By Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story CLAY COUNTY, Missouri (KCTV) — A bridge collapse near Kearney, Missouri, led to one worker’s death Wednesday afternoon. The bridge is near NE 148th Street and Shady Grove Road. That is near Carroll Creek and south of State Route 92. It’s reportedly in Washington Township.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A raging fire destroyed a vacant commercial building in Los Angeles early Wednesday and numerous other small fires broke out in the same area, triggering an arson investigation, authorities said. Flames lit up the sky before dawn in the North Hollywood area of the San Fernando Valley as fire spread through
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program. The Biden administration is making the grants available as part
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program. The Biden administration is making the grants available as part
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Wiggins Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (Advocate Channel) — British human rights activist Peter Tatchell was briefly stopped in Qatar on Tuesday for staging a public demonstration in Doha, the country’s capital city. According to the Peter Tatchell Foundation, he was “detained” for holding the first pro-LGBTQ+ protest in
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN White House officials said that the United States is seeing signs Russia may be advising Iran on how to crack down on public demonstrations, after clashes broke out across Iran during demonstrations marking 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini. “We are concerned that Moscow may be advising Tehran on
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Ancient bacteria might be sleeping beneath the surface of Mars, where it has been shielded from the harsh radiation of space for millions of years, according to new research. While no evidence of life has been found on the red planet, researchers simulated conditions on Mars in a lab to see
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday reported that its revenue declined for a second consecutive quarter, hurt by falling advertising revenue amid competition from the wildly popular video app TikTok. The quarter’s weak results raised fresh questions about whether Meta’s plans to spend $10 billion a year on the metaverse
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday reported that its revenue declined for a second consecutive quarter, hurt by falling advertising revenue amid competition from the wildly popular video app TikTok. The quarter’s weak results raised fresh questions about whether Meta’s plans to spend $10 billion a year on the metaverse
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict on six of seven charges against a suspended Georgia sheriff accused of violating the constitutional rights of people in his custody by unnecessarily strapping them into restraint chairs. Victor Hill had been suspended as Clayton County sheriff after his indictment last year. Prosecutors said
Continue Reading By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — Ballot counting began slowly Wednesday in a Nevada jurisdiction where officials citing concerns about voting machine conspiracy theories pressed forward with an unprecedented hand tally of votes cast by mail in advance of Election Day. One group of five people working in a room
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Weak quarterly results from several big technology companies weighed on stocks Wednesday, leaving major indexes mixed on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% after shedding an early gain, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite dropped 2%. The lower finish ended a three-day winning streak for
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand Attorneys for the man accused of attempting to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told a federal judge Wednesday they have no concerns about their client’s competency. During a status conference in the case against Nicholas Roske, Maryland federal judge Peter J. Messitte told defense attorneys there was a “very high likelihood”
Continue Reading By Kacey Cherry and Raja Razek, CNN A former county official in Nevada entered a not guilty plea Wednesday in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist last month. Robert Telles, who was the public administrator for Clark County, is charged with murder in the death of Jeff German, who was found stabbed
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — A man has received a death sentence for the fatal 2019 shooting of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency. A Harris County jury deliberated about 35 minutes Wednesday before returning the death sentence for 50-year-old Robert Solis. The jury convicted him of capital murder
Continue Reading KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say one construction worker died and two others were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in a rural area in northwest Missouri. Clay County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sarah Boyd says the worker died Wednesday after the bridge collapsed while concrete was being poured for its deck. The bridge spanned a
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, Sara Murray and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Lawyers for Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to block a subpoena from the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, for phone and text records. Hours
Continue ReadingBy KOVR Staff Click here for updates on this story ORANGEVALE, California (KOVR) — An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of cruelty to animals after a cat was found dead in an Orangevale neighborhood. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office says, back on Sept. 7, deputies started investigating a report of two cats being
Continue ReadingCNN By Deidre McPhillips, CNN For nearly two decades, Kristin Friberg has been a librarian with the Princeton Public Library in New Jersey, where one of her many roles is to lead local book groups. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, she worried about the book club participants who had become friends over the years and
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Stephanie Gallman, CNN Authorities have identified the boy found dead inside a suitcase in rural Indiana earlier this year, according to a Wednesday news release from the Indiana State Police. The body of Cairo Ammar Jordan of Atlanta, Georgia, was found in rural Washington County inside a hard-shell suitcase with a
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