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CLEVELAND (AP) — The former director of Cleveland’s troubled Cuyahoga County jail has been convicted of negligently mismanaging the facility where several inmates died three years ago. Kenneth Mills was found guilty Friday of misdemeanor falsification and dereliction of duty but was acquitted of felony tampering with records. He now faces a potential sentence of
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Con más de 75 millones de estadounidenses elegibles aún no vacunados, los hospitales de muchos estados abrumados y los temores de que los casos puedan aumentar aún más en el otoño, los expertos y funcionarios están luchando para frenar la pandemia de covid-19 en Estados Unidos. “Lo único que sabemos
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese authorities say a military plane crashed in the White Nile south of the capital, Khartoum, killing all on board. Authorities retrieved three bodies of officers, including that of a lieutenant colonel. Search efforts were still ongoing. The crash was the latest involving a military plane in Sudan. Aircraft crashes are common
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist A wave of thunderstorms moved through California overnight, igniting the night sky as well as more wildfires across the state. “Approximately ~1100 cloud to ground strikes in the state since last evening,” tweeted the National Weather Service in San Francisco. In the Bay Area alone, around 110 confirmed cloud-to-ground strikes
Continue Reading By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped for the second consecutive month in August compared to the same period in 2020. That’s according to preliminary data released Friday by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research. Forest destruction in August reached 918 square kilometers
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden desafió este viernes a los republicanos a que pongan a prueba sus nuevos requisitos de vacunación en los tribunales, al tiempo que subrayó el compromiso de su administración con la seguridad de los estudiantes en su visita a una escuela secundaria de la ciudad de Washington. En
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press The U.S. has halted U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees after discovering a few cases of measles among Afghans arriving in the United States. A U.S. government document viewed by The Associated Press warned the development would have a severe impact on an evacuation that since Aug. 15 has moved many
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By Catherine E. Shoichet, Madeleine Stix and Ana Maria Luengo-Romero, CNN Casandra shouts to her sister as she races to her bedroom. “She answered!” It’s a relief. Sometimes, the calls to Honduras drop or don’t go through. Her school bus arrives in less than an hour. And the 10-year-old still isn’t sure what to wear.
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A local father is mourning the death of his daughter who passed away from COVID-19 Thursday night. Jeff Garcia said his 32-year-old-daughter, Andrea Garcia, worked as a nurse at Rancho Mirage Health & Rehabilitation Center. He said “families would come in and want to give her gifts and things because of the way she took
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN A wide range of telecommunications and social media companies are still grappling with how to respond, if at all, to a request by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol to preserve the records of several hundred people that could play
Continue Reading By MARK LENNIHAN, JOHN MINCHILLO and JULIE JACOBSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years after terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the memorial at ground zero is like a lot of city tourist sites. Visitors from around the world come and go, snap selfies and then leave. But for those
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations is raising the alarm about a Taliban crackdown on peaceful protests, many of them by women demanding equal rights, and journalists covering such events. In one case, two Afghan television reporters were beaten with an iron rod by Taliban fighters at a police
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Sao Paulo says Brazil right back Dani Alves will no longer be playing for his boyhood club due to delayed salary payments that he is owed. The 38-year-old defender has multiple honors with Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain. Alves did not show up for training
Continue ReadingBy Jo-Carolyn Goode Click here for updates on this story September 10, 2021 (Houston Style Magazine) — How do you give an answer to a problem that never existed? Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 – the election integrity bill – into law on September 7th on the basis that the legislation now makes
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, Dianne Gallagher and Jade Gordon, CNN Some clinics and groups helping fund abortion care in Texas are seeing an uptick in calls from people trying to “catch” them running afoul of the state’s restrictive new ban. “We have those people calling saying things like, ‘oh but can’t you slip me in’ because
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story DANVERS, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A member of the Cambridge School Committee says her family faced racial profiling and was accused of theft this week while visiting an apple orchard in Danvers, Massachusetts. Now, both the town and the farm are issuing written apologies. In a
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Business) — Meses después de una polémica batalla judicial entre la compañía más valiosa del mundo y uno de los videojuegos más populares del mundo, una jueza ordenó a Apple que permitiera a los desarrolladores usar opciones de pago externas, pero no llegó a llamar a la compañía un monopolio. La
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN A newly formed White House council to promote competition across the US economy and lower costs for American families is holding its first meeting on Friday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The White House will be rolling out a new website for this council, called the White House
Continue Reading By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two decades after the collapse of the World Trade Center, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to toxic dust that billowed over the city after the terror attack. To date, the U.S. has spent $11.7 billion on care and
Continue Reading By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers were among the worst teams in the NFL in most offensive categories last season. They’re hoping a healthy Christian McCaffrey changes all that. McCaffrey combined for 2,392 yards and 19 touchdowns during his All-Pro 2019 season, but missed 13 games season last
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