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By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City. Crews on Tuesday continued to
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Tuesday that she won’t run for a second term after her estrangement from the Democratic Party left her politically homeless and without a clear path to reelection. Sinema’s announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The US government’s free at-home Covid-19 test program will be suspended Friday, according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. Since November, residential households in the US have been able to submit an order through Covidtests.gov for four individual rapid antigen tests. All orders placed on or before
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education imposed a record $14 million fine on Liberty University, a Christian college located in Virginia, over violations of a campus safety law, officials said Tuesday. The Department of Education said it was the largest fine ever imposed for violating the Clery Act, which requires colleges
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The married LGBTQ leaders arrested during a traffic stop in Philadelphia were driving separately to take a car for repairs when the lead car was pulled over. The couple’s lawyer said Tuesday that a trooper had been driving in front of mayoral aide Celena Morrison before maneuvering
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By Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Gov. Ron DeSantis is dispatching 140 state troopers throughout Florida, including Miami Beach, in an effort to curb outbreaks of spring break violence. The move comes after two deadly shootings in Miami Beach during spring break last year led to a state of emergency and a midnight curfew in
Continue ReadingBy Jon Passantino and Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Rupert Murdoch is pulling the plug on the television broadcast of his right-wing UK outlet TalkTV, a blow to the media mogul who launched the opinion-focused venture just two years ago with an aim of replicating the success of Fox News in the UK. In
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Fue la camisa que se robó los corazones de una generación y ahora está disponible para comprarla. Se espera que la legendaria camisa blanca con botones que cimentó la reputación de Colin Firth como un rompecorazones en la pantalla en “Pride and Prejudice” alcance miles de dólares en una subasta. Firth
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit that sought to hold Apple, Google, Tesla and other major tech companies liable for their alleged use of child labor to mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals said in a unanimous
Continue ReadingBy WANF Staff Click here for updates on this story VILLA RICA, Georgia (WANF) — A counselor at a high school in Carroll County is facing several charges in connection to an inappropriate relationship with a student and other improper contact with students, according to the Villa Rica Police Department. Alonzo Wyatt, 30, was charged
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY, TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages failed to achieve a breakthrough on Tuesday, Egyptian officials said, less than a week before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce is retiring from the NFL, the 36-year-old announced at an emotional news conference Monday. Likely a future Pro Football Hall of Famer, Kelce is a seven-time Pro Bowler and six-time All-Pro selection. He spent his entire 13-season NFL career with the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Associated Press national player of the week in women’s basketball for Week 17 of the season: CAMERON BRINK, STANFORD The 6-foot-4 forward averaged 21.5 points, 20.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists to help Stanford sweep then-No. 11 Oregon State and Oregon on the road to wrap up the school’s 27th Pac-12
Continue ReadingBy Joe McLean Click here for updates on this story JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (KMOV) — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced the timeline on which the next round of cannabis microbusiness licenses will be issued. The department said it will accept applications from April 15 through April 29 and that licenses are
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal agency is examining soil beneath homes in a small suburban St. Louis subdivision to determine if residents are living atop Cold War era nuclear contamination. But activists say the testing needs to be far more widespread. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking
Continue ReadingBy Cynthia Yip Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa offers a Mini-Medical School on Healthy Aging that is now in its eleventh year. Island News talks with a student who has been coming to the Mini
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took the witness stand in his defense at his New York trial on Tuesday, denying that he teamed up with drug dealers to protect them in return for millions of dollars in bribes. His testimony in Manhattan
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN en Español)– El director general de la cadena pública alemana de noticias Deutsche Welle, Peter Limbourg, pidió este martes al gobierno de Venezuela que permita la reanudación de su señal de TV en el país después de que el presidente Nicolás Maduro anunciara la interrupción y la calificara de “emisora nazi”. Ahora
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Ukrainian sea drones have reportedly sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea, the latest in a series of strikes that has crippled Moscow’s naval capability and limited its operations with the war now in its third year. Successful Ukrainian drone and missile strikes have provided a major morale boost for
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press Liberty University has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million fine for the Christian school’s failure to disclose information about crimes on its campus and for its treatment of sexual assault survivors, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The fine is by far the largest ever levied under the
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