By Dennis Valera Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Charging documents are detailing more in the shooting death of an 18-year-old from Pennsylvania, in what police describe as a Facebook Marketplace deal gone wrong. Marques Harris, 18, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and a slew of other charges in
Continue ReadingBy Avis Favaro, CTV National News Medical Correspondent Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — An Ontario teen is among the first patients in the country to have a rare bone cancer surgically removed by doctors who used a new Canadian-designed virtual reality system. The system allows them to “walk” within
Continue ReadingBy Riley Rourke Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — The first five wind turbines of the Vineyard Wind 1 project have been installed 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The five turbines are expected to generate 65 Megawatts of clean energy to Massachusetts. They will be able to power
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s highest civil court has upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark gender-recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament. The decision underscores the growing divide over local control of legislation in the nations of the United Kingdom. The ruling by the Court of Session in
Continue ReadingBy John Blake, CNN (CNN) — It started as a political protest in the nation’s capital over a disputed election, but it quickly turned into an all-out assault. Armed right-wing militia and a mob of enraged demonstrators stormed the building where lawmakers had gathered to vote on a new government. The insurrectionists tried to break
Continue ReadingKISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — An extremely rare white leucistic alligator has been born at a Florida reptile park. Gatorland Orlando said Thursday that the 19.2-inch female slithered out of its shell and into the history books as one of only a few known leucistic alligators, three of which are at the park. The park is
Continue ReadingBy Rosie Nguyen Click here for updates on this story EDNA, Texas (KTRK) — The mother of a 16-year-old high school cheerleader said she was the one who made the horrendous discovery of her daughter’s murdered body in their Edna apartment Tuesday evening. Jacqueline Medina claimed she knew something was wrong when her daughter, Lizbeth,
Continue ReadingNEWARK N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey say two nurses and a medical resident were stabbed inside a pediatric intensive care unit. The hospital workers suffered cuts and are in stable condition. A woman has been arrested and charged in the violence, which unfolded as a domestic dispute involving two visitors to the unit
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By Damon Maloney Click here for updates on this story SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WEWS) — Local police say fraud targeting people online is rampant and often goes unsolved. But the Springfield Twp. and Bay Village police departments are investigating separate fraud investigations that ended with suspects being arrested after detectives said they showed up to
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a Christmas TV special from country star Cody Johnson, Taylor Swift’s concert movie “The Eras Tour” lands in homes to celebrate her birthday and the second season of “Reacher” starring Alan Ritchson hits of Prime Video. Also arriving is “Barbie” on Max. More than
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By Anna Cooban and Maya Szaniecki, CNN London/Paris (CNN) — In a city brimming with bakeries and artisan pastry shops, a red, white and green alien has landed. It goes by the name of Krispy Kreme. Even before the American donut chain opened the doors of its first store in France, in central Paris, at
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A Columbia man was charged Thursday with felony second-degree murder for two October fentanyl overdoses.
Continue ReadingBy Remi Murrey Click here for updates on this story CLEVELAND (WEWS) — Off Denison Avenue in Cleveland, Corinne Kelly says you’ll find a new shop on the block offering the legal limit of hemp-derived products like Delta 8 THC products. It’s a derivative of hemp similar, but not quite as potent as marijuana. “We
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dennis Gates and the Mizzou Men’s Basketball team are preparing to face the No. 2 ranked Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday night, renewing one of college basketball’s most storied rivalries. The Tigers will be searching for their first win against Kansas since Feb. 2012 and the team’s first victory at Allen Fieldhouse since
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — An ancient bakery operated by slaves has been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said in a statement released Friday. Enslaved people and donkeys were locked up together and used to power a mill to grind grain for bread, according to details of
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday made his first public appearance outdoors since being stricken by bronchitis two weeks ago, which forced him to cancel a planned trip to the COP-28 climate conference in Dubai. The pope has been steadily recovering, and for the Dec. 8 holiday devoted to Mary kept a traditional appointment
Continue ReadingROMEOVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Police say the suspect in the September shooting deaths of a suburban Chicago family was in a relationship with one of the four people slain and his girlfriend allegedly helped plan the killings. Alberto Rolon, Zoraida Bartolomei, and their two sons, ages 7 and 9, were found shot to death on
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man who spent 11 years behind bars for a killing before his conviction was overturned is suing the city and detectives who worked on his case, claiming the conviction for a crime he didn’t commit violated his constitutional rights. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Lamont D. Cambell’s
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