By Angela Williams Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) — Just days into Mississippi’s alligator season, a group of local hunters set a new state record. Tanner White, of Flora; Don Woods, of Oxford; Will Thomas, of Madison and Joey Clark, of Jackson, harvested a massive male alligator over the weekend
Continue ReadingBy Kingston Rivera Click here for updates on this story SEASIDE, California (KSBW) — A Seaside man has been arrested for involuntary manslaughter after one person died from an overdose in the Deer Flats neighborhood. On Sunday, Aug. 20, Monterey police responded to calls of an overdose death. Authorities investigated the circumstances around the death
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a hallowed gravesite. The expedition is being organized by RMS Titanic Inc., the
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, TOM MURPHY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden touted the potential cost savings of Medicare’s first-ever price negotiations for widely used prescription drugs on Tuesday as he struggles to convince Americans that he’s improved their lives as he runs for reelection. The drugs include the blood thinner
Continue ReadingBy Jake Flores Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY, California (KSBW) — Over the past few weeks, sea lions have returned from their breeding grounds in southern California. They are showing up to the Monterey Bay in mass numbers. Some of these sea lions are entangled with fishing lines wrapped around their neck.
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By Mike Holden Click here for updates on this story OLD BROOKLYN, Ohio (WEWS) — Residents and family members are demanding immediate action after a cemetery in Old Brooklyn has been left in what they’re calling “deplorable condition”. They say Brookmere Cemetery is in a state of disarray with broken graves and debris all over
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El alcalde de Miami, Francis Suarez, anunció este martes que no continuará con su campaña por la candidatura presidencial republicana de 2024. “Aunque decidí suspender mi campaña para presidente, mi compromiso de hacer de esta una nación mejor para cada estadounidense sigue en pie”, dijo Suarez en un comunicado. Vocera de
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The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will reopen Friday after being closed most of August for its annual maintenance. The tramway began its closure Aug. 7 and is set to reopen at 10 a.m. Friday, according to tramway public relations manager Madison Morgan. The tramway will also operate with holiday hours in observance of Labor
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Just call him nepo kitty. It took a while for Carrie Bradshaw to warm up to the idea of adopting an animal. Sarah Jessica Parker, not so much. In “And Just Like That…” Season 2, there is a new furry friend in Carrie’s life, a scrumptious kitten Che Diaz
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By Mike Carroll Click here for updates on this story AUBURN, California (KCRA) — The Foresthill Bridge in Placer County spans 2,428 feet across the North Fork of the American River. It’s the tallest bridge in California at 730 feet above the river and one of the tallest in the country. But the bridge, which
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Throughout the decades, Barbie has been a doctor, an astronaut, a UNICEF ambassador, a rapper, a matador, a Sea World trainer, and president of the United States, among many, many other jobs. And now she’s also a record-breaking movie star: The Barbie film is Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing movie ever,
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an order mandating that his office approve all secret diplomatic meetings in advance, as officials scrambled to contain the growing diplomatic firestorm over Israel’s disclosure that its top diplomat had met with his Libyan counterpart. The exposure of the first-ever
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI and European law enforcement agencies dismantled a massive network of hacked computers that had been used to defraud victims of hundreds of millions of dollars, agencies announced Tuesday. The Justice Department seized over $8 million in cryptocurrency from the hackers and removed their malicious code from an
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A massive wildfire was burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day Tuesday despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft from Greece and several of its European Union partners. After burning across vast tracts of land, the blaze in
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting his Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves, at the White House on Tuesday. They’re discussing strengthening an agreement between the two countries on possible legal pathways for increasing numbers of Central American migrants arriving to the U.S. southern border. Biden and Chaves
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced by Mayor Eric Adams. Adams said Tuesday that mosques no longer need a special permit to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, on Fridays and at
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday the names of the first 10 drugs subject to price negotiations in Medicare, including several popular blood thinners and diabetes medications. They are: Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica and Stelara, as well as Fiasp and certain other insulins made by Novo
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s moon rover has confirmed the presence of sulfur and detected several other elements on the surface near the lunar south pole a week after the country’s historic moon landing. The Indian Space Research Organization says the rover’s laser-induced spectroscope instrument also has detected aluminum, iron,
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On Monday, Riverside County provided an update on clean-up and repairs made to major county roadways in the Coachella Valley that have been closed in the wake of Tropical Storm Hilary, which caused major flood damage throughout valley communities. Some of the most extensive damage was experienced in more rural areas of the county, including
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