INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers indicted for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car outside his grandmother’s house have entered not guilty pleas. Officers Carl Chandler and Alexander Gregory entered the pleas Monday to charges of battery and criminal recklessness charges. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced Friday
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Two pioneering scientists who created the technology behind life-saving Covid-19 vaccines have won the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, both of the University of Pennsylvania, achieved their breakthrough by harnessing the power of genetic material known as messenger RNA, or mRNA.
Continue ReadingKALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A 73-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was attacked by a bear west of Glacier National Park and just south of the U.S.-Canadian Border. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks says the woman, her husband and a dog were in the Flathead National Forest Sunday afternoon when the bear
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — European captain Luke Donald was delivering his Ryder Cup victory speech at Marco Simone when his celebrating players standing beside him started a chant that quickly swept through the grandstands. “Two more years” was the cry that was seemingly led by Rory McIlroy and
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El papa Francisco sugirió por primera vez que las personas en uniones del mismo sexo podrían ser bendecidas por sacerdotes católicos “caso por caso”, y que, aunque es una posibilidad remota, la ordenación de mujeres al sacerdocio debería estudiarse. El papa hizo la sugerencia en una carta a sus críticos
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After six years of planning and nine months of construction, the La Pine Library is closing the books on its renovation and is almost ready to open its doors to the public.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Banners purportedly from the Sinaloa cartel have appeared in northern Mexico claiming the gang has sworn off the sale and production of fentanyl. But experts are casting doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying fentanyl remains one of the cartel’s biggest money makers. The synthetic opioid has caused tens of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Republican members of Congress say the federal government should investigate potential fraud in one of its largest anti-poverty programs. In a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodoro made public Monday by Mississippi’s state auditor, U.S. Reps. Jason Smith, of Missouri, and Darin LaHood,
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has denied requests by three former Memphis officers to have separate trials in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop. Lawyers for Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills and Justin Smith had filed motions to sever their cases from Demetrius Haley and Emmitt
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in divided Libya has called for a unified mechanism to lead the reconstruction a coastal city that was wrecked by devastating floods last month. U.N. Special Envoy for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily says in a statement Monday that such a mechanism is required
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent (CNN) — John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La familia de Charlotte Sena, quien desapareció la noche de este sábado en el norte del estado de Nueva York, pidió la ayuda de la comunidad mientras las autoridades intensifican la búsqueda de la niña de nueve años, que podría haber sido secuestrada. Charlotte, que acampaba en el Parque Estatal del
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Only 43 of the more than 8,000 US service members who were discharged from the military for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have sought to rejoin eight months after the vaccine mandate was officially repealed, according to data provided by the military branches. Many Republicans argued that the
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A 25-year-old Terrebonne man pleaded not guilty Monday to 10 charges of kidnap, assault and sexual abuse involving two women who were at a downtown Bend bar in August of last year and said they blacked out and later awakened in a motel room with a male stranger.
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The Portland Trail Blazers are moving on from the Damian Lillard era, turning the focus to a group of promising young players. But the specter of the seven-time All-Star still hangs over the team as it begins preparing for the new season. Lillard, Portland’s franchise player for the
Continue ReadingBRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for organizing a scheme that stole nearly $2 million in government aid intended to help businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. A U.S. District Court judge in Brunswick sentenced 41-year-old Bernard Okojie on Monday, six months after a
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU autorizó el despliegue de una fuerza armada multinacional en Haití, mientras el país lucha contra la violencia desenfrenada de las pandillas y la parálisis política. Al menos 2.439 personas fueron asesinadas en Haití este año mientras la violencia sigue aumentando, según la ONU La decisión
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Miles de empleos estarán disponibles pronto para inmigrantes venezolanos elegibles en la extensión del Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS, por sus siglas en inglés), anunció este lunes la gobernadora de Nueva York, Kathy Hochul. Hochul señaló que el Departamento de Trabajo del estado identificó 18.000 vacantes de casi 400 empleadores para
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The South American nation’s intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal is to
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Parents, teachers, coaches and other adults shouting at, denigrating or verbally threatening children can be as damaging to their development as sexual or physical abuse, a new study finds. The study, published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, reviewed 166 earlier studies to produce a detailed analysis of
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