By Kendall Keys Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WISN) — Diana Williamson-Wynne and her four children packed up from their apartment at Community Within The Corridor Saturday and packed into a hotel room. Thursday night is their sixth night away from home, with no word on when they can return. The Milwaukee
Continue ReadingBy Adam Bartow Click here for updates on this story LEWISTON, Maine (WMTW) — Sam’s Italian Foods has closed its original location. A sign on the door of the restaurant on Main Street in Lewiston announced the news to customers. That location opened in 1939. In a statement to Maine’s Total Coverage, a company spokesperson
Continue ReadingBy Ray Brewer Click here for updates on this story NASHUA, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A former Nashua man accused of blindfolding and sexually assaulting teenage girls should get a bail hearing, a judge ruled Friday. The attorney for Jesse Reynolds, 43, said in court that prosecutors failed to meet the deadline for turning over
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Scruggs Click here for updates on this story BELLE GLADE, Florida (WPBF) — Neighborhoods are no longer being evacuated and schools are no longer on lockdown after Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded to a major chemical leak at an agricultural facility Wednesday morning in Belle Glade. It happened around 8 a.m. in
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The largest telecommunications deal in Canadian history will go forward after Rogers Communications Inc.’s $26-billion Canadian (US$19 billion) takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. received approval from Ottawa. The approval means the deal has cleared its final regulatory hurdle just over two years after it was first announced. Canada has among the
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A joint study by two federal government scientific agencies and the commercial fishing industry documents numerous impacts that offshore wind power projects have on fish and marine mammals. They include noise, vibration, electromagnetic fields and heat transfer that could alter the marine environment. The report
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Randall Robinson went from growing up in segregated Virginia to spending decades promoting equity for people of African descent from all over the world. The human rights advocate and lawyer led the fight to end the apartheid in South Africa, lobbied for humane policy for Haitian refugees and called for reparations
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills upgraded their secondary depth by signing free agent safety Taylor Rapp to a one-year contract on Friday. Listed at 6-feet and 208 pounds, Rapp has nine interceptions in 57 career games, including 48 starts, during four seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. He was selected by the
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says medical staff have confirmed that Pope Francis will be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, in written updates on Friday, described the pope’s recovery as “normal,” said that he ate a pizza
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The Morongo Band of Mission Indians has a new tribal ground ambulance and medical helicopter that will provide life-saving critical care and medical transport services on the Morongo Reservation in communities across the San Gorgonio Pass and beyond. Tribal and elected leaders gathered Friday to christen the new ambulance and helicopter. Tribals leaders said the partnership
Continue Reading By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment against former President Donald Trump involving a 2016 hush money payment is raising concerns that it could undermine public confidence in what democracy experts view as far more important investigations. Trump is facing multiple investigations related to his refusal to accept his 2020 loss to
Continue Reading By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s not going to talk about former President Donald Trump’s New York indictment. Biden was asked Friday if he had any reaction to the indictment, if he was concerned about possible protests and what he thinks the indictment means for the rule
Continue Reading By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A special military investigative team is on the scene of a deadly crash involving two Black Hawk helicopters that killed nine people in southwestern Kentucky. So far, bad weather conditions have slowed their early work. The team of about eight members from Fort Rucker, Alabama, arrived
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. The Journal and other news outlets
Continue ReadingBy Tyler Boronski Click here for updates on this story ESSEX, Vermont (WPTZ) — S.18, a bill related to prohibiting flavored tobacco and e-liquid products, including menthol, was passed by the Senate in Montpelier Thursday afternoon after its third reading. Bobby Desseau, the manager of Valley Vape in Essex Junction, said the bill would eliminate
Continue ReadingBy WTAE Staff Click here for updates on this story Allegheny County (WTAE) — More charges have been filed against a registered sex offender in Allegheny County. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 first covered James Wright for an incident at Kennywood more than five years ago. Now, he faces similar charges out of Virginia. In 2017,
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG, LISA BAUMANN and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Massive storms brewing over at least 15 states in the Midwest and southern U.S. on Friday have meteorologists urging people to brace for dangerous weather including tornadoes, saying the conditions are similar to those a week ago that unleashed a devastating
Continue ReadingBy DaVonté McKenith Click here for updates on this story Winston-Salem (WXII) — An 18-year-old accused of a shooting at Forsyth Tech Thursday morning appeared in court. Shannon Howard James Pitts, who’s a Winston-Salem Preparatory student, is charged with two counts of having a weapon of educational property. He’s also charged with having a concealed
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LAREDO, Texas (KTVT) — Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a man on March 30 who was previously convicted of rape in Houston. Agents said Magdaleno Campos-Escobar, 57, was trying to cross the Rio Grande in west Laredo when they caught him. Campos-Escobar was taken
Continue ReadingCésar López (CNN Español) — El mexicano Carlos Vaca, campeón panamericano de tiro con arco, murió a los 20 años, confirmó a CNN el Instituto de Deporte y la Recreación del Estado de Querétaro (Indereq) este viernes. Estrella en ascenso del tiro con arco, Vaca ganó múltiples medallas y era parte de la selección nacional
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