COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 375-pound sea turtle has been released back into the Atlantic Ocean after three months of rehabilitation in Florida. Officials with the Brevard Zoo released a male loggerhead named Bubba on Wednesday afternoon in Cocoa Beach. Officials say biologists with Inwater Research found Bubba in St. Lucie County on April
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A smoking laptop in a passenger’s bag prompted an evacuation on an American Airlines flight headed to Miami from San Francisco International Airport Friday, according to the airline. One person sustained minor injuries while exiting that required transport to a hospital, the airline said. Passengers evacuated via emergency slides and a
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A smoking laptop in a passenger’s bag prompted an evacuation on an American Airlines flight headed to Miami from San Francisco International Airport Friday, according to the airline. One person sustained minor injuries while exiting that required transport to a hospital, the airline said. Passengers evacuated via emergency slides and a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has agreed to forgo an autopsy of a Muslim inmate who is scheduled to be executed Thursday. Keith Edmund Gavin said the post-mortem procedure would violate his religious beliefs. The Alabama Department of Corrections said Friday that no autopsy will be performed. The 64-year-old inmate is scheduled to
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin’s criminal case has been dismissed in New Mexico in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer.
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they’re doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday night, carrying 20
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — One of the two prosecutors resigns in the middle of Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has a one-word answer on whether President Joe Biden is a liability for the most vulnerable House Democrats seeking reelection. “No,” he tells reporters. But a growing number of House Democrats are indicating otherwise. It’s not just some of the lawmakers representing true battleground districts but
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since Donald Trump’s emergence on the political scene, late-night comics like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel have made him a relentless target. But since President Joe Biden’s poor showing in the debate with Trump two weeks ago, the comics have retrained their guns. It shows that comedy —
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say the U.S. Department of Transportation is providing nearly $400 million to build a new Interstate 55 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas across the Mississippi River. The work would replace the existing 75-year-old span. The Tennessee governor and a congressman from Memphis said in separate news releases Friday
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed on a key Israeli concession in ceasefire negotiations, demanding that armed men be barred from returning to northern Gaza during an eventual ceasefire, an Israeli source familiar with the talks told CNN. Israel had previously agreed to allow Palestinians unrestricted access to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins didn’t vote for Donald Trump for president in 2016 or 2020, and the third time will not be the charm. Collins, a longtime moderate Republican senator from Maine, told reporters on Friday that she intended to write in former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s name on
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Seattle Mariners right-hander Yeury Tatiz was suspended for 80 games and Boston Red Sox right-hander Charlie Zink for 56 games following positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs. Tatiz was suspended for a positive test for Clomiphene under the minor league drug program, the commissioner’s office said Friday. Zink was disciplined for a
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Ga.; former White House chief of staff Ron Klain. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Reps. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. ___
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A closely watched measure of inflation in Argentina remained stronger than the libertarian government of President Javier Milei would have hoped. On Friday, the country’s official statistics agency reported a rise in June prices that broke a months-long streak of declines. Argentina’s consumer price index rose 4.6% in
Continue ReadingAP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi’s phone lit up the night of President Joe Biden’s debate performance with a question that has yet to be fully resolved: Now what? Calls kept coming the morning after Biden’s agonizing face-off against Republican Donald Trump, and anxious lawmakers surrounded Pelosi later on the House floor. Two
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden say his pledged delegates could vote their conscience, and party rules confirm that. But historical precedent and the delegate selection process make it likely that the vast majority will stick with him anyway. At least 3,896 delegates are pledged to Biden. But that “pledge” isn’t an ironclad
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The Fentanyl Crisis. News Channel 3 I-Team investigator Karen Devine’s intensive investigation into a local border checkpoint. “We are the front line against dangerous drugs and from people entering the communities,” said U.S. Border Patrol Agent Harvey Nunez, who is stationed at the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint. Nunez says this checkpoint identifies more smugglers and
Continue ReadingBROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A retired Massachusetts pediatrician has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually abused at least 15 children who were his patients. Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Richard A. Kauff appeared Friday in Plymouth Superior Court. He is charged with 11 counts of rape of a child with force and nine counts of indecent
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of killing a Louisiana woman last month and taking her 4-year-old and 6-year-old daughters to Mississippi – one of whom also was found dead – has been indicted in Mississippi on murder, kidnapping and other charges in the children’s cases, court records show.
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