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MONTREAL (AP) — Passengers who filmed themselves partying without masks aboard a chartered flight from Montreal to Mexico now face being stranded after three airlines have refused to fly them home to Canada. Sunwing Airlines cancelled the return charter flight from Cancun scheduled for Wednesday and Air Transat and Air Canada both said they will
Continue ReadingBy Evan Sobol Click here for updates on this story WATERFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman was arrested for animal cruelty in Waterford, police said. Officials say a citizen concerned about the well-being of animals at a town residence notified the Waterford – East Lyme Animal Control Office. On November 16, the citizen gave authorities
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By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has found a man charged with sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate killings nearly 30 years ago near a canal system in metro Phoenix is mentally fit to stand trial. Judge Suzanne Cohen agreed with two court-appointed experts that Bryan Patrick
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (WBZ) — Kayla Montgomery, who is married to the father of missing New Hampshire 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery, was arrested Wednesday on a welfare fraud charge. Harmony Montgomery has been missing since October 2019, but Manchester Police were only notified recently about her
Continue Reading By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released a report focusing on three of the deaths, all stemming from contact with rabid bats. CDC officials said
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A 53-year-old man has been convicted of threatening to kill his own mother by stabbing her with a knife, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office. Mark Charles Anderson was found guilty on Wednesday of unlawful use of a
Continue ReadingBy CNN Sports staff College Football Hall of Fame inductee Ross Browner, a two-time All-American defensive lineman and national champion at Notre Dame, and a 10-year NFL veteran, has died. He was 67. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my Father, Ross Browner,” said Browner’s son, former NFL offensive
Continue Reading By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mobile sports betting is coming to New York. The state’s gaming commission announced Thursday that four of the nine mobile sports wagering operators selected in November have been approved to accept bets starting this Saturday. The announcement affects Caesars Sportsbook, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Rush Street Interactive.
Continue Reading By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released a report focusing on three of the deaths, all stemming from contact with rabid bats. CDC officials said
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition, killing at least three people as thousands took to the streets in the capital of Khartoum and other cities once again to protest the October military coup. In Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, two protesters were
Continue ReadingBy Amy Kawata Click here for updates on this story VIRGINIA (WJZ) — A nightmare of a road trip was saved by a truck full of baked goods. “I think it was probably hour 15 or 16 that we realized we were probably screwed,” said Casey Holihan, who was a stranded driver on I-95. What
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A winter storm blanketed parts of the South with snow, freezing rain and sleet Thursday, tying up roads in Tennessee and Kentucky as the system tracked a path through Appalachia toward the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The National Weather Service says Nashville saw snowfall of 6.3 inches.
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, CNN Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia and a member of the House committee investigating the Capitol Riot, announced on the anniversary of the attack that she will run for reelection in her Virginia Beach swing district. Of the Democrats on the panel, Luria represents a district that is at the
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A 29-year-old Santa Rosa woman will be spending more than six years in federal prison for providing fentanyl through an illegal distribution operation in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood that led to the deaths of 29-year-old Patrick O’Neill and his son Liam.
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By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have officially severed ties with Antonio Brown, terminating the contract of the mercurial receiver who claimed he was fired in the middle of a game for not playing through an ankle injury. The Bucs announced the move Thursday, one day after
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The Palm Springs quadruple homicide trial resumed on Thursday, Jan. 6th. Court has been in recess for several weeks during the winter holidays. Jose Larin-Garcia, a Cathedral City man, is accused of killing four people (ages 17-25): Carlos Campos, Jacob Montgomery, Yuliana Garcia and Juan Duarte Raya nearly three years ago. On Thursday, the court
Continue Reading By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Goalkeeper Tuukka Rask is getting closer to returning to the Boston Bruins after signing a professional tryout agreement with Providence of the American Hockey League. Rask is currently a free agent, but he has spent 14 seasons with the Bruins and is the franchise’s leader in
Continue Reading By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Police in Ohio have released body camera footage showing an officer firing multiple rounds through a wooden privacy fence without warning at someone shooting gunfire into the air on the other side. Forty-six-year-old James Williams, of Canton, was shot in the chest minutes into the new year
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN With the Covid-19 surge fueled by the Omicron variant disrupting numerous Broadway productions, one former Broadway actor recently stepped in to save the day. Carla Stickler had been working as a software engineer in Chicago when she got the call last weekend to fill in for one of the lead roles
Continue Reading ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A California-based renewable energy company says work is complete on four wind farms in New Mexico that total more than a gigawatt of capacity. Pattern Energy officials announced Thursday that the Western Spirit Wind project has started commercial operations. The company had billed it as the largest single-phase construction of renewable
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