By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Stellantis is shuttering its Illinois plant in February resulting in indefinite layoffs for 1,350 employees, the company said in a statement, citing increasing costs in the electric vehicle market. “Our industry has been adversely affected by a multitude of factors like the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the global microchip shortage, but
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va, (AP) — Work to relocate Richmond’s final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay the removal of the statue of Gen. A.P. Hill from its prominent spot in Virginia’s capital, an official said. Richmond Circuit Court Judge David Eugene Cheek Sr. last week rejected a
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo is out after 15 seasons at the helm. The academy said Sunday that Niumatalolo would not return. The announcement came a day after the Midshipmen lost to Army in overtime and finished 4-8 for the second straight year. Niumatalolo is the winningest coach in school history at
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The number of people killed in an apartment building explosion and fire on the English Channel Island of Jersey has risen to five, and four others are still unaccounted for, police said Sunday. Robin Smith, chief of Jersey Police, said specialist teams were continuing a painstaking search
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The top US hostage affairs official on Sunday reflected on conducting the prisoner swap that led to Brittney Griner’s release, saying the WNBA star immediately thanked the crew returning her to the United States. “When she finally got on to the US plane, I said, ‘Brittney, you must have been through
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, CNN Father Michael Pfleger, the senior pastor of the St. Sabina Parish in Chicago, has been reinstated after an independent review board found “no reason” to keep him away following the latest accusation of sexual abuse against him. Pfleger posted a picture of the letter from the archbishop of Chicago to the
Continue Reading SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Heavy snow fell in the Sierra Nevada as a winter storm packing powerful winds sent ski lift chairs swinging and closed mountain highways while downpours at lower elevations triggered flood watches across large swaths of California into Nevada. More than 250 miles of the Sierra remained under a winter
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By Don Riddell, CNN It was 5 a.m and I couldn’t sleep; my mind was replaying the extraordinary drama of Argentina’s penalty shootout victory over the Netherlands, over and over again. And then I checked my phone. I thought I was going to throw up. The American soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who’d also been covering
Continue ReadingBy NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian police say the bodies of 27 men believed to be Ethiopian nationals have been discovered in Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka. Danny Mwale, Deputy Police Public Relations officer, said in a statement that investigations indicate the bodies found Sunday were “all males aged between 20 and
Continue ReadingBy BRANDON TRUITT Click here for updates on this story SUDBURY, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The lights and decorations were on full display outside of Nev Del Corazon’s Sudbury home. The 5-year-old has been through more than most face in a lifetime. Nev was born with a heart defect and had her first surgery at a
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions — came to a momentous end as NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a successful ocean splashdown Sunday. The spacecraft finished the final stretch of its journey, closing in on the
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — DeAndre Hopkins has spent 10 years in the NFL and is now six months past his 30th birthday. That’s usually about the time even the greats start to slow down. The Arizona Cardinals star receiver is proving he’s an outlier. The Cardinals’ season has been
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NEW YORK (AP) — In the obituary for feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes published December 10, 2022, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Hughes co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem. While Hughes was often cited as a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, she did not in fact have a formal role with the publication. The two women
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.
Continue Reading By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer The announcement Sunday that a Libyan man suspected in the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet has been taken into U.S. custody put the spotlight back on the notorious terrorist attack and longstanding efforts to pursue those responsible. The suspect, Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, is accused of building
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL ABEYTA Click here for updates on this story AKRON, Colorado (KCNC) — Saturday was the first time Nickolas Bacon from Akron, Colorado, has ever been able to play football with his teenage son RyLee. He is the father of six kids who are all into sports and Nickolas gives them as much guidance
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — Patti LaBelle was abruptly rushed off stage just a couple of songs into her Christmas concert in Milwaukee after a bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate the theater. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that video from the Riverside Theater on Saturday night shows what appears to be two security officers interrupting
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By Theresa Waldrop Discount grocer Lidl is recalling a chocolate advent calendar made by Favorina after testing found that some may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria. The 8.4 oz advent calendar says “Premium Chocolate with a Creamy Filling” on the label and was sold by Lidl stores between October 12 and December 5. The problem
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a test flight that should clear the way for astronauts on the next lunar flyby. The incoming capsule hit the atmosphere at Mach 32,
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN PASTRANA Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Every Thursday afternoon the residents at Pinewood Villas senior community in Cutler Bay are eager for the arrival of the bookmobile. Many of these people do not have a car or have challenges with mobility. For Mary Sobel, it’s a weekly appointment.
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