By Pauline Chan Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — H5N1 or avian flu has been detected at dozens of dairy farms in the United States and Canadian experts are urging surveillance on the north side of the border. “We should be actively looking for it,” said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, infectious
Continue ReadingBy MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal immigration requests to hold an inmate suspected of being in the country illegally passed the state Senate. The Thursday vote was along party lines. The immigration bill now returns to the state House
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Voters in both Colorado and South Dakota will have a say on abortion rights this fall after supporters collected enough valid signatures to put measures on the ballot, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the U.S. Supreme Court removed the
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Damp Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A former Greensburg Police officer has pleaded guilty to her role in a drug distribution conspiracy she was a part of along with the former chief of police. Regina McAtee pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. McAtee admitted
Continue ReadingBy Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story CORONA, California (KCAL) — A magnitude 4.1 earthquake hit the Corona area of Riverside County at 1:49 p.m. Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The shaker could be felt over a wide area from Orange County and West Los Angeles, to the
Continue ReadingBy Julia Falcon Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — Two Northwest ISD students have been arrested after a document referring to a planned attack was found online. During school Wednesday, a Wilson Middle School parent made the school district aware of the document, which detailed a planned attack on
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Prosecutors have refiled charges against a Jefferson City man for his alleged part in a 2021 shooting.
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By Maureen Chowdhury, Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan held another gag order hearing Thursday morning to consider the prosecution’s four additional allegations against former President Donald Trump in the hush money trial. Prosecutors are asking for a $1,000 maximum fine for each alleged violation, but they told Merchan they are
Continue ReadingBy Amelia Mugavero Click here for updates on this story DALLAS COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — A Dallas County woman says she nearly lost her life in a dog attack in late April. Sixty-year-old Kathy Dunn says she still has countless cuts and bruises that remind her of the attack on April 19, when 8 dogs
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge sentenced a former dive boat captain on Thursday to four years in prison on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on his boat in 2019. Jerry Nehl Boylan, who faced up to 10 years
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Missouri petitioners will be turning in signatures to the Secretary of State’s office Thursday afternoon in an effort to get sports betting on the November ballot.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection. Jack Wade
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Hussein Ibish es investigador residente en el Instituto de los Estados Árabes del Golfo en Washington. Su libro más reciente es “What’s Wrong With the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace With Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal”. Las opiniones presentadas en esta nota le pertenecen exclusivamente
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison. Heather Pressdee, 41, was given three consecutive life sentences and another consecutive term of 380-760 years behind
Continue ReadingSAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas man who made an online threat of a mass attack on a convention of young conservative activists in Florida in 2022 was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors said 20-year-old Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez of San Antonio posted a threat on social media to attack the
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By Julian Grace Click here for updates on this story YOUNGSVILLE, North Carolina (WRAL) — Youngsville police are looking for three people caught on video breaking into a gun range by using a forklift to pull the front entrance door away from the building. Police said it happened around 1:17 a.m. Wednesday at the Youngsville
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WRAL, YOUNGSVILLE GUN CLUB, CNN By Julian Grace Click here for updates on this story YOUNGSVILLE, North Carolina (WRAL) — Youngsville police are looking for three people caught on video breaking into a gun range by using a forklift to pull the front entrance door away from the building. Police said it happened around 1:17
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age. The legislation calls for the federal government to spend more on clinical trials
Continue ReadingBy WRAL staff Click here for updates on this story North Carolina (WRAL) — A GoFundMe page has raised more than $391,000 to throw a “frat party” to commend those who “protected Old Glory” during Tuesday’s protests at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Members of Pi Kappa Phi claimed they defended the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday. Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal
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