By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who was released from jail after he was accused of sending text messages threatening to kill a presidential candidate now faces two more charges that he threatened different candidates. Thirty-year-old Tyler Anderson was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on three
Continue ReadingBy KDKA Staff Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin stopped by his hometown of McKees Rocks on Tuesday night to host a toy drive for local kids. It’s the fourth annual drive for his Chasing M’s Foundation and last night’s event was hosted at the Sto-Rox
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Though the generosity of its members and community, Mid Oregon Credit Union’s 2023 Holiday Dough fundraising effort collected almost $7,800 from over 345 individuals in support of local food banks this holiday season. During the month of December, Mid Oregon’s Holiday Dough invited its members and the community to make financial
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday declared innocent a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he did not commit – believed to be the longest amount of time served by anyone wrongfully convicted in the United States. “This is a day we’ve been waiting on for
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A New Hampshire man was indicted Wednesday for allegedly threating to kill three presidential candidates in violent and graphic text messages. The presidential candidates are not named in charging documents. A spokesperson for Republican hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy previously told CNN that the tech entrepreneur’s campaign was a target of the threats.
Continue ReadingBy WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story MARATHON, Florida (WFOR) — A scuba diving Santa Claus was spotted spreading good cheer in the Florida Keys when, instead of going down a chimney, he submerged Wednesday at Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters. Visitors seemed thrilled to see Santa at the marine ecological attraction in
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Two officials from a rural Arizona county pleaded not guilty to felony charges for delaying the certification of their county’s 2022 midterm election results. Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby had balked for weeks about certifying the results. They didn’t cite problems with election results. But they said they weren’t
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Four Indian soldiers have been killed and three others wounded in an ambush by militants fighting against New Delhi’s rule in disputed Kashmir. The Indian military said militants fired at two army vehicles in southern Poonch district late afternoon on Thursday. The area is close to the highly militarized line of
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — More than a thousand images of child sexual abuse material were found in a massive public dataset used to train popular AI image-generating models, Stanford Internet Observatory researchers said in a study published earlier this week. The presence of these images in the training data may make
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — With a bit more than two weeks remaining before the event, comedian Jo Koy has been selected to host 81st annual Golden Globes. The decision was announced on the Globes website on Thursday morning. Koy is a standup comedian and actor who in the past was a panelist on
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Colliva, CNN Paris (CNN) — Former Nice and Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier was acquitted by a French court on Thursday following charges of harassment and discrimination brought by the Nice prosecutor, after several allegations surfaced during his time as coach of soccer club OGC Nice. “This decision is a relief,” Olivier Martin,
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Desnudarse de cintura para abajo en un lugar sagrado. Conducir un coche por un puente medieval, tan frágil como famoso. Grabar tu nombre en un icono mundial, y emprender una penosa caminata… ¿para consumir drogas ilegales? Estas son tan solo algunas de las cosas que hicieron los turistas en 2023. Han
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Harvard President Claudine Gay is facing intensifying pressure as the drip, drip, drip of plagiarism allegations gradually spills out. Yet Gay still has the backing of a crucial decisionmaker: her employer. That support has not wavered, at least publicly, even as Harvard revealed Thursday that Gay requested
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, acknowledging severe financial strain exacerbated by his pursuit of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and a jury’s verdict last week requiring him to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Nevada and South Carolina next month, two of the earliest states on the Democratic presidential calendar. There she’ll court voters she and President Joe Biden hope to win over. The White House says Harris will meet in Las Vegas with
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian government said Thursday it will try to raise objects from the 1708 shipwreck of the galleon San Jose, which is believed to contain a cargo worth billions of dollars. The 300-year-old wreck, often called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” has been controversial, because it is both an archaeological and
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is ramping up the pressure on his Mexican counterpart to help with the untenable situation at the US southern border that’s left officials scrambling to respond to an unprecedented migrant surge and exacerbated one of the president’s longstanding political problems. Biden spoke with Mexican President
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Oregon man has been convicted of murder in the 1978 death of a teenage girl in Alaska, in a case investigators made using genetic genealogy decades later. Donald McQuade, 67, was convicted this week in state court in Anchorage of murder in the death of Shelley Connolly, 16, whose body
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian and actor Jo Koy has been tapped to host the Golden Globes, picked by producers for his “infectious energy and relatable humor.” Koy last year saw his “Easter Sunday” become the first big studio movie with an all-Filipino ensemble. He has released five stand-up
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homebuilders are stepping up construction of single-family homes following a steady decline in mortgage rates and broad expectation among economists that home loan borrowing costs will ease further next year. Builders broke ground on single-family homes in November at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of
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