Kevin Greene, who had the third most sacks in NFL history, died Monday, according to statements from the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Greene was 58. No cause of death was given. The Pro Football Hall of Fame said Greene, a star at linebacker and defensive end during a 15-year career,
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The US Military Academy at West Point is dealing with the fallout from a major cheating incident involving 73 cadets, the largest cheating episode at the elite school since 1976. Seventy-two of the cadets accused of breaking the academy’s famed honor code are first-year cadets, referred to as the “plebe year,” according to the academy.
Continue Reading The White House is considering requiring travelers from the United Kingdom to present proof of a negative coronavirus test before arriving in the United States, two administration officials tell CNN. The discussions come amid the discovery of a new variant of coronavirus discovered in the UK and as a slew of countries have suspended travel.
Continue Reading Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that all the officers involved in a botched Chicago police raid last year have been “taken off the street” and placed on desk duty while the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigates. Lightfoot’s move comes a day after the top attorney in the city’s law department, Mark Flessner, announced
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that all the officers involved in a botched Chicago police raid last year have been “taken off the street” and placed on desk duty while the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigates. Lightfoot’s move comes a day after the top attorney in the city’s law department, Mark Flessner, announced
Continue Reading The White House is considering requiring travelers from the United Kingdom to present proof of a negative coronavirus test before arriving in the United States, two administration officials tell CNN. The discussions come amid the discovery of a new variant of coronavirus discovered in the UK and as a slew of countries have suspended travel.
Continue Reading Ontario Premier Doug Ford, citing rising numbers of Covid-19 cases that are accelerating at “an alarming rate,” announced Monday that the entire Canadian province will shut down effective Saturday. Ford called the closure a temporary and one-time measure at a news conference, at which he implored residents to stay home except for essential needs like
Continue Reading The State Department is reverting back to Phase 1 Covid-19 guidelines, which include limiting travel to mission critical trips and putting restrictions on the size of gatherings, according to a department-wide memo from a top State Department official which was reviewed by CNN. The plan is to return from Phase 2 guidelines to the more
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PASSAIC, New Jersey (WCBS) — After the snow storm, parking wars are heating up in one New Jersey city. Looking around for a parking spot in Passaic, you’ll find many of the available spots aren’t actually available. Many are saved, using cones, trash cans or just about anything.
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Click here for updates on this story LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — A Lawrenceville man is facing multiple aggravated cruelty to animals, cruelty to animals and maintaining a disorderly house charges after 30 dogs were rescued from his home, which was allegedly covered in feces and had dead animals inside it, on Friday. Carlos
Continue Reading The Kansas City Star has apologized for what it’s calling decades of “robb(ing) an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.” The Star, one of the most influential news sources in the region, says it has “disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians” for the last 140 years. “It reinforced Jim Crow
Continue Reading Attorney General William Barr on Monday rejected several of President Donald Trump’s inflammatory and unfounded statements regarding the presidential election, saying at a news conference that he doesn’t plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter or the election. “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAYWARD, California (KCRA) — A convicted killer has been arrested and charged with murder in the cold case of a 9-year-old San Francisco Bay Area girl abducted in 1988, law enforcement officials announced on Monday. Michaela Joy Garecht was kidnapped in a Rainbow Market parking lot in Hayward
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A Des Moines man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his own mother faces further sentencing Tuesday for animal cruelty charges. Christopher Thompson, 33, is accused of killing his mother, Paula Thompson, and her cat with a crowbar in March. According to
Continue Reading Two days before he leaves the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr offered his sharpest rebuke to date of President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations surrounding the election result, rejecting Trump’s efforts to act on the conspiracy theories the President has embraced to explain his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. Barr rejected the call for a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — An Orange County deputy shot a man in the leg during a traffic stop Sunday night after officials said that man ran away from them. The sheriff said a man who fled from an attempted traffic stop Sunday night was shot in the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MAUI, Hawaii (KITV) — A Maui woman’s wallet led to a lot of Aloha for a Good Samaritan this holiday season. Chloe Marino and her son Cooper went shopping at Foodland at Queen Kaahumanu Center in Kahului last week when she unknowingly dropped her wallet. Hours later, a
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It was a bumpy ride for US stocks on Monday as worries over a new variant of the coronavirus overshadowed the news of a second pandemic relief bill that was agreed to in Washington late Sunday. The market finished mixed, with the Dow closing 0.1%, or 37 points, higher, while the broader S&P 500 ended
Continue Reading Being vaccinated against Covid-19 is morally acceptable, the Vatican deemed, after some anti-abortion groups raised concerns about how the vaccines were manufactured. Some groups had suggested the coronavirus vaccines were made using cells from aborted fetuses. The cells are actually engineered and grown in labs from tissue acquired many decades ago, and are not made
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