By Juliet Lemar Click here for updates on this story California (KSBY) — Tirith Taylor says her dog, Paseo, is critical to her safety and stability as a homeless woman. “He’s my protection. I’m out there by myself. He provides me with emotional stability and gives me a reason to wake up every day,” Taylor
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The application deadline for the new Summer EBT program has been extended to midnight on Monday, Sept. 30. The program offers $120 per child to help cover grocery costs when school food programs are not as easy to access. Eligible families should act now. Thousands of families may be unaware that they qualify
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against Russian-American political pundit Dimitri Simes on Thursday, alleging he was paid more than $1 million from a Russian news outlet in violation of US sanctions. According to the indictment, Simes coordinated and communicated with the Russian government, including President
Continue ReadingBy Jeramie Bizzle Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A man and a woman were charged with robbing and attacking a passenger with a hammer on a CTA Blue Line platform last month. Travis Andrews, 29, and Shakena Agee, 27, both from Chicago, were arrested on Wednesday and charged with attempted
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As school starts up this week and our Back 2 School Photo Sweepstakes is underway, we thought you might like to see our own school photos for a bit of then-and-now fun! You can learn more about the contest and prizes and submit your own photos for the photo album under the Contests tab at
Continue ReadingBy Todd Feurer Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A man has been charged with placing a camera in the window of a bathroom to record multiple people in southwest suburban Lemont. Police said, on July 31, they received a report that several people in the same household were recorded while
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Madalena Araujo and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the Kursk region before Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday. In his first television interview since becoming military chief in February, the
Continue ReadingCNN By CNN staff (CNN) — On Thursday 5 September, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke with General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, in his first television interview in that role. It was conducted near the frontlines, at an undisclosed location for security reasons. What follows is a transcript of their full interview, lightly edited
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Teens in the United States are far less likely to use e-cigarettes than they were a few years ago, but experts warn that any tobacco use among youth is unsafe — and now, the rise of nicotine pouches is a growing concern. At the peak in 2019, more than
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is vowing to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January. Machado was speaking to reporters online Thursday from an undisclosed location in Venezuela. She also urged the international community to rise to the occasion by immediately start recognizing her faction’s
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift returned to Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs open the NFL season against the Baltimore Ravens. Swift arrived about 90 minutes prior to the AFC title game
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story TRACY, California (KCRA) — A Tracy teenager now faces attempted murder charges in the shooting of San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced the charges against the juvenile suspect in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Jenkins said the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A white Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car. John Sullivan was sentenced Wednesday in federal court after pleading guilty in April to a federal hate crime. Sullivan is
Continue ReadingAP National Writer Three years ago, when Team Canada appeared at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the athletes were dressed in sleek white jeans. They may have looked good, but for some Paralympians on the team, they were a challenge. For Alison Levine, for example. The para athlete, who competes in
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The rollout of updated Covid-19 vaccines has begun in the United States, but for the first time, the shots will no longer be free of charge for people without insurance at their local pharmacy. Earlier in the pandemic, vaccines were purchased by the federal government and free for everyone.
Continue ReadingBy Dacia Johnson Click here for updates on this story PENSACOLA, Florida (WESH) — The lawyer of a woman whose husband died at a Florida hospital says the surgeon removed the wrong organ. The couple was visiting their rental property in Okaloosa County when William Bryan, 70, began experiencing left-sided flank pain. They went to
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Thursday the Rogue Valley International Airport and the Prineville Airport have secured more than $10.4 million combined in federal grants for improvements to taxiways, lighting, runways and more. “These federal investments to modernize and improve airports in Medford and Prineville benefit Oregonians relying on these
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. Indictments announced Thursday allege that Dimitri Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car
Continue ReadingBy Alexis Mathews Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — On Thanksgiving morning 2022 while working as a caregiver at the Oxmoor Apartment Homes near St. Matthews, Jasmine Blackmon locked eyes with a masked man outside who shot her nine times. “We looked each other dead in the face, and as
Continue ReadingBy Addie Meiners Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — Norton Healthcare’s 16th annual Bike to Beat Cancer will take place this Saturday, Sept. 3. The event includes a 5, 15, 35, 65, and 100-mile bike ride from Norton Brownsboro, out through Oldham County and the Parklands, and back. The event
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