By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Ryan O’Neal’s “Love Story” costar Ali MacGraw shared an emotional tribute to him after learning of O’Neal’s death on Friday. “Working with Ryan, all those years ago, was one of the great experiences of my film career, and we remained friends ever after,” MacGraw wrote in a statement shared
Continue ReadingBy RUSSELL KINSAUL Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Sarah Parsons described her daughter, Noelle, as a kind soul. Noelle would have turned 15 on December 15 but she died on December 2. “She always wanted to make people smile,” she said. Parsons and her four children have lived
Continue ReadingBy REX HODGE Click here for updates on this story HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — It wasn’t your usual K-9 graduation in Haywood County on Friday. Every year, area officers train to work with police dogs. Upon completion of an eight-week course, they’re handed certificates of achievement. Deputy Jesse Mease successfully completed his training.
Continue ReadingBy SHARON DANQUAH Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A tow truck driver allegedly stole a car from an East Nashville woman’s driveway Thursday afternoon, and her neighbors witnessed it all. The Metro Nashville Police Department said incidents like these are a reoccurring issue. The car was stolen from a
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA HOLLY, SHELDON FOX Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A vessel that took on water off Government Cut Friday morning prompted a swift response by rescue crews. U.S. Coast Guard boats responded at the scene three miles off of Government Cut where crews rescued two boaters from the
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By George Ramsay and Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have won the race to reach terms with Shohei Ohtani, baseball’s transcendent two-way star, to one of the richest contracts in professional sports. The two-time American League MVP announced on Instagram he had “decided to choose the Dodgers” as his next team;
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Una reunión entre el presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y el presidente de Guyana, Irfaan Ali, fue propuesta para el 14 de diciembre, según una carta compartida con CNN en Español enviada a ambos presidentes por Ralph Gonsalves, primer ministro de San Vicente y las Granadinas. El gobierno de Nicolás
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has set a financial record to go along with his singular on-field performance, getting $700 million to make a 30-mile move up Interstate 5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers. His agent, Nez Balelo, issued a midafternoon news release Saturday announcing the 10-year contract,
Continue ReadingNATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Court documents show that over 100 animals – both living and dead – have been taken from a roadside zoo in western Virginia. State authorities say it happened at the Natural Bridge Zoo in Rockbridge County. A search warrant executed Wednesday shows that it was issued in relation to the
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CNN, KYW By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The president of Harvard University apologized in an interview with the school’s student newspaper after facing widespread condemnation for her disastrous congressional testimony this week, in which she and other university presidents failed to explicitly say calls for genocide of Jewish people constituted bullying and harassment on
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — An officer in a small city in western Alabama was placed on administrative leave after video surfaced showing her using a stun gun on a handcuffed Black man last week. The video, posted by a witness, starts with a White female officer from the Reform Police Department and a
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Este viernes la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), rechazó la decisión del Tribunal Constitucional de Perú, que ordenó la liberación inmediata del expresidente Alberto Fujimori, por contradecir las obligaciones internacionales del Estado peruano e incumplir las órdenes de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. La CIDH, el órgano principal y
Continue ReadingOpinion by Mary Gabriel (CNN) — As Madonna brings “The Celebration Tour” to New York from Europe for the start of a 52-date North American journey next week, she leaves behind a trail of headlines as long as an asteroid’s tail. There are stories about her remarkable recovery from a life-threatening illness; stories about her
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk said the account of right-wing extremist Alex Jones would be reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter, reversing a 2018 decision by the company’s previous management to deplatform the notorious conspiracy theorist after he repeatedly broke rules prohibiting harassment and hate. On Saturday morning, Musk
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — International and regional leaders have rejected the latest attempt by Guatemalan prosecutors to prevent progressive President-elect Bernardo Arévalo from taking office on Jan. 14. Prosecutors alleged on Friday that minutes seized during a raid showed that results from the presidential runoff vote Arévalo won in
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center are receiving threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center officials say a Nov. 19 hack hit a portion of the health care system’s clinical network, possibly leaking patient data. The Seattle Times reports that this week some former and current
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — La esvástica es, para muchos, símbolo de odio: el odio de la Alemania nazi y el odio de quienes desde entonces perpetúan sus ideas. Sin embargo, esa no es la historia completa: el nacimiento de la esvástica se remonta a miles de años atrás y su significado original nada tiene que ver con
Continue ReadingBISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina jurors have convicted an inmate on charges related to participation in the deadliest U.S. prison riot of the past quarter-century. The jury deliberated Friday before finding Michael Juan “Flame” Smith guilty of assault and battery by mob, weapon possession and conspiracy for his role in the April 2018 violence.
Continue ReadingLUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Police say officers investigating a domestic disturbance fatally shot a man who they say ran at them with knives in West Texas. Police spokesperson Amber Edwards said Saturday that 34-year-old Manuel Guillen died at a hospital following the shooting in Lubbock. Edwards says the officers were responding to a report that
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a discrimination complaint on behalf of a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, who was placed on administrative leave for her email signature, which included a controversial phrase supporting Palestinian rights. Hajur El-Haggan, a middle school math teacher employed by the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) since 2015, was informed November 20 by
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