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BUCKEYE, Ariz. (AP) — Buckeye police say a man who shot his father multiple times was killed by one of their officers. The Buckeye Police Department said in a statement that they received calls about shots being fired at a home shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday. The first officer on the scene found the father
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks are were higher in muted trading on Wall Street Monday as traders return from the Christmas holiday. The S&P 500 was up 1.1% in afternoon trading, led by more gains in big technology companies like Apple and Nvidia. The benchmark index is coming off its latest record high.
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks are were higher in muted trading on Wall Street Monday as traders return from the Christmas holiday. The S&P 500 was up 1.1% in afternoon trading, led by more gains in big technology companies like Apple and Nvidia. The benchmark index is coming off its latest record high.
Continue Reading LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting two men at a busy restaurant in Kentucky has pleaded not guilty. News outlets report 21-year-old Karson Reitz appeared before a judge Sunday on murder charges in the shooting at the Roosters restaurant on Preston Highway in Louisville. The judge set his bond at $1
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s latest number of daily new COVID-19 cases appears extraordinarily high only because of a lag in reporting over the Christmas holiday. The state coronavirus dashboard reported 7,641 new confirmed cases but no deaths Monday. This comes after a tally of only 344 cases and no deaths a day earlier. A state
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday, with major U.S. airlines each canceling dozens of flights. Staffers calling out sick because of COVID-19 have left airlines short in recent days. According to FlightAware, which tracks flight cancellations, airlines have canceled roughly 4,000 flights
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday, with major U.S. airlines each canceling dozens of flights. Staffers calling out sick because of COVID-19 have left airlines short in recent days. According to FlightAware, which tracks flight cancellations, airlines have canceled roughly 4,000 flights
Continue ReadingBy DAN GREENWALD Click here for updates on this story SOUTH ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A man accused of killing a toddler claimed the child was fatally injured when he was hit by a car, according to court documents. Timothy Robinson, 33, is charged with second-degree felony murder and abuse or neglect of a
Continue ReadingBy DAN GREENWALD Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND, Missouri (KMOV) — An employee was shot in the face during a suspected robbery of a gas station in Overland Sunday night, police tell News 4. The incident happened around 8:00 p.m. at the Quik Mart near the intersection of Lackland Road and Leslie.
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have fatally shot a man with a knife. The man’s death on Sunday marks the 18th person shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers in 2021. Sunday’s shooting comes just days after an LAPD officer fatally shot a 14-year-old girl Thursday when officers fired on an assault
Continue ReadingBy Ehsan Popalzai, CNN The Taliban said Monday it had dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission as well as its ministries for peace and parliamentary affairs, further eroding state institutions set up by the country’s previous Western-backed governments. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) was established in 2006 — five years after the Taliban was overthrown by a
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By Ralph Ellis, Ashleigh Killough, Leslie Perrot and Lucy Kafanov , CNN A district court judge in Colorado has scheduled a hearing for January 13 to reconsider the 110-year sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was convicted in an interstate wreck that killed four people. First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said her
Continue Reading By DÉBORA REY and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It’s been a year since Argentina legalized elective abortions up to 14 weeks of gestation, and there are disparities in the procedure’s availability. In some jurisdictions around the capital, abortions are easily accessible. In more socially conservative areas, few physicians and medical
Continue Reading REEDLEY, Calif. (AP) — A 23-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting his grandmother and his father’s girlfriend and firing shots at his father as the family gathered to exchange gifts in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Austin Alvarez was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. He remains in the Fresno County jail
Continue Reading By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — English sparkling wine has been winning respect and an audience in recent years. Globally, English sparkling wines still make up a tiny part of the market but sales are growing. English sparkling wine uses the same three grapes as Champagne and the same production method. The vines
Continue Reading By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — English sparkling wine has been winning respect and an audience in recent years. Globally, English sparkling wines still make up a tiny part of the market but sales are growing. English sparkling wine uses the same three grapes as Champagne and the same production method. The vines
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, Keith Allen and Joe Sutton, CNN Sarah Weddington, an attorney in the landmark Roe v. Wade case, has died, according to statements from friend and former student Susan Hays and US Rep. Lloyd Doggett. She was 76. Born in Abilene, Texas, in 1945, Weddington attended McMurry University before graduating from the University
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, speaking to the nation’s governors, conceded Monday the steps he took earlier this year to scale up testing capacity for Covid-19 weren’t enough to meet demand as a wave driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant crashes across the country. “It’s not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, speaking to the nation’s governors, conceded Monday the steps he took earlier this year to scale up testing capacity for Covid-19 weren’t enough to meet demand as a wave driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant crashes across the country. “It’s not enough. It’s clearly not enough.
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Dwayne Johnson gave his mother a heartfelt surprise this Christmas. The actor and entrepreneur posted the sweet moment when he gifted his mother a car over the holiday weekend.. His young daughters helped him with the big reveal. “She was shocked,” Johnson wrote. “She got a few good ugly cries in.
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