AP 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
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Magic Johnson has bought an ownership stake in the National Women’s Soccer League’s Washington Spirit. The team announced Johnson has joined the investor group led by owner Michele Kang. Johnson most recently became part of the ownership group that bought the NFL’s Washington Commanders last year and also has shares in Major
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital has rejected an appeal by prosecutors to jail divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate. He will remain under house arrest amid a second human trafficking investigation against him that allegedly involves minors. The Bucharest Court of Appeal also ruled on Thursday to keep Tate’s brother
Continue ReadingAP College Football Writer A federal judge in California probed the terms of a proposed $2.78 billion settlement of antitrust lawsuits against the NCAA and major conferences, revealing a potential snag in the deal. Judge Claudia Wilken questioned whether payments to college athletes from booster-funded organizations should be restricted. She said she was ‘quite concerned’
Continue ReadingBy Nick Sloan Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — As the Kansas City Chiefs begin their 2024 season, an infamous superfan will learn his fate in court the morning of the game. Xavier Babudar, known to most as ChiefsAHolic, will be sentenced Thursday, Sept. 5, after pleading guilty to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As billionaire Elon Musk’s clash with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice came to a head last week, there were legal twists, insults, ultimatums, defiance and then, finally, capitulation. When the digital dust settled, X had become an ex. Musk’s social media platform was banned nationwide and Justice Alexandre
Continue ReadingCNN By Paula Reid, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Casey Gannon, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Hunter Biden is offering to plead guilty to the nine tax offenses he faces in federal court, without a deal with prosecutors, his attorneys said in court Thursday. Biden had earlier attempted to resolve his federal tax evasion case
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La luna Ganímedes de Júpiter podría haberse desplazado sobre su eje cuando un enorme asteroide chocó contra ella hace unos 4.000 millones de años, según un nuevo estudio. Ganímedes, la luna más grande del sistema solar, es incluso mayor que Mercurio y el planeta enano Plutón. Y anteriores investigaciones han hallado
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Alex Morgan, una de las goleadoras más prolíficas y una de las estrellas del fútbol más conocidas del mundo, anunció su retiro del fútbol profesional el jueves. Morgan, delantera de 35 años del San Diego Wave de la NWSL, publicó un emotivo video de más de cuatro minutos en
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A woman who was severely injured when a gunman killed five girls and wounded her and four other girls during an attack on their one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania has died 18 years later. A funeral director said Thursday that 23-year-old Rosanna King died at her home this week.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Christian school at the center of a Supreme Court decision that requires Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is challenging a state antidiscrimination law. An attorney for Crosspoint Church in Bangor contends that state lawmakers required participating schools to abide by the state antidiscrimination
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