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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The body of a Louisiana state trooper who was shot to death in an ambush early Saturday was not discovered until 5 p.m. that day. State police Superintendent Lamar Davis said investigators believe Trooper Adam Gaubert was killed while he was in a parked patrol unit
Continue ReadingBy WBBM Staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A trip to Yellowstone National Park landed Samantha Daring, 25, four days in jail. What did she do? She got way too close trying to take a picture of a grizzly mother bear and her two cubs in the Roaring Mountain area
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story WORCESTER, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A torn quadriceps was not enough to stop one man from running the Boston Marathon virtually on Sunday. Bill Murphy completed 26.2 miles using crutches on the track at Worcester State University. He is raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “Plans
Continue Reading BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s president has nominated centrist party leader Dacian Ciolos to be prime minister after a protracted political crisis culminated last week in the Liberal-led coalition government being ousted in a no-confidence vote. After a day of deliberations Monday with Romania’s political parties, President Klaus Iohannis nominated USR leader Ciolos to try
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Alexandra Ferguson Ghazni, Afganistán (CNN) — Los cuerpos manchados de sangre de los cuatro acusados de secuestro fueron colgados de grúas de construcción con pesadas cadenas, uno de ellos con un cartel de advertencia colgado del cuello: “Los secuestradores serán castigados así”. En los espacios públicos de la ciudad occidental afgana de Herat, la multitud
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has presented details of a plan that is likely to squeeze out private power generating plants and may provoke complaints under the Mexico-U.S.-Canada free trade accord. The constitutional reform presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would cancel contracts under which 34 private plants sell power into the national
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By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Benson Kipruto won the pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon as the race returned from a 30-month absence and moved to the fall for the first time in its 125-year history. Diana Kipyogei won the women’s race to complete the eighth Kenyan sweep since 2000. Fall foliage replaced the
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CATHEDRAL CITY (CNS) – A stretch of Cathedral Canyon Drive will be closed briefly Thursday for the annual Cathedral City High School Homecoming Parade. The street will be closed between Perez Road and East Palm Canyon Drive between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., with city officials encouraging the use of Date Palm Drive as a
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Houston Astros have found themselves in familiar territory, brushing aside comments by Chicago White Sox reliever Ryan Tepera after he implied they stole signs while winning the first two games of the AL Division Series in their ballpark. Manager Dusty Baker pointed out the Astros
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BROCKTON, Massachussets (WBZ) — The Brockton Police Officer who was shot four times Thursday evening was released from the hospital Friday. Officer Robert Otis was wearing his Kevlar vest when he was shot while responding to a shooting outside a home on Taber Avenue around
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s coronavirus death toll has reached another once-unfathomable milestone: 70,000 people. The mark recorded Monday by Johns Hopkins University is the highest in the country. Texas is about 3,000 deaths behind. The milestone comes as California is experiencing the lowest rate of new infection cases among
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California surpasses 70,000 coronavirus deaths, most among U.S. states, but state rate of new cases is country’s lowest.
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of protesters from climate group Extinction Rebellion have blocked a busy intersection near the temporary home of the Netherlands’ parliament. The demonstration Monday marked the start of a week of protests the group plans in The Hague before a U.N. climate conference that opens on Oct. 31 in Glasgow,
Continue ReadingCNN, KUSA, KTRK, WLS, KTVT By Chris Isidore, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The problems at Southwest Airlines run deeper than the operational meltdown that caused more than 2,000 flight cancellations in recent days. And they’ll continue well after the airline is back on schedule. Although this weekend’s problems were mainly limited to Southwest,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The problems at Southwest Airlines run deeper than the operational meltdown that caused more than 2,000 flight cancellations in recent days. And they’ll continue well after the airline is back on schedule. Although this weekend’s problems were mainly limited to Southwest, it is by no means
Continue Reading In a story published Oct. 10, 2021, about Monday’s federal holiday, The Associated Press used incorrect punctuation on multiple references to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that Afghanistan is facing “a make-or-break moment.“ Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the world to prevent the country’s economy from collapsing. He also appealed to the Taliban to stop breaking its promises to allow women to work and girls
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — El intérprete afgano que ayudó a rescatar al entonces senador Joe Biden después de que su helicóptero se viera obligado a aterrizar en una tormenta de nieve hace 13 años, le estaba pidiendo al presidente de Estados Unidos que le devolviera el favor y lo rescatara de Afganistán. Finalmente, pudo abandonar
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The chairman of Moderna says the company has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up their own production is the best way to increase the global supply. In an interview with The Associated Press, Noubar Afeyan also
Continue ReadingBy Walé Azeez, CNN Business British companies that produce steel, paper, glass, cement, ceramics and chemicals say they will be forced to close factories or pass on rising costs to consumers unless the UK government provides relief from soaring energy prices. The industries, which are major users of natural gas and electricity, are reeling from
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