By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released a report focusing on three of the deaths, all stemming from contact with rabid bats. CDC officials said
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A 53-year-old man has been convicted of threatening to kill his own mother by stabbing her with a knife, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office. Mark Charles Anderson was found guilty on Wednesday of unlawful use of a
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By CNN Sports staff College Football Hall of Fame inductee Ross Browner, a two-time All-American defensive lineman and national champion at Notre Dame, and a 10-year NFL veteran, has died. He was 67. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my Father, Ross Browner,” said Browner’s son, former NFL offensive
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By Brian Lowry, CNN Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of movies like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” whose off-screen life was as colorful as his films, has died, according to multiple reports, citing his daughter Antonia Bogdanovich. He was 82. Bogdanovich died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter
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By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released a report focusing on three of the deaths, all stemming from contact with rabid bats. CDC officials said
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition, killing at least three people as thousands took to the streets in the capital of Khartoum and other cities once again to protest the October military coup. In Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, two protesters were
Continue ReadingBy Amy Kawata Click here for updates on this story VIRGINIA (WJZ) — A nightmare of a road trip was saved by a truck full of baked goods. “I think it was probably hour 15 or 16 that we realized we were probably screwed,” said Casey Holihan, who was a stranded driver on I-95. What
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By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have officially severed ties with Antonio Brown, terminating the contract of the mercurial receiver who claimed he was fired in the middle of a game for not playing through an ankle injury. The Bucs announced the move Thursday, one day after
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A winter storm blanketed parts of the South with snow, freezing rain and sleet Thursday, tying up roads in Tennessee and Kentucky as the system tracked a path through Appalachia toward the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The National Weather Service says Nashville saw snowfall of 6.3 inches.
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By Ryan Nobles, CNN Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia and a member of the House committee investigating the Capitol Riot, announced on the anniversary of the attack that she will run for reelection in her Virginia Beach swing district. Of the Democrats on the panel, Luria represents a district that is at the
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A 29-year-old Santa Rosa woman will be spending more than six years in federal prison for providing fentanyl through an illegal distribution operation in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood that led to the deaths of 29-year-old Patrick O’Neill and his son Liam.
Continue Reading By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Goalkeeper Tuukka Rask is getting closer to returning to the Boston Bruins after signing a professional tryout agreement with Providence of the American Hockey League. Rask is currently a free agent, but he has spent 14 seasons with the Bruins and is the franchise’s leader in
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MISSION, Kan. (AP) — In a Jan. 5 story about a surge in COVID-19 patients in Kansas, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Dr. Sam Antonios is the chief medical officer for Ascension Via Christi in Wichita. He is the chief clinical officer, overseeing the system’s Kansas hospitals. The story should also have reflected that
Continue Reading By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Police in Ohio have released body camera footage showing an officer firing multiple rounds through a wooden privacy fence without warning at someone shooting gunfire into the air on the other side. Forty-six-year-old James Williams, of Canton, was shot in the chest minutes into the new year
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With the Covid-19 surge fueled by the Omicron variant disrupting numerous Broadway productions, one former Broadway actor recently stepped in to save the day. Carla Stickler had been working as a software engineer in Chicago when she got the call last weekend to fill in for one of the lead roles
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Una camioneta que tenía 10 cadáveres con signos de golpes fue abandonada en la madrugada de este jueves frente al Palacio de Gobierno de Zacatecas, en México, según informó la Fiscalía General de Justicia estatal a CNN. La entidad indicó que procesaron la escena y que llevaron el vehículo
Continue Reading By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal appeals court has declined to lift a three-state ban on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The ruling comes after a nationwide ban on the mandate for federal contractors was imposed by a federal judge in Georgia last month. A judge
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Las violentas protestas de los últimos días en Kazajstán han provocado la dimisión del gobierno y la declaración del estado de emergencia, mientras las tropas de una alianza militar dirigida por Rusia se encaminan al país de Asia Central en vuelto en el caos para ayudar a sofocar los disturbios. Es
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR and JAKE COYLE AP Film Writers Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” has died. He was 82. Bogdanovich died early Thursday morning at this home in Los Angeles, said his daughter Antonia Bogdanovich. She said he died of natural
Continue Reading GARDNER, Kan. (AP) — An outgoing suburban Kansas City, Kansas, school superintendent has secured a $425,000 severance package just days before newly-elected conservative school board members who campaigned on ousting her take office. The Kansas City Star reports that the Gardner Edgerton School District board last month approved the severance package covering the remaining 18
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