By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer All-Star left-hander Martin Pérez has accepted a $19.65 million qualifying offer to remain with the Texas Rangers. Pérez returned to the Rangers on a $4 million contract before the start of spring training earlier this year. He went 12-8 with a career-best 2.89 ERA in 32 starts. Of 14
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers rookie receiver Christian Watson’s decision to celebrate his first career touchdown catch with a backflip may have seemed unusual considering the injuries he already has suffered this season. But who could blame him for wanting to commemorate his breakthrough performance in
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business There has long been a threshold that few issuers of store-branded credit cards have been willing to surpass: the 30% annual percentage rate. However, amid a rapid succession of blockbuster rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, those lines in the sand are quickly being crossed. At least a half-dozen major
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that first baseman Anthony Rizzo is staying with the New York Yankees, agreeing to a $40 million, two-year contract. Rizzo gets $17 million in each of the next two seasons, and the deal includes a
Continue Reading By TRAVIS JOHNSON Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Freshman linebacker Abdul Carter has already made a big impact for No. 11 Penn State. For a team that’s been fueled by freshman running backs Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton on offense, Carter is one of a handful of rookies who have emerged in Manny
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge on Wednesday put on hold for five weeks his ruling striking down the controversial Title 42 immigration policy, a Trump-era rule that’s allowed US authorities to expel more than 1 million migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan said in the
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Un juez federal bloqueó este martes el TÃtulo 42, una regla controvertida que ha permitido a las autoridades estadounidenses expulsar a más de 1 millón de migrantes que cruzaron la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. La orden judicial de este martes deja a la administración de Biden sin una de
Continue ReadingBy WCVB Staff Click here for updates on this story NATICK, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A Massachusetts home that predates the American Revolution and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places is up for sale in Natick. The 284-year-old home at 1 Frost St. is on the market for $1.25 million. The 3,253-square-feet antique
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN An attorney for a North Carolina man is calling for a criminal investigation into why his client, a 41-year-old Black man, was beaten while in custody at the Camden County, Georgia, Detention Center in September. In a news release, civil rights attorney Harry Daniels says his client Jarrett Hobbs was “mercilessly”
Continue Reading By Jasmine Wright Vice President Kamala Harris departs for Thailand and the Philippines on Wednesday to cast the US as the Indo-Pacific’s “better partner” for economic stability amid China’s push to expand its own influence in the region. The vice president’s visit comes on the heels of President Joe Biden’s weeklong trip in the same
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Temporary traffic-counting cameras will be set up on Wednesday and Thursday on Forum Boulevard to complete a traffic study. The cameras will point at various locations along Forum Boulevard. The traffic study – which is being conducted by Engineering Surveys & Services, a consultant for the City of Columbia Public Works —
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to former President Donald Trump’s recent criticism for the first time Tuesday, dismissing the attacks that he’s faced more broadly as “noise,” before adding that he would “just tell people to check out the scoreboard last Tuesday night.” “One of the things that
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By Hadas Gold, Michael Schwartz and Mohammed Najib, CNN At least three Israelis were killed and another three wounded when a Palestinian man went on a rampage near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The attack took place in multiple locations near the Israeli settlement of Ariel. The Israel Defense Forces
Continue ReadingBy KOCO Staff Click here for updates on this story MCALESTER, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Oklahoma is days away from executing death row inmate Richard Fairchild. Fairchild has been on death row since 1993 for killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, Adam Broomhall. In October, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted against recommending clemency for the
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Fulton Police Department posted on its Facebook page Tuesday that it arrested a man who is accused of two burglaries. Police later identified the man as Seth Adams, 34. Adams has been charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, first-degree property damage, three counts of stealing, resisting arrest, unlawful possession of
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Eric Levenson and Christina Maxouris, CNN The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in Los Angeles dropped four of the 11 charges against him on Tuesday after prosecutors said that they do not intend to proceed with counts connected to one of the accusers. The four dropped charges — two counts
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Offset has broken his social media silence about the death of Takeoff, a fellow member of platinum-selling rap group Migos. On Tuesday, Offset posted a note on his verified Instagram account, addressed to Takeoff, in which he wrote, “the pain you have left me with is unbearable.” “My heart is
Continue Reading By Jason Morris and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former national security adviser Michael Flynn must testify before an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a Florida judge ordered Tuesday. “I am going to make a finding that the witness is indeed
Continue ReadingBy Emily Sanderson Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WLWT) — Months after a baby hippo was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, there’s been some new developments at Hippo Cove. Officials with the Cincinnati Zoo posted to member Facebook pages saying hippos Fiona and Tucker have been breeding. “They are not related and
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Smoking weed while being a tobacco smoker may increase damage to the respiratory system, a new study found. “There’s a public perception that marijuana is safer than tobacco, and this study raises concern this may not be true,” said lead study author Dr. Giselle Revah, an assistant professor in the department
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