By Laura Haefeli Click here for updates on this story WALTHAM, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Drivers in Massachusetts are being warned of scam text messages claiming their owe money for unpaid tolls. It all starts with a text message that looks like an invoice for unpaid toll booths from E-ZPass but the agency said they’re fake.
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By Alex Glaze Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Severn family is asking for your help as their son, who is battling a rare liver disorder, continues to search for a liver donor. It all started with routine blood work at an annual physical. “There’s, like, physically nothing wrong with
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By Ryan Hughes Click here for updates on this story REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (KYW) — Rehoboth Beach is known for its extraordinary entertainment, dancing and drag dinner theater, and its mile-long boardwalk that’s bursting with eclectic shops and restaurants overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The Sussex County, Delaware beach resort is not only a popular getaway
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Jason Kidd couldn’t figure out how to stop the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Now he’s hoping they will get in their own way. The Mavericks coach seemed eager to sow dissension in the Boston locker room on Saturday when he singled
Continue ReadingANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A Disneyland employee has died after falling from a moving golf cart in the backstage area of the Southern California theme park. Anaheim police Sgt. Jon McClintock says Saturday that authorities responded to the Disneyland Resort on Wednesday after a woman fell from a moving golf cart and struck her head.
Continue ReadingSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A shooting in a Sioux Falls neighborhood has left three people dead and two others injured. Police say they have a suspect in custody. They said there does not appear to be any further danger to the community. The Argus Leader reported that police said in a news release that
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The weeklong heat wave that baked most of the U.S. Southwest in temperatures well into triple digits is on its last legs, but forecasters are still urging people to be cautious as there will be little relief from the warm weather until monsoon thunderstorms begin
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his country will suspend coal exports to Israel over the war in Gaza. Relations have soured between two countries which were once close military and commercial allies. Petro wrote on social media platform X that coal exports will only resume “when
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CNN By John Miller, Sabrina Shulman and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Secret Service and Chicago police officials are ramping up preparations for the Democratic National Convention in August, with officers receiving training ranging from First Amendment rights to handling violent protests and mass arrests. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle visited Chicago this week to
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Theodore Roosevelt carefully crafted his image of rugged manliness. The wealthy heir became a Badlands cowboy and a volunteer Rough Rider and war hero. A populist and a reformer as president, Roosevelt enjoyed incredible popularity during his lifetime – and he nearly remade the American political system
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles City Council president says surveillance video taken from outside his district office in North Hollywood on Thursday shows officers from another city’s police department dropping a homeless person off on the sidewalk and “abandoning” him there and has called for a state investigation of the incident. “A Burbank Police
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A rare 7.3-foot hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on the Oregon coast earlier this week, the Seaside Aquarium said. The massive aquatic species was found north of Seaside in northwestern Oregon along Gearhart Beach on June 3. A buzz on social media led to curious people “flocking to the beach
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By Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Markina Tarasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has stabilized the northern Kharkiv front after Moscow launched an offensive a month ago, thanks to more weapons and permission to use them to target positions within Russia. But its forces are being stretched elsewhere along the 1,000km (620 miles) long front line and are defenseless against Russia’s deadly aerial glide bombs.
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Apple is on the verge of kicking off perhaps its most important event in years as it faces a gauntlet of challenges. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference starting Monday, the company is widely expected to announce a partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI and unveil the first batch
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police say gunmen have fatally shot four construction workers at a hospital site near a refugee camp and the border with Somalia where a militant group is active. Garissa county has in the past been attacked by al-Shabab militants who cross through the porous border.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Restraint is a rare quality for a politician, especially in Venezuela, a country whose recent leaders have been synonymous with vitriolic populism. Hugo Chavez, the late president who still casts a formidable shadow across the country more than ten years after his death, used to speak for hours
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By Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — A new Biden administration policy that aims to address illegal southern US border crossings would have been in effect for at least the last three years because of a surge in migrant encounters, a CNN data analysis shows. The executive action, announced on Tuesday, bars migrants crossing the
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — An aid group says it recovered the bodies of 11 migrants off the Libyan coast and transferred them to an Italian coast guard ship off Lampedusa island, where thousands are trying to reach from North Africa. The aid group, Doctors Without Borders, said its Geo Barents rescue ship had recovered the bodies
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has flown hundreds of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea again in its third such campaign since late May, the South’s military said, just days after South Korean activists floated their own balloons to scatter propaganda leaflets in the North. North Korea has so
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has called for peace and harmony in the Balkans even as he and the Bosnian Serb separatist leader organized a large nationalist gathering that featured calls for “unity” of all Serbs in the region. Such messages have raised eyebrows in neighboring states. The
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