By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The railroad industry is trying to make sure that emergency responders can quickly look up what is on a train quickly when they respond to a derailment. In the chaos after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in eastern Ohio in February, firefighters couldn’t
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By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — House Democrats have begun internal discussions about how to deal with the prospects of a chaotic situation: The possibility that Speaker Kevin McCarthy could lose his job in an unprecedented vote on the floor. While no decisions have been made, some of the party’s
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at Guantanamo Bay has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. Ramzi bin al-Shibh has long complained he was under attack by invisible rays
Continue ReadingBy TED ANTHONY AP National Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Work together. Go it alone. The apocalypse is at hand. But the future can be bright. The squabbles never cease, yet here are human beings from all across the world — hashing out conflicts with words and processes, convening under one roof, trying to write
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Usery Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A man from Slovakia appeared in a St. Louis courtroom on Wednesday after being accused of pandemic loan fraud. Mark Ethan Jermain, aka Arsene Millogo, is accused of submitting fraudulent paycheck protection program (PPP) loan applications from April 26, 2020
Continue ReadingBy Marissa Sulek Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Mount Juliet man said he went to the movies with his wife at a local theater. The next morning, they woke up with dozens of bed bug bites, now Michal Steplowski said Regal Cinemas refused to cover their losses. It
Continue ReadingBy Emily Brown Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND CO., Michigan (WNEM) — A former bridal store owner has been charged for allegedly defrauding customers who bought thousands of dollars of merchandise from her store. On Friday, Sept. 15, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald charged 58-year-old Nadica Ristivojevic, of West Bloomfield, with four
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich. The descendants of Fritz Grünbaum
Continue ReadingBy Hope Dean Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — The family of a Fulton County Jail inmate who died in custody last year is preparing to file a potential lawsuit, according to a legal statement. The family’s lawyers have announced a 30-day window for the county’s commissioners and sheriff to
Continue ReadingBy Hope Dean Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Flames are now “under control” after a gas leak caused a large blaze near a southwest Atlanta gas station, officials said. The fire erupted not far from a Chevron gas station at 2050 Sylvan Road around 10:30 a.m. Nearly two and
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CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide, claims in a new book that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage at the rally that preceded the former president’s supporters’ insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The 27-year-old Hutchinson, whose bombshell testimony provided a key moment in
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz Click here for updates on this story LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (KCTV) — A 42-year-old inmate associated with a white supremacist group pled no contest on charges connected to a 2019 stabbing of another prisoner at the Lansing Correctional Facility. Lee B. Jacobs was found guilty on a count of attempted aggravated battery and
Continue ReadingBy Heidi Schmidt Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — The Wyandotte County District Attorney charged a man with two homicides that were considered cold cases. Gary Dion Davis, Sr. is charged with the second degree murders of Pearl Davis, also known as Sameemah Mussawir in November 1996, and Christina
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Major US voting equipment manufacturers are enlisting cybersecurity experts to provide additional stress-tests of their systems as the 2024 election looms and misinformation remains rife with American voters. One goal of the program is to bat down conspiracy theories with greater transparency about how election equipment is picked apart
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A 25-year-old Chickasaw man was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail Wednesday after confessing to committing 82 vehicle burglaries around Mobile County, according to authorities. Dakwon Oliver was interviewed by Mobile County Sheriff’s Office investigators, to whom he confessed in 14
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City firetruck that was parked on St. Mary’s Boulevard was hit by power lines, according to an email from a Jefferson City Fire Department spokesman. Firefighters were in the area conducting fire-prevention inspections at businesses when a tractor-trailer hit a power line around 3 p.m., which brought down the
Continue ReadingBy WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Several arrests have been made in connection to a chaotic vigil the day after a fatal motorcycle crash in West Allis, according to police. Hundreds of people swarmed the area near 92nd and Arthur Friday, Sept. 15 after a motorcyclist
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Wells Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — According to the National Diaper Bank Network, 47% of families reported diaper need this year. In Milwaukee County, a nonprofit organization has made it their mission to ensure diapers are accessible. Milwaukee Diaper Mission’s largest fundraiser this year took place at the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — ¿Es Taylor Swift más poderosa que Google? Su base de fans, conocida como Swifties, podría serlo. Para aquellos que no lo saben (y los que sí lo saben también), Swift está regrabando sus álbumes antiguos bajo la aclaración “Taylor’s Version” (Versión de Taylor), junto con pistas inéditas de cada uno. Taylor
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — PETA said it’s “cracking open some cold ones” after Anheuser-Busch said it’s ending the practice of cutting the tails of Budweiser’s iconic Clydesdale horses. Budweiser has featured the horses, with their ubiquitous white feathered legs, in its ad campaigns for decades, from the holidays to the Super
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