By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal investigation of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz learns this week how much prison time he gets on charges of sex trafficking a minor and identity theft. Former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg on Wednesday tried
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER MAYERLE Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — This is a bad time to not have heat – but that was the reality inside a dorm at the University of Minnesota. Students like Lexi Semeizer bundled up inside Middlebrook Hall just to get some sleep. “I slept with my jacket
Continue Reading SANDSTONE, Minn. (AP) — Four lion cubs that were orphaned during the war in Ukraine have arrived safely at a Minnesota animal sanctuary that has pledged to provide them a permanent home. A male cub named Taras and three females named Stefania, Lesya and Prada, who are all between four and five months old, spent
Continue ReadingBy WCVB Staff Click here for updates on this story EASTHAM, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Crews continue to work to rescue a group of whales that was stranded earlier this week on a Cape Cod beach. International Fund for Animal Welfare said six live pilot whales were spotted swimming close to shore north of Sunken Meadow
Continue ReadingBy Matt Flener Click here for updates on this story CASS COUNTY, Missouri (KMBC) — Cass County’s county codes and zoning director has given a property owner south of Pleasant Hill 30 days to clean up a “salvage yard” just feet away from the Rock Island Spur of the Katy Trail. The property owner lives
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Mall at Robinson has been sold. In a press release on JLL Capital Markets website, the Kohan Retail Investment Group of Great Neck, N.Y. bought the mall for $46 million. Kohan owns dozens of shopping malls across the country, including Clearview
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Kirklen Click here for updates on this story CARLISLE, Ohio (WLWT) — A trip home from the holidays was halted for one family. Tristen Raisch and Zachary Armwine said they stumbled upon a strange act: a delivery driver whose destination was not what you would think. “He had the door wide open and
Continue ReadingBy Darryl Forges Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Two families met for the first time after they became connected in a unique way. Malayah Crews, a one-year-old, was in desperate need of a liver. She was diagnosed with biliary atresia at birth. It is a blockage in tubes that
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PARIS (AP) — French financial prosecutors say a Paris court has approved an agreement with Airbus that will see the planemaker pay a 15.8- million-euro ($16.3 million) fine. The deal will end a corruption investigation focusing on sales to Libya and Kazakhstan more than a decade ago. Prosecutors said Wednesday it’s an extension to a
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By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether a Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online to groom and sexually extort a teenage girl in California before driving across the country and killing her mother and grandparents and setting fire to their home. Austin Lee
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El Gobierno del estado de Paraná confirmó este miércoles que al menos dos personas murieron por un deslizamiento de tierra asociado a las lluvias que afectó la carretera BR-376 en ese estado de Brasil. Un representante del cuerpo de bomberos dijo ante los medios de comunicación que calculan que entre
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel and Zachary Cohen, CNN As the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack stares down a fast-approaching deadline to complete its work, members are scheduled to have a key meeting on Friday to discuss its final report as well as the possibility of making criminal referrals,
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniella Diaz, CNN House Democrats chose caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York to succeed Nancy Pelosi as leader of the Democrats in the chamber next year, a historic move that will make him the first Black person to lead one of the two major parties in either chamber of Congress. House Democrats
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El mejor crucero nuevo de 2022 tiene capacidad para 3.099 huéspedes y 1.506 tripulantes. Un mayordomo 24 horas atiende sus suites más lujosas, y hay una pista de carreras de tres niveles y toboganes de 10 pisos de altura. El premio es para el Norwegian Prima, nombrado el mejor crucero nuevo
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown, CNN A man seen in surveillance video punching an elderly Asian woman more than 100 times and stomping on her body in Yonkers, New York, has been sentenced to more than 17 years in state prison, prosecutors announced Tuesday. “Today we close a chapter on one of the most violent and shocking
Continue Reading By FELICIA FONSECA and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to give Native Americans a stronger voice in federal affairs, promising at the first in-person summit on tribal affairs in six years that he will bolster tribal consultations, inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in decision-making and funding for communities
Continue Reading By FELICIA FONSECA and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to give Native Americans a stronger voice in federal affairs, promising at the first in-person summit on tribal affairs in six years that he will bolster tribal consultations, inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in decision-making and funding for communities
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday in remarks likely intended to underscore the Fed’s single-minded focus on combating stubborn inflation. Yet in a speech at the Brookings Institution, Powell
Continue Reading ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man received a jail sentence after admitting he stole an Olympic gold medal belonging to a member of the 2020 U.S. Women’s Volleyball Team. Jordyn Poulter reported the medal stolen May 25 after the Olympian found her car broken into at a parking garage in Anaheim, police said.
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Después de la diatriba por un video de Lionel Messi en el vestuario y un aluvión de tuits en el que se peleó con periodistas, deportistas y comentaristas, Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez reconoció que se equivocó. El boxeador mexicano, quien había criticado a Messi por un video en que parece patear
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