NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Tennessee governor Don Sundquist has died after a short illness. He was 87. The family of the two-term Republican governor says he died peacefully at a Memphis hospital surrounded by family members following a short illness. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says Sundquist “took great pride in bringing people together, regardless
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — “Un café con leche helado alto con crema de calabaza y té chai, por favor” es un pedido que pronto se convertirá en habitual en las tiendas Starbucks de todo el país. A medida que nos adentramos en la temporada de bebidas de fin de año, los largos pedidos de Starbucks con
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By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — A week after clinching Spain’s first Women’s World Cup, the country’s soccer federation is at war with the very players who brought home the trophy. The scandal began just moments after La Roja’s historic 1-0 victory against England, when the head of the Spanish football federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales,
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A 37-year-old banker from Turin is being hailed a hero after miraculously catching an Italian toddler who fell from her family’s fifth floor balcony on Saturday. Mattia Aguzzi said he and his girlfriend were walking to a bread shop in central Turin, Italy just before 11 a.m.
Continue ReadingCNN By Jillian Sykes and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania Park Manager Sarah Lindgren is no stranger to wildlife, so when she saw a bear cub in distress, she knew exactly what to do. Lindgren was driving through Cross Fork, a small village in northern Pennsylvania on Sunday, when she spotted a young bear
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania Park Manager Sarah Lindgren is no stranger to wildlife, so when she saw a bear cub in distress, she knew exactly what to do. Lindgren was driving through Cross Fork, a small village in northern Pennsylvania on Sunday, when she spotted a young bear on
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Alicia Witt, known for performances in “Urban Legend” and “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” has put her creativity toward new music. On Friday, Witt released a 6-song EP called “Witness,” telling CNN in a recent interview the collection of songs and it’s title track were “born as a sort of mantra.”
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was seriously hurt after being thrown from his jet ski Saturday night at the Lake of the Ozarks. According to an online incident report, Matthew Kissinger, 23 of Parkville Missouri was injured when he was thrown from his jet ski while trying to jump a wake on the Gravois
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A storm with large hailstones has damaged four-fifths of the buildings in a small town in the southern German state of Bavaria. The storm swept across the southern part of Bavaria on Saturday. In Kissing, just outside Augsburg, police say 12 people were injured when a beer tent that they were trying
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Idalia was near the coast of Cuba Monday on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S., the National Hurricane Center said. At 4 a.m. CDT Monday, the storm was about 125 miles (200 kilometers) off the western tip of Cuba with maximum sustained winds
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Three Republican members of the U.S. Congress have made a quick trip into opposition-held northwest Syria in the first known visit to the war-torn country by American lawmakers in six years. And they’re urging the Biden administration and regional partners to keep up the
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man died in a two-vehicle crash Saturday night in Morgan County just after 8:30 on Missouri five just before Route MM. According to a crash report by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Michael Paladino, 33 was driving in his 2013 GMC terrain, when he crossed the center of the
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR driver Ryan Preece, whose car rolled about a dozen times during a terrifying crash at Daytona International Speedway, was on his way home about 12 hours later after being discharged from a hospital Sunday. Stewart-Haas Racing said Preece was headed back to North
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Intrepid athletes have donned snorkels and slithered through slime during the World Bog Snorkeling Championships in Britain. The quirky annual competition in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells, sees competitors race to complete two lengths of a 60-yard (55 meter) water-filled trench cut through a peat bog. They can use flippers on
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Like a rite of autumn on the patchwork of fields of western Kansas, farmers will soon climb into their combines and bring in the harvest, taking advantage of whatever good weather might come their way. If it happens to be a Saturday, they are probably
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Authorities have found 53 people apparently headed for Germany crammed into a small truck that was stopped in the Austrian city of Linz. Police said four men were in the cabin of the vehicle when it was stopped on Sunday morning, one of whom fled on foot after getting out of the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press OKUMA, Japan (AP) — At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room, the treated water transfer switch is on. A graph on a computer monitor nearby shows a steady decrease of water levels as treated radioactive wastewater is diluted and released into the Pacific Ocean.
Continue ReadingLOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — A shooting near a Louisville restaurant and bar early Sunday left one man dead and five others injured by gunshots, according to police. Police arrived at the scene in downtown Louisville around 3 a.m. and found a man dead, Louisville Police Maj. Shannon Lauder told media near the scene. Another man
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — In his 1976 campaign, President Gerald Ford employed a “Rose Garden” strategy, hiding behind the power of the presidency rather than duking it out with Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail. In 2020, as the pandemic raged, “Joe Biden spent months of his presidential campaign
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the latest member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet to visit China as his administration tries to mend the deteriorating ties between the world’s two largest economies. She promises to be “practical” without compromising the U.S. push to “responsibly” manage that economic relationship.
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