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By Alex Gaul Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Local snow plow crews worked to remove snow Sunday, in spite of extremely cold temperatures and wind chills that hit the St. Louis region this weekend. St. Louis received a light coating of snow Saturday evening, and many snow removal
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he’s finally been sworn into office. After months of efforts to derail his inauguration, old guard legislators delayed Bernardo Arévalo’s swearing-in by 10 hours on Sunday. The ceremony ended up taking place very early Monday.
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WALA) — High schoolers across North Carolina gathered in Asheville on Sunday, Jan. 14, for a robotics tournament. Students spent months building, coding, and testing their robots in preparation for this first qualifier at Asheville School. If their bots performed well enough
Continue ReadingBy Justin Berger Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WALA) — It’s been more than three weeks since two people were killed in a music studio on New Leicester Highway. There have been no arrests made. On Sunday, Jan. 14, Keshaunda Jones, the mother of 20-year-old Marck’ia “Minnie” Jones — one
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, officials said. The
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By Josh Campbell and Kat Jaeger, CNN (CNN) — The emergency police dispatch went out just before 10 p.m.: Gunfire reported at the Washington, DC, home of a prominent federal official. A male caller said he shot his girlfriend and threatened to kill himself, according to a source familiar with the incident last Sunday. With claims of a
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer College basketball has coaches who have won multiple championships, gone on long winning streaks, consistently had their teams in the AP Top 25. One rises above them all: UCLA’s John Wooden. “He had a sense of greatness that he he tried to share with us, tried to show us
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military that is based in the country’s western state of Rakhine says it has seized a township bordering India and Bangladesh. Paletwa is the first township reported to fall to the Arakan Army. The group launched surprise attacks beginning in
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — The tech sector has kicked off the new year with a spate of fresh job cuts that are coming at the same time as the industry is doubling down on investments into artificial intelligence. While AI tools putting workers out of jobs has been a major point of anxiety in Silicon Valley
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Farmers have clogged Berlin streets with their tractors, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel they use. It’s the climax of a week of protests that has tapped into wider discontent with Germany’s government. Columns of tractors rolled into
Continue Reading By Abeer Salmam, Kareem Khadder and Lucas Lilieholm and Heather Chen, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — An Al Jazeera journalist has died after being badly injured during an Israeli attack in southern Gaza and then forced to wait five hours for medical attention, the network told CNN on Friday. Camera operator Samer Abu Daqqa died of
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Twenty years after he became a viral sensation with his “American Idol” audition, William Hung is opening up about his gambling problem. Hung shot to fame after a “so bad is it good” performance of Ricky Martin’s hit “She Bang” in 2004 as he attempted to get on
Continue Reading By Brynn Gingras and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann is expected to be charged with a fourth killing in connection with the Gilgo Beach case, a source familiar with the investigation said Sunday. Heuermann is scheduled to be in court Tuesday, according to the Suffolk County district attorney. ABC and
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A missile struck a ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, officials said. Details remained scarce on the missile strike,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The party of former three-time Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has officially launched its general election campaign with a rally in Punjab province. The rally that Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party held in the city of Okara came a week after Pakistan’s Supreme Court scrapped a lifetime
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian truck drivers and farmers are protesting again across the country again as negotiations with the coalition government over lower taxes, higher subsidies and other demands failed to reach any agreements. Long convoys of trucks and tractors disrupted traffic on Monday on the outskirts of Bucharest and other cities throughout the
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An independent analysis shows that most of the newly ordered maps redrawing Wisconsin’s political boundaries for the state Legislature would keep Republicans in majority control, but their dominance would be reduced. Seven sets of new state Senate and Assembly maps were submitted on Friday. The Wisconsin
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. company’s lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after a failed moonshot. Astrobotic Technology says its lander is now headed back from the vicinity of the moon. Company officials expect the mission to end Thursday. They stress that the lander
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CNNEE (CNN Español) — El alcalde de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, decretó el estado de emergencia por las lluvias que durante el fin de semana han causado por lo menos 11 muertes y diversos daños materiales, informó la Agencia Brasil. La Secretaría de Estado de Defensa Civil y el cuerpo de
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