Click here for updates on this story SCOTT COUNTY, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — A Princeton man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing property valued at nearly $33,000 after breaking into a room at Comfort Inn in Walcott. According to court documents, John David Daniels, 42, broke into a hotel room on March 26, with the
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Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — Prayers and support from around the state and even across the country continue to pour in for the New Haven Fire Department. Ricardo Torres Jr. lost his life on Wednesday while responding to a house fire on Valley Street. During an update on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story POYNETTE, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — A teacher in the Poynette School District has been placed on administrative leave following an incident at the high school Tuesday. A video being shared on social media allegedly shows a Poynette teacher berating a student for failing to wear a mask,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA, Montana (Missoulian) — A Missoula man accused of dealing large amounts of methamphetamine and having 9 pounds of the substance on his property admitted to a trafficking crime on Tuesday. Terry David Starrett, 53, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute meth, a Tuesday press release
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former NFL head coach Scott Linehan is joining the Mizzou football staff as an offensive analyst. Linehan went 11-25 as the head coach of the St. Louis Rams from 2006-08. Since then, the 57-year-old has had several coaching stops. Most recently, Linehan was the passing game coordinator at LSU last season. From
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President Joe Biden’s steadfast belief in taxing corporations and the rich has become a central plank in his legislative agenda, even as he’s warned of political peril and red lines from Republicans. GOP senators, some of whom Biden hosted in the Oval Office on Thursday as he seeks a bipartisan infrastructure deal, have rejected them
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President Joe Biden said Thursday he does not believe the Russian government was behind a cyberattack that shut down the pipeline supplying gasoline to the eastern US but said Moscow must do more to stop such attacks coming from Russia. When asked directly if he would rule out any sort of cyberattacks targeting the criminal
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Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (The Courier) — When an Animal Rescue League of Iowa Animal Control Services officer responded to a call about a puppy in distress, she came across a dire situation: the young puppy’s collar was deeply embedded in her neck, nearly killing her. The person responsible
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BISMARCK, North Dakota (The Bismarck Tribune) — The Dakota Access Pipeline has faced cyberattacks like the one against the Colonial Pipeline last week that forced it to shut down and disrupted fuel supplies to the East Coast, Energy Transfer Executive Chairman Kelcy Warren said Wednesday during an appearance
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROBBINSVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The first days of May in Robbinsville, Snowbird Cherokee artists and community members gathered to see the official installation of a 400-square-foot mural honoring women of the Snowbird Cherokee community. The long-awaited project was initially launched in 2019, when the Graham Revitalization Economic
Continue Reading It’s a good thing Liz Rodriguez’s daughter doesn’t turn 12 until January. That will give the New York City mom time, she says, to see how the first groups of children as young as 12 respond to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. It will also give her time to consult a pediatrician and then — the hard
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More than 1.2 million jobless Americans are set to lose their pandemic unemployment benefits early, with Georgia becoming the latest Republican-led state to announce it would cease providing enhanced federal jobless payments. Citing workforce shortages, at least 14 states have announced since last week that they would terminate the $300 weekly federal boost to state
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The first band to compete on “Masked Singer,” The Russian Dolls were revealed on last night’s show. Along with The Russian Dolls, Wednesday nigtht also featured Black Swan, Chameleon, Piglet and Yeti. The judging panel, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, did guess The Russian Dolls were a band, but were throwing
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People fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks or practice social distancing indoors or outdoors, except under certain circumstances, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. “If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic,”
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The ex-Florida tax collector with close ties to Rep. Matt Gaetz is planning to plead guilty on Monday in a federal court in Florida, according to a new filing Thursday. As part of the deal, Joel Greenberg will cooperate with investigators in a wide-ranging probe, according to one source familiar with the matter. For months,
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Inflation is all that the market seems to care about these days. Wages are rising, consumer prices are surging — and investors are worried the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates faster than expected to keep inflation in check. So what’s an investor to do? The S&P 500 is down more than 2% in the
Continue Reading In recent days the country has been captivated by the search for an escaped tiger in a Houston neighborhood. But the occurrence is not as exotic as one might think. There are more tigers in captivity in the United States than in the wild around the world, experts say. The World Wildlife Fund estimates about
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Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — In an Omaha grocery store, just right of the floral section and before the aisles of greeting cards, a hip-hop legend was greeting fans and promoting his cognac brand Wednesday night. Hundreds waited in line for hours to meet Curtis James Jackson III,
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The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday that motions have been filed to revoke probation for Gerrod Taylor, 20, of Columbia.
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Prices are climbing all over the place as the economy is reopening. But for lower-income earners — who were already hit hardest by the pandemic — the sudden price spikes are squeezing their budgets even further. When necessities get more expensive, consumers with less disposable income, who already spend a bigger share of their money
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