January,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have said their marriage is not a conventional one. Pinkett Smith this week has revealed that she and Smith, who married in 1997, have been living “completely separate lives” since 2016. Here’s some of what they have said about marriage over the
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti Londres (CNN) — X dice que ha eliminado “cientos de cuentas afiliadas a Hamas” y borrado miles de publicaciones desde el ataque a Israel por parte del grupo extremista. A principios de esta semana, la Unión Europea le dio a la plataforma, anteriormente conocida como Twitter, 24 horas para abordar el contenido ilegal
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Social Security recipients will receive an annual cost-of-living adjustment of 3.2% for 2024, a much smaller increase than the inflation-fueled boosts of the past two years, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday. Retirees’ monthly payments will rise by $59 to an estimated average of $1,907, starting in January. The
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story VERNALIS, California (KCRA) — San Joaquin County officials identified the man who disappeared while helping rescue a mother and her 5-year-old daughter from a river as 41-year-old Eddie Gerardo Cervantes Lora of Manteca. The woman was driving a GMC northbound on Airport Way south of
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Cox Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA (KOCO) — Experts at Oklahoma State University are using new 3D printing technology to build a first-of-its-kind structure. Professors are coming out with a vehicle-mounted 3D concrete printed structure, which is the first in the nation. Several departments at Oklahoma State University worked together
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Inflation remained elevated in September as gas and rents kept prices high and heaped more pressure on consumers, according to new data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the latest Consumer Price Index also showed that certain inflation gauges are the lowest they’ve been in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Russia has reimposed some of the capital controls it introduced in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in a new attempt to prop up the ruble as the cost of war weighs heavily on the economy. The ailing currency gained 3.4% Thursday to trade at 96
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Greco Click here for updates on this story LOVE COUNTY, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Law enforcement seized over 45,000 marijuana plants and over 700 pounds of processed marijuana during a raid earlier this week at a Love County farm. On Tuesday, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents and Love County deputies served a search warrant
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When he heard that Hamas militants were attacking a music festival his family was attending, Ben said Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for his mother. “I didn’t know what to do. I said please kill her because it would be better than being kidnapped,”
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An investigation into academic research leads to the resignation of Stanford University’s president. Northwestern University’s football coach is felled by a newspaper investigation. One newspaper’s front page after a shooting lockdown was so memorable that President Biden noticed. All have been achieved in the past
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Tori Spelling remembered her friend and “Beverly Hills, 90210” costar Luke Perry on what would have been his 57th birthday. Spelling posted a throwback photo of her and Perry on Instagram Wednesday. “Could be a million people in the room but he always made you feel like you
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN KABUMBA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A U.N. official says the eight peacekeepers have been suspended and detained in eastern Congo on allegations of sexual exploitation. The United Nations said on Wednesday that it has taken “strong measures in response to reports of serious misconduct by peacekeepers.” The peacekeepers
Continue ReadingCNN By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Alexander Lara Delgado smiled and focused on his friend as he twirled her around, moving to clear the belled skirt of her baby blue ballgown. The guests cheered as Alex, dressed in a sharp white tux, swept her up in a hug, spinning her four times in the
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says Israeli airstrikes have hit the international airports of the Syrian capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo amid regional tensions, damaging their runways and putting them out of service. State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official on Thursday as
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore low-cost airline Scoot says one of its planes made a U-turn back to the city-state an hour after taking off for Perth due to a bomb threat. Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines Group, said Flight TR16 landed safely at Singapore’s Changi Airport on Thursday evening with 374 people
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union. Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the company’s internal combustion engine business, told reporters Thursday that
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has drawn up legislation to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers and plans to discuss measures to tackle migration with the opposition as it tries to defuse what has become a major political problem. Shelters for migrants and refugees have been filling up in recent
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Por la tercera fecha de las eliminatorias sudamericanas, Argentina enfrenta, este jueves, a Paraguay en el estadio Monumental. Luego de dos victorias en las primeras fechas –ante Ecuador y Bolivia–, el equipo dirigido por Lionel Scaloni juega ante una selección paraguaya que llega con una novedad en el banco y
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