By WLS Digital Team Click here for updates on this story WAUKEGAN, Illinois (WLS) — Waukegan’s city council voted to censure a fellow alderperson on Monday night after a social media photo controversy. Alderman Keith Turner posted a photo on Facebook, showing a severed arm recently found at a Waukegan beach. Investigators believe that arm
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WLS By WLS Digital Team Click here for updates on this story WAUKEGAN, Illinois (WLS) — Waukegan’s city council voted to censure a fellow alderperson on Monday night after a social media photo controversy. Alderman Keith Turner posted a photo on Facebook, showing a severed arm recently found at a Waukegan beach. Investigators believe that
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials now recommend that some people consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday finalized its endorsement of taking the antibiotic doxycycline after unprotected sex. It’s a way
Continue ReadingBy Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story BENTON, New Hampshire (WBZ) — An 84-year-old Vermont man crashed a glider plane into the White Mountain Forest on Sunday, and he lives to tell the tale. He was suspended 20-feet off the ground for several hours. “I was supporting my weight with my hand
Continue ReadingWLS, DEBBIE WAJVODA, CNN By WLS Digital Team, Leah Hope, and Eric Horng Click here for updates on this story LOWELL, Indiana (WLS) — A hot air balloon crash in northwest Indiana left three people on board injured on Sunday evening. Two of those injured were airlifted to Chicago hospitals, and crews later moved the
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By WLS Digital Team, Leah Hope, and Eric Horng Click here for updates on this story LOWELL, Indiana (WLS) — A hot air balloon crash in northwest Indiana left three people on board injured on Sunday evening. Two of those injured were airlifted to Chicago hospitals, and crews later moved the deflated hot air balloon
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Representatives for a Maine company that plans to send small satellites into space from the Northeast’s most rural state say they hope to start launches next year. Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace hopes to turn Maine into a hub for the launching of commercial nanosatellites and has been
Continue ReadingBy Juli McDonald Click here for updates on this story TAUNTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A crossing guard is accused of attacking a mother and child with a stop sign near Taunton High School on Monday morning. Prosecutors say a woman was driving through the intersection where 68-year-old Louis Chaves was working at about 7:30 a.m.
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA, SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claimed victory for his alliance in an election seen as a referendum on his decade in power, is a popular but polarizing leader who has presided over a fast-growing economy while advancing Hindu nationalism. Modi,
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who had been serving life for second-degree murder is dead, about two weeks after being granted a medical transfer from prison to a facility that could better treat his condition, including quadriplegia. The state Corrections Department confirmed on Tuesday that 68-year-old Ezra Bozeman died on Saturday at the UPMC
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With many bridge projects on the horizon in Jefferson City, the Missouri Department of Transportation is hoping to get input from the public at a meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Continue ReadingBy Christian Olaniran, Alex Glaze, Adam Thompson Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Two fetuses were found on a Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) bus in East Baltimore over the weekend, according to Baltimore Police. Officers responded around 12:40 p.m. on Saturday in the area of the 2500 block of Kirk
Continue ReadingBy WTVR Web Staff Click here for updates on this story CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — A large firefighting operation turned into a three-alarm fire early Tuesday morning at a UPS distribution center in Chesterfield. Battalion Chief Brian Warshawsky said they were alerted to a fire that involved three tractor-trailers at 2:34 a.m on the
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s treasury secretary has pledged to bring down the budget deficit in coming years, after the country suffered a partial meltdown in the currency and stock market. Treasury Secretary Rogelio RamÃrez said Tuesday the federal deficit will be cut from this year’s level of 6% of GDP, to around 3% in
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By Joi Fultz Click here for updates on this story CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — Howard L. Hegner worked as a substitute teacher and grocery store clerk in Chesterfield County, Virginia for more than 20 years. Whether you were in his classroom or Kroger checkout line, Hegner was quick to share a joke as laughter
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By Nick Beres Click here for updates on this story HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — An unfortunate milestone, as the search for a missing teen reaches one hundred days. Sebastian Rogers disappeared from his Hendersonville home more than three months ago. It’s a case so many of us still follow. Make no mistake, Rogers missing is
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WTVF, TBI, CNN By Nick Beres Click here for updates on this story HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — An unfortunate milestone, as the search for a missing teen reaches one hundred days. Sebastian Rogers disappeared from his Hendersonville home more than three months ago. It’s a case so many of us still follow. Make no mistake,
Continue ReadingBy Tony Sloan Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — How far would you go to stop a crime happening in front of you? This weekend a group of shoppers took it upon themselves to stop shoplifters at the Tanger Outlets in Antioch. The video of the incident has gone viral
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities in Minnesota have confiscated cellphones and taken all seven defendants into custody as investigators try to determine who attempted to bribe a juror with a bag of cash containing $120,000 to get her to acquit them on charges of stealing more than $40 million from
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — If you’re wondering how much your car is worth, or how much to pay for that car you’re thinking of buying, there’s a good chance you’ll check KBB.com. That’s short for Kelley Blue Book, and it’s one of the longest-standing sources for used car values there is. A man
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