By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say they’ve taken down a criminal racket in which corrupt lawyers and doctors used hundreds of desperate people, including drug addicts and homeless individuals, to feign trip-and-fall accidents to collect damages. They announced charges Wednesday against four individuals, including two lawyers and two doctors. They
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By Rob Picheta and Zahid Mahmood, CNN Fear is mounting for women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban told working women to stay at home, admitting they were not safe in the presence of the militant group’s soldiers. Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said at a news conference on Tuesday that women should not go
Continue ReadingBy Graham Cawthon Click here for updates on this story SAVANNAH, Georgia (WJCL) — Newly-released court documents shed more light on why a Savannah teacher is charged with cruelty to children. Elizabeth Louise Board turned herself in to authorities on August 16, according to the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System. According to an arrest warrant
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BARDSTOWN, Kentucky (WLKY) — The FBI was back in Bardstown to once again looks for answers in the disappearance of Crystal Rogers, and this time, they’re targeting three locations — all of which belong to her former boyfriend. FBI Louisville tweeted around 8 a.m. Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — Press conferences were both held by the Houston Police Department and the New Orleans Police Department to announce an increase in the reward for information leading to the arrests of the suspects involved in the shooting death of an NOPD detective
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Pac-12 will hold a conference baseball tournament for the first time. The inaugural Pac-12 baseball tournament will be held May 25 to May 29 next year at Scottsdale Stadium in Arizona. The initial agreement with the city of Scottsdale runs through 2024. The top eight teams during the regular season
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington has been practicing without receiver Curtis Samuel for the balance of training camp and without cornerback William Jackson for the past week. Samuel and Jackson were the team’s highest-priced, free-agent additions. Jackson signed for $40.5 million and Samuel $34.5 million over three years. Samuel
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Más de 100.000 personas están actualmente hospitalizadas por covid-19 en Estados Unidos, según datos del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos (HHS). Las hospitalizaciones por covid-19 han ido en aumento en el paÃs durante aproximadamente siete semanas, desde principios de julio. Casi se han triplicado en el
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El año pasado fue el más caluroso de Europa desde que se tiene constancia, según un informe publicado este miércoles por la Sociedad Meteorológica de EE.UU., que también determinó que el 2020 estará entre los tres años más calurosos a nivel mundial. La Oficina Meteorológica del Reino Unido, que contribuyó
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By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The woman and her two children had tried nearly a dozen times without success to get into Hamid Karzai International Airport for an evacuation flight out of Kabul to join her husband in the United States. This time, though, their connection inside the airport gates was able to
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A report released on Wednesday says donations to racial and social justice causes ticked up to 16% of American households in 2020. The bump in giving came as donors raced to provide support to affected communities in a year marked by protests and increased attention
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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A report released on Wednesday says donations to racial and social justice causes ticked up to 16% of American households in 2020. The bump in giving came as donors raced to provide support to affected communities in a year marked by protests and increased attention
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A discovery made during a police raid has been identified as the most complete fossil of a flying reptile from Brazil. The remains revealed new information about tapejarids, or pterosaurs that soared across the skies during the Early Cretaceous period between 100.5 million and 145 million years ago. A study on
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new anti-hazing bill into law Tuesday that requires schools to adopt policies against hazing and increases penalties for those found guilty. The law is inspired by the death of Timothy J. Piazza, according to a statement from the governor’s office. Piazza, of Lebanon, New
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By Alex Rogers, CNN Herschel Walker, the former football star, announced his campaign for US Senate in Georgia on Wednesday, after months of speculation marked by both former President Donald Trump’s public encouragement and some Republicans’ rising concerns about the political newcomer’s ability to win a crucial seat. “Our country is at a crossroads, and
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson is turning 16 this weekend. The girl who spent much of her childhood on reality tv series talked to Teen Vogue about some of the difficulties she’s experienced in her life, including her mother’s substance abuse and her struggle to make friends in high school.
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By Jason Hanna, CNN The nightmare was only beginning for Matthew Rigney and his partner, Danielle Hall, when floodwaters swept her away from him and their four children Saturday in Middle Tennessee. While Hall clung to a tree, the father held onto their children in their flooded house until two of them — 7-month-old twins
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, CNN The nightmare was only beginning for Matthew Rigney and his partner, Danielle Hall, when floodwaters swept her away from him and their four children Saturday in Middle Tennessee. While Hall clung to a tree, the father held onto their children in their flooded house until two of them — 7-month-old twins
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Like so many who die young, Aaliyah is forever frozen in time — youthful, beautiful and left with dreams unfulfilled. The singer and actress was 22 years old when the plane she was traveling on crashed soon after takeoff from the Bahamas on August 25, 2001, killing her and eight
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