By Tim Kephart Click here for updates on this story LAKELAND, Florida (WFTS) — One person died after a train and pickup truck collided in north Lakeland Tuesday afternoon. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened around 3:25 p.m. on tracks parallel to Kathleen Road between Deeson and Spivey Roads. The driver of
Continue ReadingBy J.D. Miles Click here for updates on this story GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (KTVT) — It’s hard to describe one Grand Prairie man as anything other than a walking miracle. He took his own health for granted and it came close to costing him his life. As an active 47-year-old, there wasn’t a hill that
Continue ReadingWSAZ, CNN By Holly Yan and Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN) — Cohen Craddock was the baby of his family, a gregarious 13-year-old who “cared more about others than he did himself,” his father Ryan Craddock said. “He was very compassionate, very bighearted and all the time wanted to try to make you laugh, make you
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Associated Press U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan finalized Wednesday that faces challenges from barred owls returning after they’ve already been removed. Trained shooters will target barred owls over 30 years
Continue ReadingAssociated Press U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan finalized Wednesday that faces challenges from barred owls returning after they’ve already been removed. Trained shooters will target barred owls over 30 years
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Boettcher Click here for updates on this story HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida (WFTS) — The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said they arrested a man who shot a teen during an alleged road rage incident. On Aug. 27, HCSO said Rasool Hakeem, 37, fired two shots during a road rage incident in Hillsborough County. According
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, dropped in on a high school band practice Wednesday as part of a two-day bus tour through southeast Georgia, a critical battleground state that Democrats just narrowly won four years ago. Harris and Walz paid a visit
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Wildlife agencies are trying to capture and relocate the first pack of wolves that formed under Colorado’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program after the animals repeatedly attacked livestock, marking an early stumble in the voter-driven initiative. The move comes only a week after state officials touted three pups born to the Copper Creek pack,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Wildlife agencies are trying to capture and relocate the first pack of wolves that formed under Colorado’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program after the animals repeatedly attacked livestock, marking an early stumble in the voter-driven initiative. The move comes only a week after state officials touted three pups born to the Copper Creek pack,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The editor of an independent online news service in Myanmar says a military court has given a life prison sentence to one of its journalists and sentenced another to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law. The sentences appear to be the most severe dealt to any journalist
Continue ReadingROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Crews for two of Michigan’s largest utilities are working to restore power to more than 300,000 homes and businesses and hundreds of schools amid hot, muggy conditions after severe storms toppled trees and limbs and snapped power poles. DTE Energy says 350 schools in its Michigan service territory had no
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Ten signed Salvador Dalí lithographs have been discovered in a garage in London, where they have been stashed for half a century. The artworks, which were discovered by an auctioneer during a routine valuation, are now expected to fetch several thousand dollars at auction. The colorful prints were uncovered
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Rodriguez Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was forced to turn off the power to more than 1,000 homes on Tuesday after a man climbed up a pole in Sylmar. Firefighters drove to a neighborhood in the 12200 block of
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s a new member of the $1 trillion company club in the US — and for the first time, it isn’t a technology company. On Wednesday, shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) closed high enough to give the conglomerate holding company a market value above $1 trillion.
Continue ReadingBy Dean Fioresi Click here for updates on this story INGLEWOOD, California (KCAL/KCBS) — A former Inglewood Police Department officer was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine. John Abel Baca, 47, of Whittier, pleaded guilty on October 17 last year to charges that he distributed
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donation and found that by 2022, fewer than 1 of every 10,000 donors died within three
Continue ReadingBy Derick Waller, Walter Smith Randolph Click here for updates on this story NEWARK, New Jersey (WCBS) — There is an alarming rise in the number of stolen cars found at Tri-State Area ports, ready to be shipped overseas. CBS News New York’s Derick Waller recently toured the Port of Newark, where the number of
Continue ReadingSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — An ostrich brought traffic to a halt in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as motorists tried to lure and nudge the towering bird off a multilane thoroughfare. Drivers called Sioux Falls police just before noon Tuesday to report the roughly 7-foot-tall bird in the middle of a busy four-lane road. As
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — For Ethan Katz and Savannah Roberts, the evening of June 15 was already stressful. They had gone to a Pittsburgh hospital seeking treatment for Ari, one of their six-week-old twin sons, who had a bloody and mysterious injury to his genitals. Their longtime friend, Nicole Elizabeth Virzi, was visiting
Continue ReadingBy Naveen Dhaliwal Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — Demonstrators in New York gathered Tuesday to call for college campuses to put a mask ban in place to better protect students during protests. Just a block from Columbia University, over a 100 pro-Israeli demonstrators came together to urge American
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