WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Tuesday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Administration for Children and Families to use existing authorities to act now to protect and strengthen behavioral health services for children enrolled in Medicaid and who are in the child welfare system. Wyden’s letters
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FOREST PARK, Ill. (AP) — Officials say a man suspected of killing four people aboard a Chicago-area transit train shot them at close range while they were asleep. The shooting happened before 5:30 a.m. Monday aboard the Chicago area’s L system. It happened on a moving Blue Line train near where the line
Continue ReadingBy Mike Trim Click here for updates on this story LAKE WORTH BEACH, Florida (WPTV) — September marks National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. At WPTV’s Let’s Hear It meetup in Wellington, two mothers affected by pediatric cancer spoke with anchor Mike Trim. They’re creating awareness in a big way with a digital billboard on Interstate
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story MAMARONECK, New York (WABC) — The bus driver involved in the crash that killed a kindergartner and his mother outside a school in Mamaroneck will not be charged. The tragedy happened on June 20 around 8:30 a.m. outside Mamaroneck Avenue School on Mamaroneck Avenue near
Continue ReadingThe seasonal differences of the movie calendar have eroded a little bit with time. Neither of the last two Oscar juggernauts — “Oppenheimer,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — opened in the fall, the traditional launching pad of Academy Awards hopefuls. And just the same, fall tends to be nearly as stuffed as summer is
Continue ReadingBy Chanteé Lans Click here for updates on this story ST. JAMES, Long Island (WABC) — A Long Island man forced his way into a St. James home and shot and killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend Wednesday night, police said. Police said the suspect, Daniel Coppola, 50, had his 15-year-old daughter sitting in his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The body of a man found frozen in a small Pennsylvania cave nearly 50 years ago has finally been identified. The remains of 27-year-old Nicolas Paul Grubb, of Fort Washington, were discovered in January 1977 by two hikers. Grubb has long been known as the “Pinnacle Man,” a reference to the Appalachian mountain
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The commander of a destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Cameron Yaste,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN A mountain lion attacked a 5-year-old boy during a family picnic over the holiday weekend in Los Angeles County, according to state wildlife officials. A family of at least six adults and a few children were having a picnic Sunday in the Tapia Park picnic area within Malibu Creek State Park
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story SOUTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (WABC) — Law enforcement sources say a man who got into an argument with his girlfriend set her parents’ home on fire in South Brunswick early Tuesday morning. The fire was reported just after 3 a.m. at the home at 155
Continue ReadingBy Camille Knight, Emmanuel Miculita and Caroline Baum, CNN (CNN) — A man is on trial accused of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife, as well as encouraging dozens of other men to rape her in their home while she was unconscious, court documents show. The alleged victim, Gisèle, 72, appeared in a courtroom in
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Los transportadores de carga y de pasajeros mantienen desde el viernes protestas en rechazo al alza en los precios del combustible diésel que dispuso el Gobierno de Colombia. El valor del diésel desde este sábado se incrementó 0,46 centavos de dólar por galón (equivalente a 3,7 litros) y pasa a
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — With its announcement that militants guarding Israeli hostages in the buildings and tunnels of Gaza had “new instructions” to kill them if Israeli troops closed in, Hamas signaled the opening of a chilling new chapter in an already brutal war. Seizing on a spasm of public outrage in Israel
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Hyundai is aiming to broaden the appeal of its Ioniq 5 electric SUVs with 2025 models boasting improved battery range and additional charging options. The South Korean automaker unveiled the new EVs on Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia, a few miles from Hyundai’s huge new factory that will begin producing
Continue ReadingBy Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story California (KCAL/KCBS) — A mountain lion that attacked a 5-year-old boy Sunday at Malibu Creek State Park has been euthanized, California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials confirmed. Park rangers and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to the park area around 4:20 p.m. Sunday
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Es un nuevo año escolar, y con ello vienen nuevas reglas. La prohibición de los teléfonos móviles, los cambios en el código de vestimenta que incluyen en algunos casos la prohibición de sudaderas con capucha y la ropa totalmente negra, e incluso la eliminación de los espejos de los baños de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, spurning the former president’s attempt at an end-run around the state court where he was convicted and is set to be sentenced in two weeks. U.S. District Judge Alvin
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Federal prosecutors have dropped their criminal case against a Maryland attorney whom they accused of engaging in a scheme to fraudulently access more than $12.5 million in Somali government assets. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday granted prosecutors’ request to dismiss the indictment against Jeremy Wyeth Schulman. In a court filing, prosecutors
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans were a lifeline for small businesses. But now some small businesses are having trouble paying them off. And a Small Business Credit Survey report from the 12 Federal Reserve banks shows that small businesses that haven’t paid off their
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Average gasoline prices in Oregon have fallen 6.1 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.72/g Tuesday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 1,307 stations in Oregon. Prices in Oregon are 15.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 98.6 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.
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