By Malcolm Shields Click here for updates on this story PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (WPBF) — Monday will be a birthday Joshua Santel will likely never forget. While in the cafeteria at Renaissance Charter School in Port St. Lucie, Santel had a surprise guest as his cousin, Devin Callwood, gave him an unexpected visit. Callwood,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team overcame a tough shooting day for a 72-61 win over Belmont to open up the season on Monday. You can watch extended highlights of the win in the video player below. https://youtu.be/mqDXFA50Azg The Tigers shots about 40 percent from the field and 14 percent from 3-point range
Continue ReadingBy Jake Anderson Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — An Omaha radio station has switched to all holiday music through Christmas Day. Star 104.5 switched to an all-holiday music format at midnight on Nov. 1. The station is playing all your holiday favorites, including songs from Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby,
Continue ReadingBy ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Zapatista rebel movement in southern Mexico says it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising. The Zapatistas led a brief rebellion to demand greater Indigenous rights. Since then, they have remained in their “autonomous” townships
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Consider journalist Bryan West the “lucky one,” because he’s The Tennessean and USA Today network’s new Taylor Swift reporter. The Tennessean announced the news on Monday, saying West, a veteran journalist and two-time Emmy winning TV producer, “emerged as the standout choice from a pool of hundreds of applicants.”
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By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump brought bombastic rhetoric to the witness stand Monday in the civil fraud case against him and his business, as he spent his time on the stand attacking the New York attorney general who brought the case and the judge
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prizes will soon be accepting entries from broadcast and audio outlets, although primarily for written work. Historically, these companies have been barred from entry. But the Pulitzers are making the change to recognize that so many operations are digital now, and companies like
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals acquired right-hander Riley O’Brien from the Seattle Mariners for cash and claimed utilityman Jared Young off waivers from the Chicago Cubs on Monday to fill out their 40-man roster. The 28-year-old O’Brien was an All-Star for Triple-A Tacoma last season, going 2-5 with a 2.29 ERA. He
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America An exotic wildlife preserve owner who gained notoriety on the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” plead guilty Monday to animal trafficking and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department announced. Bhagavan “Doc” Antle oversaw the sale or purchase of cheetah cubs, lion cubs, tigers and a juvenile chimpanzee that
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By Jennifer Korn, CNN New York (CNN) — If you were wondering why your teenager was glued to video games this weekend, the answer may be the launch of Fortnite OG. In its biggest weekend ever, video game maker Epic Games launched Fortnite OG, bringing players back to some of the game’s original settings and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Emergency services in Nigeria say two people are dead after a fire at the Canadian High Commission in the capital, Abuja. The two killed were Nigerian maintenance workers, and another two are being treated for severe burns. The emergency services say the fire broke out Monday morning while workers
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A 36-year-old Sedalia man is in custody after he allegedly used a knife to rob a bank Saturday morning.
Continue ReadingBy AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis, across the political spectrum, are convinced of the justice of the war. Still under rocket and missile attacks on several fronts, they have little tolerance for
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — More than 40 years ago, Farouk El-Baz — a space scientist and geologist known for his field investigations in deserts around the world — theorized that the wind played a big hand in shaping the Great Sphinx of Giza before the ancient Egyptians added surface details to the landmark
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Las fuertes lluvias de los últimos días en Honduras han causado la muerte de al menos seis personas, informó este domingo el secretario del Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social (FHIS), Octavio Pineda. El funcionario dijo a la emisora Televicentro, afiliada de CNN, que hasta el momento hay en el país 31.000
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets are hiring Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as their manager, according to a person familiar with the decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move had not been announced. Mendoza spent the past four
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Columbia police are looking for a person witnesses say pulled out a gun during a fight on a busy downtown street early Sunday.
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — An 8-month-old terminally ill British girl was granted Italian citizenship Monday after a court in Britain upheld rulings authorizing the withdrawal of life-supporting invasive treatment. Baby Indi Gregory’s situation is the latest in a series of cases in Britain in which doctors and parents have sparred over the treatment of terminally ill
Continue ReadingOpinion by Suzanne Nossel (CNN) — College campuses are in crisis. As universities churn over the war between Hamas and Israel, many college presidents seem flummoxed or paralyzed. Leaders at Harvard, Rutgers, Penn, Duke, Stanford and elsewhere have issued multiple statements on the conflict, seeking to appease stakeholders irate that their first efforts either failed to forthrightly
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Some customers still haven’t received their direct deposit paychecks following a “human error” last week deep in the plumbing of America’s banking system. The deposit delays are linked to a problem that emerged on Friday with the Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments system, causing headaches for consumers
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