By Betsy Webster Click here for updates on this story GRANDVIEW, Missouri (KCTV) — Finding the glass broken out of your car is something a lot of city dwellers have experienced once. But what happened in Grandview in the overnight hours between Monday and Tuesday this week is something that stunned even a seasoned detective
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN A tiger attacked an employee of a Florida Everglades tourist attraction Tuesday, leaving him hospitalized with severe injuries, officials said. The tiger was being fed by its caretaker in an enclosed area around 4:30 p.m. when another employee who was not authorized to go inside entered the enclosure, the Collier County
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Robbers smashed the front window of a Beverly Hills jewelry store in broad daylight and fled with millions of dollars worth of merchandise. Witnesses recorded video of Tuesday’s assault on the store, which is the latest in a long string of brazen smash-and-grab thefts and robberies of people wearing expensive
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN An official from the US embassy in Moscow found US basketball player Brittney Griner to be “in good condition,” after they were recently granted consular access to the American athlete who is being detained in Russia, US State Department spokesman Ned Price told CNN on Wednesday. The embassy official was granted
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By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review finds that state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion worth of federal coronavirus aid on projects that have little to do with combating the pandemic. The spending runs the gamut. In Broward County, Florida, $140 million will help to build an
Continue Reading By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review finds that state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion worth of federal coronavirus aid on projects that have little to do with combating the pandemic. The spending runs the gamut. In Broward County, Florida, $140 million will help to build an
Continue Reading By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review finds that state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion worth of federal coronavirus aid on projects that have little to do with combating the pandemic. The spending runs the gamut. In Broward County, Florida, $140 million will help to build an
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Instagram is bringing back a version of its news feed that sorts posts in reverse chronological order rather than ranked according to the platform’s algorithms. However, the company said it will leave its algorithm ranking method on by default. The new option, which rolls out to users globally on
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By Matt Egan JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon urged President Joe Biden in an off-the-record meeting this week to develop a “Marshall Plan” to fortify the energy security of the United States and Europe, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN Wednesday. Dimon’s comments came during a Monday meeting of business leaders and
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jury selection begins Thursday in St. Louis in the perjury and evidence tampering trial of the man whose investigation played a key role in former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation in 2018. Private investigator William Tisaby was indicted in 2019 on six counts of perjury and
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The UK government is cutting payroll taxes and duties on fuel in an attempt to take some of the sting out of the worst cost of living crisis in decades. But it resisted calls to impose a new windfall tax on oil company profits to raise money to fund more
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business US drivers got a slight — very slight — break on prices this weekend as the AAA average for a gallon of unleaded gas fell below the $5 mark. The average price Sunday was $4.98 a gallon, down from $4.99 in Saturday’s reading. The average gas price had been $5
Continue ReadingBy Troy Washington Click here for updates on this story DESOTO PARISH, Louisiana (KTBS) — Some DeSoto Parish residents who are used to facing flooding after storms are now saying it is the mosquitos that are currently causing concerns. KTBS did some digging and found that three times there was a proposal that included mosquito
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The meme stocks are back. Shares of GameStop and AMC, two companies beloved by traders on Reddit and other social media platforms, are surging again. Shares of GameStop rose more than 30% Tuesday and were up another 16% Wednesday. AMC soared 15% Tuesday and gained 20% Wednesday. GameStop
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — A joint venture between Stellantis and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution plans to build a large electric vehicle battery factory in Windsor, Ontario, employing about 2,500 people. The venture plans to spend $4.1 billion ($5 billion Canadian) to build the new plant on a field in the Canadian city just across a
Continue Reading The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will demand that “unfriendly″ countries pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on. Putin told a meeting with government officials that “a number of Western countries made illegitimate decisions on the so-called freezing of the Russian assets, effectively drawing
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been caught off guard by the West’s united front deploying tough sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine — and that the Biden administration deserves credit for helping foster that unity. “Putin perceived weakness and disunity,”
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN The war in Ukraine is only a month old, but its shockwaves are already being felt as far away as the Middle East, putting governments on edge as tensions simmer at home. “This crisis may be significantly more severe than the coronavirus crisis,” said Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly during a
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union judicial cooperation agency Eurojust says that a man suspected in the weekend killing of former Argentina rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu has been arrested in Hungary. Paris prosecutors opened a murder investigation after Aramburu was fatally shot in Paris on Saturday. Aramburu made 22 international appearances for Argentina
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By Brian Fung, CNN Microsoft has confirmed it was breached by the hacker group Lapsus$, adding to the cyber gang’s growing list of victims. In a blog post late Tuesday, Microsoft said Lapsus$ had compromised one of its accounts, resulting in “limited access” to company systems but not the data of any Microsoft customers. “Our
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