KMBC By Krista Tatschl Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Tenants at Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers in Kansas City have initiated a rent strike, demanding safer living conditions. Residents, who pay around $830 in rent, have reported enduring dangerous conditions for years. They have informed the Federal
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Whelan Click here for updates on this story FORT MYERS, Florida (WBBH) — A bull shark was spotted in a local lake, and experts think Hurricane Helene might have something to do with it. Laila Moreira took videos of a shark swimming around the southeastern end of Lakes Park on Sunday. FGCU experts
Continue ReadingWBBH, PRIME EPOXY WORKS LLC, MAP PHOTO, SUSANNAH COGBURN, CNN By Rachel Whelan Click here for updates on this story FORT MYERS, Florida (WBBH) — A bull shark was spotted in a local lake, and experts think Hurricane Helene might have something to do with it. Laila Moreira took videos of a shark swimming around
Continue ReadingCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts couple have been indicted on suspicion of casting ballots in New Hampshire despite living outside the state. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced last week that the two each face three felony counts of wrongful voting, The indictments accused them of voting multiple times in Concord despite living
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Wiles, Jr. and Matt Reed Click here for updates on this story CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (WCVB) — An investigation is underway following the latest derailment of an MBTA Green Line trolley in Cambridge on Monday evening. MBTA officials tell Newscenter5 that the NTSB is stepping in and taking over the investigation into the derailment
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Dianne Gallagher, CNN New York (CNN) — The devastation in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene could have serious implications for a niche — but extremely important — corner of the tech industry. Tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the outskirts of Spruce Pine, a town of less
Continue ReadingCAMPBELL, Wis. (AP) — A massive fire at a western Wisconsin recycling facility is finally out. The blaze broke out at Omaha Track in the town of Campbell on French Island, just outside the city of La Crosse, around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The facility grinds up scrap railway ties and other materials into chips that
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Saoirse Ronan is having a big fall with two major films coming to theaters. First is “The Outrun,” an adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir of alcoholism and recovery that she stars in and produced alongside her husband Jack Lowden. It opens in theaters Friday. Next is Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated “Blitz,” in
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En los días posteriores al ataque de Hamas a Israel el 7 de octubre, el temor a una guerra regional se disparó. Se pensaba que el conflicto no se limitaría a Gaza: Hezbollah atacaría a Israel desde el norte, los hutíes desde Yemen y los grupos iraníes desde Iraq. Israel se
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas. At issue is Section 206 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to strangling his cellmate to death in Baltimore’s jail two years ago. The plea entered Tuesday concludes the prosecution of a case that raised significant questions about operations in the detention center and the city’s backlogged court system. Thirty-five-year-old Gordon Staron was charged with first-degree murder in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal court has rejected Alex Murdaugh’s request to throw out his 40-year sentence for stealing from clients and his law firm. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer said it was a decade longer than what prosecutors had recommended. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal, saying
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene dumped heavy rain on a mountainous region hundreds of miles away from the coast. Some residents who live in the Appalachian Mountains were surprised they faced such a severe threat from flooding — and climate change is making that threat worse. The landscape adds to the problem.
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Javier Bardem was no longer comfortable being silent on Gaza. The Spanish actor spoke out about the Israeli-Hamas conflict upon accepting an award at the San Sebastian Film Festival last week. In his nuanced remarks, Bardem condemned the Oct. 7 attacks as well as the “massive punishment that the Palestinian population is
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Reese Witherspoon’s latest literary news marks a new direction for the Oscar-winning actor, producer and founder of her own book club. Grand Central Publishing announced Wednesday that the “Legally Blonde” and “Big Little Lies” star is teaming with the bestselling thriller writer and Netflix producer-creator Harlan Coben on
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Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Please disregard US–Theft-Diamond Ring Swap, published on Oct. 2, 2024, and datelined in NEW YORK. It is an older story that was retransmitted in error.
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The Vatican bank has fired two employees on the grounds that their recent wedding violates a new ban on workplace marriages. The Institute for Religious Works said it took the “difficult decision” to fire the couple, who have three children, after neither one agreed to resign voluntarily to allow the other to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 100 people, mostly women and children, were missing after an overloaded boat bringing them back from an Islamic festival at night capsized in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said Wednesday. The locally made boat, whose capacity was 100 passengers, had about 300 people onboard along the Niger River when
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2’s plasma science instrument — designed to measure the flow of charged atoms — was powered down in late September so the spacecraft can keep
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