By Karen Morfitt Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Fentanyl has become a focus for Colorado lawmakers as the number of deaths involving the drug continues to climb. Last month, five people in Commerce city died after inhaling cocaine, laced with fentanyl. In December, a teenage girl overdosed in class in
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By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer After a week of mayhem on lively San Francisco Bay, it’s not unrealistic to think that SailGP’s $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 championship will go to the last F50 catamaran remaining in one piece. It’s been that kind of season for tech tycoon Larry Ellison’s globe-trotting league, which has
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Singer and rapper Doja Cat signaled she may be taking a break from music following an online exchange on Thursday. Doja was scheduled to perform as part of the Asunciónico festival in Paraguay earlier this week, which was canceled due to flooding. Some on Twitter expressed disappointment that the artist
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower-court opinion requiring the Navy to deploy special operations forces even though they have refused to get vaccinated for Covid-19. The court’s order means that while special operations forces — including more than two dozen Navy SEALs
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ROCKWALL, Texas (KTVT) — Law Enforcement officials detained five Royce City High School students for participating in the TikTok ‘Orbeez Challenge’ on March 25. The viral challenge involves using air guns to shoot Orbeez — gel beads that expand in water — at people. The
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A Columbia man was charged with multiple crimes after a Thursday night shooting and car chase.
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By SAM METZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP lawmakers in Utah have pushed through a ban on transgender youth athletes playing on girls’ teams, overriding a veto and joining 11 other states with similar laws amid a nationwide culture war. The Friday vote followed Cox’s veto letter that said
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story DANVERS, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The North Shore NAACP is demanding changes in the Danvers Police Department because of a hazing scandal involving the high school hockey team. A Danvers officer was the coach at the time. In a public meeting Thursday night, a representative from
Continue ReadingBy DOROTHY TUCKER, CAROL THOMPSON Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Joseph Walawski opened a mattress shop in the 5700 block of busy West Fullerton Avenue three years ago. “I enjoy selling mattresses,” he said. But it’s been a struggle. Walawski has had to juggle other jobs with trying to get
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Black News Channel shut down on Friday after failing to meet its payroll and losing the support of its chief investor, Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan. The network, founded by former GOP congressman J.C. Watts, relaunched last year following an investment by Khan, hiring
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By Ryan Nobles, Jamie Gangel, Gloria Borger and Zachary Cohen, CNN Members of the House Select Committee investigating January 6 are discussing whether to call Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to come before the panel, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While some members have raised the possibility of
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Cutera, Titan rise; Huntsman, General Motors fall.
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders struggled for hours Friday to find a compromise on a deal aimed at curbing energy prices that have gone through the roof and hurt households and businesses across the 27-nation bloc. There was a clear rift between southern and northern nations during
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou’s men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates will earn $16.5 million of guaranteed money in his contract over the next six years. ABC 17 News did an open records request to receive the contract. Details show the six year deal has an annual base salary of $300,000. Gates will be starting at $2.5
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks wound up mostly higher on Wall Street Friday after another day of bouncing around as traders try to figure out what’s next for the economy. It was a fitting ending for a bumpy week that had both gains and losses for major U.S. indexes.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A rideshare driver with a license to carry shot and wounded a would-be carjacker in the South Austin community on the city’s West Side Thursday evening. Police said at 6:32 p.m., the driver – a 30-year-old man – picked up three men
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — In an effort to put the brakes on the rowdy late night, sometimes violent, behavior of the spring break crowds on Miami Beach, a curfew has gone into effect in the city’s entertainment district. The nightly curfew started at 11:59 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Miami-Dade Animal Services is urging dog owners to keep a watch on their pets out in public as a new highly contagious disease spreads across South Florida. It’s called Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease Complex (CIRDC). “Canine infectious respiratory disease complex is
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hours after Formula One drivers voiced concerns about a race already dogged by human rights issues, Saudi Arabia’s war with Yemen landed on F1’s doorstep when Houthi rebels attacked an oil depot near the glittering Saudi track where they were racing. Yemen’s Houthi
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By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The FBI is offering a $15,000 reward for information on a January 6 fugitive accused of assaulting multiple officers during the attack on the US Capitol, who the agency has been trying to arrest since June. Jonathan Daniel Pollock — one of a group of Floridians accused of
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