By Alan Gionet Click here for updates on this story FORT LUPTON, Colorado (KCNC) — Gathered on their front porch in Fort Lupton in support, the family of 36-year-old Valarie Garcia is mourning her loss with sadness and hurt and worrying about her children after they identify her as the woman killed in a weekend
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, including its Jewish director. Activists also splashed paint across the front of diplomatic buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority. The paint attacks early Wednesday have
Continue ReadingBy Anna Alejo Click here for updates on this story COLORADO (KCNC) — They captured international headlines in 2013 when they became the first gay couple to be granted a civil union in Colorado. Fran and Anna Simon made history again in 2014 as the first gay couple to legally marry in Denver. We caught
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Calif. (AP) — A kite surfer was rescued after using rocks to spell out the word “HELP” when he became stranded on a Northern California beach last weekend. Cal Fire says the kite surfer got stuck Sunday on a narrow beach at the base of towering bluffs with the tide coming in. His “HELP”
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By Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — A shipwreck in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed more than 80 people, the Congolese president’s office said Wednesday. “The President of the Republic is calling for an investigation into the true causes of this unfortunate incident, to prevent such a disaster from happening again in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates will have a familiar face on the sidelines with him during the 2024-25 campaign, as ex-Tiger guard Tre Gomillion announced his homecoming on Wednesday. Gomillion will serve as a coach on Gates’ staff, after playing one year in the black and gold. The Georgia native followed
Continue Reading By Paula Hancocks, Madalena Araujo, Eugenia Yosef, Florence Davey-Attlee and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The family of one of the hostages rescued in an Israeli operation over the weekend has said that he experienced psychological abuse over the hands of his Hamas captors during the eight months that he was held in Gaza. Andrey Kozlov, 27,
Continue ReadingST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The
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The Central Missouri Humane Society has introduced a new tool to get dogs out of the shelter as the shelter deals with overcrowding this summer.
Continue ReadingOpinion by Patrick T. Brown (CNN) — The combination of this month’s inflation numbers and strong jobs report will test the conventional wisdom about the link between economic growth and performance in presidential elections. Since 1992, political consultants have loved to quote some version of strategist James Carville’s quip that the most important factor determining the next occupant of the
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A high school class president in Massachusetts who gave a commencement speech wanted to recognize all of his fellow graduates. So he wrote them personal thank-you notes that were presented at the June 7 ceremony — 180, to be exact. Eighteen-year-old Mason Macuch asked each senior at Apponequet Regional High
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The latest inflation report shows the rising cost of goods is slowing, but the lasting effects from years of inflation are still impacting farmers and shoppers. The inflation report released Wednesday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows grocery prices remained relatively the same from April to May after prices fell
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press Classes at a small northern West Virginia school will be relocated starting this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra Porter announced the move Tuesday for students, faculty and staff at Paden City High School. They
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and when he died at age 98 he had one last thing to give: his liver. Allen, a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War and a longtime educator in rural southeastern Missouri, is the oldest
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and when he died at age 98 he had one last thing to give: his liver. Allen, a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War and a longtime educator in rural southeastern Missouri, is the oldest
Continue Readingmarpichel (CNN) — Durante la mayor parte de su vida, Marine Le Pen ha vivido a la sombra de su padre. Jean-Marie Le Pen fundó el Frente Nacional de extrema derecha en 1972, partido que ella llegaría a liderar unos 40 años después. Cambiar su imagen racista y antisemita ha llevado tiempo, determinación y una
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s new coalition government presented its first budget in parliament. It is promising an increase of up to 25% in the salaries of government employees and setting an ambitious tax collection target. Talks with the International Monetary Fund about a new bailout continue. Analysts say the new
Continue Reading CNN By Patrick Oppmann, AnneClaire Stapleton, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Sergey Gudkov and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A group of Russian Navy ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, arrived in Cuba on Wednesday morning in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Cold War allies. Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov – the first of a
Continue ReadingBy Stephon Dingle Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — People with the Oregon Ridge Nature Center are upset after Baltimore County workers mistakenly mowed a meadow filled with grass and flowers used for wildlife. That meadow, tucked behind lush trees along Shawan Road in Cockeysville, was the habitat for pollinators
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 1975’s Matty Healy and model Gabbriette Bechtel are engaged, according to Healy’s mother, the English actor Denise Welch. Welch, a regular panelist on the ITV talk show “Loose Women,” confirmed the news Wednesday on the U.K. program. “I’ve obviously known for a few weeks that Matty got engaged,”
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