DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Northern Iowa is the route of choice for this year’s popular RAGBRAI biking event in Iowa. The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa on Friday announced the route for the 49th annual ride, which is July 23-30. The ride begins in Sergeant Bluff and ends in Lansing. Overnight stop
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN It seemed too good to be true: The cutie who you matched with on a dating app sent sweet messages, told fantastic stories and even made you a Spotify playlist. Then you never hear from them again. That is a West Elm Caleb. It all started out on TikTok, where women
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BANGKOK (AP) — The governor of a province in eastern Thailand has declared a state of emergency after an oil slick washed up on a sand beach, shutting down restaurants and shops in a setback for the pandemic-hit tourism industry. Some 20-50 tons of oil are estimated to have leaked Tuesday night in the Gulf
Continue Reading HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) — A former deputy in suburban St. Louis is accused of using his position to steal prescription drugs. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that its former deputy, 35-year-old Michael Filsinger of Arnold, faces four counts of felony stealing, one count of misdemeanor stealing and one count of misuse of official
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two people are dead after a car flipped onto its side and slammed into a St. Louis grocery store. The accident happened Friday afternoon at a Schnucks store in south St. Louis. The vehicle’s driver and passenger — a man and a woman — died hours later at a hospital. No
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A 50-year-old bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh had been rated as poor on a recent inspection report. But transportation officials and engineering experts caution that doesn’t necessarily signal imminent danger for the thousands of other U.S. bridges with the same designation. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Parkhill, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The internet’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) says the majority of the items created using its free minting tool are plagiarized works, fake collections or spam. Earlier this week, popular NFT marketplace OpenSea announced it was limiting
Continue ReadingBy Solarina Ho, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — More than three million cases of COVID-19 have been documented since the start of the pandemic, according to CTVNews.ca’s case tracker, with at least a million of those cases occurring in the past month. As of 1:30 p.m.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Estados Unidos y sus aliados se apresuran a elaborar planes de contingencia en caso de que el suministro de gas ruso, crucial para el funcionamiento de las empresas y la calefacción de los hogares en Europa, se vea interrumpido por el conflicto en Ucrania. Europa tendría dificultades para sobrevivir
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Story by Reuters The “Special Ks” show at the Australian Open ended on a high after Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis claimed their first major title by defeating compatriots Max Purcell and Matt Ebden in the men’s doubles final on Saturday. Kyrgios and Kokkinakis, nicknamed the “Special Ks” as juniors, entertained the crowd at the
Continue Reading By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly empowered Republican lawmakers in Virginia who opposed legalizing simple possession of marijuana say they don’t want to scrap the 2021 law, but they do want to make significant changes. Republicans have drafted bills that would move up the start date for retail sales and get
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — ¿Por qué crees que se llaman galletas de la fortuna? Después de su comida semanal en un restaurante chino, un hombre de Carolina del Norte usó los números de su galleta de la fortuna para jugar a la lotería. Y ahora es $4 millones más rico. “Normalmente no juego mis números
Continue Reading CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — As Cedar Rapids police investigate fatal shootings on consecutive days, they’ve released the name of the first victim. KCRG-TV reports that the man whose body was found Thursday was 19-year-old Cordal Lewis. Police called to the scene found his body in the street. Investigators believe he had been targeted. No
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By BRUCE MATTHEWS Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — It underlined an identity issue when Chris O’Neil’s name was incorrectly spelled on the scoreboards as the players warmed up for the 1978 Australian Open women’s singles final. An extra “l” was added to O’Neil’s family name on the two manually operated scoreboards at Kooyong, the
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A woman who once lived in Kansas has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants. The U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, announced Saturday that 42-year-old Allison Fluke-Ekren has been charged
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By Jay Croft, CNN Why do you think they’re called fortune cookies? After his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant, a North Carolina man used the numbers in his fortune cookie to play the lottery. And now he is $4 million richer. “I don’t usually play my fortune cookie numbers but I tried them on
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been arrested on rape, sodomy and other charges for allegedly sexually assaulting women in two separate incidents after giving them rides. Police say the incidents happened Dec. 31 and Jan. 22. The 40-year-old suspect was arrested Thursday. A 54-year-old woman told police she met the man on
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By Kristin Fisher and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon is preparing to push the CEOs of America’s largest defense companies to accelerate hypersonic weapons development by hosting a high-level meeting next week with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The purpose is to “light a fire underneath the entire hypersonic industry” and “encourage industry to pick up
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By Travis Caldwell and Robert Shackelford, CNN The Northeast continues to face dangerous cold Monday as it digs out of record snow from a bomb cyclone storm that sapped power to more 100,000 customers in Massachusetts alone and canceled some 5,000 US flights. Highs across New England and parts of the Mid-Atlantic are expected to
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State parks in Missouri are proving to be more popular than ever, with record numbers of visitors. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 22.5 million people visited Missouri state parks in 2021, a nearly 7% increase from 2020 and an all-time high for the state’s 92 parks and historic sites.
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