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PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s civil aviation authority says a Copa airline flight bound for Tampa, Florida, has returned to Panama City’s international airport following a bomb threat. The Boeing 737-800 landed Friday at Tocumen International Airport at around 11 a.m. local time and moved to an isolated stretch of the tarmac, where 144 passengers
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Armed robbers broke into the St. Louis Cardinals baseball complex in the Dominican Republic on Friday. A statement from the team said no one was injured, but the burglars stole money, cellphones, jewelry and baseball equipment in the early morning break-in. The team’s president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said staff
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and JIM SALTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A criminal complaint says the Minnesota man accused of shooting five law enforcement officers told his wife it was “his day to die” when he learned that drug task force officers were at his home. Karl Thomas Holmberg was charged Friday with six counts
Continue ReadingBy Raymond Strickland Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — They act as an extra pair of eyes and ears for police. They are Detroiters patrolling the streets in an effort to deter crime in their neighborhood. It’s called Citizens Radio Patrol, and it is a community initiative made up of
Continue ReadingMUMBAI, India (AP) — The IOC says Russian athletes can be directly invited to next year’s Paris Games despite the suspension of their country’s Olympic committee. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach commented on the issue a day after the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended for violating the territorial integrity of its Ukrainian counterpart by
Continue ReadingMUMBAI, India (AP) — Flag football and cricket were among five sports that took their next step toward inevitably being added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The other three sports are baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash. The International Olympic Committee executive board recommended all five sports that were formally requested Monday by organizers of the
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story WATCHUNG, New Jersey (WABC) — A gas station employee is under arrest after police say he used his phone to take or try to take inappropriate pictures of women hundreds of times. Police announced Thursday that Miguel Melchor-Gomez, who worked as a cashier, was arrested
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press National park officials are planning to gather and reduce the bison herd in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, rehoming the animals to a number of Native American tribes. The “bison capture” is scheduled to start Saturday and continue through the week in the park’s South Unit near Medora.
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — New York City Councilmember Inna Vernikov was charged with criminal possession of a firearm after showing up to Thursday’s Brooklyn College protest with a gun visible in her hip. The councilwoman, a Ukrainian-born lawyer who represents southern Brooklyn, surrendered to
Continue ReadingBy Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story October 10, 2023 (Houston Style Magazine) — In a heartwarming event today, Mayor Sylvester Turner took to the stage to magnify the monumental strides made by My Brother’s Keeper Houston (MBKH) during his stewardship spanning eight impactful years. The event was further illuminated by
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV) — A juvenile has been charged with attempted murder nearly a month after a shooting at a Wyandotte High School football game. The juvenile male was tracked by U.S. Marshals, with assistance from the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Police Department
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Karen Esquivel (CNN) — El multimillonario israelí Idan Ofer y su esposa Batia renunciaron a una junta ejecutiva de Harvard en protesta por la forma en que los líderes universitarios han respondido a los ataques terroristas de Hamás contra Israel. “Desafortunadamente, nuestra fe en el liderazgo de la universidad se ha roto y no podemos
Continue ReadingBy CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and ANNIE MA AP Education Writers For more than a month, Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, spent each school day sitting by himself in punishment over his hairstyle. This week, he was sent to a separate disciplinary program, where he’s been told he will spend several more weeks
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer United States domestic oil production has hit an all-time high last week, contrasting with efforts to slice heat-trapping carbon emissions by the Biden administration and world leaders. And it conflicts with oft-repeated Republican talking points of a Biden “war on American energy.” The U.S. Department of Energy reported that
Continue ReadingBy Adam Rife Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Questions continue to swirl around the investigation into the death of a 12-year-old Milwaukee boy whose decomposing body was found in a home earlier this week. Both Milwaukee Police and the Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating, but they conflict on whether it’s
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press ARRAS, France (AP) — A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded two other people Friday in northern France, authorities said. The attack
Continue ReadingBy Jason Lee Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A Milwaukee student has achieved a rare milestone in the world of chess. Hersh Singh, a senior at University School of Milwaukee, recently became a FIDE Master. FIDE is an acronym for Fédération Internationale des Échecs, a Swiss organization that acts as
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Florine Mark, a Michigan business icon and former owner of Weight Watchers franchises in Michigan and Ontario, Canada, has died. She was 90. Mark died Friday morning, says Kelly Woerner, a staff member with Ira Kaufman Chapel in the Detroit suburb of Southfield. Mark established the Michigan Weight Watchers franchise in 1966,
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m. ET
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m.
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