By WEB STAFF Click here for updates on this story CREOLA, AL (WALA) — The man accused of being in a shootout with his girlfriend’s husband is now behind bars. Michael Amacker was booked into jail Wednesday after spending a few days in the hospital. Deputies said Frank Reeves shot Amacker in his home because
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By Angela Dewan, CNN The world would be on track for a collapse of the ozone layer and an additional 2.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century if it hadn’t agreed in the 1980s to ban CFCs, chemicals once commonly used in aerosol sprays, refrigeration and air conditioners, according to
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say government forces have shelled a northwestern village, killing five people, most of them children. Thursday’s selling of the village of Belshoun killed one women, three of her children and another child. That’s according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor. The Syrian civil
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands trying to flee the country. It’s also brought renewed focus on Afghanistan’s vast untapped mineral wealth, resources that could transform its economic prospects if ever developed. Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations in the
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands trying to flee the country. It’s also brought renewed focus on Afghanistan’s vast untapped mineral wealth, resources that could transform its economic prospects if ever developed. Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations in the
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands trying to flee the country. It’s also brought renewed focus on Afghanistan’s vast untapped mineral wealth, resources that could transform its economic prospects if ever developed. Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations in the
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An Olympic athlete from Poland auctioned her silver medal from the Tokyo Games to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize. Maria Andrejczyk is a 25-year-old javelin thrower who overcame bone cancer and a shoulder
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An Olympic athlete from Poland auctioned her silver medal from the Tokyo Games to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize. Maria Andrejczyk is a 25-year-old javelin thrower who overcame bone cancer and a shoulder
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The foreign ministries of Germany, France and Britain have expressed “grave concern” over the latest report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog that said Iran continues to produce uranium metal, which can be used in the production of a nuclear bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna
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By Kyle Feldscher, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden plan to get Covid-19 vaccine booster shots once they are cleared to take them, the President said in an interview aired Thursday. The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that Americans will be able to get Covid-19 vaccine booster shots starting on September 20,
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business As if the pandemic hasn’t been hard enough on retirees, those living on low to moderate incomes have been hit with the one-two financial punch of rising inflation and low interest rates. Those senior citizens found themselves paying more for essentials, while earning next to nothing on their savings and
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Episcopal Church, which has been a self-governing autonomous body since 1785. The Episcopal Church in the United States has around 1.6 million members. Facts The Anglican Church originated when King Henry VIII split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534, when the pope refused to grant the
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat has assured his Libyan counterpart that Moscow supports the withdrawal of all foreign fighters from the North African country and is prepared to help work out the details with other countries. Russia was among the foreign powers backing the warring sides in Libya’s conflict, with some officials and media
Continue ReadingBy WEB STAFF Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — The City of Mobile said it ran out of ambulances on Wednesday. The call for a ‘critical mass level zero’ was issued around noon. Local hospitals have been overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases causing ambulances to have nowhere to take emergency patients
Continue ReadingBy SHELBY MYERS Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — FOX10 News uncovered new information about a man arrested after a brutal beatdown on Dauphin Island. Joey Barrett Jr. is accused of attacking four people in a food truck line with a knife and brass knuckles. According to court documents, he’s
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials have launched a review of climate damage from coal mining on public lands as the Biden administration expands scrutiny of government fossil fuel sales that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Interior Department officials said Thursday that their review also will look at whether companies
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State Rep. Sara Walsh (R-Ashland) said in a tweet that her husband Steve Walsh had passed away.
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By Rob Picheta, Saleem Mehsud and Tim Lister, CNN The Taliban have moved swiftly to crush early opposition to their rule across Afghanistan, clashing with protesters and forcing an entire city to stay inside, as a frantic rush to escape the country intensifies at Kabul’s international airport. A curfew will be imposed “for an indefinite
Continue ReadingBy TORI COOPER Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Chaos on campus continued Wednesday, as students headed into their first day of classes at Clark Atlanta University. Many students are still without a dorm and now parents are demanding answers. CBS46 spoke to parents and students. It was Mariah’s Parkinson
Continue ReadingBy CAMERON TAYLOR Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — The legendary rock band Foreigner is supporting vaccine education at a time when cases of the Delta variant are surging. Bass guitarist Rick Wills spoke with News4 about the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the band’s performance at the Ryman on Wednesday.
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