By Carolyn Gusoff Click here for updates on this story AMITYVILLE, New York (WCBS) — Multiple people were arrested in connection with the discovery of human remains in Babylon Village on Long Island, sources told CBS New York on Tuesday. Crime scene vehicles could be seen near a home in Amityville. A torso has also
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, Tara John and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said Tuesday there could be no “exchange of prisoners” before a permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as it responded to proposals from Egyptian and Qatari mediators. “The security and safety of our people will not be achieved except through
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team Tuesday became the first college athletes to vote to join a union, a significant milestone in the rapidly changing business for collegiate sports. The team members voted 13-2 in favor of the union, according to the National Labor Relations
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More of President Joe Biden’s top Senate allies are demanding that the U.S. act directly to ease Palestinian civilian suffering in Gaza and are joining calls to cut military aid if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to change course. What had been dissent
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has voted to unionize, taking an unprecedented step toward forming the first-ever labor union for college athletes. In a campus election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, the players voted 13-2 to join Service Employees International Union Local 560,
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota prosecutor has declined charges against three Bismarck police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of a teenager last fall during a traffic stop. Burleigh County State’s Attorney Julie Lawyer announced her decision on Tuesday. Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Bruington of Bismarck was shot
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Six people have been arrested in New York on charges of illegally importing goose and duck intestines from China. Federal authorities said Tuesday that some of the items were hidden under packaged rattlesnakes or mislabeled as pet grooming products. Authorities say the scheme involved transporting the restricted food items from China
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Novels that give voice to the often unheard stories of migrants around the world are among the nominees for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The 16-book longlist announced Tuesday for the 30,000 pound ($38,000) award includes works by writers from Ghana, Barbados, Britain, the United States,
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after more than three decades following a Philadelphia judge’s decision to vacate his conviction in a 1990 murder. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 61-year-old Ronald Johnson was released from State Correctional Institution-Phoenix on Monday night following the judge’s decision and the prosecutor’s move
Continue ReadingBy Janelle Burrell Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Philadelphia’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday will have Irish eyes smiling throughout the city. This year, Thomas Farrelly will have one of the highest honors after being named the parade’s grand marshal. For Farrelly, sharing stories and photos about the
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs secretary has reversed a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph of a Navy sailor kissing a strange woman on the streets of New York at the end of World War II.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Partners In Care announces its 45th anniversary of serving Central Oregon as the region’s leading and oldest nonprofit hospice, home health and palliative care provider. In 1979, a group of volunteers created their own model of care for people who were terminally ill, based on the hospice philosophy of care that
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education imposed a record $14 million fine on Liberty University, a Christian college located in Virginia, over violations of a campus safety law, officials said Tuesday. The Department of Education said it was the largest fine ever imposed for violating the Clery Act, which requires colleges
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Meyer Memorial Trust has awarded Family Access Network a grant of $37,500 to bolster FAN advocate services throughout Central Oregon. In the first half of the 2023-24 school year alone, FAN advocates facilitated connections for 5,309 individuals across the region, linking them to essential resources like nourishing food, secure shelter, seasonally appropriate
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has donated his congressional papers to Tulane University’s Louisiana Research Collection. Gingrich earned a master of arts and a doctorate in education at the New Orleans university. He later became a teacher at West Georgia College before his selection to Congress in 1978. The Republican was
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top State Department official Victoria Nuland will retire in the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday. Nuland departs her role as undersecretary of state for political affairs – where she played a key role in the US response to the war in Ukraine – as funding
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON, JOSHUA GOODMAN and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, answering a key question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the world is he? The embattled Ariel Henry,
Continue ReadingBy Ibrahim Dahman and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting for aid on Monday night in northern Gaza, eyewitnesses told CNN. The shooting took place at the Kuwait Roundabout on Rasheed Street in Gaza City shortly before midnight, said one eyewitness, who had traveled there to try to get
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press The co-founder of a specialty pharmacy that was at the center of a deadly national meningitis outbreak has pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Michigan. Barry Cadden was co-founder of New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. About 800 patients in 20 states were sickened with fungal meningitis or other
Continue ReadingBy Steve Large Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — Sacramento friends and families are in mourning following the tragic deadly shooting of a dentist in San Diego. That dentist, killed by a disgruntled patient, was from California’s capital city. He was a member of the Mosaic Law Congregation synagogue. A class
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