By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans who want the state to take over prosecutions of violent crimes in St. Louis are sharply criticizing the city’s embattled prosecutor after a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee lost her legs in a crash caused by a speeding driver facing felony charges. The remarks
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans who want the state to take over prosecutions of violent crimes in St. Louis are sharply criticizing the city’s embattled prosecutor after a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee lost her legs in a crash caused by a speeding driver facing felony charges. The remarks
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in Nevada, killing all five people on board, followed in the footsteps of his grandfather who flew bombers in World War II. A brother of 46-year-old Scott Walton of Allendale, Michigan says he was almost 40 when he
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in Nevada, killing all five people on board, followed in the footsteps of his grandfather who flew bombers in World War II. A brother of 46-year-old Scott Walton of Allendale, Michigan says he was almost 40 when he
Continue Reading DUPO, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a southern Illinois police officer is in critical but stable condition after being wounded while responding to a report of a man shot to death. The suspect, identified by authorities as 40-year-old Reginald Allen, was found dead Sunday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his garage in Dupo,
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Elon Musk recuperó el título de la persona más rica del mundo, según los cálculos de Bloomberg. El CEO de Tesla había perdido el primer lugar frente a Bernard Arnault, CEO de la marca de lujo francesa LVMH en diciembre de 2022, con lo que Musk quedó como el segundo en
Continue Reading By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer So far, baseball’s new speed-up rules are working. The first-ever major league pitch clock and other rules have helped cut more than 20 minutes from spring training games through the first weekend. The average time of game has dropped from 3 hours, 1 minute last spring to 2:39. Players
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By Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN The Department of Energy’s low-confidence assessment that Covid-19 most likely originated from a laboratory leak in China is still a minority view within the intelligence community, three sources familiar with the intelligence community’s findings tell CNN. While the FBI has also assessed — with
Continue Reading By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is making a new push to convince Libya’s rival factions to hold presidential and legislative elections this year. But any optimism was dampened Monday by a lack of details and continued disputes. Abdoulaye Bathily, the top U.N. diplomat for Libya, told the Security
Continue Reading By JOHN ANTCZAK and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Parts of the Southern Plains counted the injured and surveyed the damage Monday after tornadoes and other powerful winds swept through, killing at least one person in Oklahoma, while some Michigan residents faced a fifth consecutive day without power following last week’s ice
Continue Reading By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Tesla may receive over $300 million in tax abatements over the next two decades for a massive new expansion of its northern Nevada facility, the product of a 2014 deal for when the company first came to the area on the promise of new
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un sustituto del azúcar llamado eritritol ––que se utiliza para añadir volumen o endulzar la stevia, el fruto del monje y los productos keto reducidos en azúcar–– está relacionado con la formación de coágulos sanguíneos, apoplejías, el infarto de miocardio y la muerte, según un nuevo estudio. “El grado de riesgo
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales de Puerto Rico (DRNA) confirmó este lunes el cierre permanente del Zoológico Juan A. Rivero, localizado en el municipio de Mayagüez, en el oeste de la isla. Se trata del único zoológico que existe actualmente en Puerto Rico. Mediante un comunicado de prensa,
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to reform a landmark state environmental law after it was used to block needed student housing at the University of California, Berkeley. Newsom’s comments over the weekend followed a state appeals court ruling Friday that found the University
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski continued to overhaul his coaching staff following a 7-10 season, hiring Bill Musgrave as a senior offensive adviser and making several other changes. Stefanski’s offseason has previously included firing both defensive coordinator Joe Woods and special teams coordinator Mike Priefer. They
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in Nevada, killing all five people on board, followed in the footsteps of his grandfather who flew bombers in World War II. A brother of 46-year-old Scott Walton of Allendale, Michigan says he was almost 40 when he
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in Nevada, killing all five people on board, followed in the footsteps of his grandfather who flew bombers in World War II. A brother of 46-year-old Scott Walton of Allendale, Michigan says he was almost 40 when he
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says the Democrat is “on a path to recovery” after checking himself into a hospital for clinical depression earlier this month, and he is still expected to be away from the Senate for several weeks. “We understand the intense
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — “Hay muchísimos animales deambulando en las calles, otros atrapados desde hace casi tres semanas en apartamentos y casas que colapsaron, animales con heridas, infecciones, fracturas, y la mayoría asustados porque ellos también vivieron los terremotos”, cuenta la costarricense Grettel Delgadillo, subdirectora para Latinoamérica de la organización de bienestar animal Humane
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 confirm he has schizophrenia, with one expert finding he was “approaching catatonia” before being moved to the state mental hospital for treatment. The defense information, from a court filing earlier this month,
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