By Suzanne Le Mignot Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Outrageous claims of a false confession coaxed out of a 15-year-old. The teen’s attorney said cops tricked him with the offer of fast food. CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot reports from Waukegan where the teen had an air tight alibi. He’s
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HAMILTON, N.Y. — Jack Ferguson scored 15 points, Keegan Records had 11 points and 11 rebounds, and Colgate defeated American University 63-49, the Raiders’ 10th consecutive victory. Tucker Richardson added 13 points for Colgate. Stacy Beckton Jr. had 16 points and seven rebounds for American.
Continue ReadingBy Denise Koch Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Ian Wright was born severely autistic. By the time he was 25 he was on 15 medications and almost catatonic, his mom Michelle Wright said. She said medical cannabis changed Ian and his family’s life. Michelle is so convinced of the medicinal
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GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — A huge Louisiana oil refinery has been rocked by an explosion and fire that injured five workers. Officials later gave the all-clear sign, but it was not immediately clear what caused Monday morning’s blast at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. plant in Garyville, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Marathon says five
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By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa House Republicans have approved a bill that prohibits transgender girls from participating in girls sports moving the direction of about 10 other Republican-run state legislatures in passing the controversial measure. Opponents say the bill which passed on party lines 55 to 39 is discriminatory
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Baseball negotiations have resumed with new intensity in an effort to salvage opening day. Owners made a pair of slight moves Monday toward locked-out players but put off big-ticket bargaining issues until later. With a week or perhaps a little more time left to preserve
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By Ben Morse, Kevin Dotson and Amir Vera, CNN Michigan head basketball coach Juwan Howard is out for the rest of the regular season after throwing a punch toward Wisconsin’s coaching staff following the Wolverines’ loss to the Badgers on Sunday. The Big Ten Conference has suspended Howard for five games. Howard was also issued
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard has been suspended the final five games of the regular season and fined $40,000 for hitting a Wisconsin assistant in the head, triggering a postgame melee. The Big Ten Conference also suspended three players one game for the altercation
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La decisión del presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, de reconocer los territorios escindidos del este de Ucrania como independientes podría ser la ofensiva inicial de una posible operación militar más grande dirigida a Ucrania, dicen casi una docena de funcionarios estadounidenses y occidentales a CNN. “Esto es política Potemkin”, dijo un
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By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler, Jim Sciutto and Alex Marquardt, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to recognize breakaway eastern Ukrainian territories as independent could be the opening phase of a larger potential military operation targeting Ukraine, nearly a dozen US and western officials told CNN. “This is Potemkin politics,” a senior administration
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By Laura He and Rob McLean, CNN Business Global stock markets tumbled and crude oil prices surged to $99 per barrel on Tuesday after Russia ordered troops into parts of eastern Ukraine. Wall Street also fell as traders returned from the holiday weekend, but stocks finished off their lows of the day. The Dow briefly
Continue Reading By Laura He and Rob McLean, CNN Business Global stock markets tumbled and crude oil prices surged to $99 per barrel on Tuesday after Russia ordered troops into parts of eastern Ukraine. European markets dropped in early trading. The FTSE 100 dipped 0.4% in London, while France’s CAC 40 shed 0.8%. Germany’s DAX tumbled 1.4%.
Continue Reading CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Elias Lindholm’s go-ahead goal with 47 seconds remaining extended his goal streak to eight games and the Calgary Flames tied a franchise record with their 10th consecutive victory, winning 3-1 over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday. Sean Monahan and Tyler Toffoli, into an empty net, also scored for Calgary, which wrapped
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To understand why we’ve come to expect these types of temperature swings each year, we have to start at the top. Each winter, the jet stream migrates south and can often be found roaring over the Central U.S. This time of the year. This often sends disturbances in our atmosphere right over our heads. These
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Baseball negotiations resumed with renewed intensity Monday in an effort to salvage opening day, and Major League Baseball made slight moves toward locked-out players. With perhaps a week left to salvage opening day, union head Tony Clark attended negotiations for the first time since the
Continue Reading By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer NFL agents and their clients are rankled over COVID-19 restrictions at the league’s upcoming scouting combine that threaten expulsion if they go outside a “bubble” and limit them to bringing a single support person such as an athletic trainer or massage therapist. The idea of a boycott has
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Carnival Cruises relajará sus normas sobre el uso de mascarillas. Un comunicado de la compañía indica que las máscaras se recomendarán pero no serán obligatorias a bordo de los viajes que salgan a partir del 1 de marzo. “Hemos tenido un reinicio muy exitoso de las operaciones gracias al apoyo de
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By Amir Vera, CNN Defense attorneys rested their case Monday in the federal civil rights trial of three former officers involved in George Floyd’s death. All three officers have testified about their points of view on May 25, 2020, when Floyd, a Black man, was fatally restrained. With each vantage point now on record, the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una de las partes más duras del trabajo de Jonathan Modlich estos días es decir a las familias en duelo que no sabe cuándo tendrá listas las lápidas para sus seres queridos. Los trastornos en la cadena de suministro mundial provocados por la pandemia están sacudiendo al sector productor nacional de
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La esposa de Juan Orlando Hernández, expresidente de Honduras, presentó este lunes ante el Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (Conadeh) una denuncia por supuesta violación a los derechos del exmandatario durante su arresto y posterior presentación ante los medios de comunicación el martes 15 de febrero en Tegucigalpa. La
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