By Gabe Cohen, CNN A failing, flaming wheel bearing doomed the rail car that derailed and created a catastrophe in East Palestine earlier this month, but researchers have offered a solution to the faulty detectors that experts say could have averted the disaster unfolding in the small Ohio town. These wayside hot box detectors, stationed
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Rebekah Riess, CNN An 81-year-old man died after being attacked by two dogs in San Antonio, Texas, and a suspect has been arrested in the incident, police say. The man and a female companion, 74, were attacked Friday afternoon when they got out of their car in front of a relative’s
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By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful winter storm that lashed California with heavy rain and frigid temperatures shifted its focus Saturday to wind and heavy snow, although forecasters said the risk of life-threatening flash floods in the Los Angeles area has passed. The National Weather
Continue Reading By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful winter storm that lashed California with heavy rain and frigid temperatures shifted its focus Saturday to wind and heavy snow, although forecasters said the risk of life-threatening flash floods in the Los Angeles area has passed. The National Weather
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By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful winter storm that lashed California with heavy rain and frigid temperatures shifted its focus Saturday to wind and heavy snow, although forecasters said the risk of life-threatening flash floods in the Los Angeles area has passed. The National Weather
Continue Reading PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a woman who shot at officers at an abandoned house in Pittsburgh was shot and killed by police. Allegheny County police said Pittsburgh officers were dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. Friday to the city’s St. Clair neighborhood and were directed to an abandoned house, where they saw a woman inside.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices dropped in New Jersey and around the nation at large amid a decline in crude oil prices. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.22, down eight cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.62 a gallon on
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists have long believed our planet is built upon four layers of rocks, minerals and magma deposited over millions of years of existence. But researchers now think the world has five major layers after discovering a previously undetectable 400-mile-wide ball of iron inside Earth’s inner core. The revelation could help experts
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Millman, CNN The Biden administration has proposed new rules that will require patients to have an in-person medical evaluation before being prescribed most prescription medications by their doctors, with limited exceptions, according to a statement released on Friday. Under the new rule proposals from the Drug Enforcement Agency, patients would still be able
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Russell Westbrook not only switched locker rooms at Crypto.com Arena. He went from being on the bench to a return to the starting lineup. Los Angeles Clippers coach Tyronn Lue didn’t waste much time seeing how well Westbrook would mesh with his new team. The
Continue ReadingBy MAURICE DUBOIS Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it’s also where hundreds of thousands of Black people entered from the Caribbean. CBS2’s Maurice
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN VICTORY Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — This story started with a viewer email from a Chicago couple who got dinged in a minor fender bender. Then they got hit again, this time on the phone, bombarded by unsolicited calls and tests from law firms. CBS 2’s Lauren Victory
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Una rara advertencia de tormenta de nieve sigue vigente este sábado para algunas partes del sur de California, incluida la región de Los Ángeles, mientras que fuertes nevadas y lluvias récord han provocado inundaciones peligrosas. La llegada de un clima severo en la costa oeste ha generado condiciones invernales desconocidas en
Continue ReadingBy Jonah Kaplan Click here for updates on this story OWATONNA, Minnesota (WCCO) — As if nine months of pregnancy wasn’t stressful enough. “For me, I said what better thing to do in a storm than have a baby,” Micah Trautman, a new mom to baby boy Hudson, told WCCO. “And I was born during
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, SOPHIE AUSTIN and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press/Report for America SEATTLE (AP) — You can change your name, but in many states you can’t completely shed your old one — something that’s of particular concern to transgender people and that legislators in at least two states are trying to change. A bill in
Continue Reading By Mallika Kallingal and Rebekah Riess, CNN Dozens of gang members were arrested and illegal guns and drugs seized during a four-day operation in Central California, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation into the “Goshen Massacre,” for a “cartel-style” shooting that left six people dead, including
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Un año y un día después de la invasión de Rusia a su país de origen, Ucrania, el campeón mundial de Bellator MMA, Yaroslav Amosov, regresará a la jaula para defender su título. La pelea de peso welter de Amosov contra el británico Michael Page estaba originalmente programada para mayo de
Continue ReadingCNN By Alayna Treene and Zachary Cohen, CNN As some outspoken Republican lawmakers threaten to block future aid to Ukraine, a small group of House GOP members that traveled to the country this week vowed to consider a list of key weapons and other crucial necessities during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, sources
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN Jewel Bronaugh, the No. 2 person at the US Department of Agriculture and the first Black woman in the position, will leave the department on Tuesday after a two-year tenure in which she led agency efforts to diversify its workforce and provide relief to farmers of color who say they have
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett said critics of stock buybacks are “either an economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue” or both, and all investors benefit from them as long as they are made at the right prices. Buffett used part of his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway
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