SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man is believed to have killed three women and wounded a man before killing himself during a traffic stop in central Illinois. The Springfield State Journal-Register reports that police were called to a home in rural Ashland, about 10 miles west of Springfield, in response to a report
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Whatever Tony McNamara made from “Poor Things,” his son deserves a cut of dad’s check. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter’s uproarious, frequently filthy adaptation of Alastair Gray’s novel about Bella Baxter, a deceased woman reanimated with the brain of an unborn child, is not short of quotable lines. But it’s hard
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KITV) — An O’ahu teenager is competing for a rodeo world title in Las Vegas! 16-year-old Maile Read of Kailua is one of more than 800 contestants in the Junior World Finals this week. She punched her ticket to the finals after finishing
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Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The defense team for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students has been given access to the off-campus home where the deaths occurred so the lawyers can gather photos, measurements and other documentation before the house is demolished later this month. Bryan Kohberger is charged with four counts
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell Consky Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Canada produced 23 per cent of the global wildfire carbon emissions for 2023, according to a new report by Copernicus, an environmental observation department of the European Union’s Space program. The report warned that the year’s global wildfire emissions had major
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — The U.S. Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm Jerry Edwards Jr. as a U.S. District judge, making him the first-ever Black federal judge in the Western District of Louisiana headquartered in Shreveport. Edwards is the first assistant in the U.S. Attorney’s
Continue ReadingEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Trustees at Michigan State University have agreed to release documents related to the school’s investigations into now-imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar to the state’s attorney general. The East Lansing school’s trustees unanimously voted Friday to finally turn over the documents which first will be reviewed by the school’s general
Continue ReadingCNN By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia middle school teacher was arrested last week after multiple witnesses told authorities he threatened to behead a 13-year-old Muslim student who said the Israeli flag hanging in his classroom offended her. Benjamin Reese, a 51-year-old seventh grade teacher at Warner Robins Middle School, was arrested on charges of
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors for misusing a state-issued vehicle for personal activities. The plea and resulting 12 months of unsupervised probation happened in Wake County court Friday — the day resigned from the post she’s held for 15 years. The sentencing and resignation
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Treasury Department is spelling out the rules for tax credits designed to stimulate production of sustainable aviation fuel. That’s fuel that creates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuel made from fossil fuels. Environmentalists said Friday they are concerned that the guidelines could boost fuel made from corn
Continue ReadingBY ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthopy Chronicle of Philanthropy A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has leapt from being a relatively minor charity to one with an asset size comparable to behemoths like the Andrew W. Mellon and David and Lucile Packard foundations. The SDG Impact Fund,
Continue ReadingBy Jessica D’Onofrio, Eric Horng Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — The body of a missing teenager was found Tuesday night inside a home in the South Shore neighborhood. The body was found inside a home in the 7200-block of South Phillips Avenue Tuesday night after police were called there. Police
Continue ReadingBy WLS Staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — An endangered monkey at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo is now cancer-free following a first-of-its-kind surgery. The patient is named Zhang, an old-world monkey known as a Francois langur. The zoo’s director of veterinary medicine first noticed a cancerous tumor on the roof
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Devoted fans of classic anime series “Yu Yu Hakusho” now have a five-episode live-action adaptation. The Netflix series stays close to the story of Yusuke and his friends, but also features an extensive cast of characters. Takumi Kitamura stars as the teenage Yusuke. Sei Shiraishi plays Yusuke’s best friend
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Flat-faced dogs are all the rage – and have been for a while. With its wrinkly nose and bat-like ears, the French bulldog – which recently climbed to take the title of the most popular dog breed in the US, according to the American Kennel Club’s 2022 registration statistics
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Más de 10 personas están desaparecidas en el municipio de Texcaltitlán, en el central Estado de México, donde hace una semana un enfrentamiento entre pobladores y presuntos delincuentes dejó un saldo de 14 muertos, informó este jueves el secretario de Seguridad de la entidad, Andrés Andrade. El funcionario dijo ante
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania has returned 20 icons to neighboring North Macedonia, which were stolen a decade ago. The return on Friday marked the final stretch on a long, 10-year road with “much inter-institutional and international cooperation.” Albania’s Culture Minister Elva Margariti said at the handover ceremony in the
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Thompson Click here for updates on this story ARDEN, North Carolina (WLOS) — An Asheville family’s trip to the grocery store Sunday, Dec. 10, ended in horror when a tree fell on their vehicle, slamming onto their 6-year-old and sending him to the hospital, where he remains in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a pair of former elite sprinters as part of a widening case alleging a conspiracy to supply banned performance-enhancing drugs for athletes in advance of the Tokyo Olympics. An indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York charges O’Neil Wright and Dewayne Barrett with working to
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