By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer A leading English rugby club has joined the ranks of professional sports teams rebranding themselves away from offensive Native American imagery. Exeter Chiefs are keeping their nickname — inspired by the region’s Celtic history — but are replacing their logo after critics complained that headdresses and “tomahawk chop” chants
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks wobbled in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and are still on track for another week of losses to continue a miserable opening to the year. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4% and the Nasdaq was unchanged. Investors are anxiously watching
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Airlines have canceled thousands of flights this weekend as a powerful winter storm packing strong winds and many inches of snow is set to envelop major cities on the East Coast. According to FlightAware, nearly 5,000 flights within, into or out of the United States were canceled through Saturday and
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer College basketball blue bloods No. 12 Kentucky and No. 5 Kansas meet in the biggest matchup involving a Southeastern Conference team this weekend. Most of the weekend’s action is part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge. That includes No. 1 Auburn hosting Oklahoma and fourth-ranked Baylor visiting slumping Alabama. The
Continue Reading By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer College basketball blue bloods No. 12 Kentucky and No. 5 Kansas meet in the biggest matchup involving a Southeastern Conference team this weekend. Most of the weekend’s action is part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge. That includes No. 1 Auburn hosting Oklahoma and fourth-ranked Baylor visiting slumping Alabama. The
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Worries over soaring prices and the Omicron variant of the coronavirus soured Americans’ views of the economy in January. US consumer sentiment in January fell nearly 5% to the lowest level since November 2011, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey showed Friday. Survey respondents felt worse about both the
Continue ReadingBy LEZLA GOODEN Click here for updates on this story WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — Waterbury Public Schools is making sure that its staff are receiving necessary Narcan training for their students after a Hartford student died from a Fentanyl overdose. Dozens of staff members learned how to properly use the Narcan nose spray medication. They
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say a man was shot to death in the parking lot of an East Side gas station in Kansas City. The Kansas City Star reports that the Thursday night killing was the latest in what has been a violent week for the city, marking the fourth shooting death since
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY WEIL Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — social media challenge is causing problems in Vancouver because it calls for people to kick in doors of unsuspecting homeowners. Police say this happened at least seven times in one neighborhood in under an hour Wednesday night. Matthew Trimble said a
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden will proceed with his planned trip to Pittsburgh on Friday to talk about strengthening the nation’s infrastructure hours after a bridge collapsed not far from where he is scheduled to deliver remarks, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. The White House is in touch with state and
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By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday touted his administration’s efforts to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure in Pittsburgh on Friday, hours after a bridge in the city collapsed. Hours before the President was set to travel to to Steel City, a snow-covered bridge collapsed and left several people injured. No
Continue ReadingBy SARAH HURWITZ Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland businesses continue to get hit with vandalism and burglaries. Local advocacy group Bricks Need Mortar recently surveyed 110 Portland businesses on this growing issue. It found nearly 63% have been vandalized or broken into in the last year and a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Wabash Bus Station is set to open as a temporary overnight warming center Friday, according to a release from the City of Columbia. In the release, the city said the warming center, located at 126 N. 10th St., will be open from 7 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday. The city
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police are searching for a suspect after a woman was found stabbed to death on the front porch of a St. Louis day care facility. Police say officers were called to the Greater Ville neighborhood around 7:20 p.m. Thursday and found the woman dead from puncture wounds. Police have not released
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against a British businessmen it accused of fraud after purchasing his software company Autonomy a decade ago. The decision by the U.K.’s High Court also removes a hurdle for the potential extradition to the U.S. of Autonomy’s founder, British entrepreneur Michael Lynch.
Continue ReadingBy ZOE BROWN Click here for updates on this story JACKSON COUNTY, Missouri (KCTV) — A man who was a nurse at an Independence hospital has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping a patient of his. According to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, Chukwuemeka U. Emmanuel was convicted in November of first-degree
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Desde muy chico, Diego Verdaguer saltó a la fama en uno de los programas más populares de Argentina, su tierra natal, y empezó una prolífica carrera musical, que hoy, ni siquiera con su muerte este 27 de enero, puede apagarse. El popular cantante de éxitos como “El pasadiscos”, “Volveré”
Continue Reading By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — New York state is now looking at lowering the farm worker overtime threshold from 60 hours a week. Some workers and their advocates say the change would bring long-delayed justice to agricultural workers in New York, many of whom are Latino. But the prospect is alarming
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) estima que para 2030 el número de personas con nuevos diagnósticos de cáncer en América Latina aumentará en un 32%, y cada año más de 5 millones de personas se sumarán a quienes padecen ese mal. Y para estas personas la innovación tecnológica podría
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Kia is recalling more than 410,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix a problem that can stop the air bags from inflating in a crash. The recall covers certain Forte small cars from the 2017 and 2018 model years, and Sedona minivans and Soul small SUVs from 2017 through 2019. The electric
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