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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is falling for a third straight day Thursday as rising yields in the bond market keep cranking up the pressure. The S&P 500 was 0.8% lower in late trading, with August on track to be its worst month of the year by far.
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By Gail Paschall-Brown Click here for updates on this story SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — It’s been three months since a 2-year-old Seminole County boy drowned in a home day care pool. His family just found out no charges will be filed, but his grandmother is vowing to make sure her grandson is not forgotten,
Continue ReadingBy Aubry Killion Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Lawrence Hecker, a retired priest, is accused of being a serial child molester. Survivors are demanding answers and closure, while the bankrupt Archdiocese of New Orleans says they are cooperating with law enforcement. WDSU spoke with Archbishop Gregory Aymond Wednesday briefly
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Stevens, CNN (CNN) — Prominent restaurateur and Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer announced he will be closing two New York City restaurants located in a hotel which has been repurposed as a shelter for the city’s growing migrant population. The Redbury Hotel in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood began housing migrants earlier this month in
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By Nic F. Anderson and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — The body of a 9-year-old boy was found at the edge of a waterway after he was separated from his family at an Ikea store in Red Hook, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, police say. A law enforcement official confirmed to CNN that the boy had
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Franciotti Click here for updates on this story FINKSBURG, Maryland (WBAL) — The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office has received a donation from a local non-profit organization in memory of a Westminster High School Student who died last year. The Bee-a-Rae of Sunshine Foundation was started by Finksburg parents Rachael and Chris Cash in
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Middle school students in Mayade Ersoff’s Miami-Dade social studies class learn about the history of slavery in America through art. After lessons, students illustrate the harsh realities that enslaved people suffered: from being kidnapped and jammed onto slave vessels, to toiling in fields of cotton. “No one is
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Dramatic video footage of a shooting ambush last month in Fargo that left one police officer dead and two others and a bystander wounded was shown Thursday, highlighting the surprise nature of the attack while the police responded to a routine traffic crash. North Dakota Attorney
Continue ReadingPROVO, Utah (AP) — A Google Fiber subcontractor told KSL-TV that the man killed by FBI agents trying to arrest him for threatening to assassinate the president had waved a gun at workers five years ago as they worked near his home. Provo resident Craig Robertson was killed last week after officers arrived to arrest
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Magnetars are among the most bizarre and mysterious objects in the universe, packing in trillions of times more magnetic pull than the Earth or any magnet developed by humans. Scientists are still unsure exactly how these objects form. But a unique helium-rich star that lies 3,000 light-years away may
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have charged one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group with being involved with an “undesirable” organization, his lawyer says. The case against Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, is the latest in the monthslong crackdown on Kremlin critics and rights activists that the
Continue ReadingSOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — A former western Pennsylvania district attorney was sentenced to up to seven years in prison after a jury convicted him of attacking a woman in her home several years ago. Somerset County’s former district attorney Jeffrey Thomas was sentenced on Thursday after a Somerset County jury found him guilty earlier this
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Four researchers navigated treacherous terrain and feared for their lives during a harrowing brush with suspected drug traffickers in one of the most dangerous, scientifically unexplored areas in the world, according to the lead scientist and an account published by a nonprofit conservation organization. But the highlight of the
Continue ReadingBy AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Only two of a flock of 15 wild Canada geese that landed and became trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles in late July have survived after they were rescued and cleaned off. Los Angeles Animal Services extricated the birds from the pits
Continue ReadingBy AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Only two of a flock of 15 wild Canada geese that landed and became trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles in late July have survived after they were rescued and cleaned off. Los Angeles Animal Services extricated the birds from the pits
Continue ReadingEVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the school’s culture. The Associated Press obtained the letter Thursday. The athletes say allegations of abuse within the football program and other men’s and women’s teams do not reflect their experiences. They say they “strongly condemn hazing”
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD AND THALIA BEATY Associated Press After learning that 100 pounds of insulin was stuck, grounded last week at Kona International Airport on the big island, volunteers at Maui Brewing Company, Hawaii’s largest craft brewery, got to work. They spent several hours trying to link health officials with a general aviation pilot who
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD AND THALIA BEATY Associated Press After learning that 100 pounds of insulin was stuck, grounded last week at Kona International Airport on the big island, volunteers at Maui Brewing Company, Hawaii’s largest craft brewery, got to work. They spent several hours trying to link health officials with a general aviation pilot who
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On Monday, a sixteen year old boy was found dead in the Kohl’s parking lot off Highway 111. “We believed to be involved in that matter was found on scene detained and identified,” says Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Andy Martinez. “So, at the moment, we’re not looking for anyone. No one’s outstanding; everyone’s cooperating.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican investigators have found four burned and decapitated bodies that may be related to the horrifying case of five kidnapped youths, one of whom was filmed being forced to kill the others. Prosecutors in the western state of Jalisco said Thursday the bodies were badly burned and have not yet been
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