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By Christina Fan Click here for updates on this story BAY SHORE, New York (WCBS) — Long Island beachgoers should be on the lookout for red flags on Saturday following a string of shark attacks. Attacks are usually rare, according to officials, but warmer temperatures are drawing sharks closer to shore, CBS2’s Christina Fan reported.
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By RICHARD LARDNER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Russian forces assaulted a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk. Dozens of elderly and disabled patients, many of them bedridden, were trapped inside without water or electricity. The March 11 assault set off a
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A man was arrested after he reportedly stole more than $10,000 in cash from fellow passengers during an American Airlines flight from Argentina to Miami. Diego Radio, 29, has been charged with theft of personal property valued at greater than $1,000
Continue ReadingBy Mike Hellgren Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Police are still looking for the person who shot and killed 48-year-old Timothy Reynolds. It happened at Light and Conway Streets Thursday around 4:30 p.m. during a confrontation with squeegee workers. A relative of Reynolds who asked not to be identified
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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) — Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified Saturday about the hardships they endured, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames. They came from different states and different tribes, but they shared the common experience of having
Continue Reading By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) — Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified Saturday about the hardships they endured, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames. They came from different states and different tribes, but they shared the common experience of having
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration has taken a key step forward on a controversial proposed oil drilling project in Alaska’s North Slope, angering climate advocates who say the project would release tons of emissions and doom the President’s climate goals. The US Department of Interior released a draft environmental impact statement for the
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TORONTO (AP) — Rogers Communications Inc. says it has restored mobile and internet service for “the vast majority″ of customers after an outage that lasted more than 15 hours. The disruption, which the Toronto-based telecommunications company offered no explanation for, started Friday morning. It left many customers without mobile and internet service and caused trouble
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — Rogers Communications Inc. says it has restored mobile and internet service for “the vast majority″ of customers after an outage that lasted more than 15 hours. The disruption, which the Toronto-based telecommunications company offered no explanation for, started Friday morning. It left many customers without mobile and internet service and caused trouble
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN Vernon Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey’s father, died late Friday after battling cancer, Oprah announced in a statement. He was 89. “Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honor of witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath,” Oprah said in a tribute to her father shared
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN The US Marshals Service has arrested 13 of the most wanted sex offenders in Iowa, authorities say. All of the fugitives were non-compliant with Iowa’s Sex Offender Registry, and seven had former convictions for “crimes against children under the age of 13,” US Marshals said in a news release on Friday.
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man has been indicted on a murder charge a year after a former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area. Republican former state Rep. Ashley Henley was killed in June 2021 outside the burned-out mobile
Continue ReadingBy Megan Thomas, CNN Shawn Mendes has postponed his world tour to focus on his health. In an Instagram post on Friday, the Grammy-nominated singer, 23, said he is pushing back the next three weeks of his concert dates “until further notice.” “I’ve been touring since I was 15 and to be honest it’s always
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Alejandra Ramos Nueva York (CNN) — “Artículo inesperado en el área de embolsado”. “Por favor, coloque el artículo en la bolsa”. “Por favor, espere ayuda”. Si te has enfrentado a estas irritantes alertas en la máquina de autopago, no estás solo. Según una encuesta realizada el año pasado a 1.000 compradores, el 67% dijo que
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign in the coming days, the speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament said on a tumultuous Saturday that also saw the prime minister say he would step down and the storming of both leaders’ residences by protesters angry over the
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign as of Wednesday. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement Saturday that he informed Rajapaksa of a decision taken at a meeting of Parliamentary party leaders requesting he leave office,
Continue Reading By Yenny Sanchez, CNN This fossil is a sight for saur eyes. Sotheby’s New York announced it will auction the skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, a cousin to the T-Rex, later this month, and it’s estimated to sell for up to $8 million. This member of the Tyrannosaurid family roamed the earth about 77 million years
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s semi-official media are reporting that authorities arrested an influential pro-reform activist, saying he conspired to act against state security. A report by the Fars news agency early on Saturday said activist Mostafa Tajzadeh was taken into custody and charged with “gathering data and conspiracy to act against the
Continue Reading NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has died at the age of 89. Oprah confirmed in an Instagram post that her father died in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday. “Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honor of witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath,” the
Continue Reading By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who tried to cast himself as a progressive world leader but was blamed for some of Mexico’s worst political killings of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100. Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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