By WFTX Digital Team , Dominga Murray Click here for updates on this story FORT MYERS, Florida (WFTX) — Fort Myers Police say they found a woman dead in a storm drain near the Fort Myers Country Club on Wednesday morning. Jim Fraser tells FOX 4 he was getting ready to play golf when he
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Mortgage rates declined for the third consecutive week in a shred of good news for Americans dealing with a still-tough housing market. The standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.94% in the week ending May 23, down from last week’s average of 7.02%, according to Freddie Mac data released
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire Democratic Party chair whose phone number was spoofed in artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice ahead of New Hampshire’s presidential primary says today’s charges related to the case show the steep price for trying to interfere in
Continue ReadingROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A man has been found fit to stand trial on charges of killing four people and injuring seven others during a series of frenzied attacks in northern Illinois in March. A judge had ordered a psychiatric evaluation in April for 22-year-old Christian Soto. He is accused of stabbing, beating or driving
Continue ReadingBy Riley Moser Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — Police say they are investigating a hit-and-run outside a Minneapolis mosque as a potential bias crime. Officers were called to the parking lot of Alhikma Islamic Center, located at 116 32nd Street West, just before noon on Tuesday, according to the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — If Chief Justice John Roberts is really an institutionalist — someone deeply concerned about the integrity of the Supreme Court and public perceptions about it — then he has a big problem on his hands. This week, the news broke that another controversial flag was flown at a home owned
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By Allen Henry Click here for updates on this story FOREST LAKE, Minnesota (WCCO) — Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II, less than 1%, or 120,000, are still with us today. Robert Hanley says he’s been thinking about the men lost on the USS Houston for the last
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By Mia Alberti, CNN (CNN) — More than 20 people aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence on Tuesday remain in intensive care with spinal, brain and skull injuries, according to a Bangkok hospital that treated some of the passengers. Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital in the Thai capital is treating 22 patients with spine
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice have reached a $310 million settlement agreement with Norfolk Southern after last year’s train derailment that spilled more than a million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, water and air in Ohio. “If the settlement is approved by the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nvidia’s stock price has more than doubled this year after more than tripling in 2023 and it’s now the third most valuable company in the S&P 500. The stock is rising again Monday after it announced new technology and plans to advance artificial intelligence, or AI, applications. The chipmaker has seen soaring demand
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar, in a discovery labelled an “archaeological sensation.” The remains are thought to be between 30,000 and 40,000 years old, according to experts. Andreas Pernerstorfer made the incredible discovery while renovating his wine cellar in the village of
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa (AP) — The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency. This is not a distant, rural community, but a township on the edge of the administrative
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will decide the fate of a man who has spent more than three decades in prison for a killing he says he didn’t commit, following two days of testimony. Christopher Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1990 shooting death of 15-year-old Ricco Rogers. St. Louis
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will decide the fate of a man who has spent more than three decades in prison for a killing he says he didn’t commit, following two days of testimony. Christopher Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1990 shooting death of 15-year-old Ricco Rogers. St. Louis
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok said Thursday its putting in place new rules to limit the reach of state-affiliated media accounts. The company started labeling state-affiliated media accounts two years ago. On Thursday, it said when it identifies these accounts, the content they post will no longer appear on
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — Voters in Britain are primed to end a 14-year era of Conservative rule, in a momentous general election that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is almost universally expected to lose. Sunak took the biggest gamble of his troubled premiership by calling the early vote, but he has struggled to
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By Rashard Rose and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire prosecutors filed 26 criminal charges against the political consultant behind a robocall that used artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden and urged voters not to participate in the state’s primary this year. The Federal Communications Commission also imposed a $6 million fine against
Continue Reading CNN By Nectar Gan, Brad Lendon and Eric Cheung, CNN (CNN) — China has launched two days of large-scale military drills surrounding Taiwan in what it called “punishment” for so-called “separatist acts,” days after the self-ruling island swore in a new democratically elected leader who called on Beijing to cease its intimidation tactics. As part of the
Continue Reading By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Real quick — what did you have for lunch yesterday? Were you with anyone? Where were you? Can you picture the scene? The ability to remember things that happened to you in the past, especially to go back and recall little incidental details, is a hallmark of what psychologists
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CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A flag that was on display during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s vacation home in New Jersey, according to a report in the New York Times on Wednesday. Citing photographs and interviews with neighbors, the Times reports that
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