By Julie Salomone Click here for updates on this story TAMPA, Florida (WFTS) — Hillsborough County Animal Control is investigating after a driver dumped a dog in the parking lot of a plastic surgeon’s office in Tampa. The incident happened around 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 7. Dr. Geoffrey Kwitko said he received a notification on
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Less than a year after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, ended their podcasting partnership with Spotify, Meghan has a new podcasting partner. Meghan will bring a new, yet-to-be-announced podcast to Lemonada Media, which issued a press release with the news on Tuesday. In addition to her new
Continue ReadingBy RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A group of rebels bombed a displacement camp in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province killing three civilians and injuring eight others, a local civil society group says. The announcement comes as violence in the conflict-hit region escalates and a humanitarian group warns that thousands are facing
Continue ReadingBy Jason Barry Click here for updates on this story MESA, Arizona (KPHO, KTVK) — There’s some fear and confusion at a park in the East Valley where some fake alligators are having people do a double-take. There’s no reason for anyone to panic, but you wouldn’t know it from the 911 calls that have
Continue ReadingKPHO, KTVK, MESA PD, CNN By Jason Barry Click here for updates on this story MESA, Arizona (KPHO, KTVK) — There’s some fear and confusion at a park in the East Valley where some fake alligators are having people do a double-take. There’s no reason for anyone to panic, but you wouldn’t know it from
Continue Reading(Update: Adding video, maps, comments from businesses) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Six businesses in Bend’s Core Area will collectively receive $100,000 in grants for planned building improvements after city councilors, in their roles as the Bend Urban Renewal Agency, voted to approve an inaugural round of business assistance grants for the area. Councilors approved the
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Body camera recordings released by a sheriff’s office in South Carolina show deputies fired dozens of shots at an 81-year-old man who they said pointed a gun at them from the backyard of his home. A spokesman for the Greenville County Sheriff’s office says it is
Continue ReadingBy Shelley Bortz Click here for updates on this story BURGETTSTOWN, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — During a high school basketball game last week, a player was heckled about his father’s death. KDKA-TV received a message from a woman who graduated from Fort Cherry High School who said she was not a proud alumnus after witnessing the
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — For a third straight presidential election campaign, former President Donald Trump is being serially inaccurate about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance. Trump caused a transatlantic uproar this weekend by claiming at a Saturday campaign rally that he had once told the president of a “big”
Continue ReadingAngelaBonachera (CNN Español) — “Polvo eres y en polvo te convertirás”. “Conviértete y cree en el evangelio”. Esas frases, pronunciadas por sacerdotes mientras dibujan con ceniza la señal de la cruz en la frente de los feligreses, representan todo el Miércoles de Ceniza: el inicio de la Cuaresma (los 40 días en los que los
Continue ReadingBy Kristine Sorensen Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburghers know Jon Burnett from his 36 years on the air at KDKA-TV forecasting the weather, performing crazy stunts on Evening Magazine, Pittsburgh 2Day and Pittsburgh Today Live, and mostly as the fun-loving guy who was the same on TV as off.
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The federal government has finalized two areas for floating offshore wind farms along the Oregon coast, authorities announced Tuesday, bringing the state closer to commercially developing and producing a renewable energy source that’s part of the fight against climate change.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Los departamentos de Huehuetenango y Alta Verapaz, fronterizos con México, tienen las cifras más altas de deportados retornados en enero, según un informe del Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración. El reporte indica que Huehuetenango, con 1.309 personas, y Alta Verapaz, con 1.059, encabezan la lista de los lugares de origen
Continue ReadingBy KWIYEON HA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press OLNEY, England (AP) — For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent. They sprint through the streets trying not to drop their pancakes as they trace the path taken by a harried housewife in
Continue ReadingBy Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN) — It’s time to break out your beads and get in your last bites of king cake – Mardi Gras time is here. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It’s also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, depending on where the celebration is taking place. No matter
Continue ReadingBy Brian New Click here for updates on this story GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (KTVT) — On a cold night in mid-December, a Grand Prairie homeowner woke up to a loud bang to find a police vehicle had crashed into her house. “I didn’t know what was going on,” said Samantha Davis who was startled to
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short story, “The Kiss.” He wasn’t alone in his flowery thoughts about kissing. Romantic kisses
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, Jon Stewart really wasn’t sitting at his desk at Comedy Central for the last nine years, waiting for someone to turn the lights back on. Yet it almost felt that way during Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show” Monday night. His signature moves —
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank says they still haven’t had contact with her, more than a week after she was seized from her home in an overnight raid. Relatives of Samaher Esmail say they are getting increasingly
Continue ReadingBy Marvin Hurst Click here for updates on this story FRISCO, Texas (KTVT) — Kimberly “Coach Kim” Puccio travels the same route to Canyons Rock Climbing weekly. She was headed home from the Frisco-based gym on February 1st but did not make it. Casey Puccio-Gehring, her daughter, said she knew the news wasn’t good when
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