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By Peyton Headlee Click here for updates on this story LIBERTY, Missouri (KMBC) — The Super Bowl is already proving to be divisive in homes across the country. With Chiefs framed pictures on the walls, Mahomes signed footballs on the dressers, and hats hung around the house — it’s clear Donna Gunn has been a
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Bandur Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — Following services in Memphis for Tyre Nichols, 29, friends and family in Sacramento held a celebration of life. More than 300 people packed into the Sac Ramp Skate Park in south Sacramento to share memories and stories of Nichols. Nichols died
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Lentes Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — A favorite New Orleans dance krewe will have some special guests performing alongside them on the parade route this Carnival Season. The Milwaukee Dancing Grannies will join the 610 Stompers when the Krewe of Thoth rolls on Saturday, Feb. 19. The
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post that Bard will be opened up to “trusted testers” starting Monday, with plans to make
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By JOHN COON Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith anticipates the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 19 will help build Utah into a destination for other major sporting events. Expansion in infrastructure aided the Jazz in bringing back the coveted game, which they last hosted in 1993. Multiple hotels
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Bandur Click here for updates on this story DIXON, California (KCRA) — The superintendent of Dixon Unified School District stood before television cameras and parents Friday and said, “Don’t let us off the hook.” Brian Dolan addressed the racist Instagram post he said a seventh-grade John Knight Middle School student made earlier this
Continue ReadingBy Pete Gilbert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — Baltimore Orioles players and managers took time Friday to volunteer to help the community. The visit to the Maryland Food Bank was one of the Orioles’ Birdland Caravan events planned throughout the weekend. The Birds jumped right in, manning the conveyor
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NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A rancher who lives near Arizona’s border with Mexico is being held on a charge of first-degree murder in last week’s fatal shooting of a man tentatively identified as a Mexican citizen. His bail was set at $1 million. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s office in Nogales, Arizona, confirmed Monday that
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Mike Pereira knows the pressure Carl Cheffers and his officiating crew will be under during Super Bowl 57 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. That’s because he either hired or promoted most of them. As the NFL’s vice president of officiating in 2008, Pereira promoted Cheffers from
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Mike Pereira knows the pressure Carl Cheffers and his officiating crew will be under during Super Bowl 57 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. That’s because he either hired or promoted most of them. As the NFL’s vice president of officiating in 2008, Pereira promoted Cheffers from
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By Nicole Chavez and Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A middle school in New York and its food vendor, Aramark, apologized after students were served chicken and waffles, along with watermelon on the first day of Black History Month. The lunch menu offered on February 1 at Nyack Middle School in Rockland County was “inexcusably insensitive and
Continue ReadingBy Joylyn Bukovac Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Dozens of families in South Nashville are without a home after their apartment building when up in flames overnight. The fire started around 10:15 p.m. at Hickory Creek Apartments on Vultee Boulevard. One neighbor credits people knocking on doors for saving
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Smithson Click here for updates on this story COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A teddy bear made from a grandmother’s jacket — found at a Goodwill in Cookeville — could soon be back in the hands of its family with the help of a Facebook group. Regena Moreno posted two photos of the teddy
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic representative from Hawaii who clashed often with her party and eventually left it, has a memoir coming out in October. Gabbard’s memoir, currently untitled, is the first of a two-book deal with Regnery Publishing, the longtime conservative publisher. Regnery calls the book the “full story of
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A continuing wave of antisemitic flyers hit parts of suburban Atlanta before dawn Sunday, including the home of Georgia’s only Jewish state legislator. Esther Panitch, a freshman Democratic lawmaker from Sandy Springs, denounced the flyers from the floor of the House Monday. The flyers linked were found
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN Tom Brady says he will start his broadcasting career in the “fall of 2024” as he reiterated Monday his NFL playing career is over. Colin Cowherd, host of FS1’s “The Herd,” asked Brady if there was a “1% chance” he would be talked back into returning to the NFL. The seven-time
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A judge has ruled he will allow jurors to hear evidence that disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients and committing other financial crimes long before his wife and son were killed in 2021. Prosecutors have said those witnesses to potential financial
Continue Reading KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a plane transporting the body of Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf from the United Arab Emirates arrived in Karachi amid tight security. Family members were also on board when the plane landed Monday at the airport in the city where he will be buried Tuesday. Musharraf, who died at
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It’s a guilty verdict for the man accused of killing four people in Palm Springs four years ago. A jury found Jose Larin Garcia guilty on all counts against him. The same jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death. The decision, which jurors reached after less than an hour of deliberations, comes
Continue Reading By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has denied South Carolina Republicans’ motion for a stay in the ongoing challenge over the state’s congressional district map. Leading GOP lawmakers will now take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in attempt to avoid redrawing the map that
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