By Dave Warren Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Inspired by Hurricane Irma, Will Charouhis is planting mangroves to combat the impacts of coastal development. He hopes to restore habitats and educate others one mangrove at a time — and has founded an organization that is working to plant a
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department will not restrict any military funding to Egypt, including funds conditioned on human rights, a State Department spokesperson told CNN Wednesday. The agency informed Congress Wednesday that it intends to provide Cairo with $1.3 billion in foreign military financing assistance, the spokesperson said. Egypt has been accused of
Continue ReadingBy Brynn Gingras and the Associated Press, CNN (CNN) — Justin Timberlake is expected to enter a plea in a driving while intoxicated case related to his June arrest in Sag Harbor, New York, according to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office. Timberlake will appear at a hearing this Friday, marking the singer’s first return
Continue ReadingBy A.J. Bayatpour Click here for updates on this story WATERTOWN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — On her third day of the eighth grade, Hailey Gabrielson took her own life. Her older brother, Jordon, remembers the school resource officer taking him out of class at Watertown High School last Thursday. The officer took Jordon to Riverside Middle
Continue ReadingWDJT, GABRIELSON FAMILY, CNN By A.J. Bayatpour Click here for updates on this story WATERTOWN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — On her third day of the eighth grade, Hailey Gabrielson took her own life. Her older brother, Jordon, remembers the school resource officer taking him out of class at Watertown High School last Thursday. The officer took
Continue ReadingBy Pavlina Osta Click here for updates on this story PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The search continues for a missing Illinois scuba driver off the coast of Pleasant Prairie Wednesday, Sept. 11. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department tells CBS 58, they found a body at the bottom of Lake Michigan in the area of
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Wednesday he has introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect the Social Security benefits of Americans who have been held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. On August 1, several Americans were released from Russian detention as part of a historic prisoner exchange. These individuals now
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a 2023 law allowing parents to spend taxpayer money on private schools violates the state constitution. The 3-2 ruling prohibits paying tuition or fees with “Education Scholarship Trust Funds,” but allows parents to use that money for indirect private expenses like
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general says records finally given up by Michigan State University don’t reveal anything new about convicted sports doctor Larry Nassar. Attorney General Dana Nessel says it “seems sort of improbable,” but that is the conclusion. Nassar is serving decades in prison for sexually assaulting athletes, mostly female gymnasts.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A mother, grandfather, adult brother and two caregivers in Florida have been charged with the starvation death of a 7-year-old disabled boy. The child had bones poking through his skin when he was found dead last year on Christmas. Broward County prosecutors say Deonte Atwell weighed only 7
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the United States, some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U.S. elections. But that could be about to change. A federal judge in Washington has struck down a decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Despite summer winding to an end, wildfire season is rearing its head again, as many more wildfires have popped up throughout the state, causing evacuations, poor air quality, and concerns around life and property. At Think Wild, a wildlife hospital and conservation center in Bend, nearby fires – including the Little
Continue ReadingAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana county judge has ruled against abortion providers who are seeking to broaden access to the procedure under the near-total ban state lawmakers passed in 2022. The judge on Wednesday denied the providers’ request for a permanent injunction to expand medical exemptions and block the requirement that abortions only
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — If song selections were a subtweet, Vice President Kamala Harris said a lot with “The Man” on Tuesday. Following her presidential debate with former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia, Harris made an appearance at a post-debate party to address supporters. It happened not long after Taylor Swift formally endorsed
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The words “Titanic moment” are possibly the last thing you want to hear on a boat – but that was the phrase used by one passenger on board the Carnival Spirit cruise ship last week, after the vessel unexpectedly struck an iceberg. No one was hurt on board and
Continue ReadingCNN By Isabel Rosales and Dakin Andone, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The mother of the teenager accused of killing four people during last week’s shooting at a Georgia high school has apologized to the victims’ families in an open letter while insisting her son “is not a monster.” “To the parents and families of those
Continue ReadingOXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A jury has cleared a Mississippi man on a charge of threatening to kill Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker during a confrontation with one of Wicker’s relatives. Six women and six men deliberated about an hour and a half Tuesday before unanimously finding William Carl Sappington not guilty of threatening to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson postponed a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months as opposition from both parties thwarted his first attempt at avoiding a partial government shutdown in three weeks. The legislation to continue government funding when the new
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An appeals court in Serbia has overturned an earlier ruling that a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Belarus should be extradited to that country and said that the case must be retried. Serbian authorities arrested Andrei Hniot on Oct. 30 at Belgrade airport, based on an Interpol warrant issued
Continue ReadingLANSING, Kan. (AP) — The shuttered Kansas prison where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” were executed is now a tourist attraction. Starting Friday, former wardens and corrections officers will lead two-hour tours of the stone-walled building in Lansing that first began housing inmates in the 1860s. The Kansas City Star reported
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