By Joshua Skinner Click here for updates on this story SUWANEE, Georgia (WANF) — In many ways, Wednesday’s softball game at Chandler Field was a battle between softball rivals Mill Creek and North Gwinnett. But this game was most notable for what happened before it. Before the first pitch, Level Creek Elementary School principal Daniel
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI, LISA MASCARO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans launched their first formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden saying they intend to “provide accountability” as they make their case to the public, their colleagues and skeptics in the Senate. The chairmen of the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways
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By Amanda Rose Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — It’s a miraculous milestone. Roger Antonucci is 102-years-old. “Disbelief. Disbelief that he’s still well and still here,” said Lisa Messina, Antonucci’s daughter. Antonucci’s two daughters, Lisa and Melanie Thompson, organized their dad’s 102nd birthday celebration on Wednesday at The Oaks at
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A student was suspended from classes Thursday after allegedly making threats against Yucca Valley High School, according to a statement from the Morongo Unified School District. Administrators at the school notified the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday after being made aware of a student who’d reportedly made threats against the campus and other students, according
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging near its lowest level since June as stocks drift in midday trading on Thursday. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher after flipping between small gains and losses a few times. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 75 points, or 0.3%,
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments are struggling to overcome obstacles to put a new asylum system in place three years after unveiling a plan to reform the bloc’s outdated asylum rules. Some fear the plan may never see the light of day. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal spy agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday. The recommendation came in a report from a three-member Democratic majority of the Privacy
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters said Thursday the storm had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was centered almost 1,200 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands. No coastal watches or warnings are in effect for the system, and there were
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed former Ukrainian soccer great Andriy Shevchenko as a special adviser and British actor Mark Strong as an ambassador to the charity the Ukrainian president set up to raise money for Ukraine. It was not clear what Shevchenko’s duties as adviser to
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press ALPINE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America’s wine, but the region is also prone to wildfires — a combustible combination that spelled disaster for the industry in 2020 and one that scientists are scrambling to neutralize. Sample a good wine and you might get
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press ALPINE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America’s wine, but the region is also prone to wildfires — a combustible combination that spelled disaster for the industry in 2020 and one that scientists are scrambling to neutralize. Sample a good wine and you might get
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake, a Donald Trump ally who has refused to acknowledge her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor, will soon launch her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by independent Kyrsten Sinema, a senior adviser said Thursday. Lake’s entrance
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on a former Sudanese government minister and two companies tied to the paramilitary force that’s locked in fighting with the Sudanese army. The sanctions imposed by the U.S Department of the Treasury will block all property in the U.S. and entities
Continue ReadingBy ERIC GAY, MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago was whisked to a Texas Army base Thursday for medical checks and interviews after his return to the U.S.,
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions. “There is an extremist movement that does not share
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The Commerce Department’s final revision of second-quarter gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, showed that economic growth was unchanged from the second estimate, holding at an annualized rate of 2.1%. However, consumer spending, America’s economic engine, was revised much lower, to a 0.8% annualized
Continue ReadingLARGO, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at a Florida auto shop that killed two men was triggered by a former customer’s dissatisfaction with work done on his car two years ago, police said Thursday. The Largo Police Department said Eugene Frank Becker, 78, arrived at Stout’s Automotive in a rental car Wednesday and sought out
Continue ReadingWGGB, WSHM-LD, OBTAINED BY WGGB, CNN By Matt Price and Ryan Trowbridge Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WGGB) — A jury heard the closing arguments in the Cara Rintala murder trial Wednesday morning. It’s a case that has attracted national attention with this being the fourth attempt to get a conviction.
Continue ReadingBy Matt Price and Ryan Trowbridge Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WGGB) — A jury heard the closing arguments in the Cara Rintala murder trial Wednesday morning. It’s a case that has attracted national attention with this being the fourth attempt to get a conviction. “You are about to hear closing
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Slovakia is getting ready to elect its fifth prime minister in just four years, and with Kremlin sympathizer Robert Fico’s opposition party leading the polls, it is one being watched with alarm in the West. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, Slovakia has been one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies.
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