By CHRIS TYE, JERMONT TERRY Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — An off-duty Chicago police officer was shot in the face during a road rage incident in Irving Park East Tuesday afternoon. Late Tuesday, the hunt for the shooter remained on. The incident took place around 3:10 p.m. near the intersection
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By The Associated Press Two former Big East rivals with a long and tense rivalry will square off at Lane Stadium when West Virginia plays at Virginia Tech. The Mountaineers enter with one of the nation’s most potent offenses and will face one of the stingiest defenses and a highly charged crowd. The Hokies are
Continue Reading By BRANDON GDULA numberFire How likely are you to bench Green Bay’s Aaron Jones after a two-touchdown game? Not very. We can say that we need to scale back expectations against a tough Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive front, but let’s contextualize it for this week. Tampa Bay ranks well overall against the rush, but is
Continue ReadingBy ELIJAH WESTBROOK Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Twenty-eight-year-old pop phenomenon Harry Styles is shaking things up at Madison Square Garden. His “Love on Tour 2022” trek ends Wednesday night and is all the buzz on social media for its record-breaking run. CBS2’s Elijah Westbrook has been following the
Continue Reading BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina’s government has entered the squabble between shop owners and the local manufacturers of popular but scarce World Cup sticker albums. Soccer fans in the South American nation have struggled to find the collectible stickers two months before the tournament kicks off in Qatar. Argentina’s trade department convened a meeting Tuesday
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business When Ford chief executive Jim Farley split the company’s passenger vehicle business into two parts — one for electric cars, the other for gasoline-powered vehicles — Farley put himself in charge of the electric car business, a division called Model e. The assumption among a lot of industry observers was
Continue ReadingBy JOAN MURRAY Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — It’s been six months since Collette Black’s world was shattered. In March, her 34-year-old son Steven Black was shot to death at a neighborhood convenience store. “I want to see my son again, do his laundry, cook shrimp for him,”
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones and Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologists Hurricane Fiona is the strongest hurricane of the Atlantic season, and now forecast models show a developing storm system could become a monstrous threat to the US Gulf Coast by next week. An area of disorganized activity over the southeastern Caribbean Sea will likely become the next
Continue ReadingBy MATT PETRILLO Click here for updates on this story DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (KYW) — A family is grieving in South jersey after a father and son were killed in a small plane crash in Cumberland County on Monday. The family said Tuesday their pain is unimaginable. The family identified those on board the
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By Kylie Atwood and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN Two American veterans and five British citizens who had been held by Russian-backed forces for months have been released as part of the prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine that was brokered by Saudi Arabia. Family members of Americans Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, who
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Training camps open around the NHL this week less than 90 days since Colorado won the Stanley Cup. Players are used to the short summers by now after the pandemic squeezed the past two offseasons. But this is the return to the normal calendar of meaningful hockey from October
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels is calling on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to halt all paroles in the state, even though a governor can’t unilaterally order them to stop and some paroles are mandated by law. Michels has been hitting Evers as being soft on crime,
Continue Reading By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — The judge overseeing the Connecticut trial of Alex Jones says she is prepared to handle any incendiary testimony from the Infowars host when he is called to the stand this week. Judge Barbara Bellis found Jones and Infowars’ parent company liable by default
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers A 99-day streak of falling gasoline prices — a streak that gave consumers a glimmer of hope that red-hot inflation might be cooling — has ended, with pump prices still much higher than a year ago. The nationwide average price for a gallon ticked up less
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El gobierno del presidente Joe Biden anunció este miércoles que, a partir de principios del próximo año, la embajada de Estados Unidos en La Habana, Cuba, reanudará el procesamiento completo de visas de inmigrantes por primera vez desde 2017, a medida que los funcionarios fronterizos se enfrentan a un número cada vez
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — NATO has sent a senior-level delegation to Albania on Wednesday to help the tiny Western Balkan country cope with the consequences of recent cyberattack that the government blamed on Iran. NATO said the alliance’s deputy assistant secretary general led a team of experts to offer the
Continue Reading LISBON, Portugal (AP) — This year’s World Cup apparently won’t be the end for Cristiano Ronaldo. The 37-year-old Portugal star says he is not considering retiring from international soccer in December after the tournament in Qatar. He says plans to play at the 2024 European Championship. Ronaldo says he is “still motivated” and that his
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company for fraud on Wednesday, alleging they padded his net worth by billions of dollars by manipulating the value of prized assets including golf courses, hotels and his homes at Trump
Continue Reading By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An independent commission in Ohio has canceled a pair of debates in the state’s governor’s and U.S. Senate races because the Republican candidates declined to participate. The Ohio Debate Commission expressed disappointment on Wednesday that neither Republican Gov. Mike DeWine nor Senate nominee JD Vance
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Robert Sarver says he has started the process of selling the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury, a move that came barely a week after he was suspended by the NBA over workplace misconduct that included racist speech and hostile behavior toward employees. The decision was quickly applauded by many
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