By STAN CHOE and KEN SWEET AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled New York Community Bancorp is getting a lifeline of more than $1 billion as a group of investors plug cash into the troubled bank. The deal will bring four new directors to the board, including Steven Mnuchin, the former U.S. Treasury
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Seven Western states are starting to plot a future for how much water they’ll draw from the dwindling Colorado River in a warmer, drier world. The river is the lifeblood for the West – providing drinking water for tens of millions, irrigating crops, and powering homes and industry with hydroelectric dams.
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Columbia Public Schools Long-Range Facilities Planning Committee is set to discuss the “attendance area process timeline” on Wednesday night. The meeting agenda states Karen Jackson, of Woolpert, Inc., will present an update on the attendance area process timeline. In April 2022, Columbia voters passed an $80 million bond issue which included
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Reporter Ground cinnamon sold by U.S. discount retailers is contaminated with high levels of lead and should be discarded, federal health officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said cinnamon sold by stores including the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar contains lead at levels that could be unsafe
Continue ReadingLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Luck struck twice for a Kentucky couple who thought they lost a winning Powerball ticket. The Bowling Green couple found out in November that they had won $50,000 but couldn’t find the ticket they had purchased about a week before, the Kentucky Lottery said in a news release. Mark Perdue said
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has banned a Florida gun retailer from selling certain gun parts in New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks. Wednesday’s court order and approximately $7.8 million judgment come after New
Continue ReadingGREENSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Leilani Correa scored 15 points, Alberte Rimdal hit a key jumper and 11th-seeded Florida turned back 14th-seeded Missouri 66-60 in the first round of the SEC Tournament. With the help of a 16-0 run to start the second quarter, the Gators opened a 48-28 lead early in the second half. The
Continue ReadingBY BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Senegalese government has announced March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election. A statement issued after a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday noted that the government has also been dissolved with a new prime minister announced. President Macky
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A record $12.5 billion in losses from online scams were reported to the FBI in 2023, fueled by a surge in cryptocurrency investment fraud, the bureau said in a report released Wednesday. It’s a more than $2 billion increase in total losses from scams reported in 2022 and by
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Authorities in Burkina Faso say five people were killed and two injured when a private plane crashed into a tree following its failure to take off from an airport in the country’s eastern region. The government news agency says the plane was was taking off from
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Arqueólogos aseguran haber descubierto lo que podría ser la fosa común más grande jamás excavada en Europa en un sitio en el sur de Alemania. Hasta ahora se han encontrado alrededor de 1.000 esqueletos de víctimas de la peste en fosas comunes en el centro de la ciudad de Nuremberg,
Continue ReadingBy Kilee Thomas Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Children in Oklahoma can now receive heart transplants in their home state. Oklahoma Children’s Hospital will now perform pediatric heart transplants, making it the first and only hospital in the state to do so. This comes after an Oklahoma child was
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — An Oklahoma City woman was found guilty of embezzling over $360,000 from a Yuba City church where she worked as an administrator. A federal judge found Chanell Easton, 38, guilty of two counts of aggravated identity theft on Monday. Easton previously
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds and cool with lows falling into the mid-40s. TOMORROW: Rain moves in and becomes widespread throughout the day, with a few rumbles of thunder possible in the afternoon. Temperatures remain in the lower 60s. EXTENDED: Low pressure slowly moving in from the west will bring widespread rain to Mid-Missouri between Thursday and
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal
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By Lindsay Weber Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A California Highway Patrol officer moonlighted as a stork when she helped deliver a baby on the side of a freeway. On Saturday, Officer Price responded to a call of a woman in labor on Interstate 80 in north Sacramento. Officials
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Women’s Basketball season ends in the first round of the SEC Tournament. Robin Pingeton’s crew lost to Florida 66-60 on Wednesday afternoon, despite a third quarter rally. After leading for the majority of the first quarter, Mizzou allowed Florida to string together a 16-0 scoring run to start the second
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer McRae Click here for updates on this story DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — The United States Postal Service has posted a $150,000 reward after two letter carriers were robbed at gunpoint in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood. The armed robberies happened around 5 p.m. Monday; one robbery was near Bolling Drive and Duluth Court, the second
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a disaster declaration for the impacted industry. Last year’s drought, extreme heat, saltwater intrusion on the Mississippi River and a hard winter freeze in the Bayou State have devastated this year’s crawfish harvest. Louisiana
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Playfully letting John Cena flex his comedy muscles, “Ricky Stanicky” works from an amusing premise that owes an unlikely debt to a 51-year-old “MASH” episode, in which an imaginary character must be brought to life. Also serving as a reunion of Zac Efron and director Peter Farrelly, the
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