By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The trial of Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie, is scheduled to begin on September 9, according to the prosecutor’s office and Matar’s defense attorney. In August 2022, Rushdie was stabbed several times onstage shortly before he was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New
Continue ReadingBy Khiree Stewart Click here for updates on this story PIKESVILLE, Maryland (WBAL) — A statewide sex trafficking ring investigation busted a Baltimore woman accused of running it and now faces more than 100 charges. Investigators said she forced multiple vulnerable women into prostitution at multiple hotels across the state. The Maryland Attorney General’s Office
Continue ReadingWBAL By Khiree Stewart Click here for updates on this story PIKESVILLE, Maryland (WBAL) — A statewide sex trafficking ring investigation busted a Baltimore woman accused of running it and now faces more than 100 charges. Investigators said she forced multiple vulnerable women into prostitution at multiple hotels across the state. The Maryland Attorney General’s
Continue ReadingBy Javier Hernandez Click here for updates on this story SISKIYOU COUNTY, California (KHSL) — Two people were arrested following a traffic stop, where deputies found over six pounds of cocaine and heroin inside a Pringles box on May 24 in Yreka, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said. At about 1:15 p.m., a sergeant saw
Continue ReadingBy Laura Terrell Click here for updates on this story WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A baby born in an emergency birth at 28 weeks on the bathroom floor of her West Des Moines home is now out of the neonatal intensive care unit. Clara Gaudian weighed 2 pounds, 7 ounces when she was
Continue ReadingBy Ophelie Jacobson Click here for updates on this story GREENFIELD, Iowa (KCCI) — A local church in Greenfield is helping people find precious mementos, some of which were blown 100 miles away by the May 21 tornado. Greenfield United Methodist Church has a lost and found room where people can go to look for
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Sun’s longtime managing editor is retiring and will soon be replaced by another newsroom veteran. It marks the first major staffing shakeup since the newspaper was sold earlier this year to media mogul David D. Smith and his partner, conservative commentator Armstrong Williams. Their political leanings and involvement have since
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Columbia University has settled with a Jewish student who sued in late April, claiming the Ivy League university failed to provide a safe environment. It’s one of the first such settlements reached as the university faces lawsuits and investigations from Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and pro-Palestinian students for
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Longtime technology news and review site Gizmodo has been sold for the third time in the past eight years. This time the buyer is a European publisher looking to expand its coverage of the digital scene. Switzerland-based Keleops didn’t disclose how much it paid for Gizmodo in its Tuesday announcement of
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has launched an intense drive to persuade Hamas and Israel to accept a new cease-fire proposal in the nearly eight-month-old war in Gaza while it also presses Arab nations to get the militant group to go along with the terms. President
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El ejército israelí lanzó el martes un nuevo ataque terrestre y aéreo en el centro de Gaza, mientras sus fuerzas intensifican los ataques en medio de una crisis humanitaria cada vez más profunda. Las FDI afirmaron el martes por la tarde, hora local, que aviones de combate atacaron objetivos
Continue ReadingBy Paige Meyer Click here for updates on this story LAWRENCE COUNTY, Alabama (WAAY) — WAAY 31 News is uncovering new information on the Lawrence County dog attack that took the life of an 83-year-old man. Willard Norton of Town Creek died after being mauled by dogs his family claims his neighbor owned. The Norton
Continue ReadingBy Nick Robinson Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN COUNTY, Wisconsin (WAOW) — When a fire breaks out in your home, you only have minutes to get to safety, and the family in a home off of Townline Road in Merrill learned that after a fire broke out in the front of the
Continue ReadingBy Alyssa Erwin Click here for updates on this story MT. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WJRT) — Parents of three preteens from McMonagle Elementary School in Mount Morris Township said it’s a situation that has happened before in the district. Family members of three students, two were 12-year-olds, and one was an 11-year-old, were hospitalized after
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story STUART, Florida (WPBF) — The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a partially clothed man crashed his car into the lobby of the county jail. Investigators say 40-year-old Joseph Leedy is now in custody after driving from the jail parking lot, up the walkway
Continue ReadingBy Mike Mohundro Click here for updates on this story GILBERTSVILLE, Kentucky (WSIL) — One person was injured after a helicopter crash over the weekend in western Kentucky. The Marshall County Rescue Squad responded to the area of Cambridge Shores over the weekend to a helicopter which reportedly crashed along the coast of Kentucky Lake
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Clark Click here for updates on this story EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois (WREX) — A certified nursing assistant (CNA) from Granite City is accused of stealing her elderly patients’ identification to fraudulently use their debit and credit cards for personal purchases in excess of $1,000. Markeisha A. Hill, 35, was charged with two
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — James Kane has used a magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely. Kane’s girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, told The Associated Press
Continue ReadingBy Felicity Dachel Click here for updates on this story CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisconsin (WQOW) — The windows of a downtown Chippewa Falls business are boarded up Tuesday after the apartment above it caved into the shop overnight. Iris Boutique, located at 120 N Bridge Street, posted on Facebook saying it happened overnight. The upstairs apartments
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, MJ Lee and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top Biden administration officials are traveling to the Middle East this week to engage in ongoing talks on a possible ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, as well as the dire situation in the Gazan city of Rafah, US officials
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