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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say three people who tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease have died after an outbreak at an assisted living facility in upstate New York. Albany County health officials became aware of a cluster of cases at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany on Friday. County officials say 10 people tested
Continue ReadingBy Todd Feurer Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A man has been charged with placing a camera in the window of a bathroom to record multiple people in southwest suburban Lemont. Police said, on July 31, they received a report that several people in the same household were recorded while
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate fell to under
Continue ReadingOAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee has announced that a France-based company specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy has selected a site in eastern Tennessee. Orano USA will build a multi-billion dollar centrifuge uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The plans for the 750,000-square-foot center were unveiled Wednesday. State officials did
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Sofía Barruti (CNN) — La represión de la disidencia política en Venezuela con motivo de las controvertidas elecciones presidenciales es la más mortífera de los últimos años, según un nuevo análisis de Human Rights Watch. El grupo de derechos humanos dice que ha documentado 11 asesinatos que, según afirma, tuvieron lugar en el contexto de
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By Ivana Kottasová, Madalena Araujo and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the Kursk region before Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday. In his first television interview as army chief in February, the general
Continue Reading CNN By CNN staff (CNN) — On Thursday 5 September, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke with General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, in his first television interview in that role. It was conducted near the frontlines, at an undisclosed location for security reasons. What follows is a transcript of their full interview, lightly edited
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Teens in the United States are far less likely to use e-cigarettes than they were a few years ago, but experts warn that any tobacco use among youth is unsafe — and now, the rise of nicotine pouches is a growing concern. At the peak in 2019, more than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A woman who was severely injured when a gunman killed five girls and wounded her and four other girls during an attack on their one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania has died 18 years later. A funeral director said Thursday that 23-year-old Rosanna King died at her home this week.
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Britain’s competition watchdog is investigating Ticketmaster over concerns the company treated customers unfairly when selling tickets to the upcoming Oasis reunion tour. The probe presents a fresh headache for Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation, which also faces an antitrust lawsuit in the United States that could force a
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is vowing to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January. Machado was speaking to reporters online Thursday from an undisclosed location in Venezuela. She also urged the international community to rise to the occasion by immediately start recognizing her faction’s
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift returned to Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs open the NFL season against the Baltimore Ravens. Swift arrived about 90 minutes prior to the AFC title game
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story TRACY, California (KCRA) — A Tracy teenager now faces attempted murder charges in the shooting of San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced the charges against the juvenile suspect in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Jenkins said the
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The rollout of updated Covid-19 vaccines has begun in the United States, but for the first time, the shots will no longer be free of charge for people without insurance at their local pharmacy. Earlier in the pandemic, vaccines were purchased by the federal government and free for everyone.
Continue ReadingBy Dacia Johnson Click here for updates on this story PENSACOLA, Florida (WESH) — The lawyer of a woman whose husband died at a Florida hospital says the surgeon removed the wrong organ. The couple was visiting their rental property in Okaloosa County when William Bryan, 70, began experiencing left-sided flank pain. They went to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. Indictments announced Thursday allege that Dimitri Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car
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September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. According to DAP Health, there are over 12,000 people in Riverside County living with HIV. While living with HIV has become a manageable condition, it doesn’t mean the epidemic is over. While there are tools to end transmission, people are becoming HIV positive daily. And STI treatment and testing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A white Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car. John Sullivan was sentenced Wednesday in federal court after pleading guilty in April to a federal hate crime. Sullivan is
Continue ReadingBy Alexis Mathews Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — On Thanksgiving morning 2022 while working as a caregiver at the Oxmoor Apartment Homes near St. Matthews, Jasmine Blackmon locked eyes with a masked man outside who shot her nine times. “We looked each other dead in the face, and as
Continue ReadingAP National Writer Three years ago, when Team Canada appeared at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the athletes were dressed in sleek white jeans. They may have looked good, but for some Paralympians on the team, they were a challenge. For Alison Levine, for example. The para athlete, who competes in
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