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DAMARISCOTTA, Maine (AP) — Humans aren’t the only species packing on extra pounds during the pandemic. Some squirrels are letting themselves go, too. One portly critter in Damariscotta doesn’t scamper or scoot. It lumbers and waddles after supplementing nature’s bounty by helping himself to seeds that fall to the ground from bird feeders. Wildlife biologist
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole has been honored at a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral as top leaders from both parties gathered to display the kind of bipartisanship now rare in modern government. Dole’s flag-draped casket was carried in by a military honor guard as the
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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has agreed to buy 64 Lockheed Martin fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of combat planes in an $11.3 billion deal that represents the Finnish military’s largest ever purchase. Finland picked the American company’s F-35A fighters from among five contenders, which also included the Boeing
Continue Reading By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has agreed to buy 64 Lockheed Martin fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of combat planes in an $11.3 billion deal that represents the Finnish military’s largest ever purchase. Finland picked the American company’s F-35A fighters from among five contenders, which also included the Boeing
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Krueger Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WRAL) — When you think of a public school, you probably think of a traditional, physical school building on a campus surrounded by a gymnasium, auditorium and athletic fields. For Durham Public Schools, there’s another type of classroom that’s less well-known but
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN For a long time, the art market was “a secret world of whispers” according to art advisor Kim Heirston, who started her career working in New York’s downtown galleries three decades ago. Then, as an archivist for the late gallerist Robert Miller, she safeguarded and only shared materials that were critical to
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer The NCAA has placed the Auburn men’s basketball program on four years probation for unethical conduct involving former associate head coach Chuck Person and imposed a two-game suspension on coach Bruce Pearl for failing to monitor his assistant and adequately promote compliance. An NCAA Committee on Infractions panel issued
Continue ReadingBy WRAL Staff Click here for updates on this story CARY, North Carolina (WRAL) — The day after a video circulating social media showed a school employee placing a knee on a student’s neck at Panther Creek High School, the assistant principal was suspended. Lisa Luten, spokesperson for the Wake County school district, confirmed Friday
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman whose young son disappeared 35 years ago in metro Las Vegas was sentenced Friday to two years in prison in connection with his presumed death. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Amy Fleming had pleaded guilty in August to voluntary manslaughter after originally being charged with murder. Fleming pleaded guilty
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Fisher The US government is making it official — Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and William Shatner have earned the title of “astronaut” after their flights to the edge of space. The Federal Aviation Administration will also award Commercial Space Astronaut Wings to 12 other people who have flown at least 50 miles above
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge on Friday rejected Steve Bannon‘s challenge to the limits the Justice Department was seeking on public disclosure of evidence the government turned over to him in his case. Several media organizations had also challenged the Justice Department’s proposed limits. US District Judge Carl Nichols —
Continue ReadingBy JACLYN SCHULTZ Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A community is coming together to care for a newborn baby after his mother and only living parent has been on life support since she contracted COVID-19. Rowena Salas has been on an ECMO machine at Sunrise Hospital, and has been
Continue Reading By RENÉE RODEN Religion News Service In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Wednesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff to the 17 boxes filled with evidence attesting to Catholic radical Dorothy Day’s cause for sainthood. The more than 50,000 pages of newspaper articles, diary entries and other documents — even
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University police have arrested a 38-year-old homeless man they say is responsible for damaging Islamic literature and a copy of the Quran at the campus library. Police are investigating a motive for damage at the Hayden Library’s interfaith room on Wednesday. Before the
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CNN By Mallika Kallingal and Amy Simonson, CNN Police in Florida arrested a student attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for allegedly “plotting to shoot up the campus” on Thursday, which was the final day before winter break, officials said. John Hagins, 19, threatened an attack similar to the 1999 mass shooting at the Columbine High School
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Estados Unidos pasó por olas, picos y repuntes de covid-19 a lo largo de la pandemia, y ahora preocupa que el país pueda estar entrando en un nuevo repunte invernal. A veces los científicos saben qué factores impulsan un nuevo aumento de casos, pero algunos aumentos han sido inconsistentes y difíciles
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Utah coach Kyle Whittingham has been named The Associated Press Pac-12 Coach of the Year for 2021. Whittingham guided the Utes through a season that got off to a rocky start on the field and then was marred by tragedy when defensive back Aaron Lowe was fatally shot
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Utah coach Kyle Whittingham has been named The Associated Press Pac-12 Coach of the Year for 2021. Whittingham guided the Utes through a season that got off to a rocky start on the field and then was marred by tragedy when defensive back Aaron Lowe was fatally shot
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A police sergeant at the scene when Daunte Wright was shot says he was holding Wright’s right arm with both hands in the moments before he was shot. Mychal Johnson, who was a patrol sergeant in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center at the
Continue ReadingBy JOE VIGIL Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — Sean Cornwall and other neighbors near Fort Apache Road and Sahara Avenue thought some dog poisonings were over for good nearly three years ago. Cornwall now says they believe the person who terrorized their neighborhood back then has struck again. “I
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