By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A New Orleans restaurant featuring a modern Senegalese tasting menu and an Ethiopia-born chef who studied psychology before turning to a culinary career are among the restaurants and chefs named as finalists for the coveted James Beard Awards. The finalists for the Restaurant and Chef Awards were announced Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two Florida brothers have pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, admitting they made over $22 million illegally before the 2021 public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump’s media company public. Michael and Gerald Shvartsman each entered pleas to a single count
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After the decisive failure of a ballot measure that would have provided public funds for a downtown ballpark in Kansas City and renovations to Arrowhead Stadium, the Royals and Chiefs must decide what’s next for the future of their facilities. The Royals wanted the
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After the decisive failure of a ballot measure that would have provided public funds for a downtown ballpark in Kansas City and renovations to Arrowhead Stadium, the Royals and Chiefs must decide what’s next for the future of their facilities. The Royals wanted the
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes. His call Tuesday comes only months before what is shaping up to be a hotly contested presidential election. Nebraska and Maine are the only states
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By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Former Marvel actor Jonathan Majors’ conviction on assault and harassment charges will stand after the judge in the case rejected a bid to set it aside. The charges stemmed from a domestic dispute involving Majors and his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. Through his attorney, Majors denied the allegations against him in a statement to CNN in August. In December, a New York jury found Majors guilty of one count of reckless assault in the 3rd degree and a non-criminal charge of harassment as a violation. He was
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TODAY: Stubborn clouds and hit-and-miss showers remain in the forecast today. Winds are sustained at 15-20 mph and may gust as high as 40 mph. Highs are expected to range from mid-40s to low 50s. TONIGHT: We’ll have clouds lingering for some overnight, keeping temperatures in the 30s, but mostly above freezing, overnight. EXTENDED: Most
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A judge has scheduled a major defamation case against right-wing cable channel Newsmax to go to trial in late September, putting the battle over 2020 election lies front-and-center at the peak of the 2024 campaign. Newsmax and the voting technology company Smartmatic could still reach an out-of-court settlement, and further delays are
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has teamed up with Sen. Bernie Sanders to promote the administration’s efforts to lower the cost of inhalers and other health care needs. Both men on Wednesday touted the lower health care costs that have come through the Democrats’ sweeping climate, health care and
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday blasted a convicted January 6 rioter for downplaying the US Capitol attack and using the kind of revisionist rhetoric that former President Donald Trump often uses on the campaign trial. “This cannot become normal… We cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 US
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Prosecutors charged a Columbia man with buying a handgun and illegally giving it to a minor Tuesday.
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By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are still pursuing multiple avenues to try to delay the start of the president’s criminal New York hush money trial that begins April 15, although none of them have much of a chance of succeeding. Trump’s attorneys have filed a
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit. Crews will remove nearly 3 million cubic yards of marine floor to open the San Juan Bay to larger vessels
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — The attorney for a worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium says his client has settled a lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22 million. The Wisconsin State Journal reports attorney Daniel Rottier said Tuesday the settlement in Jeremy Rose’s
Continue Reading By Michael Williams, Alex Marquardt, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — A contentious meeting at the White House on Tuesday was the latest warning sign to President Joe Biden, his administration and his campaign from key parts of the coalition that elected him in 2020. Biden hosted several Muslim leaders at the
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Keck Click here for updates on this story HOPKINSVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — What would you do if you won the lottery? Would you take a nice trip? Pay off bills? Quit your job? Well, a Kentucky woman who recently won did the latter. Kentucky Lottery officials said that Reshawn Toliver of Hopkinsville won
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Columbia’s First Ward voters successfully recalled their city councilman Nick Knoth in Tuesday’s election.
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Florida venture capitalist Michael Shvartsman and his brother Gerald Shvartsman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in an insider trading scheme linked to the blockbuster deal that brought former President Donald Trump’s social media business public. Each of the brothers pleaded guilty in New York to one
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Tuesday that US crime statistics are “only” going up. In fact, most US crime numbers went down last year – and the decreases included one of the largest national declines in murder ever recorded. Trump’s speech in Michigan focused on crime perpetrated by people
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Boring Click here for updates on this story JACKSON COUNTY, Missouri (KCTV) — On Tuesday, Jackson County confirmed a ransomware attack disrupted several county services, including the Jackson County Assessment Department. This attack caused the county locations for the Assessment, Collection and Recorder of Deeds Offices to close on Tuesday until further notice.
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