By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Georgia will play Alabama in an all-Southeastern national championship game on Monday night. How they got here is pretty simple. Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart and his mentor, Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban, have recruited star-studded teams that are practically too talented to fail. Both schools benefit from
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Actress Betty White died after suffering a stroke six days prior, according to her death certificate. The official cause of death listed on the Los Angeles County document obtained by CNN is cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for a stroke, when blood flow to the brain is blocked causing impairment due
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN The service arrangements for Betty White will be private, her friend and agent Jeff Witjas told CNN Thursday. Witjas said the beloved actress, who died last week at the age of 99, didn’t want people making a fuss over her in life and that will be the case in death.
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Baumer Click here for updates on this story HILLSBORO, Missouri (KMOV) — A son who beat his father to death with a golf club in Hillsboro in 2019 was found guilty, the Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced. Nicholas Smoot was found guilty of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and domestic assault Wednesday.
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — The U.S. government paid its remaining $1.3 million in dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency but delivered a brusque message along with the check. A government official called its absence from the regulator’s decision-making boards a “sorry state of affairs.” WADA President Witold Banka called the
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Amnesty International says it has independently confirmed that an Israeli company’s powerful spyware was used to hack a Polish senator when he was running the opposition’s 2019 parliamentary election campaign. The Associated Press reported last month that an internet watchdog group at the University of Toronto
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business On the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, some of the most powerful forces in right-wing media continued to mislead or just brazenly lie to their audiences about the attack on the US Capitol, while others downplayed the events and mocked the news media for its coverage. The coverage
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd’s death will go on trial Jan. 20. The trial date was given Thursday in a docket filing, with proceedings to be held in St. Paul. Court records in November showed that juror summonses had gone out for that
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Stacker compiled a list of the best school districts in Missouri using rankings from Niche.
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By The Associated Press The Chicago Bears have placed quarterback Justin Fields on the reserve/COVID-19 list, likely sidelining him for the finale and ending his rookie season. The Bears expected Fields to start at Minnesota on Sunday after missing the previous two games because of an ankle injury. That plan is now in doubt. It’s
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Con auriculares, 18 sujetos yacían en silencio mientras una máquina funcional de imágenes por resonancia magnética (fMRI, por sus siglas en inglés) zumbaba alrededor de sus cabezas, enviando algunas palabras en diferentes idiomas. Escucharon mientras una voz femenina recitaba una famosa línea de un querido libro infantil, “El Principito”. “Solo
Continue ReadingBy Shardaa Gray Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Fed up and short staffed. This is what local businesses are saying as the new vaccine card requirement has gone into effect. It’s only day two and one business said they’re already getting pushback. CBS 2’s Shardaa Gray reports from Little Italy
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The NCAA has updated its pandemic-related protocols for winter sports athletes and teams to follow updated CDC guidelines. The biggest recommendation is a booster for those who are beyond two months of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, five months of receiving the Pfizer or six months of receiving the Moderna
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It may not be the fight he sought, but taking on Donald Trump is President Joe Biden’s calling. Biden offered himself as a guardian of American democracy in a visceral speech Thursday discussing the Jan. 6 insurrection that sought to overthrow his 2020 election
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Borowy Click here for updates on this story BAY CITY, Michigan (WNEM) — A student was arrested after police say he stabbed another student in the head in a high school bathroom. On Jan. 6 at 9:15 a.m., staff at Bay City Central High School broke up a fight in a bathroom on
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Jessica Chastain suffered a dangerous head injury while filming her latest movie. The actress appeared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on Wednesday and said that while she was filming “The 355,” she ended up having to go to the hospital. “I was doing a fight scene and it
Continue Reading MONTREAL (AP) — Passengers who filmed themselves partying without masks aboard a chartered flight from Montreal to Mexico now face being stranded after three airlines have refused to fly them home to Canada. Sunwing Airlines cancelled the return charter flight from Cancun scheduled for Wednesday and Air Transat and Air Canada both said they will
Continue ReadingBy Evan Sobol Click here for updates on this story WATERFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A woman was arrested for animal cruelty in Waterford, police said. Officials say a citizen concerned about the well-being of animals at a town residence notified the Waterford – East Lyme Animal Control Office. On November 16, the citizen gave authorities
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Hawley became a central figure in the violence in the minds of many after his vote objecting to Pennsylvania’s presidential count and an infamous photo circulated showing him raising a fist into the air toward Trump supporters outside the Capitol.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (WBZ) — Kayla Montgomery, who is married to the father of missing New Hampshire 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery, was arrested Wednesday on a welfare fraud charge. Harmony Montgomery has been missing since October 2019, but Manchester Police were only notified recently about her
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