By Andy Pierrotti Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Sharron Starks learned her son passed away while in the car rushing to Savannah. “They said he was shot in the chest. And I lost it,” said Starks. Her son, Christopher Starks, died from a single gunshot wound during an altercation
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly sensitive U.S. visit, Taiwan’s president delivered the message Thursday that keeping her self-ruled island strong will help ensure the world’s safety — even as her travel is carefully calibrated to try to contain what furious Chinese officials warn
Continue ReadingAlli Rosenbloom, CNN Gwyneth Paltrow has prevailed in the civil trial relating to a 2016 ski collision. A Utah jury on Thursday found Paltrow, an Oscar-winning actor and the founder and CEO of Goop, not liable and ruled in her favor in her counterclaim against the man who sued her. Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist,
Continue Reading By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A jury began deliberating Thursday afternoon in Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial over a 2016 ski collision at a Utah resort. Attorneys for Paltrow and the 76-year-old man suing her described their clients in closing arguments as aggrieved victims participating in a yearslong legal battle to take
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By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — An plan is in place to return Lolita, an orca that has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years, to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest. Moving the 57-year-old, 5,000-pound orca could take six to nine months and cost $12 million to $15
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN The best musical acts out there attract a wide range of fans — young and old, from all walks of life. Case in point: Brian Cox and the Spice Girls. In a new trailer for Friday’s episode of “Carpool Karaoke: The Series,” Scottish actors and “X2: X-Men United” costars Alan Cumming
Continue Reading PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Jury begins deliberating if Gwyneth Paltrow is at fault for 2016 Utah ski collision that left man with broken ribs.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Lifsey Click here for updates on this story ATTAPUGUS, Georgia (WANF) — After battling for the past five years to rescue an elephant from a zoo in Puerto Rico, a sanctuary in South Georgia finally succeeded. Mundi, a 41-year-old female African elephant, is 8′ tall and weighs 8,000 pounds. She was born in
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Members of the LGBTQ community are expressing concern in the days following the mass shooting at a private Christina school in Nashville, Tennessee on March 27, 2023. Audrey Hale, the shooter behind the killings of three students and three adults at The Covenant School, identified as a trans individual, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police
Continue Reading Associated Press Two U.S. Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters crashed during training Wednesday night in Kentucky, killing nine soldiers. The Black Hawk is a twin-engine, four-bladed, medium-lift, utility helicopter developed for the U.S. Army since the 1970s by Sikorsky Aircraft of Stratford, Connecticut. It typically has a crew of two pilots and two crew
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden White House is calling on federal banking regulators to institute a number of changes intended to provide more oversight on large regional banks and reduce the risk of a future banking crisis. The administration announced its regulatory push on Thursday in response to the recent collapse of two large
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants say they are actively preparing to move a party-line bill to raise the national debt limit if President Joe Biden continues to draw a firm line against talks with House Republicans to avoid the nation’s first-ever default. The move would be a
Continue ReadingBy Felix Cortez Click here for updates on this story WATSONVILLE, California (KSBW) — A video going viral on social media of a handyman yelling at a tenant after he had just allegedly sexually assaulted her is putting a spotlight on renter safety and steps they should take to safeguard themselves against violent and unscrupulous
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia, CNN An attorney for actor Jonathan Majors has shared text messages she says came from the woman her client allegedly assaulted last weekend. Majors, who recently starred in “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” was arraigned on Sunday on assault and harassment charges after a domestic dispute in New York,
Continue ReadingBy WCVB Staff Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Cowabunga! Four of the manhole covers in a western Massachusetts city are going to be turned into a public tribute to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Northampton officials are giving a $20,000 grant to the Northampton Vibrance Committee to support the
Continue ReadingBy Meghan Torjussen Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) — A baby girl, born at 22 weeks, is the youngest baby ever born in Maine. Todaym Winner looks like an average little one, a tiny pout of an eight-month-old baby, wearing a flowered onesie. However, Winner’s story is anything but average.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN The Arizona Democratic Party said Thursday it is suing to keep the business-friendly centrist group “No Labels” from being recognized as a political party with the ability to place candidates on the state’s ballot. The lawsuit is an effort to keep a third-party candidate from playing a spoiler role in 2024,
Continue ReadingBy WBAL Staff Click here for updates on this story GERMANTOWN, Maryland (WBAL) — Two teenagers were arrested on Saturday in Germantown after a failed carjacking from a gas station. According to Montgomery County police, around 4:40 p.m., officers arrived at the Sunoco gas station in the 19200 block of Frederick Road for a reported
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Spikes in car thefts of certain Hyundai and Kia models, a trend that began in the American midwest and was spread by how-to videos on social media, has reached America’s biggest city. About 100 of these particularly vulnerable Hyundai and Kia vehicles were stolen in the month of December alone
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN A Virginia man convicted of providing support to ISIS in 2015 was sentenced Thursday to serve an additional year in prison for breaking his release conditions after meeting multiple times with John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban” and sharing ISIS propaganda online in encrypted chats. In 2015, Ali Shukri Amin
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