By Abby O’Brien, CTV News Toronto Multi-Platform Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A former Toronto secondary school teacher who was found to have carried out a relationship with a female student, exchanging more than 2,000 pages worth of text messages with the girl, has dodged jail time,
Continue ReadingBy ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway has become the first skier to be disqualified for a forbidden type of wax on her skis. The two-time Olympic silver medalist finished the first run of the season-opening giant slalom race in sixth place before her skis failed the mandatory post-run
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Hace poco, Sari Beth Rosenberg estaba dando una clase de historia en una escuela secundaria en la ciudad de Nueva York cuando un estudiante la interrumpió con una pregunta: “¿Eres del equipo de Israel o del equipo palestino?”. Rosenberg acababa de comenzar su lección sobre la guerra entre Francia e India
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has accused Ukraine of damaging a nuclear waste storage facility in a drone strike on the Kursk nuclear power plant and said its air defenses shot down a total of eight Ukrainian drones. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that three drones armed with explosives targeted the power plant on Thursday
Continue ReadingWORCESTER, Massachusetts (AP) — Authorities say a university campus in Massachusetts was locked down for seven hours Saturday after two people were shot in an altercation near a parking garage. The Worcester County District Attorney’s office says neither the victims, who were hospitalized, nor the assailants were students at Worcester State University. The shooting happened
Continue ReadingBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is a step closer to connecting its capital city to New Orleans via a revived train line. Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday signed an agreement advancing the return of passenger rail service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which stopped running in 1969. The agreement is a breakthrough for
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias de Puerto Rico informó este viernes que encontraron el cuerpo de un turista que había sido reportado como desaparecido tras haber sido arrastrado por una corriente de agua en la zona conocida como Playa Escondida, en el municipio de Fajardo. La información fue dada
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Adel Omran, a video producer in chaos-stricken Libya for The Associated Press, has died. He was 46. His family says he died while at home in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Port Said early Friday after suffering a heart attack. Before joining the AP more than a
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG, PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Police missed two clear opportunities to end a dragnet that locked down and terrified Maine’s second-largest city after a gunman killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar following a recent spiral into paranoia. The body of Robert Card
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags. And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Hasta que se fue a la universidad, la historiadora de cine Karie Bible pasó casi toda su infancia viviendo al lado de un cementerio. Es donde la nativa de Texas andaba en bicicleta, jugaba con su hermano y pasaba casi todos los días. Es posible que otros niños hayan intercambiado historias
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow and Lucy Bayly, CNN New York (CNN) — Former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand in front of a judge and jury last week in his criminal fraud trial. If convicted on all seven fraud counts he faces, the 31-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison. Prosecutors claim
Continue ReadingBy Jeffrey Kopp, Veronica Miracle and Janna Van Vranken, CNN (CNN) — A new task force for San Francisco’s opioid crisis will empower law enforcement to investigate fatal drug overdoses as homicides, enabling prosecutors to charge dealers with murder, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and city officials announced Friday. The task force will treat opioid deaths in San Francisco
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they found 77 migrants in the country’s south and arrested seven Pakistanis suspected of human trafficking. The group crossed over from Greece was intercepted near the southern town of Negorci last Thursday. The majority of the migrants are Syrian, with Pakistanis, Iraqis, Turks and Syrians
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Spooked by the high price of Halloween candy? There’s not much relief in sight. For the second year in a row, U.S. shoppers are seeing double-digit inflation in the candy aisle. Candy and gum prices are up an average of 13% this month compared to last October, more than
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada is a pivotal early state on the 2024 election calendar, but it’s gotten much less attention than leadoff Iowa and New Hampshire. Not this weekend. Most of the Republican presidential candidates are in Las Vegas for the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual meeting. That
Continue ReadingBy Svitlana Vlasova and Maria Kostenko, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — This week, Ukrainian forces continued to hold out against a renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine as the White House claimed Russia is executing its own troops for disobeying orders. In southern Ukraine, authorities issued evacuation orders for civilians where Russia has stepped up aerial attacks.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency will soon strengthen lead in drinking water regulations. Lead levels have dropped drastically over the last several decades. Lead in drinking water has improved, too, but it’s remained a stubborn problem. Lead in tap water is difficult to regulate and advocates had to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency will soon strengthen lead in drinking water regulations, after decades when they essentially remained the same. Those decades have included numerous crises involving lead poisoning from tainted water, including Flint, Michigan, and Washington, D.C. Overall, lead levels in children’s blood have have dropped
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.N. agencies say there has been a sharp increase in Afghans returning home since Pakistan launched a crackdown on migrants who are in the country illegally. The policy targets all undocumented or unregistered foreigners, according to the government. But it mostly affects Afghans, who make up the bulk of migrants in
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