By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The last coal-fired power plant in New England is set to close in a victory for environmentalists. Granite Shore Power said Wednesday it reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to close the Merrimack Station in New Hampshire by June 2028. It had been the focus
Continue ReadingBy John Iz Click here for updates on this story PALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida (WPBF) — The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a burglary suspect who uses a cutting tool to open ATMs inside various businesses. The burglar has been breaking into businesses from Greenacres to as
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A central Iowa boy will get to live out his dream of visiting Hawaii thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Sylas was given five days to live when he was born, but now he’s five years old. He’s had multiple organ
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-ravaged enclave. The International Court of Justice issued
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — Search-and-rescue teams have been going through the water all day Tuesday to try and find missing road workers who were on the Key Bridge when it collapsed due to a ship strike. WBAL-TV 11 News Breana Ross was volunteering to help
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story OROVILLE, California (KCRA) — A student has died after an incident during training at Northwest Lineman College on Monday, according to the Oroville Police Department. Officers responded to the school after the student was injured in a fall from a pole. The student died from
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Looking for a bright side, “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” might be the most geeked-out entry in this modern Monsterverse, and there’s plenty of gigantic mayhem. Unfortunately, the human characters have never mattered less, other than trying, ineffectively, to explain the chaos that ensues, as multiplication equals
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Emergency services in Spain say that four people have died in three separate incidents on Spain’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines after falling into the sea. The deaths came amid warnings of strong winds and widespread rain across many parts of the European country. Spanish police said Thursday that an underage male of
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was a collection of tiny, tightly-coiled lead scrolls suggesting some sort of ritual or pilgrimage might have taken place there, according
Continue ReadingBy KENYA HUNTER AP Health Writer Ever since Anthony Bridges found out he had prostate cancer six years ago, he hasn’t stopped talking about it. He told his Facebook friends immediately. Now, the 68-year-old man from Georgia spends time working with others to encourage other men to talk to their doctor about getting screened. Not
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — YouTube dice que cientos de miles de creadores ahora están ganando un sueldo por publicar videos de formato corto en la plataforma, a medida que acelera su carrera para competir con rivales como TikTok e Instagram. No ha sido barato: la plataforma, propiedad de Google, está desembolsando decenas de
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Start handing out those groundhog-size cigars: Punxsutawney Phil is a father. The Pennsylvania group that handles the spring-predicting groundhog and his groundhog wife Phyliss says the couple became parents on Saturday. A member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club was bringing fruit and vegetables to Phil and Phyliss on Saturday when
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A teenager has been sentenced to four years for his role in a St. Paul killing that led to the fatal shooting of Amir Locke by a police officer. Locke’s killing focused scrutiny on the use of no-knock warrants. Eighteen-year-old Feysal Jama Ali, of Minneapolis, was sentenced Wednesday to being
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV and BARRY HATTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has scoffed at the possibility of his country launching an attack on a NATO member, calling it “sheer nonsense.” But he warned late Wednesday that any Western air base hosting U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets that are slated for deployment
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried co-founded the FTX crypto exchange in 2019 and quickly built it into the world’s second most popular place to trade digital currency. It collapsed almost as quickly — by the fall of 2022, it was bankrupt. Prosecutors soon charged Bankman-Fried with misappropriating billions of dollars in FTX customer deposits.
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison during a Holy Thursday ritual meant to emphasize his vocation of service and humility. The 87-year-old Francis performed the ritual from his wheelchair, after recent ailments have compounded his mobility problems. The
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes announced Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN (CNN) — The United States is on the brink of a retirement crisis. By the end of the decade, about 21% of the country’s population will be 65 or older, up from 15% in 2016, according to forecasts by the Census Bureau. Most non-retired adults have some type of retirement savings,
Continue Reading Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — Al menos una persona murió tras los incidentes violentos se registraron en el Centro de Rehabilitación Social No.4 conocido como la Cárcel Regional de Guayaquil, informó a CNN el Servicio de Atención a Personas Privadas de la Libertad de Ecuador (SNAI). El viceministro de Seguridad, Lyonel Calderón, en una entrevista a
Continue ReadingBy Rafy Rivera and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency due to a surging number of dengue cases. Puerto Rico Secretary of Heath Carlos Mellado said the health department has registered 549 cases of dengue so far this year, far exceeding historical numbers. “Our teams have been working on an integrated
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