By Luca Caruso-Moro Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Canada’s public health agency says it is investigating an apparent link between a salmonella outbreak that began at least two years ago and contact with snakes and feeder rodents. As of March 19, there were 70 confirmed cases of salmonella linked
Continue ReadingBy Garrett Behanna Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A game-worn Roberto Clemente jersey from the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1960 World Series recently sold for over $256,000 at a Lelands auction. During that season, Clemente batted .314 with 94 RBI, as the Pirates boasted a 95-59 record en route to the trophy.
Continue ReadingBy Nick Beres Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — The focus remains on finding 22-year-old Riley Strain even after a week of searching downtown Nashville and the Cumberland River. But as the search continues, many still wonder about the circumstances that led to the young man’s disappearance. There are questions
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself the “Rock Doc” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally prescribing thousands of doses of opioids including oxycodone and fentanyl in return for money and sex. Jeffrey W. Young Jr., was sentenced Monday
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico City say residents and schoolkids helped squads of police chase down a wolf that was loose in one of the city’s neighborhoods. Police say the residents and officers chased the animal on foot and on motorbikes before it was finally cornered. Animal-control officers then snared the wolf with
Continue ReadingBy Amy Watson Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — A Putnam County boy who loves animals turned his birthday last week into a fundraiser for shelter animals. You won’t believe what he collected! Keith Pattison turned ten last Tuesday, March 12th and for a month leading up to it he
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece by the early Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, while possibly solving one of its enduring mysteries. Museums have
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Bartos Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An airman from Pittsburgh who was 21 years old when he was killed in World War II has been accounted for. The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Paul F. Eshelman Jr. have been identified, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball’s men’s team is assured of seeing Serbia and South Sudan in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women are guaranteed of a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer. FIBA, the sport’s global organizing body, held the draw for the Paris Games
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ELDON, Mo. (KMIZ) Miller County law enforcement is searching for a man in relation to a death investigation, according to court documents and a press release from the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office said it is searching for Kendrick Terrell Cook, 33, of Eldon. He is charged with drug possession. A warrant was
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen blew up a house in a town southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people from the same family, officials and residents said. The blowup on Tuesday came a day after two Houthi fighters were killed in an ambush allegedly
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two recent U.S. Supreme Court actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in “insurrection” or providing “aid and comfort” to enemies of the Constitution.
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By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Tuesday released pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert from a Washington, DC, jail after she promised to immediately return to Michigan and surrender to authorities there, where there is a warrant related to her indictment on election-tampering charges. DC Superior Court Magistrate Judge Heide Herrmann released Lambert
Continue ReadingBy Yoselin Person Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (WKBW) — A Buffalo native is stepping up to the plate to help women who may feel uncomfortable using ride-sharing companies. Sparkle George is a residential counselor who works with people with intellectual and physical disabilities. She has a passion for helping
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Beyoncé is taking bets and raising them in hopes that her highly anticipated upcoming country album will render any race-related stigma in that music genre and beyond as “irrelevant.” The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer on Tuesday unveiled a new image for “Cowboy Carter,” which she has dubbed as the
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Obituaries for writer Deborah Vankin popped up online in January, complete with morbid images and flattering prose. In videos accompanying the announcements, “news anchors” discussed her death and used background photos of a car wreck, a coffin leaving a funeral home and a flickering candle next to her portrait. They did not specify how
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By Chris Stern, Frederik Pleitgen and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Two individuals accused of planning a firearms attack on Sweden’s parliament were arrested in Germany on Tuesday, according to a statement by the Office of the German Federal Prosecutor. The pair, who authorities said are Afghan citizens, were arrested near the city of Gera
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is denying allegations outlined in a new lawsuit that he sexually assaulted a former police colleague in 1993. In his first public statements since the lawsuit was filed, Adams says he did not recall meeting the accuser, adding “this did
Continue ReadingBy Dean Fioresi Click here for updates on this story HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (KCAL) — Three people were hospitalized after they were found unconscious inside of a car parked in a Huntington Beach parking structure late Sunday. Emergency crews were sent to the structure, located in the 300 block of Main Street near Olive Avenue,
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Wildlife protection advocates are welcoming a decision by the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission to approve protections for horseshoe crabs during spawning, which is when the creatures are at their most vulnerable The move comes as interstate regulators are limiting the harvest of the primordial species of invertebrate to try to help
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