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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (WTVD) — Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man who escaped custody Thursday night. Daiqone Michael Hoffman, 30, of Wade was taken into custody Wednesday for outstanding warrants for larceny of a motor vehicle, possession of stolen motor vehicle, and
Continue ReadingBy Peyton Spellacy Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using facial recognition technology that pulls images from social media, raising privacy concerns. Target 7 investigated how local police departments may already be using your photos – potentially without your knowledge. If you’ve ever posted
Continue ReadingAssociated Press North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor is at the center of a national news story. That’s because of the salacious nature of a series of posts by Mark Robinson, unearthed by CNN, from a pornography web site’s discussion board. The posts by the socially conservative candidate have not been independently confirmed by The
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Boeing has started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees as a week-old labor strike by 33,000 union machinists shows no signs of ending. Federal mediators joined talks between Boeing and the union this week. Company and union officials reported that little progress was made during the two sessions. Boeing’s CEO said Friday that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Elected commissioners of a Georgia county are asking a judge to cancel a special election that challenges zoning changes to a Black community of slave descendants. An attorney for coastal McIntosh County told a judge at a hearing Tuesday that the Oct. 1 referendum is illegal and the county
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert says that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals remains underfunded and understaffed. William O’Neill said on Friday that Haiti’s National Police still lack the “logistical and technical capacity” to fight gangs, which he said are encroaching on new
Continue ReadingBy Faith Egbuonu Click here for updates on this story BERNALILLO COUNTY, New Mexico (KOAT) — Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center probationary officer Chevonne Culbreath is currently in custody after being accused of an “inappropriate and illegal” relationship with an MDC inmate. According to MDC officials, they were made aware of the alleged relationship on
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign declined to say Thursday whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, meanwhile, highlighted Trump’s history of praise for Robinson, in the wake of a CNN report Thursday about
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is known for providing clear signals about the central bank’s next interest rate move in order to avoid roiling markets. But Wall Street was mostly clueless this week when it came to predicting how big a rate cut the Fed would deliver on Wednesday. What made this time different?
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — When absentee ballots first landed on doorsteps in Michigan last month, so did Paul Hudson, a Grand Rapids lawyer and a Republican running to represent the area in Congress. Armed with an app that told him where likely voters lived and which houses might be
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — As Italian prime minister, Alcide De Gasperi oversaw the post-World War II return to Greece of Rhodes and the other Dodecanese islands. A grateful Greek government presented him with an ancient vase. Now, De Gasperi’s grandson has voluntarily returned the 2,500-year-old artifact to Greece, whose culture minister has praised what she
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Rose King, has highlighted the challenges Pacific Island nations face with foreign military training in an interview with The Associated Press. She explained Friday that larger nations often provide support that isn’t always helpful. New Zealand has built trust through soft power
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Foreback Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The FBI is warning about a potentially devastating cryptocurrency scam called “pig butchering,” which could wipe out someone’s life savings. “Pig butchering” refers to a victim being fattened up for slaughter, according to the FBI. FBI data shows that 482 Maryland
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin are asking the state’s liberal-controlled Supreme Court to decide whether independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name should stay on the presidential ballot without waiting for an appellate ruling. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump. He’s been trying to get his name
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that allocates hundreds of millions of dollars to expanded private school vouchers and immigration enforcement. The Republican plan that Cooper rejected Friday also orders sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigrant agents searching jails for people who may be in
Continue ReadingBy Aziza Shuler Click here for updates on this story CHESTER, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — This fall, Widener University in Chester, Delaware County, is debuting a course focusing on all things Beyoncé. Dr. Richard Cooper’s freshman seminar at Widener has a class size of about 10 students, all girls who are “Crazy in Love” with Beyoncé,
Continue ReadingBy Riane Lumer, CNN Southampton, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Walking into my grandmother’s house, I watch her hands move in a fast-weaving motion as stitches extend from her knitting needles. Beside her are layered stacks of knit blankets, scarves and ponchos stitched with carefully selected color schemes and patterns made of wool yarn. She donates these
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Following a deadly attack in Mali’s capital by al-Qaida linked militants, authorities there have temporarily closed livestock markets that typically are run by an ethnic group that authorities associate with the militants. The al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM claimed responsibility for the attacks Tuesday on a military training camp and
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff and John Paul Click here for updates on this story ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Police say the suspect wanted for brutally attacking a woman inside an Abington Twp., Pennsylvania laundromat is now in custody. However, his name remains unknown. Police told Action News on Friday morning the man is being “uncooperative”
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Ballesteros Click here for updates on this story ABINGTON, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A suspect is in custody after a woman was brutally attacked inside a laundromat on Wednesday morning. The incident happened around 7 a.m. in the Roslyn section of Abington Township. According to police, the woman was folding clothes when the man,
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