By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO, California (KGO) — A 72-year-old man is believed to have gone overboard on a Princess Cruises ship ahead of its arrival in San Francisco Monday, according to company officials. They say the Ruby Princess docked around 6:50 a.m. where crews searched the ship
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Flay Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, California (KABC) — A woman was caught on video hurling racist remarks and making obscene gestures at a couple and their children on a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport. Pervez and Nicole Taufiq traveled to Los Angeles with their three children
Continue ReadingKABC By Sophie Flay Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, California (KABC) — A woman was caught on video hurling racist remarks and making obscene gestures at a couple and their children on a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport. Pervez and Nicole Taufiq traveled to Los Angeles with their three
Continue ReadingAP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — For a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion. On Monday, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick turned aside a request from Musk’s lawyers to reverse a ruling she announced in January
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut residents, past and present dignitaries, and state Capitol insiders are paying tribute to former Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who died in late November. On Tuesday, she lay in state inside the Connecticut Capitol building, with her casket covered in the state’s blue flag. A funeral service was
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Searchers have recovered the body of a Wisconsin woman who vanished more than four years ago. The state Department of Justice says Cassandra Ayon’s remains were found on private property in the town of Brighton in Marathon County on Saturday. Ayon was 27 when she was last seen driving away from
Continue ReadingCENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The partner of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries who was indicted on sex trafficking charges along with Jeffries and another man has been released on $10 million bond. Matthew Smith pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and prostitution in federal court in Central Islip on Tuesday. Smith was
Continue ReadingAP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has signed an agreement to allow the Justice Department to conduct background checks on his nominees and appointees after a weeks-long delay. The step lets Trump transition aides and future administration staffers obtain security clearances before Inauguration Day to access classified information about
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators in the Georgian capital have converged on parliament again in the capital of the South Caucasus nation. They are venting outrage against the governing party’s decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union. Riot police have deployed to push the protesters away from parliament. There
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — A California man confessed to helping the North Korean regime prepare for an attack in a “sophisticated scheme” to illegally obtain restricted weapons and military grade technology, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Shenghua Wen, a Chinese national residing unlawfully in Ontario, California, conspired with North Korean officials to obtain prohibited
Continue Readingmondemanola (CNN Español) — Este miércoles, Buenos Aires será el escenario de la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora (CPAC), un evento clave que reúne a líderes políticos, empresarios y académicos afines a las ideas de derecha y el conservadurismo en el mundo. La cumbre tendrá lugar en el centro de la ciudad, en el hotel
Continue ReadingPlenty of blue skies and chilly conditions on the mountains. Expect to see the dry pattern remain for another day before a slight chance for some light snow and or rain arrives Thursday. The next round of snow is not expected until late Saturday into Sunday and may be preceded by some light rain before
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Forty years ago, on Dec. 8, 1984, one of the largest manhunts in FBI history came to an explosive end on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. The person they were after was Robert Jay Mathews, the leader of a white supremacist group. The dramatic episode is chronicled in the new film “The
Continue ReadingBy John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — $15.8 million every 60 seconds. That’s how much US consumers spent in two hours on Monday night, capping off a five-day spending spree that smashed previous records. US consumers spent a total of $13.3 billion on Cyber Monday, up 7.3% from the previous year, according to Adobe Analytics. Concerns
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — A California art teacher died from rabies November 22, about a month after apparently being infected by a bat she found in her classroom. Leah Seneng, 60, may have been bitten when she scooped up the bat to release it outside, according to her friend Laura Splotch. “She got
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that a United Nations watchdog has been selected to lead an external probe into allegations of sexual misconduct against the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The move is likely to generate conflict of interest complaints owing to the prosecutor’s wife’s past work for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A military police officer in Sao Paulo has been seen on video footage throwing a man off a bridge and into a river, prompting a backlash. Footage shown on local television stations showed several police officers seen on a bridge beside motorcycles. At one point, one of them
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NAPERVILLE, Illinois (WLS) — A Naperville family’s viral Taylor Swift-themed decorations have returned for the holiday season. This year, the Scott household near Atlas and Tupelo highlights Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” A cutout of Swift’s boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Ohio’s top elections official has rejected a Republican challenge over the legal residency of one of the state’s Democratic members of Congress. Secretary of State Frank LaRose made the decision late last week. LaRose says the complainant brought by a political activist did not provide “clear and convincing” proof that Rep. Emilia Sykes
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House opened its newest session with an unsuccessful long shot challenge of the Speaker that could be a preview of fighting among Republicans over which group truly deserves to identify as conservative. House Speaker Murrell Smith was elected to a second two-year term by a 102-17
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