By Amy Fleury Click here for updates on this story ELM GROVE, Wisconsin (WISN) — A retired Elm Grove police officer who was hit by a train while trying to rescue a 2-year-old stuck in a minivan on Memorial Day in 2009 died Tuesday. Officer John Krahn was directing traffic at the Elm Grove Memorial
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had failed two
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This week we have Linus, a one-year-old mixed breed who is full of love. He came in as a stray, but quickly adapted to living with people, and wants to be friends with everyone–and everything–that he meets! Click here to view Linus on the BrightSide website.
Continue ReadingBy Maddie Augustine Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — At just one year old, Ella Peters was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA. “It’s a rare neuromuscular disease that causes muscle weakness in kids,” Jennifer Peters, Ella’s mother, said. “It’s kind of like an ALS in adults.” Ella, now
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government have declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks. The country first declared the outbreak on Sept. 27 and reported a total of 15 deaths and 66 cases, with
Continue ReadingPor Zachary Wolf, CNN El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, confundió a los miembros del Congreso y dio vuelta el debate sobre el gasto público cuando exigió un aumento prematuro del techo de la deuda bajo “la vigilancia de Biden” en lugar de la suya propia. El viernes por la noche redobló su
Continue ReadingBy Kara Fox, Catherine Nicholls and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron has faced jeers from locals on the cyclone-battered French overseas territory of Mayotte, telling them they should be “happy to be in France, because if it wasn’t France you’d be 10,000 times even more in the s***.” Macron has come
Continue ReadingPor Curt Merrill, CNN Se espera que un débil fenómeno de La Niña mantenga condiciones más frías y húmedas al norte de Estados Unidos este invierno, mientras que el sur podría ser más cálido y seco de lo normal. El Niño y La Niña son partes de un ciclo natural de cambios de temperatura en
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s mountain rescue service says one person has died in an avalanche on Pirin Mountain, in the south of the country, rescue efforts are underway to find several others buried under the snow. According to initial information, the slide of a huge snow mass was caused by skiers who were descending
Continue ReadingWe will see more snow next week, but this weekend will be a great time to enjoy the snow we received last weekend. Skibowl has yet to release an open-date.
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a “blob-headed fish” and a type of semi-aquatic mouse. The survey was conducted by Conservation International, an environmental non-profit. It was carried out over a 38-day expedition in 2022 by a team
Continue ReadingBy Todd Magel Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Law enforcement agencies executed more than a dozen opioid search warrants in central Iowa on Wednesday, underscoring the region’s escalating fentanyl crisis. Des Moines police began their narcotics investigation earlier this year after an opioid overdose death, which has now
Continue ReadingBy Michael Cusanelli & Shelby Lincoln Click here for updates on this story ESSEX JUNCTION, Vermont (WPTZ) — An Essex, Vermont teenager was arrested on Thursday after police said he stole a vehicle and tried to evade police. The Colchester Police Department said they received several calls on Thursday afternoon around 1 p.m. about a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s perhaps Rio de Janeiro’s hardest trail. It features one particularly daunting section requiring a perilous scramble that can cause hikers to freeze up with fright. But 40-year-old paraplegic Ezequiel da Luz traversed jungle and surmounted rocks this week to reach Pedra da Gavea’s peak that towers over
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Continue ReadingBy Heather Catallo Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Michigan (WXYZ) — A local couple says they sent their son to a crisis center for help. But then they say he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital without their knowledge where he ended up dying while being restrained. The feds recently told Pontiac
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority says it has fined OpenAI $15.6 million after wrapping up a probe into the collection of personal data by its generative artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. The country’s privacy watchdog, known as Garante, said its investigation showed that OpenAI processed users’ personal data to train ChatGPT “without having an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, dropping President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would “meet our
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — People seeking copies of police and jail videos in Ohio may have to pay up to $750 per department if Gov. Mike DeWine signs a measure approved by the state Legislature. The amendment to the state’s sunshine laws was quietly introduced and passed early Thursday by the GOP-controlled Legislature. It’s not
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar is claiming to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in Thailand were discussing efforts to end the conflict peacefully. The capture by the Arakan Army of a strategically important
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