NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, the longtime wife and manager of Brian Wilson whom the Beach Boys co-founder often credited for stabilizing his famously troubled life, has died at age 77. Wilson died Tuesday at the couple’s home in Beverly Hills, California, Brian Wilson announced online. Brian Wilson’s spokesperson Lauren Mele said Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Tami Luhby, Kristin Wilson and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted on Wednesday evening to pass a $78 billion bipartisan tax package that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore a number of business tax benefits. The bill will next go to the Senate. House Speaker Mike Johnson currently oversees a
Continue ReadingBy Briana Whitney Click here for updates on this story PRESCOTT, Arizona (KPHO) — An Arizona university is trying to change the dire state some Arizona police departments are facing regarding resources to solve cold cases. Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott is launching a course to help detectives solve cold cases this fall with
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Polycystic ovary syndrome, known as PCOS, has long been known for symptoms such as missed periods or excess body hair. Now, new research has revealed another potential effect: cognitive dysfunction later in life. The scientific report “is one of the few studies to investigate cognitive functioning and brain outcomes
Continue ReadingBy Lena Howland Click here for updates on this story REDWOOD CITY, California (KGO) — The Bay Area man who used a samurai sword to behead the mother of his young daughter is headed to prison for at least 25 years. His sentencing comes two months after he was found guilty of first-degree murder. The
Continue ReadingBy Mallory Sofastaii Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WMAR) — Staxx Pasta, a three-year-old Biewer Terrier, had his owners wrapped around his little paw. “He was a little king. Like I said, he was groomed more than anybody in the house,” said Tammy Pasta. Tammy Pasta and her husband prioritized his
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Robert Downey Jr. is adding to the chorus of those expressing feelings about “Barbenheimer” cohort Margot Robbie’s lack of individual recognition in this year’s pool of Oscar nominees. “Margot Robbie’s not getting enough credit, in my opinion,” Downey Jr. said while participating in a SAG-AFTRA conversation with actors Sterling
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Dickstein Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WMAR) — Multiple boats caught fire near Anchorage Marina in Canton Wednesday morning. Fire crews eventually contained the flames around the 2500 block of Boston Street, but not before one boat sunk and another was destroyed. Citizen App captured video footage of the
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In Our Backyard, a Bend-based nonprofit devoted to stopping human trafficking, is once again traveling to the Super Bowl, as it has for several years, to work with local groups and law enforcement in an effort to stop trafficking at the event.
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press For about 15 years, Uriel Rincon told authorities he didn’t recognize the gunman who he saw kill Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay in the rap star’s recording studio. But on Wednesday, Rincon — who was himself wounded in the gunfire — pointed across a courtroom and identified Karl Jordan Jr. as
Continue ReadingBy Daren Bower Click here for updates on this story ADA, Michigan (WXMI) — Forest Hills Public Schools launched a new program aimed at helping students with their mental health while at school. FOX 17 went to Ada Vista Elementary School Tuesday to meet the school’s new support dog — 10-month-old Jersey. “She is bilingual
Continue ReadingCNN By Shimon Prokupecz, Norma Galeana, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, CNN Denver (CNN) — This is what an overwhelmed city can look like: a preschooler sleeping under a bridge for a month; crowds lining up each night to get food and shelter; and the mayor calling out for help. And when that city is
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed Disney’s free speech lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, dealing a setback to the company’s hopes of regaining control of the district that governs Walt Disney World after it was taken over by the governor’s appointees. U.S. District Judge Allen
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Cash-strapped Tunisia wants to take the unprecedented step of borrowing billions from its central bank to address budget deficits and bandage its economic crisis. Experts warn could bring inflation and lessen faith in institutions. President Kais Saied’s government has asked to borrow
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — John Podesta, a senior White House adviser focused on clean energy and climate, will take over as US climate diplomat after John Kerry steps down this spring, according to a source familiar with the move. Podesta is a longtime Democratic strategist, campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid and the
Continue ReadingSEBRING, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a sheriff’s deputy in central Florida took his own life outside the agency’s headquarters. The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office says 56-year-old Paul Robitaille worked as a detention deputy in the county courthouse in Sebring and had been with the agency since March 2007. Investigators say Robitaille asked his supervisor
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Movie producer Christian Norlyk will never forget the moment he found out his short film was nominated for an Oscar.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With time slipping to bolster Ukraine’s defenses, Senate negotiators struggled Wednesday to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as their carefully negotiated compromise ran into strong resistance from
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Vladimiro Montesinos, the controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison for the 1992 massacre of six farmers in the town of Pativilca. Montesinos earlier this week pleaded guilty to charges of homicide, murder and forced disappearance in the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A defense attorney who has alleged that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has had an inappropriate romantic relationship with a special prosecutor hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump has called the two to testify at a hearing next month. Lawyer
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