By Web staff Click here for updates on this story HAWAII (KITV) — An O’ahu girl showed a mugger who’s boss on a trip to New Orleans last week. 18-year-old Masina Tupea of Aiea, said she was walking to dinner with her family on December 28th, when a man ran towards them, punched her mom
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty have hired Sandy Brondello as their new coach. Brondello led the Mercury to the WNBA Finals this year, and then parted ways with the team in the offseason. She had a 150-108 record in eight seasons with Phoenix, making the playoffs
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By Tami Luhby, Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Part of this story was included in a previously published story that ran on CNN Business in November. Workers are walking away from their jobs in record numbers. In November, 4.5 million people quit their jobs, according to data from the Labor Department released earlier this week. And
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By Jen Christensen, CNN Many people are hearing from their doctors that they have a “mild” Covid-19 infection amid a surge of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but your illness may not feel as minor as “mild” sounds. It was true for Michelle Cordes, a dietitian at a Chicago-area hospital. She’s vaccinated
Continue ReadingBy David Hixon Click here for updates on this story HILO, Hawai’i (KITV) — Threats have been received by Waiākea High School personnel on Wednesday and Thursday, prompting an investigation by the Hawai’i County Police Department. According to the Hawai’i County police, anonymous threats were made on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 by phone against
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are shortening the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster — to five months rather than six. The Moderna vaccine is open to Americans 18 and older. Friday’s decision by the Food and Drug Administration means recipients are eligible for a booster at
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WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Firefighters have found one person dead inside a burning mobile home near the southwestern Iowa city of West Burlington. The Hawk Eye reports that fire crews were called to the home in Flint River Township early Thursday morning and found it engulfed in flames. Firefighters worked to knock down the
Continue Reading LEICESTER, England (AP) — Leicester says striker Jamie Vardy’s hamstring injury will keep him out for up to two more months. The team’s leading scorer this season was injured in a 1-0 win over Liverpool last week and was initially expected to return this month. But manager Brendan Rodgers says it will be “into March
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris fue evacuada de la sede del Comité Nacional Demócrata (DNC, por sus siglas en inglés) en Washington el 6 de enero de 2021, minutos después de que se descubriera una bomba de tubo en las cercanías. Un exfuncionario de las fuerzas del orden y un funcionario
Continue Reading CHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City player Benjamin Mendy has been released from prison on bail ahead of his trial on rape charges, which has been put back until June at the earliest. Mendy remains suspended by City and has been in custody for 134 days, since first being arrested and charged in August last
Continue Reading CHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City player Benjamin Mendy has been released from prison on bail ahead of his trial on rape charges, which has been put back until June at the earliest. Mendy remains suspended by City and has been in custody for 134 days, since first being arrested and charged in August last
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Sidney Poitier, award winning actor and civil rights activist. Personal Birth date: February 20, 1927 Death date: January 6, 2022 Birth place: Miami, Florida Birth name: Sidney Poitier Father: Reginald Poitier, tomato farmer Mother: Evelyn (Outten) Poitier Marriages: Joanna Shimkus (January 23, 1976-January 6,
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story WOLCOTT, Connecticut (WFSB) — Firefighters and an animal control officer in Wolcott crawled into action to rescue a deer from a frozen pond. According to Wolcott police, The Wolcott Volunteer Fire Department helped ACO Roz Nenninger rescue the deer from Dunham Millpond near the Jacklin
Continue Reading ZURICH (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has been left off the three-man shortlist for FIFA’s best player award for only the second time in 15 years. Mohamed Salah was voted on ahead of the five-time winner. Six-time FIFA award winner Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski are also candidates to win on Jan. 17. Lewandowski won last
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Governors across the U.S. took sweeping action during earlier surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, but are taking a much different approach during the record-setting caseloads caused by the omicron variant. Previously, many of them closed schools or ordered businesses shut down. They issued mask mandates, vaccine
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The jobs recovery may be losing steam. But the unemployment rate continued to fall, and workers are still bringing home bigger paychecks. Investors don’t seem sure what to think about those mixed messages. Stocks closed lower Friday after the US government reported that just 199,000 jobs were added
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW CAMPBELL Click here for updates on this story CONNECTICUT (WFSB) — Some people from Connecticut were some of the most visible from January 6. So far, the justice department has arrested seven people from the state. Eyewitness News set out to get their side of things, wanting to learn what motivated them to
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer Olympic veterans Chris Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman have crashed out of a World Cup qualifying race. That ends their hopes of being the doubles sled that represents USA Luge at next month’s Beijing Games. That spot will now go to either Zack Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander, or Dana
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By Mallika Kallingal, CNN A fast-moving winter storm that pummeled parts of Kentucky and Virginia is expected to cause widespread disruption across the Northeast on Friday and Saturday, dumping between 4 and 12 inches of snow on the region’s major cities. More than 60 million people are under winter weather alerts, and local officials have
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government has issued a civil mobilization order that will oblige some doctors in the private sector to support the state health service during a surge in COVID-19 infections driven by the omicron variant. The emergency order was published Friday and will take effect next Wednesday affecting doctors specialized in pathology,
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