By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates have added another arm to their weary pitching staff. They brought up right-hander Beau Sulser from Triple-A Indianapolis. It’s the first major league promotion for Sulser, the brother of Miami Marlins reliever Cole Sulser. Beau Sulser turns 28 on May 5. He went
Continue ReadingBy NICK SLOAN Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (KCTV) — Nearly a dozen ducklings were rescued Friday by staff from the Overland Park Parks and Animal Control department. The ducklings, swimming at South Lake Park, swam into an overflow spillway. “Staff spent several hours saving 11 of the cutest ducklings
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By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Exit polls in Slovenia’s parliamentary vote suggest a strong lead for the opposition liberals over the ruling right-wing populists of Prime Minister Janez Jansa. The polls conducted by the Mediana polling agency and published by public broadcaster TV Slovenia and commercial Pop TV show the opposition
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By Nimi Princewill and Eyad Kourdi, CNN Women and children are among the scores of people killed in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in a border town in southern Nigeria, authorities say. “The fire occurred in an illegal bunkering site situated at the boundary between Rivers State and Imo State,” the Nigeria Security
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SOUTH ST LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — St. John’s United Church of Christ is working to honor a young boy’s memory by raising money to build a community playground. The boy, Logan Zielinski, was killed in a car accident last year. Family members said Logan
Continue ReadingBy NICK STARLING Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — From coast to coast, the fight to save Melissa Lucio hit the streets on Saturday, April 23, 2022. She was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter Mariah in 2007. Now at 53-years-old, she’s on Texas’ death row and is scheduled to
Continue ReadingBy Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — A Minnesota girl is blazing a trail as an entrepreneur at just 3 years old. For AJ Smith, it all started a year ago. “From the age of 2, she’s always really been into watching me when I wear makeup,” AJ’s
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — It’s art with a purpose. Damon Lamar Reed has spent the past year creating vibrant murals of Black women and girls who have been missing from the Chicago area for some decades. One of them is Jerrica Laws, who has been
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — From bucolic villages to humming cities, French voters are choosing between two radically different sets of plans for the future of France. Centrist President Emmanuel Macron is offering continuity if he is reelected for a second term, while his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is pledging seismic
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By Charbel Mello, Eyad Kourdi and Mia Alberti, CNN, and Reuters An overloaded boat transporting around 60 people who were fleeing Lebanon for an unknown destination capsized near the northern port of Tripoli on Saturday evening, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. A Lebanese naval official said at least six people, including a girl, died;
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA BECKER Click here for updates on this story KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A Kenosha artist is using paint to help others deal with their traumas and anxieties. Katy Wallner started painting years ago as a form of therapy and expression, but she never thought it would turn into a business. “Just letting every
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — A 55-year-old woman previously employed by the Motor Vehicle Administration pleaded guilty Friday to selling fraudulent Maryland driver’s licenses, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Marion Rose Payne, of Harwood, Md., and an unnamed co-conspirator would sell often sell the bogus
Continue ReadingBy ELIJAH WESTBROOK Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WCBS) — A Bergen County community will gather Sunday to remember 18-year-old Clinten Ajit, after police recovered the high school senior’s body in a New Milford pond. The wake for Ajit is scheduled for 4 p.m. at St. Peter’s Mar Thoma
Continue ReadingBy Bryant Reed Click here for updates on this story PLUM, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A neighborhood has been left rattled after a home exploded in Plum Borough, leaving nothing but pieces behind. A cousin of the family involved in the explosion told KDKA that all five members of the family who were injured are out
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Roberts Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A local program is celebrating four decades of helping people with Autism through horse therapy. Eyewitness News is taking you to Pegasus Riding Academy in Northeast Philadelphia. This trot around the arena is anything but ordinary for 18-year-old Brandon Budd and
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — Toy grenades discovered in some luggage in the cargo area of Miami International Airport led to a large police presence including a bomb squad response. The suspicious items, at first believed to be two grenades, were found inside luggage in a
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BUNCOMBE COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A medical examiner report shows methamphetamine toxicity and pulmonary edema caused the death of a female Buncombe County inmate in January. Newly released reports in April show Maria Frisbee was sent to Mission Hospital more than three hours after
Continue ReadingBy Ashley RK Smith and Lezla Gooden Click here for updates on this story WATERTOWN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A 4-year-old has died after becoming entangled in farm equipment. On April 23, the Watertown Police and Fire Departments responded to a field on Barnes Road between Lake Winnemaug Road and Bunker Hill Road after receiving reports
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities say the death toll from accidents in recent days at two coal mines in southern Poland has increased to nine after four miners were brought to the surface and pronounced dead on Sunday. The miners were among 10 who had been missing since an underground tremor and methane gas
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN John Kerry has a mission: To convince the rest of the world to embrace renewable energy and slash their planet-warming emissions. But the US Climate Envoy’s job isn’t getting any easier in year two. With global temperatures and fossil fuel emissions climbing to new highs, Russia’s war in Ukraine is roiling
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