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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American art dealer who co-owned a prominent Manhattan gallery has been found dead in a Rio de Janeiro apartment. Homicide investigators for the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State are looking into the death of 75-year-old Brent Sikkema, who co-owned the contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Continue ReadingBy Julia Falcon Click here for updates on this story SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KTVT) — If you’re looking for some unique ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the San Antonio Zoo has you covered. They’re celebrating the return of their Cry Me a Cockroach fundraiser, where you can symbolically name a roach after your ex that
Continue ReadingBy Marc Liverman Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — An Asheville eighth-grader hopes some of the help she’s given to her community emboldens others to do the same. “I’m really happy that I helped people. I just like giving to my community,” Juniper Finneron, an eighth-grade student at Francine
Continue ReadingBy Tara Molina, Adam Harrington Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — We’ve been hearing about frost quakes across Chicago Monday – a loud bang, a jolt, shaking ground, something that seems like a mini-earthquake. We’ve experienced subzero temperatures plenty of times before in Chicago – and the recent weather phenomena
Continue ReadingBy Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Frank Fenimore, CNN Boones Mill, Virginia (CNN) — Walk into Trump Town USA in Boones Mill, Virginia, and you may marvel at the breadth of human creativity, as long as you’re not distracted by how the merchandise tackles some of the most controversial political issues in the most vulgar
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is a cultural phenomenon. His dominance in the Iowa caucuses over well-funded and high-profile competitors this week proved it. For his legion of passionate supporters, he is more than a politician. He is like a sports team or a rock band that helps
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Winter weather is continuing to disrupt air travel on Tuesday. More than 1,700 flights are already canceled and 3,700 delayed, according to the tracking site FlightAware. United Airlines and Southwest Airlines have each canceled more than 300 flights, the site said. The storm has impacted airports across much of
Continue ReadingBy Darius Johnson Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — A man who has dedicated his life to helping young people through sports has now found himself victim to several young people – after they robbed him of his car. The coach said he is now looking over his shoulder after
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in the Bahamas say a 10-year-old boy from Maryland was attacked by a shark at a local resort. Authorities said in a statement that the unidentified boy was hospitalized Monday after a shark attacked his right leg while he participated in what authorities said was a “shark tank”
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CNN By Brynn Gingras, Mark Morales and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann has now been charged with murder in the deaths of all four women who became known as the “Gilgo Four” after their remains were discovered by investigators on Long Island in 2010. Heuermann is charged with second-degree murder in
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Arizona hired San Jose State’s Brent Brennan to be the Wildcats’ next head coach on Tuesday, replacing Jedd Fisch about 48 hours after he left for Washington. Brennan, 50, agreed to a five-year contract with Arizona, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told The Associated
Continue ReadingBy Tony Aiello Click here for updates on this story BEDFORD, New York (WCBS) — A business owner from New Jersey is accused of making an explosive device and leaving it at a home in Westchester County. A gas can rigged to explode with firework tubing was found Thursday morning on a driveway in Bedford,
Continue ReadingBy Elijah Westbrook Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Snow blanketed New York City late Monday night, leaving behind icy streets and sidewalks for the morning commute. By 7 a.m. Tuesday, Central Park recorded 1 inch of accumulation on the ground — finally breaking the streak that lasted
Continue ReadingBy Shanila Kabir Click here for updates on this story KANEOHE, Hawaii (KITV) — Gov. Josh Green’s administration continues to address one of his top priorities- fighting homelessness in Hawaii. The governor is working on opening a tiny home village soon in Windward Oahu. “Windward Kauhale” will take up to 34 people as residents. This
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lawyer for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that Russian authorities have charged her with participating in an extremist group. The same charges were brought against three other lawyers who represented Navalny and were jailed in October in a move his allies had decried as
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began in a New York courtroom Tuesday after a judge denied Donald Trump’s request that a defamation trial stemming from a columnist’s claims that he sexually abused her in the 1990s be suspended on Thursday so he could attend the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member
Continue ReadingBy Tania Francois Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — The 5000 Role Models of Excellence held their 31st annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast on Monday. Held annually on Dr. Martin Luther King Day, the Role Models of Excellence breakfast honors the partnership between the men in the
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo as part of a settlement with the London-based spirits giant. Combs and Diageo “have now agreed to resolve all disputes between them,” the two parties said in a statement released Tuesday. Diageo is now the sole owner
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — El Gobierno de Joe Biden dijo a la Corte Suprema el lunes por la noche que Texas hizo “imposible” que los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza pudieran brindar ayuda a tres inmigrantes mexicanos que se ahogaron en el río Grande la semana pasada. En una nueva presentación ante el tribunal superior,
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