By Dave Savini Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — You may have heard of a classified military testing facility called Area 51 – but there is also an Area 52, and some who worked there are going public about cancer and cover-ups. Dave Crete and Mark Ely one once part of
Continue ReadingBy Marcella Baietto, Jake Jacobson Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Even though the Super Bowl was the main event on Sunday, a watch party for a different game brought a crowd out to Philadelphia’s Manayunk section. At Bark Social, their version of the big game is the 20th annual Puppy
Continue ReadingBy Shosh Bedrosian Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — There’s a new approach to substance abuse treatment in New York City. Officials are making it as easy as bringing services to the sidewalks in neighborhoods most impacted in hopes of helping more people. “All people have to do is walk
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers are pushing to make the state the 12th in the nation to ban smoking in cars with children. The state Senate on Monday passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to smoke in a vehicle with a child under 17. The bill goes
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An Associated Press photographer who took photos of presidents and the pope as well as hurricanes, golf and space shuttle launches has died. Lou Krasky has spent more than 35 years with the wire service. The 86-year-old photographer was born in New York City and joined
Continue ReadingBy Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — Multiple large retailers, including Costco and Trader Joe’s, have recalled items containing dairy products from Rizo-López Foods Inc. due to possible Listeria contamination. Rizo-López Foods Inc. initially recalled dozens of dairy products last week after an investigation identified them as the source of a multistate Listeria outbreak that led to two
Continue ReadingBy JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The government in Central African Republic says about 10,000 children are still fighting alongside armed groups in the country more than a decade after civil war broke out. The minister for family and gender says that while 15,000 children have escaped from rebel
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — The renewed questions surrounding President Joe Biden’s age and memory sparked by a special counsel report last week were decidedly unwelcome for the 81-year-old Democrat’s advisers. Yet in one area, the president’s team has found a way of making political hay from one of the
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, IDF, KAN NEWS, THE HOSTAGE AND MISSING FAMILIES FORUM, ISRAEL FOREIGN MINISTRY AFFAIRS, PROJECT HOPE, The Hostage and Missing Families Forum/Israel Foreign Ministry Affairs By Abeer Salman, Jessie Yeung and Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — Two Israeli-Argentinian men taken captive by Hamas on October 7 were rescued on Monday in an early morning
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Eric Tegethoff, Oregon News Service SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — A coalition of groups has laid out its budget priorities for the Oregon legislative session in an effort to advance racial, gender and economic justice. The Fair Shot for All coalition includes unions, racial equity and education groups and more. They have proposed the 2024 People’s Budget for
Continue ReadingBy Adam Thompson Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than $540,000 of memorabilia from former Baltimore Colts’ quarterback Johnny Unitas was sold at the Super Bowl auction this week. Unitas’s 1970 Super Bowl V Championship ring sold for more than $258,000, while his 1958 14K gold championship ring sold for
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police have identified a man arrested after an intense search and charged him with fatally shooting one man, wounding two women and carjacking two vehicles at four different locations in Memphis. Memphis police say 20-year-old Courdarion Craft was arrested Sunday on charges including first-degree murder, especially
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A Republican lawmaker in Michigan has lost his committee assignment and staff, days after posting an image of a racist ideology on social media. House Speaker Joe Tate, who is Black, said he will not allow the House to be a forum for “racist, hateful and bigoted speech.” State Rep.
Continue ReadingWHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (AP) — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain announced Monday the discovery of the 244-foot (74-meter) bulk carrier Arlington in about
Continue ReadingU.S. auto safety regulators have closed a seven-year investigation into complaints about power-assisted steering failures in Ford Fusions without seeking additional recalls. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Monday that its testing found only minor steering effort changes if the power-assist failed. It also found a declining failure trend, and a
Continue ReadingCORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A chemical element so visually striking it was named for a goddess shows a “Goldilocks” level of reactivity – neither too much nor too little – that makes it a strong candidate as a carbon-scrubbing tool. The element is vanadium, and research by Oregon State University scientists has demonstrated the ability
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a world of dating apps and reality TV shows, there’s a timeless story of long-lasting love to tell this Valentine’s week at Brookdale Bend, a senior living community. Glenn and Wanda Floyd of Bend have been married for 59 years. They first met at a mutual friend’s wedding in June
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many health care providers say an increasing number of patients are deciding the fate of their pregnancies on whatever information they can gather before state abortion bans kick in. But early ultrasounds show far less about the condition
Continue ReadingBy JUAN LOZANO, ACACIA CORONADO AND JIM VERTUNO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter at a Texas megachurch on Sunday had a history of mental illness and brought their young son to the attack that was carried out using an AR-style rifle and ended in an exchange of gunfire with two off-duty officers, authorities
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press The pastor who leads the Houston megachurch where a shooter opened fire on Sunday is one of the most familiar faces in American religion. Joel Osteen preaches to about 45,000 people a week in a former basketball arena. The 60-year-old had never preached until the Sunday before his father died
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