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By Adam Harrington Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A U.S. Postal worker was arrested last week charges of driving drunk and trying to bribe the police officers who pulled him over in the Portage Park neighborhood. On Tuesday evening last week, two officers were on patrol in a squad car
Continue ReadingBy Megan Shinn Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 42 million Americans have disabilities. So it’s difficult for them and their families to get around day to day. That’s why it’s a new year full of possibilities for 25 children and their families.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Last weekend’s four NFL divisional round playoff games averaged 40.0 million viewers on television and digital platforms, the highest on record dating back to 1988. The viewer average is a 7% increase over last year and a 5% jump from two years ago. Sunday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Last weekend’s four NFL divisional round playoff games averaged 40.0 million viewers on television and digital platforms, the highest on record dating back to 1988. The viewer average is a 7% increase over last year and a 5% jump from two years ago. Sunday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A United Nations envoy said he was “alarmed,” “distressed” and “seriously concerned” by the treatment of climate activists in the United Kingdom, in a damning report published Tuesday that criticized “increasingly severe crackdowns” on peaceful protesters in the country. Michel Forst, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, who
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Guay Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — When cancer threatened to silence a local musician, the surgery to save his life could also have ended his career. So two UPMC doctors worked to re-imagine his surgery to make sure he wouldn’t have to hang up his guitar. For musician
Continue ReadingBy Marcella Baietto Click here for updates on this story ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Kids have a lot of stress these days. A school district in the Lehigh Valley asked how it could help, and students requested resources they could use on their phones. Mental health resources in different languages are now just a few
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Osgood, who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his home in New Jersey
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lily Gladstone’s high school classmates knew she was destined for moviemaking greatness. The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor – who earned a milestone lead actress Oscar nomination for her performance in the Martin Scorsese epic on Tuesday – posted a photo to her Instagram page in 2017 of
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has denied a requested temporary block on a part of the state’s revised abortion laws so that doctors can perform the procedures to save a patient’s life or health. They argue a provision that allows the procedure in life-saving or “serious health
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — More than 400 staffers at Condé Nast, the parent company of prestigious publications including Vanity Fair, Vogue and GQ, walked off the job Tuesday in a historic 24-hour work stoppage over the company’s plan to lay off staff. The daylong walkout, intentionally timed on the day of the Academy Awards nominations,
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, declined to rehear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prohibited from talking about witnesses and court staff while he awaits trial in the special counsel’s January 6 criminal case. Trump has unsuccessfully tried to
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“The biggest maturity I’ve seen in Audrey is a leadership role,” La Quinta Girls’ basketball coach Electra Viveros said. When she came into the program, she was on varsity off the bat, but she was more of a role player, and she had others around her who were shining at the time, and now she
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Un voraz incendio movilizó a los bomberos ayer a las 7:30 de la mañana en el estacionamiento del gimnasio 24 Hour Fitness ubicado cerca de la calle Jackson y el freeway 10 en Indio donde el fuego destruyó un camión de basura y dos carros. El incendio fue sofocado en una hora. La investigación continúa
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By ALBERT AJI and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned recent presumed Jordanian airstrikes against suspected drug traffickers on Syrian territory, including one last week that killed women and children. In response, Jordan has accused the Syrians of failing to take action to halt smuggling across the border. The
Continue ReadingBy Lee Anne Denyer Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A Sacramento church is taking a unique approach in its response to someone stealing a pride banner that had been hanging on its front lawn: They put up a new one, asking “Zach” if he wanted to talk. “We have,
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