By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress is taking another look at creating a new no-fly list for unruly passengers. It’s an idea that was floated last year but never got off the ground. On Wednesday, several members of the U.S. Senate and House introduced legislation to let the Transportation Security Administration ban people from
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER MAYERLE Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The man accused of promising swimming pools and not finishing the job is now criminally indicted. It follows a months-long WCCO investigation. A grand jury alleges Charles Workman devised a scheme to defraud people of their money with false promises. WCCO exposed
Continue ReadingBy WCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Just how healthy is the county where you live? An annual study released Wednesday measures the overall wellness of counties across the country. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute considered data that tracked health outcomes, such as length
Continue ReadingBy KYW Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Mastery Charter Schools’ Simon Gratz Campus is closed today, following a shooting that killed one of its students. School officials are calling it “a day of healing.” Meanwhile, there’s a $30,000 reward to find whoever killed the sophomore on his way to
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK DAMP Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Central Catholic and Oakland Catholic are among multiple schools that have been targeted as part of what police are calling “computer-generated swatting calls.” The calls are claiming that there is an active shooter situation, but they are in fact a hoax. Other
Continue ReadingBy Kalama Hines Click here for updates on this story POCATELLO, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — A man using fraudulent identification was arrested when the ID was linked to an open warrant. Police charged and released him. Then, he allegedly stole a car and was arrested again. Travis Michael Dean, 35, of Alpine, Wyoming, now faces six
Continue ReadingBy MADISEN KEAVY Click here for updates on this story STOCKTON (KOVR) — The family of 15-year-old Stagg High School student Alycia Reynaga filed a lawsuit against the Stockton Unified School District seeking damages for negligence and wrongful death claiming the teen’s death could have been prevented. The 20-page complaint filed in San Joaquin County
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Soon, you’ll be able to plug in your Lamborghini. Closing out a half century of purely gasoline-powered V12 cars going back to the brand’s earliest models, Luxury Italian sports car designer Lamborghini has unveiled its first supercar with a charging port. The Lamborghini Revuelto is a plug-in hybrid and, while
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlyn Hart Click here for updates on this story REXBURG, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — A 28-year-old man was sentenced on Monday after being charged with multiple child sexual abuse felonies. Isaac Young was sentenced by Magistrate Judge Joel Tingey to a minimum of three and a maximum of eight years in prison. Tingey suspended the
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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That’s the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That’s the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cold low pressure system spinning off the coast of California sent bands of rain and snow across the state Wednesday, making travel difficult and adding to an epic mountain snowpack. Forecasters said the storm was not as strong as the systems that pounded the state all winter, but that chains
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CNN By Mallika Kallingal, Nouran Salahieh and Eric Levenson, CNN Some of the 911 calls from The Covenant School shooting have been released by the City of Nashville, capturing some of the tense moments as the carnage played out. One woman who says she is in the building as the shooting is happening tells the
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz insisted the coffee chain hasn’t broken labor laws and is willing to bargain with unionized workers during an often testy, two-hour appearance before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Schultz was firm in his stance that the Seattle-based company provides good wages
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Two men who allegedly cheated to win a competitive fishing competition have pleaded guilty to charges, including cheating, according to the Cuyahoga County Office of the Prosecutor. Jacob Runyan and teammate Chase Cominsky rocked the competitive fishing world after it was discovered their fish were stuffed with lead weights and fish
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Keanu Reeves es muy reservado con su vida privada. Pero cuando tiene algo que decir, lo hace de forma especial. Así ocurrió cuando la revista People le pidió que identificara un momento de felicidad reciente. El actor respondió: “Hace un par de días con mi amor”. “Estábamos en la cama. Estábamos
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have put a member of the Pussy Riot punk group on a wanted list of criminal suspects as the Kremlin works to stifle political dissent. Russian news outlet Mediazona discovered an entry for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the Russian Interior Ministry’s database of wanted individuals on Wednesday. The entry, also reviewed
Continue Reading MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — Five St. Louis-area police officers are injured after being struck by an SUV driven by a suspected drunk driver. Three of the officers are in serious condition and two suffered moderate injuries. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a 2-year-old girl in the Jeep Cherokee that struck the officers suffered
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Neil Patrick Harris was back in the role of Barney Stinson in the mid-season finale of “How I Met Your Father.” Harris was a main character on the original series “How I Met Your Mother,” which ran for nine seasons on CBS starting in 2005. He earned four Emmy Award nominations
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN An ultramassive black hole, understood to be one of the largest ever detected, has been discovered by astronomers using a new technique. The findings, published by the Royal Astronomical Society, show that the black hole is more than 30 billion times the mass of the sun — a scale rarely seen
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