By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — One of three teens accused of starting a fire that killed five immigrants from Senegal in 2020 at a Denver home has been sentenced under a deal that calls for him to get 10 years in custody — seven years in prison and three years in juvenile
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DENVER (AP) — University of Denver basketball player Coban Porter has been charged with felony counts of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault stemming from a suspected drunken-driving crash that killed a 42-year-old woman. Porter is the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr. Investigators say Corban Porter smelled of alcohol and his speech was
Continue Reading By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A weekend shooting in west Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood killed two people and left three others injured, including two young children whose mother later died. Less than two weeks earlier, a man was stabbed to death at the same busy intersection. Residents say the violence illustrates a larger
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Una pareja abandonó a su bebé en un mostrador del aeropuerto en Tel Aviv, en Israel, después de presentarse sin un boleto para el niño. La pareja, que no ha sido identificada, se registró para un vuelo de Ryanair este martes desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Ben Gurion hacia Bruselas, Bélgica. Se
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco building inspectors have given Twitter’s construction contractor two weeks to submit a corrected building use permit to keep converted bedrooms at headquarters. The correction notice issued Monday from San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection to Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company asks the contractor to correctly label conference rooms as sleeping
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in the global waterway was unaffected, a canal spokesperson said. The Bahamas-flagged Grace Emilia suffered a malfunction of its rudder and tugboats pulled it to the side of the canal to
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Amy Simonson, CNN Multiple Michigan agencies are investigating what happened to three local rappers who went missing 10 days ago after a performance at a club was canceled, Detroit police said Monday. Armani Kelly, 28, Dante Wicker, 31 and Montoya Givens, 31, who are all associates, were supposed to perform at
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street climbed Wednesday to its best level since the summer following the latest hike to interest rates by the Federal Reserve, which said it’s finally seeing improvements in inflation. The S&P 500 rallied back from an early 1% loss to
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By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — General manager Jim Nill sensed things coming together for the Dallas Stars even before the season started with new coach Pete DeBoer and a roster mixed with proven veterans and up-and-coming young players. These Stars have played 51 games together, and go into the NHL’s All-Star
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is mustering its military might in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, officials said Wednesday, in what Kyiv suspects is preparation for an offensive as the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion approaches. Also Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government continued its crackdown on alleged corruption with the
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN An Iranian couple, both social media influencers, have been given lengthy prison sentences after a video emerged of them dancing in a main square in the capital Tehran. In a video shared widely on social media, Astiyazh Haghighi, 21, is seen dancing without a headscarf with her fiancé Amir Mohammad Ahmadi,
Continue Reading DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New Jersey Devils associate coach and former Florida Panthers head coach Andrew Brunette has been arrested in South Florida and charged with driving under the influence. Broward County jail records say Brunette was pulled over Wednesday in the Deerfield Beach area, north of Fort Lauderdale. He was also charged with
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By Clare Duffy, CNN For years, Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg invested heavily in growth, including in areas like virtual reality with unproven potential. But after a brutal year in which the company lost more than $600 billion in market value, Zuckerberg has started speaking Wall Street’s language — and they are rewarding him
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia will be getting some financial help from the federal government to improve its roads and hopefully reduce traffic deaths. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced in a Wednesday press release that $800 million in grant awards for 510 projects through the Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant Program would be
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear with lows in the low to mid-20s. Breezy with wind gusts up to 20 mph. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny early with highs in the mid-upper 40s. Breezy with clouds moving in late in the day. EXTENDED: Winds pick up from the west/southwest tomorrow, sending our temperatures into the mid-upper 40s
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends remembered him with songs of faith and heartfelt tributes Wednesday, blending a celebration of his life with outraged calls for police reform after the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police. Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The prolific pace of school-switching among college players has helped some NFL prospects have breakout seasons and demonstrate they can adapt to a new system. They’re hoping that pays off in the draft. Offensive lineman O’Cyrus Torrence followed his coach, Billy Napier, from Louisiana-Lafayette to
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA FAN Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Members of the City Council are planning to tour the new shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal after controversy broke out over the conditions there. Asylum seekers have been hesitant to move from the Watson Hotel in Midtown, citing a lack
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday mourned the death of Tyre Nichols, calling his death at the hands of police a moment that demands congressional police reform. “Was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? So when we talk about public safety, let us understand what it means
Continue ReadingBy JACKIE KOSTEK Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A multi-million dollar settlement was reached after a 12-year-old Markham boy was shot during a police raid in 2019. The attorney for Amir Worship said they reached a $12 million settlement for the boy, who is now permanently disabled after being shot
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