By DAVID KLEPPER and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican David Perdue has made election fraud the centerpiece of his run for Georgia governor. But if he hopes to win in this year’s midterm elections, his supporters will have to use the same democratic system he says they shouldn’t trust. The only way
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By JON GAMBRELL and CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces in the tunnels beneath Mariupol’s immense steel plant refused to surrender in the face of relentless attacks, with the wife of one commander saying they had vowed to “stand till the end.” The fight in the last Ukrainian
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Friday as fears spread that U.S. interest rate hikes to fight inflation might stall economic growth. Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney declined. Tokyo edged higher as trading resumed after a holiday. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index plunged 3.6%
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Vicky White, a former assistant director of corrections for Lauderdale County in Alabama, was once considered to be the perfect employee and a person whom her colleagues could trust. So when she disappeared alongside Casey White — an inmate being held on murder charges — in a swift escape that officials
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the employees in
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the employees in
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past year, America’s job market has run like a well-engineered machine, adding an impressive average of 540,000 workers a month despite a punishing inflation rate, Russia’s ruinous war against Ukraine, a still-risky pandemic, jittery financial markets and the prospect of much higher borrowing costs.
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Stacker offers a look at five new series produced by and streaming on Netflix that have been released in April.
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A man has entered a guilty plea in connection to a federal drug case in Jefferson City.
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — La mayoría de los estadounidenses dice que ahora no es el momento de poner fin a una restricción fronteriza de la era de la pandemia que el gobierno de Biden esperaba eliminar este mes, pero quienes dicen que debería continuar están divididos sobre cuánto tiempo debería permanecer vigente, según una nueva
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Mientras las autoridades continúan buscando a la agente de correccionales de Alabama y al recluso con el que desapareció, el Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos dijo que la agente, Vicky White, pudo haber teñido su cabello rubio de un tono más oscuro y ofreció representaciones de cómo podría lucir después
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Jose Altuve and rookie Jeremy Peña hit solo homers and Kyle Tucker’s RBI single in the ninth inning lifted the Houston Astros to a 3-2 win over the Detroit Tigers. Yordan Alvarez singled off Gregory Soto with no outs in the ninth and was replaced by
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By Whitney Wild, CNN Law enforcement officials in Washington, DC, are bracing for potential security risks posed by reactions to the leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade. An alert generated Thursday by US Capitol Police and reviewed by CNN warned about far-right calls for violence against a religious
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Thursday, May 5, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Tolton (0) Hickman (2) FINAL Laquey (1) Battle (2) FINAL Fulton (0) Moberly (1) FINAL Boonville (0) Smith-Cotton (8) FINAL HS BASEBALL Blair Oaks (7) Rock Bridge (6) FINAL
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By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, Chandelis Duster and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The opinion is the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades and will transform the landscape of women’s reproductive health in
Continue Reading By AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The New York Mets erased a six-run deficit in the ninth inning, capping the rally with Starling Marte’s tiebreaking double to beat the flabbergasted Philadelphia Phillies 8-7 Thursday night. With the Mets trailing 7-1, Marte led off the inning with an infield single against James Norwood and
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By Omar Jimenez, CNN Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, CNN Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic
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After a crash in Miller County last night took the life of a 16-year-old, ABC 17 looked at how many crashes have happened on Highway 42.
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Aleksander Barkov and Carter Verhaeghe each had a goal and an assist and the Florida Panthers topped the Washington Capitals 5-1 on Thursday night to even their Eastern Conference first-round series at a game apiece. Aaron Ekblad, Anton Lundell and Mason Marchment also scored for
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