By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine. The annual report on Children
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy Reserve for using cocaine in 2014, his father — then-Vice President Joe Biden — wrote his family a concise message of summation. “Time to move on,” he said in an email. For the Bidens, moving on from Hunter’s issues of addiction
Continue ReadingBy KRDO News Click here for updates on this story COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (KRDO) — A federal appeals court has ruled that 66-year-old Rober Dear can be forced to take anti-psychotic medication in an effort to make him competent to stand trial. Dear has been diagnosed with delusional disorder and has been ruled incompetent to
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An off-duty security guard in a Seattle suburb has been charged with second-degree murder by prosecutors who said that he fatally shot a 17-year-old six times in the back as the teen and his friends tried to return a toy gun that the guard believed was a
Continue ReadingBy Ty Evans Click here for updates on this story BLACK HAWK, Colorado (KRDO) — Prosecutors dismiss the charges against a woman accused of stealing $500,000 in cash from Monarch Casino. She was likely involved in a conspiracy that tricked her into taking the money. In March of 2023, Sabrina Eddy was captured on video
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California. But researchers suggested Tuesday that some of the few remaining vaquitas — the world’s most endangered marine mammal — may have moved elsewhere in the Gulf, the only place in the world where
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — El Observatorio Universitario de Derechos Humanos (OUDH) de la Universidad Centroamericana de El Salvador le pidió este martes al Gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele garantizar la comunicación entre los detenidos durante el régimen de excepción y sus familiares. La petición surgió a raíz del informe “Afectaciones a familiares de personas
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start operating. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval Tuesday comes six years after construction began on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia. Environmental groups, landowners and some elected officials
Continue ReadingMISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — An 80-year-old northwestern Montana man has been sentenced to two months in a federal prison, fined $10,000 and ordered to forfeit a rifle he used to kill a female grizzly bear on his property in November 2020. Othel Lee Pearson pleaded guilty in February to felony tampering with evidence for cutting
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed challenging an Arkansas school voucher program as unconstitutional. The lawsuit filed in Friday in state court seeks to halt the program. The voucher program was contained in an education overhaul signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last year. The four
Continue ReadingBy ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — New research shows space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit. NASA and other organizations have long studied the toll of space travel on astronauts, but there’s been less attention on space tourists. A chartered flight in 2021
Continue ReadingBy Breana Ross Click here for updates on this story PARKVILLE, Maryland (WBAL) — A Baltimore County teacher is using a creative way to help kids learn about music and the importance of reading. Justin Pugh, a teacher of 26 years, became a music teacher three years ago. Before then, he always found a way
Continue ReadingBy Ophelie Jacobson Click here for updates on this story KNOXVILLE, Iowa (KCCI) — A Sprint Car driver somehow escaped serious injury in a fiery crash Saturday night at Knoxville Raceway. Driver Chase Randall collided with Dusty Zomer, who spun out in turn four of the dirt oval. Randall’s car rolled twice before landing on
Continue ReadingBy Tori Yorgey Click here for updates on this story EDGEMERE, Maryland (WBAL) — The Key Bridge Response Unified Command is one step closer to reopening the permanent Fort McHenry 700-foot-wide, 50-foot-deep channel at the site of the Key Bridge collapse. Salvage operators believe they have fully cleared within the dimensions of the channel at
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO COUNTY, California (KCRA) — A 36-year-old man has been accused of arson after a vegetation fire in Sacramento County burned 35 acres on Monday evening, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said. Ernesto Hernandez confessed to causing the fire with a lighter, Sac Metro Fire
Continue ReadingBy Todd Magel Click here for updates on this story DALLAS CENTER, Iowa (KCCI) — The Food and Drug Administration is asking states to discourage raw milk sales. There is a new fear it could transmit bird flu. Now, one small Dallas County dairy is dealing with the new concern. It’s milking time, and Simply
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American investor Martin Shkreli is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly retaining and sharing recordings from a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album that he was forced to sell following his 2017 conviction on fraud charges. The lawsuit was brought Monday by a cryptocurrency collective, PleasrDAO, which purchased
Continue ReadingBy Summerleigh Stones Click here for updates on this story CAPE CORAL, Florida (WBBH) — Heavy rain throughout Southwest Florida this week means an increased risk for flooding in the area. According to Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife, this may impact burrowing owls. In most cases, owls will fly out of their burrows to a
Continue ReadingBy Joe Espy Click here for updates on this story CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Florida (WBBH) — Two Honduran nationals were arrested after they traveled from Denver, Colorado, to Charlotte County to sell approximately 15,000 counterfeit fentanyl pills to an undercover agent. According to the State Attorney’s Office, Noe Armando Melendez-Amador, 35, and Carlos Damian Acosta-Melendez, 28,
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One of Bend’s two Walgreens, on NE Highway 20, is closing its pharmacy next Monday, and customers will need to get their prescriptions at the remaining pharmacy on NE Franklin Avenue, the company confirmed to NewsChannel 21 Tuesday.
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