By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — A major winter storm is setting up to thrash much of the eastern US this weekend with heavy rain, strong winds and the first significant snow of the season. As of Thursday morning, the highest confidence for significant snow was in portions of the interior Northeast, including central Pennsylvania
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By Julie Dunmire Click here for updates on this story GRAND HAVEN, Michigan (WXMI) — Just off of North Beacon in Grand Haven, there’s a pothole that’s big enough for a chair to fit in. In fact, over the last few days, more than one chair have called the crater home. At first, it was
Continue ReadingBy Amy Nay Click here for updates on this story RIVERDALE, Utah (KSTU) — Law enforcement experts have a warning this New Year’s Day for all families, saying we should all have a plan in case of a cyber kidnapping attempt like the one brought to light this past weekend involving a foreign exchange student
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The stakes could not be higher for the Federal Reserve this year. America’s central bank is on the verge of defeating inflation without causing a sharp rise in unemployment, an extremely rare feat known as a “soft landing.” Last year, as inflation drifted to its slowest annual
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has derided South Korea’s conservative president for being “foolishly brave,” but called his liberal predecessor “very smart.” Kim Yo Jong’s statements are likely aimed at trying to stoke a domestic divide in South Korea. She
Continue ReadingBy Brett Kast Click here for updates on this story ANN ARBOR, Michigan (WXYZ) — Although Ann Arbor isn’t filled with students this New Year’s, fans still came to campus to take in the game. Hours of anxiety erupting in cheers at a watch party inside the Michigan Theater, as a nail biting overtime finish
Continue ReadingBy LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane crash, a tragic tale that’s been told many times. The film is based on journalist Pablo Vierci’s book of the same title on the Uruguayan Air Force plane disaster. The Old
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By Ashley Paredez Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KNXV) — A Phoenix man is thankful to be alive after being stranded in the wilderness for four days. This happened over the Christmas holiday in the California backcountry. “I’m like, buddy, we may not make it out of this one,” said Phoenix native
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By Krystal Hur and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN New York (CNN) — Apple stock fell on the first trading day of the year, weighing down the US stock market and snarling Big Tech’s gangbusters 2023 rally. Shares of the iPhone maker sank 3.6% on Tuesday after Barclays downgraded the stock to an “underweight” rating from
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — House Whip Tom Emmer announced on Wednesday that he is backing former President Donald Trump in his latest bid for the White House. With Emmer’s announcement on X, all of the Republican House leaders have now backed Trump’s re-election campaign. “Democrats have made clear they will use every tool
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By Abeer Salman, Nada Bashir, Tamara Qiblawi, Tara John and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said Tuesday that one of its senior leaders has been killed in an attack in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, raising fears of a potential escalation in fighting in the region. Hamas media outlet Al Aqsa TV
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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court denied Donald Trump’s effort to delay his defamation trial set to begin in two weeks. In a brief court order issued late last week, a three-member panel of judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, denied Trump’s motion without elaborating. Trump asked
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A small daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands whose owner credited past generations of literate slaves for its survival is closing after 180 years in print. The St. Croix Avis published its first edition in 1844. The owner says the newspaper can no longer compete with social media
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis qualified for CNN’s January 10 Republican presidential primary debate in Iowa, the network announced Tuesday. The debate is a final opportunity for candidates to make an impression in front of a national audience before voting
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling. That’s in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan
Continue ReadingBy OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president has rejected an agreement signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to give landlocked Ethiopia access to its coast. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asserts that the agreement is a violation of international law. The deal would allow Ethiopia to lease a 20-kilometer
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — A two-year dig to install a solar power plant near Rome has unearthed an ancient Roman necropolis containing 67 skeletons buried in 57 ornate tombs. Archaeologists were baffled by the find — thought to date between the second and fourth centuries — not least because the skeletons were
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Gov. Mike Parson will sign an executive order Tuesday dealing with foreign-owned farmland.
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By John Garcia Click here for updates on this story GARY, Indiana (WLS) — A Good Samaritan stepped in to flag down help after a serious crash Monday morning in Gary, Indiana. The crash happened early Monday morning, not far from the former Majestic Star casino, Gary police said. Police were struggling to find the
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The Boone County Sheriff’s Office believes mail was stolen from multiple mailboxes just southeast of Columbia.
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