By WTVD staff Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) — Durham will give a settlement check to Darryl Howard after a federal jury awarded him $6 million more than two years ago for wrongful conviction According to our newsgathering partners at the News and Observer, the city agreed to pay
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being assaulted in prison, authorities said Friday. He was 74. The Correctional Service of Canada said in statement
Continue ReadingBy Stef Manchen Click here for updates on this story CLAREMORE, Oklahoma (KJRH) — As if picking up the pieces of their lives scattered around their yards wasn’t enough, the people of Claremore now have to be on guard against people trying to take advantage. Charles Jennings said it seems like his neighborhood, home to
Continue ReadingBy DEBORAH BRENNAN/CalMatters CalMatters FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — The war over abortion is raging in statehouses around the country, but in California, a bastion of reproductive rights, the fight has shifted to local battlegrounds. In the Inland Empire region, Planned Parenthood is suing the city of Fontana, alleging its officials are illegally blocking its plans
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have started proceedings in a trial in absentia of 20 prominent political analysts who work with the world’s biggest universities and think tanks, the latest step in the years-long crackdown on dissent in the country. The scientists, all of whom have left Belarus and
Continue ReadingBy Braden Bates Click here for updates on this story PRYOR, Oklahoma (KJRH) — One library is trying to reunite photos thrown from the tornado that touched down in Claremore and Pryor. The Thomas J. Harrison Pryor Public Library aims to find the owners of photographs around the towns. “We’ll keep them as long as
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By Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — An American Airlines flight bound for Boston was forced to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday morning to avoid another plane that was landing. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board said it’s investigating what happened. It’s the second such incident at the
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Pop singer, dancer and entertainer Jennifer Lopez has canceled her upcoming summer tour, which included a stop at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert on July 19. The cancellation was announced via Lopez’s newsletter, stating she is “heartsick and devastated” to disappoint fans. This decision came after Lopez canceled several shows last March in different locations,
Continue ReadingBy WABC staff Click here for updates on this story ROCKY POINT, Long Island (WABC) — A Suffolk County police officer rescued three dogs trapped in a home that caught fire on Sunday evening. It happened at a home on Magnolia Drive in Rocky Point just after 5 p.m. Officer Matthew Ingui said he arrived
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended mostly higher on Wall Street, closing out the market’s latest winning month. The S&P 500 shook off a midday slump and ended 0.8% higher Friday. Drops for Nvidia and other technology stocks held back the Nasdaq composite, leaving that index just barely in
Continue ReadingBy WABC staff Click here for updates on this story PASSAIC COUNTY, New Jersey (WABC) — Someone had to be cutting onions after the emotional reunion between an army sergeant and his daughter Thursday in Passaic County. New Jersey Army National Guard 1st Sergeant Luis Vega surprised his daughter Valentina Vega during Passaic County Technical-Vocational
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Lopez has canceled her 2024 North American tour, representatives for Live Nation confirmed to The Associated Press. “Jennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends,” they said in a statement. The tour was to be her first in
Continue ReadingBy WABC staff Click here for updates on this story EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn, New York (WABC) — A driver ditched his Lamborghini SUV after striking nine parked cars in East New York early Friday morning. The vehicles were struck on Fulton Street just after 1:40 a.m. No one was in any of the cars
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The hush money case that culminated in a conviction of Donald Trump this week was the first of four criminal prosecutions brought against the former president — and likely the only one to reach trial before the November elections. Where there was once speculation among political pundits
Continue ReadingBy Michael Chen Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — For the first time since a swimming accident left him paralyzed more than year ago, a San Diego State graduate and longtime surfer was back on a board. On Wednesday morning, near the Oceanside Pier, cellphone video shows a nervous Collin
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol. The visit would provide a show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Gaza. The invitation from
Continue ReadingBy Jermaine Ong Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — An incident on an Escondido two-lane road in which a driver pulled off a dangerous maneuver was caught on another driver’s dashcam. A driver shared their dashcam video of the incident, which occurred on May 25 on a stretch of San
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization have announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that would allow athletes to play immediately no matter how many times they transfer. Under the agreement, a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in West
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El Instituto Nacional Electoral de México (INE) anunció este viernes que fue definida la selección de la muestra mediante la cual se realizará el conteo rápido de los resultados de las elecciones generales del próximo 2 de junio, lo que permitirá conocer poco después del cierre de las urnas las
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Dozens were arrested, the university said. Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and video
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