By Martha Shade, CNN (CNN) —The largest wildfire in Texas history has burned over a million acres and left scores homeless. At least five separate fires are burning across the state and in neighboring Oklahoma. The fire has also killed thousands of cattle – a major source of income in the region. If you’d like
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Cases of norovirus, a nasty stomach bug that spreads easily, are climbing in the Northeastern U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Nationwide, about 12% of most recent norovirus tests sent to the CDC were positive, but the proportion was about 16% in the Northeast, the
Continue ReadingINDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers have been shot and wounded in Independence, Missouri; their conditions are not known.
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By Kristin Wilson and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Alabama Sen. Katie Britt will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address, according to the House speaker’s office. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that Britt will deliver the response on March 7, shortly after
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Prosecutors want to ask potential jurors in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against former President Donald Trump whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen – one of several proposed queries for the jury pool that prosecutors and the defendants are at odds over, according to a new
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — While dry January and damp lifestyles have taken off on TikTok, the United States has already experienced a spike in deaths related to excessive alcohol. In 2020-21, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were an average of about 488 deaths per day from excessive alcohol drinking, according
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Consumer Reports says some doorbell cameras sold by Amazon and other online retailers have security flaws that could allow bad actors to view footage from the devices or control them completely. Researchers with the product-review organization say they found major vulnerabilities in cameras manufactured by
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York City are searching for a man who slashed a subway conductor in the neck. The union representing transit workers meanwhile is calling for better protections on the rails. The Transportation Workers Union Local 100 says the attack happened around 3:40 a.m. Thursday at a station in Brooklyn.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz will take the stage on Tuesday, July 16 at SEC Media Days in Dallas. The conference announced its appearance schedule for the annual event on Thursday morning, revealing that Drinkwitz will be in the spotlight on day two. Drinkwitz will be one of four coaches to speak
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former career U.S. diplomat told a federal judge Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of working for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba, an unexpectedly swift resolution to a case prosecutors called one of the most brazen betrayals in the
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A Michigan village has agreed to a $320,000 settlement with a man from Japan who was wrongly accused of drunken driving. It turns out that a Fowlerville police officer badly misread a breath test. Ryohei Akima blew a 0.02 on the test. But it was mistakenly read by Officer Caitlyn
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When observing a hoard of golden-backed frogs at a roadside pond in Karnataka, India, a group of naturalists noticed something odd about one of the amphibians — the animal had a tiny mushroom sprouting out of its side. How the seemingly healthy frog came to grow its fungi companion
Continue Reading By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN (CNN) — The young girl from Colombia hid in a porta potty to shield herself from the biting wind and cold as she and her parents waited at a makeshift camp along the southern border earlier this month. Border Patrol agents had directed them to the temporary camp
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nye County spokesperson says top elections official Mark Kampf is resigning. The rural Nevada county has been roiled by voting machine conspiracy theories. That led to a hand-count in the 2022 midterms. The reason for Kampf’s resignation is not immediately clear. County spokesperson
Continue ReadingSofÃa Benavides (CNN) — Un juez federal en Austin, Texas, ordenó este jueves al gobierno estatal suspender la aplicación de una controvertida ley que permitirÃa a los agentes estatales arrestar y detener a personas sospechosas de haber ingresado ilegalmente al paÃs. “Si se permite que proceda, la SB 4 podrÃa abrir la puerta a que cada
Continue ReadingBy KTVT Staff Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — A judge has ruled Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones must take a paternity test to determine if he is the biological father of a 27-year-old woman who filed suit against him in 2022. The woman, in a lawsuit, claims Jones and
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Abeer Salman, Jeremy Diamond and Khader Al Za’anoun, CNN (CNN) — Calls are growing for an investigation into one of the worst single tragedies to occur during Israel’s war with Hamas took, after scores of Palestinians were killed trying to access food aid in Gaza City on Thursday. At least 112 people were killed
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A lieutenant working in the Cooper County Sheriff’s Office was charged Wednesday with manslaughter in the October death of an inmate from untreated diabetes.
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Chitnis Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND, California (KPIX) — The Erickson family of Oakland looks forward to Feb. 29 every four years with joy and gratitude thanks to the special meaning it holds in their lives. Their twin boys were born 11 minutes apart, one arriving in the final minutes
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TODAY: Thursday afternoon welcomes highs into the lower 50s with partly cloudy skies. Winds remain out of the south at 8-12 mph with gusts up to 18 mph. TONIGHT: Overnight lows cool into the mid-30s as a mixture of rain and wet snow begins after midnight. These showers look to exit after six am with
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