By KETV Staff Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — Omaha Central High School students worked together Thursday to break a Guinness World Record. More than 1,000 kids came out to the field to take part in what they hoped would be the world’s largest water balloon toss — more than
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the third time in a decade, federal wildlife officials are contemplating whether the bi-state sage grouse deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act. Conservationists blame “political gamesmanship” for leaving the bird in regulatory limbo since 2013. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it’s
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the third time in a decade, federal wildlife officials are contemplating whether the bi-state sage grouse deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act. Conservationists blame “political gamesmanship” for leaving the bird in regulatory limbo since 2013. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it’s
Continue ReadingBy Meridith Mulkey Click here for updates on this story Arkansas (KHBS) — Hundreds of young athletes, including a handful of Hogs, will be anxiously waiting to hear their names called in this year’s NFL draft. Draft day is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that creates treasured memories, and it’s this time of the year that those
Continue ReadingBy Ross Adams Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) — Candidate for Hinds County sheriff Marshand Crisler says he’s moving forward with his campaign, despite facing federal charges. Crisler, 54, is accused of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and providing ammunition to a convicted felon, according to federal officials. According
Continue ReadingBy KCCI Staff Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KCCI) — Students at a Nebraska high school worked together Thursday to break a Guinness World Record. More than 1,000 kids from Omaha Central High School came out to the field to take part in what they hoped would be the world’s largest
Continue Reading By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sounds of R&B, rock ’n roll, Zydeco, pop, blues, country, rap, gospel and, of course, jazz flowed throughout the Fair Grounds Race Course Friday as the 2023 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opens its two-weekend run. Music fans wandered among 14 stages or tents
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Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry’s retail shop in Burlington, Vermont, the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principles. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent who has been a vocal supporter of Starbucks
Continue Reading Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry’s retail shop in Burlington, Vermont, the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principles. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent who has been a vocal supporter of Starbucks
Continue Reading By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota state senators overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Narrow exceptions would be granted for rape and incest up to six weeks of pregnancy. It would be one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Supporters say the bill
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, dijo este viernes que espera que si el exdirector de Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya, se llega a convertir en un testigo colaborador de la Fiscalía General, pueda dar luz sobre las tramas de corrupción que presuntamente involucraron a la
Continue ReadingBy Meridith Mulkey Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KHBS) — Hundreds of young athletes, including a handful of Hogs, will be anxiously waiting to hear their names called in this year’s NFL draft. Draft day is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that creates treasured memories, and it’s this time of the year
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los legisladores de Florida aprobaron este viernes una medida que despeja el camino para que el gobernador republicano Ron DeSantis se postule a la elección presidencial de 2024 sin renunciar a su cargo actual. La decisión, que ya se anticipaba, modificaría la ley de Florida conocida como “renunciar para postularse”. Esta
Continue Reading JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Military investigators were making their way to Alaska’s interior on Friday, one day after a midair collision between two helicopters killed three soldiers and injured a fourth. The investigative team from Fort Novosel, Alabama, was expected to arrive at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, by Saturday,
Continue Reading By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It’s Day 2 of the NFL draft! Who will pick Will Levis? The standout Kentucky quarterback will be the biggest name on the board when the second round kicks off at 7 p.m. EST from Kansas City’s Union Station with the Pittsburgh Steelers on the clock.
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say three people have been killed and another wounded in a shooting in a Philadelphia residential neighborhood. It wasn’t immediately known what spurred the shooting, which was reported around 3:35 p.m. Friday, or how many shooters may have been involved. Responding officers found one victim on the front porch of a
Continue Reading By CÉSAR BARRETO y MARTÍN MEJÍA Associated Press TACNA, Peru (AP) — Stranded for five days under the scorching desert sun alongside a highway, Venezuelan Rosmary Morales looks on helplessly at a wall of police officers blocking her passage into Peru. The 45-year-old waits alongside hundreds of others that have set up a makeshift refugee
Continue ReadingCNN By Brenda Goodman, CNN Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from other parts of the country say they may be seeing a rise in cases, too. In 2022, the
Continue ReadingBy Zach Rael Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — A new law signed by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt will give more protections to restaurants looking to donate leftover food. Rep. Anthony Moore, the author of the bill that was signed into law, said restaurants have been hesitant in the past
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — A memorial honoring Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, will be unveiled Saturday outside the suburban Chicago high school she attended as a young woman, long before she became a critical player in the Civil Rights Movement. The unveiling at Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois includes a bronze statue
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