By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell for the fifth week in a row, more good news for prospective homebuyers grappling with an increasingly unaffordable housing market. The latest decline brought the average rate on a 30-year mortgage down to 7.22% from 7.29% last week,
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A sporting goods chain is paying the families of three people shot to death by a South Carolina serial killer $2.5 million after the store sold guns to a straw buyer for the killer. The lawsuit says Todd Kohlhepp at times stood near the buyer, picking
Continue ReadingBy Scott Miller Click here for updates on this story LONDON, Ontario (CTV Network) — Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick were looking for invasive mussels when they found something nobody has laid on eyes for 128 years. “Sort of out of the mists of time this ship appears,” said Zach Melnick, who was operating the
Continue ReadingCNN By Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was
Continue ReadingBy Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was in
Continue ReadingBy CHARLIE DE MAR Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Police were questioning a person of interest Wednesday after a 9-month-old girl was shot and critically wounded in the Washington Park neighborhood the night before. But as CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported, there was a lot that remained unknown Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Mortgage rates continued to drop this week. It’s the fifth straight week rates have moved lower. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to an average of 7.22% in the week ending November 30, down from 7.29% the week before, according to data from Freddie Mac released Thursday. A
Continue ReadingBy JACQUELINE QUYNH Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A Sunny Isles Beach mother accused of abusing her three-year-old son was arraigned during a hearing on Thursday. Yulia Storozhuk is facing two counts of felony child abuse. Storozhuk did not appear in court, her lawyer appeared before the judge on
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Consillio Click here for updates on this story OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) — It’s holiday shopping season and that means more shoplifters. But at least one store in Ala Moana Center is seeing fewer thieves than it did a year ago. “A year ago and a little bit before that the cases were quite
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Christmas commercials have become a staple of the holiday season for many retail giants, from Disney to British department store John Lewis, with morals and miniature stories often contained within them. But one little bar in Northern Ireland, Charlie’s Bar, has eclipsed them all this year, producing a heart-warming
Continue ReadingCNN By MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt, Kaitlan Collins and Becky Anderson, CNN Washington and Dubai (CNN) — A deal to extend a truce between Israel and Hamas into Thursday went down to the wire after Hamas declined for hours to produce a list of hostages that had 10 women and children on it – a
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt, Kaitlan Collins and Becky Anderson, CNN Washington and Dubai (CNN) — A deal to extend a truce between Israel and Hamas into Thursday went down to the wire after Hamas declined for hours to produce a list of hostages that had 10 women and children on it – a condition
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A group of University of California professors signed a public letter pushing back on the UC president’s efforts to develop what he described earlier this month as a “viewpoint-neutral history of the Middle East,” saying it violates their academic freedom. “We find your use of the term ‘viewpoint-neutral history’
Continue ReadingBy PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas (KCTV) — A Shawnee Mission East High School student caught on video using racial language and assaulting a Black female student on Nov. 15 has been charged with a felony. The Johnson County District Attorney’s Office confirmed the 15-year-old male student
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Plenty of little girls like to play dress up, but for one child it has led to an invitation from Oprah Winfrey. Rosie McKee, whose Instagram account go_rosie_grow is managed by her mom Kenya Faye, recently acted out a famous dinner table scene from the 1985 film, “The
Continue ReadingPaulina Nares (CNN) — Puede que algunos seguidores no estén contentos con André 3000 por publicar un disco que no es una canción de rap, pero hay que darle el mérito. El artista, reconocido como solista y miembro del dúo de hip-hop Outkast, rompió el récord de Billboard de la canción más larga que jamás
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Authorities say an early morning explosion and subsequent fire leveled a home in a St. Paul, Minnesota, suburb, killing one person. South Metro Fire Department Chief Mark Juelfs says the explosion happened just after 6:15 a.m. Thursday in South St. Paul. Juelfs says firefighters arrived within minutes of the
Continue ReadingBy Yong Xiong, Melissa Gray and David Culver, CNN (CNN) – Three giant pandas left their enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, and departed by plane back to China on Wednesday, marking the end of more than 50 years of Chinese pandas being housed at the zoo. The black and white bears
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been convicted of sedition and incitement. A legal official said on Thursday that Ye Htut was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The 64-year old retired
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN New York (CNN) — A New York appellate court has reinstated a gag order prohibiting former President Donald Trump and attorneys from making public statements about the courtroom staff in the ongoing $250 million civil fraud trial. Judge Arthur Engoron originally issued the order barring Trump from making public statements
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