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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are preparing to release findings from taxpayer-financed studies on possible links between the natural gas industry and pediatric cancer, asthma and poor birth outcomes. The four-year, $2.5 million project is wrapping up on Tuesday. It comes after other studies are finding
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Robinson Click here for updates on this story DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (WESH) — ABOVE: A look at today’s top headlines A Daytona Beach woman is accused of killing her roommate. According to court documents, 35-year-old Nichole Maks is charged with first-degree premeditated murder. According to an affidavit, an officer was flagged down on
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The new indictment alleging a conspiracy by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia includes charges against several people accused of illegally accessing voting equipment in one rural county. The security breach inside the election
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A statue that depicts a felled Native American pulling an arrow from his torso is being returned to the Boston-area organization cofounded by Paul Revere that thought it had been destroyed decades ago. “Wounded Indian” sculpted in 1850 was a gift to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii officials worked painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui and expected to release the first names Tuesday, even as teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods reduced to ash. A week
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Miller Click here for updates on this story SUFFOLK, Virginia (WTKR) — A driver was rescued after veering off the road at the mouth of the Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel Tuesday morning, according to Virginia State Police. Police say around 6 a.m., a trooper saw the vehicle overturned in the water. Around the same
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden continued Tuesday as prosecutors asserted that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation. While the agreement
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Valley organizations and businesses are organizing fundraisers to help those in need in Maui. The Four Horsemen, a mobile bar based in Palm Springs is hosting a community Luau with Hawaiian inspired sounds and food. While the Palm Desert Rotary Club is also working to provide help through their disaster relief fund, and by adding
Continue ReadingBETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was part of an unrealized plan to set off a bomb at a Pennsylvania music festival has been charged with involvement in the detonation of at least four other explosive devices. Federal and local agents searched the Bethlehem home of 53-year-old Robert Bowen Jr. this month.
Continue ReadingBy Emily Luxen Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — As the death toll in Hawaii continues to grow after the devastating wildfires ripped through Maui, help is pouring in from across the country and from Middle Tennessee. A five-member team from the Nashville-based nonprofit Aerial Recovery arrived in Hawaii on
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER, BERNARD CONDON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Awakened by howling winds that tore through his Maui neighborhood, Shane Treu went out at dawn and saw a wooden power pole suddenly snap with a flash, its sparking, popping line falling to the dry grass below and quickly igniting a row of flames. He
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Sherrod Click here for updates on this story WEST MICHIGAN (WXMI) — Heartbreak across Hawaii after wildfires left behind a trail of devastation in the historic district of Lahaina. More than 2,700 structures were destroyed and more than 90 people were killed. That number is expected to rise with more than 1,000 people
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CNN By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — In his 2011 memoir, Michael Oher wrote that he had a special skill for forgetting his difficult past. “To get out of that world, I did have to forget,” he wrote in “I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond.” “To get to the
Continue ReadingPEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. A judge went slightly above the sentencing guidelines but below the possible maximum prison term of 20 years. Tyler Massengill admits using a homemade explosive to set a fire
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Power is back in most of Brazil after a major blackout had left much of the north and northeast regions without any electricity for nearly six hours. The country’s energy ministry says that energy providers still have to make some adjustments in some cities. The outage occurred at 8:30 a.m.
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his full support for the military following recent rhetorical attacks on senior security officials by his far-right political allies and divisive son. Thousands of military pilots and soldiers have vowed not to turn up for reserve duty in protest of Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Slugger Jon Singleton is back in the majors for the first time since 2015 after his career was derailed by several failed tests for marijuana. His final failed test was in 2018, one year before Major League Baseball removed marijuana from its banned substances list. He
Continue ReadingPLYMOUTH, England (AP) — A schooner has set sail from Britain to retrace the voyage taken nearly 200 years ago by a young Charles Darwin that led to his theory of evolution. The Dutch ship Oosterschelde left Plymouth on Tuesday morning as a crowd cheered. The mission aims to inspire a new generation of naturalists
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Madonna is feeling good. The singer has rescheduled the “Celebration Tour” dates she postponed following a health scare at her home in New York in June. The queen of pop was hospitalized in the ICU due to a bacterial infection and was later discharged to continue recovering at home.
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he will travel to Maui soon to visit the devastation left behind by wildfires that ravaged the Hawaiian island last week, leaving scores dead and untold damage. In his first comments on the disaster since late last week, Biden said
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