By WJZ Staff Click here for updates on this story TOWSON, Maryland (WJZ) — Forty years after the murder of a Halethorpe teen, Baltimore County police have identified her killer. The police department said Wednesday that cold case detectives have determined John Anthony Petrecca, Jr., who died in 2000, was responsible for the 1981 murder
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By Ellie Kaufman and Ted Barrett, CNN The annual defense bill is stalled in the Senate amid a bitter disagreement over one senator’s demand to punish China over its alleged treatment of the Uyghurs. Republicans and Democrats are rejecting the demand by Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, to add an amendment because they say
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By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN Just when we thought US travel rules were starting to stabilize, along came Omicron. The dominoes fell quickly after South African health authorities informed the world of their discovery of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in late November. The Biden administration rolled out controversial travel bans on
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A white Kansas City police officer convicted in the fatal shooting a Black man will be sentenced March 4. A Jackson County judge on Thursday set the sentencing date for police Detective Eric DeValkenaere, who was convicted in November of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart to demand Russia pull back troops from the border with Ukraine. The meeting comes as tensions and suspicions grow in a confrontation over Ukraine’s increasingly close ties with NATO and the
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart to demand Russia pull back troops from the border with Ukraine. The meeting comes as tensions and suspicions grow in a confrontation over Ukraine’s increasingly close ties with NATO and the
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is getting $110.7 million and Nebraska $63.4 million from the federal government to upgrade water systems and improve water quality. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the new funding Thursday as part of $7.4 billion in new funding sent throughout the country. The allocation for next year is the first
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By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice including the winner from the penalty spot in Manchester United’s 3-2 victory over Arsenal in the Premier League. It was a match that also featured one of the most bizarre goals seen for years as Arsenal midfielder Emile Smith Rowe scored while United goalkeeper David
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fraternity that organized a charity boxing match where a UNLV student competitor collapsed and later died of head injuries has been suspended by the school and by its national organization. Kappa Sigma said Thursday it is looking at whether internal policies and standards, as well
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fraternity that organized a charity boxing match where a UNLV student competitor collapsed and later died of head injuries has been suspended by the school and by its national organization. Kappa Sigma said Thursday it is looking at whether internal policies and standards, as well
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By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is still insisting that President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill can pass his chamber by Christmas — even as doubts grow that such a timeline is achievable given the procedures of the Senate and the lingering differences among Democrats. In a letter
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block graphics chip maker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm. The commission says the deal would create a powerful company that could hurt the growth of new technologies. California-based Nvidia said last year that it was buying United Kingdom-based Arm
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block graphics chip maker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm. The commission says the deal would create a powerful company that could hurt the growth of new technologies. California-based Nvidia said last year that it was buying United Kingdom-based Arm
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La youtuber mexicana YosStop salió de prisión este martes luego de que la FiscalÃa aceptó reclasificar su anterior imputación de un delito de pornografÃa infantil a uno de discriminación, informó su abogado en un comunicado de prensa. La youtuber, cuyo nombre real es Yoselinne Hoffman Badui, habÃa estado en prisión
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Rayo Vallecano came close to becoming the first top-flight club to be eliminated in the first round of the Copa del Rey this season but won a penalty shootout against fifth-division club Guijuelo. Rayo came out on top 4-3 in the shootout after the hosts missed a pair of penalties. The teams
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just before Missouri Gov. Mike Parson condemned a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter for exposing a state database flaw, records show the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education was preparing to thank him for finding the glitch. The reporter discovered a flaw on a DESE website that left more than
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By Ben Church, CNN Human rights activist Peter Dahlin says the International Olympic Committee’s calls with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai are putting her at “greater risk” and that they are “obviously staged.” One of China’s most recognizable sports stars, Peng publicly accused a former top Communist Party official, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, of coercing
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By David Close, CNN The National Football League has suspended three players, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown, for three games without pay following a league investigation that determined the three violated Covid-19 protocols. Buccaneers safety Mike Edwards and free agent wide receiver John Franklin III, who has been on the Bucs’ practice squad,
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Eddie Mekka, who found fame playing Carmine “The Big Ragoo” Ragusa, on the hit series “Laverne & Shirley,” died Saturday at his home in Newhall, California, according to his official Facebook account. He was 69. No details on his cause of death were made immediately available. Mekka played Shirley’s love interest
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Joe Judge wanted to keep the Philadelphia Eagles guessing last week so he did not say who was going to call the offensive plays for the New York Giants after coordinator Jason Garrett was fired. This week there is no secrecy as the Giants
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