By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A section of the Blue Ridge Parkway has been closed by officials “after multiple documented reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear in recent weeks,” the National Park Service said in a news release. The closure affects an eight-mile section of the parkway near
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Mizzou has its biggest test this week when the Tigers travel to No. 1 Georgia.
Continue ReadingOXFORD, Mich. (AP) — An independent investigation has concluded that a threat assessment should have been conducted by school officials into Ethan Crumbley’s behavior prior to a shooting that left four students dead and others wounded at Michigan’s Oxford High School. A more than 500-page report released Monday says Crumbley’s conduct included viewing bullets, watching
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By KATRINA KINCADE Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — John Dunleavy has worked for TD Garden and the Boston Bruins Foundation for the last decade. “It’s been 10 years. The best 10 years of my life to work here,” he told WBZ-TV. John has Down syndrome and with the help of
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico police have arrested at least 380 people in the department’s biggest crackdown on crime in recent years. Police Commissioner Antonio López said Tuesday that 12 gangs dedicated to the sale of drugs and weapons were targeted after receiving tips from residents who had complained about violence in
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Five weeks into the trial against three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged in the 2020 death of Manny Ellis and prosecutors had to convince the judge to let their breathing expert tell the jury what happens to a person who is held face down with pressure
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) – FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that antisemitism is reaching “historic levels” in the United States. “This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels,” Wray said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. The FBI director said that was in part because “the Jewish community
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By Sammy Mncwabe, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia is set to host the 2034 men’s FIFA World Cup after Australia withdrew its interest in hosting the global showpiece just hours before the bid deadline on Tuesday. “We have explored the opportunity to bid to host the FIFA World Cup and – having taken all factors
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By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Police are investigating the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson who died on Saturday after a “freak accident” while playing for the Nottingham Panthers in England. During the second period of the Panthers’ game against the Sheffield Steelers, Johnson appeared to suffer a serious injury after a collision
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Fiat, the Italian car brand best known in the United States for its tiny, retro-styled cars, is putting its name on an apartment building across the river from Manhattan. While Fiat isn’t the first car company to put its name on a residential tower, it’s a branding exercise more
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By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — Bill Gates’ former assistant at Microsoft is now the fifth-richest person in the world, per Bloomberg’s tally, and only one spot behind Gates on the real-time list of the world’s richest people. Steve Ballmer, who joined Microsoft as its 24th-ever employee in 1980, has seen his wealth
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and electric vehicle battery factory it’s constructing in North Carolina, more than doubling its prior investments and expected number of new jobs, the company announced Tuesday. The Japanese automotive manufacturer projects the new investment
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial. Her dreamy, lyrical portraits of girl culture and gilded cages have brought her to 18th century Versailles, 1970s suburban Michigan, the 1860s
Continue ReadingCHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Three people were struck by bullets and a fourth grazed when a shooter opened fire inside a Brazilian restaurant south of San Diego. The shooting occurred Saturday night inside NOVO Brazil in Chula Vista. Fears of an active shooter loose in the Otay Ranch Town Center caused police to lock
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Friends” became a huge hit at a time when the major networks could still reliably generate them, and local TV stations still paid vast sums for rerun rights. Yet what distinguished the show perhaps more than anything at the time was the “All for one, one for all”
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels for the first time Tuesday claimed missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, drawing their main sponsor Iran closer into the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and further raising the risks of a regional conflict erupting. The Houthis had been
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome and Milan, Italy (CNN) — A storm that brought heavy rain and violent winds to Northern Italy overnight and early Tuesday sent rapid floods through central Milan and caused Lake Como to breach its banks. Several waterside bars were flooded at the lake — a popular
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant. Kelli Williams, a former construction manager for Atlanta-based Southern Co., filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company and its subsidiary Mississippi
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — In “Baldur’s Gate 3,” a massive video game set in the world of “Dungeons & Dragons”, winged beasts have nothing on one devilishly handsome vampire. Astarion, a silver-haired vampire with a jawline that could cut glass and a propensity for even more cutting verbal takedowns, is an integral member
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump currently holds majority support in the early primary state of South Carolina, where his strongest challenger is Nikki Haley, the state’s former governor, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Fifty-three percent of likely Republican primary voters in South Carolina
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