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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency has added another fatality involving a Tesla to the list of crashes it is probing due to the use of partially automated driving systems. A special crash investigation team was dispatched to a July 26 crash on the Long Island
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s road safety agency has added another fatality involving a Tesla to the list of crashes it is probing due to the use of partially automated driving systems. A special crash investigation team was dispatched to a July 26 crash on the Long Island
Continue Reading VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites was destroyed in an explosive fireball after suffering an “anomaly” off the California coast during its first attempt at reaching Earth’s orbit. Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket was “terminated” over the Pacific Ocean shortly after its 6:59 p.m. Thursday liftoff
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Bad law enforcement officers could permanently lose their badges under a bill that was advanced by California lawmakers. The vote on Friday came nearly a year after a similar measure died in the waning hours of the legislative session. California remains one of just four states
Continue Reading DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A family that lost five members in a tubing accident on a North Carolina river is suing Duke Energy. Their suit accuses the utility of not doing enough to warn people that its dam poses a deadly risk. Nine relatives from Eden, North Carolina, and LaPorte, Indiana, were floating down the
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Borowy Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WNEM) — Police are warning of scammers targeting elderly residents after a local officer stopped an envelope of cash from reaching an unknown person in New York. The daughter of an elderly resident contacted the Saginaw Township Police Department to report a
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Until now, 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz has exhibited enough promise and precociousness to make people think he eventually could succeed Rafael Nadal as Spain’s top tennis player. On Friday at the U.S. Open, with a dramatic five-set victory over No. 3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alcaraz showed
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday directed the declassification of certain documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a supportive gesture to victims’ families who have long sought the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. The order, coming little more than a week before
Continue ReadingBy WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright in April, now faces an additional first-degree manslaughter charge. Days after the shooting on April 11, Potter was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the 20-year-old’s death. But Minnesota Attorney General
Continue Reading VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites was destroyed in an explosive fireball after suffering an “anomaly” off the California coast during its first attempt at reaching Earth’s orbit. Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket was “terminated” over the Pacific Ocean shortly after its 6:59 p.m. Thursday liftoff
Continue ReadingBy Liz Collin Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Ongoing supply chain and staffing issues are hitting some small restaurants hard. As more pandemic problems persist, one of the largest food suppliers has hit pause on some Minneapolis restaurants — meaning owners are forced to find their ingredients elsewhere. For 18
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Three families are finally in their new homes, nearly a year after being displaced by a fire. Flames ripped through one trailer home at the Pueblo del Sol Mobile Home Park on Avenue 46 and Clinton Street on September 30, 2020. The fire then spread to two neighboring homes, completely destroying all three homes and
Continue Reading By SONNY FIGUEROA Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan officials confirmed Friday they are trying to arrest a fired anti-corruption prosecutor whose ouster led the United States to reduce cooperation with the Central American nation’s legal system. The arrest warrant for Juan Francisco Sandoval was confirmed by the spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, Juan
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — La recuperación del empleo en Estados Unidos se topó con un obstáculo importante en agosto, cuando la economía del país agregó muchos menos puestos de trabajo de lo esperado. Solo se agregaron 235.000 puestos de trabajo el mes pasado, muy por debajo de las expectativas de los economistas. En tiempos normales
Continue ReadingBy Marie Saavedra Click here for updates on this story MELROSE PARK, Illinois (WBBM) — Gyovanny Arzuaga and Yasmin Perez lost their lives in a violent, high-profile shooting back during Puerto Rican Parade celebrations in Humboldt Park back in June. But beyond that headline are two children left without their mother and father. Their surviving
Continue Reading César López (CNN Español) — La boxeadora mexicana Jeanette Zacarías Zapata falleció después de permanecer en cuidados intensivos en Canadá por más de cinco días. El promotor de la pelea, la agencia Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), que organizó el evento en Montreal, Canadá, el pasado 28 de agosto, confirmó la noticia: “Con un profundo pesar
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By David Williams, CNN One of two teachers at a Texas junior high school who died last week of Covid-19 was nervous about returning to school because of the Delta variant, her sister told CNN. Natalia Chansler, a 6th grade social studies teacher at Connally Junior High in Elm Mott, Texas, died of Covid-19 complications
Continue Reading TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — School officials say an Arizona student’s father was arrested after he and two other men carrying zip ties threatened a “citizen’s arrest” on the school principal over virus rules. The principal of Mesquite Elementary in Tucson said Friday she felt violated and scared. The father, with his son in tow, showed
Continue Reading By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s highest court has allowed a Texas law banning most abortions to remain in effect, marking a turning point for abortion opponents who have been fighting to implement stronger restrictions for nearly a decade. The Texas law, pegged a “fetal heartbeat bill,” bans abortions at
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