By Laura Studley, Eric Levenson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The massive pileup caused by a sudden snow squall on a Pennsylvania highway Monday left six people dead and involved 80 vehicles, state police wrote in a crash report Wednesday. According to final numbers in the report, there were 39 commercial vehicles and 41 passenger vehicles
Continue ReadingBy Marlee Ginter Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — Video from a camera on the stop-arm of a Sacramento City Unified School District bus shows a nerve-racking near-miss. The driver of a white van could be seen disregarding a stopped school bus with a stop sign and flashing lights until
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics say center Robert Williams III is expected to miss four to six weeks after undergoing surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee. The team says Williams underwent a partial knee meniscectomy Wednesday morning at a Boston hospital. He was hurt Sunday against Minnesota. Williams was averaging 10
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation and the union for its women’s national team are set to negotiate past the expiration of their collective bargaining agreement on Thursday in an effort to reach a deal on equal pay. The sides announced in December that they had agreed to a three-month extension of a labor
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several hundred workers at a Kellogg’s plant that makes Cheez-Its won a new contract that delivers more than 15% wage increases over three years after 1,400 workers at the company’s cereal plants went on strike for nearly three months last fall. The union that represents
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden may invoke the Defense Production Act as soon as this week to spur domestic production of critical minerals needed to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles and long-term storage, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Doing so would add critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, graphite, cobalt
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Es posible que el covid-19 no haya terminado con nosotros. Pero nosotros sí que estamos cansados de él. La subvariante BA.2 de ómicron ahora es la cepa dominante de covid-19 en Estados Unidos, según los CDC Ese sentimiento lo grita a voz en cuello una nueva encuesta nacional de la Universidad de
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — What’s immune to high inflation? So far, the profits at big U.S. companies. Companies have successfully raised prices for their products, from cups of coffee to cans of paint, because buyers are lining up regardless. By passing along their cost increases, companies been able to
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, HALELUYA HADERO, and JAY REEVES BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — After a crushing defeat last year, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is hoping for a different outcome when warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama decide whether or not to form a union in a do-over election. The National Labor Relations Board on
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for nearly an hour Wednesday as airstrikes near Kyiv seemed to bear out Western skepticism that peace talks could ease Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Biden told his counterpart the US would provide Ukraine another $500 million in “direct
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for nearly an hour Wednesday as airstrikes near Kyiv seemed to bear out Western skepticism that peace talks could ease Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Biden told his counterpart the US would provide Ukraine another $500 million in “direct budgetary
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote on on whether to end the requirement for many indoor businesses and large outdoor events to verify that customers have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The motion under consideration Wednesday would make vaccination verifications voluntary at establishments like restaurants, bars, gyms and personal
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote on on whether to end the requirement for many indoor businesses and large outdoor events to verify that customers have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The motion under consideration Wednesday would make vaccination verifications voluntary at establishments like restaurants, bars, gyms and personal
Continue ReadingBy Tony Reid Click here for updates on this story DECATUR, Illinois (The Pantagraph) — Police say a Decatur woman is jailed on charges she kidnapped a flooring company owner after luring him to an abandoned house, pepper-spraying him and then holding him at gunpoint before trying to ransom him back to his family for
Continue Reading By Angela Fritz and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second-largest man-made reservoir in the country has dropped to unthinkable lows amid the West’s climate change-driven megadrought. A pair of before and after photos at Lake Powell illustrates how alarming the transformation has been. The “before” was taken June 23, 2021, and the “after” was taken Sunday.
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Winds have remained gusty through the morning, but will slowly ease into the afternoon. Highs will warm up nicely today, roughly ten degrees warmer than yesterday. We’ll see some partly cloudy skies tomorrow as a weak front drops into NorCal. Highs will fluctuate a little tomorrow, but return to warmer levels by Friday and into
Continue ReadingBy WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A bus had to make an emergency stop in north Minneapolis Tuesday after a rider opened the roof hatch and climbed on top of the vehicle while it was traveling along Interstate 94. The Metro Transit Police Department says officers and state
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN We can thank the Iceman for the return of Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. That’s according to latest trailer for the “Top Gun” sequel, which is intense to say the least. In it, we learn that Val Kilmer’s character is the one who requests Mitchell (played by Tom Cruise, of course)
Continue ReadingBy Elyssa Kaufman, Meredith Barack Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A 16-month-old puppy is missing after an armed robbery and a series of car break-ins in Wisconsin, and police are searching for two suspects with ties to Chicago. CBS 2’s Meredith Barack spoke to the dog’s owner who desperately wants
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Elliott Page’s character on “Umbrella Academy” will mimic real life. Page’s character on the hit Netflix series will come out as transgender in the third season. The streaming giant celebrated the news by retweeting Page on it’s dedicated LGBTQ+ content Twitter account, Most. “FEELS SO GOOD TO SAY THIS: Elliot
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