By Megan Thomas and Brandon Griggs, CNN Ronnie Spector, the swaggering 1960s pop icon with the sky-high beehive whose sultry, quavering voice powered numerous hits for The Ronettes, including “Be My Baby,” has died, her family announced in a statement Wednesday. She was 78. “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after
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Boonville girls basketball standout Addison Brownfield cemented herself in history on Tuesday night, as the senior now holds the school’s all-time scoring record. Heading into Boonville’s game against Smith-Cotton, Brownfield needed just 20 points to break the record. “When we finally got to 20 points it was just so unreal,” she said. “I get chills
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WASHBURN, Wis. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a snowmobile driver who veered into a highly touted sled dog team in northern Wisconsin and injured two of the dogs, including one that ran the Iditarod last year. Ryan Redington, the Alaskan musher and two-time winner of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, was out with
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By Peter Nickeas and Amanda Watts, CNN A Dayton, Ohio, police internal investigation of a traffic stop where officers pulled a paraplegic driver out of a car by his hair and arms cleared the officers of the most serious allegations against them. The September 30 traffic stop was captured on police body-worn camera footage and
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — El viceprimer ministro de Australia, Barnaby Joyce, dijo que Novak Djokovic “tiene que cumplir con las leyes” en una entrevista con Nine News, afiliada de CNN. “A la gran mayoría de los australianos… no les gusta la idea de que otra persona, ya sea un jugador de tenis, el rey de
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WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — Maine’s rotating ice disk has begun to form again in the Presumpscot River three years after its famous first appearance in 2019. Westbrook city officials shared photos Wednesday of the formation on Facebook. Ice disks form as a result of a collection of a current and vortex underneath the ice. Ice
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden was not making a “human” comparison between opponents of pending voting rights bills and historical racists and segregationists in his address in Atlanta this week, the White House says. In his speech calling for new voter protections, Biden asked whether lawmakers wanted “to be the side of Dr.
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By Paula Newton, CNN One day after the Canadian province of Quebec announced it would financially penalize residents who are unvaccinated, the province’s health minister said Wednesday first-time appointments spiked in the hours following the announcement. “It’s encouraging!” Quebec’s health minister, Christian Dube, tweeted, indicating that Tuesday’s first-dose appointments were the highest in several days.
Continue Reading By Paula Newton, CNN One day after the Canadian province of Quebec announced it would financially penalize residents who are unvaccinated, the province’s health minister said Wednesday first-time appointments spiked in the hours following the announcement. “It’s encouraging!” Quebec’s health minister, Christian Dube, tweeted, indicating that Tuesday’s first-dose appointments were the highest in several days.
Continue Reading UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Federal investigators have been poring over the wreckage of a medical helicopter a day after it crash-landed without loss of life next to a church in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, somehow avoiding a web of power lines and buildings. Brian Rayner, senior safety investigator with the National Transportation
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By Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Morgan Rimmer GOP Rep. Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana announced on Wednesday he will not seek a fourth term in November, becoming the 12th House Republican to say he won’t run for reelection. “I ran for Congress to return this government to the people from the career politicians who had broken
Continue Reading By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says a police investigator violated state law by confiscating a radio journalist’s cellphone without a valid warrant and has been forced to return the device. Tom Simon, who works for Williston Trending Topics News Radio Live and Coyote Radio 98.5,
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Officials in Canada’s largest province say parents will not be notified of a COVID-19 outbreak at their child’s school until there is 30% absenteeism rate among staff and students. Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce also said Wednesday that students will return to classrooms Monday. The government said
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Legislation that will establish new boundaries for Missouri’s eight congressional districts is one step closer to consideration on the House floor.
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood, Devan Cole, Katie Bo Lillis and Barbara Starr, CNN The US on Wednesday announced sanctions on eight North Korean and Russian individuals and entities for supporting North Korea’s ballistic missile programs, imposing the punishments after a pair of new missile tests by North Korea in the last week. “Today’s actions, part of
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood, Devan Cole, Katie Bo Lillis and Barbara Starr, CNN The US on Wednesday announced sanctions on eight North Korean and Russian individuals and entities for supporting North Korea’s ballistic missile programs, imposing the punishments after a pair of new missile tests by North Korea in the last week. “Today’s actions, part of
Continue Reading By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have added dozens of charges against a man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee last year. Darrell Brooks Jr. was charged in November with six counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the Nov. 21 killings in Waukesha.
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By Chloe Melas Bob Saget’s family is waiting for the results of his autopsy report and not speculating on his cause of death, two sources close to the late actor and comedian tell CNN. Saget, who was found dead in his Orlando hotel room on Sunday, hours after a two-hour stand-up performance, had Covid-19 in
Continue Reading By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Hernandez says he was stunned to learn Tuesday that the New York Mets plan to retire his No. 17. He’ll join Tom Seaver, Mike Piazza and Jerry Koosman as players to have their numbers retired in Queens. Hernandez received the news from owner Steve
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Jarrod Bowen scored twice to send West Ham back into the top four of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over Norwich on Wednesday.Bowen’s seventh and eighth goals of the season secured a third straight Premier League win for the Hammers and left Norwich rooted to the bottom of the table.
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