ROME (AP) — Italian police were hunting for a tobacco shop owner in Naples who allegedly ran off on a motor scooter with a customer’s “scratch and win” ticket, which had won the top prize of 500,000 euros ($580,000). Italian news reports on Saturday said a day earlier an older woman had purchased the card
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A second suspect is charged in a shooting in Des Moines that killed one person and injured two others. Des Moines police say 18-year-old Mohaned Musa Ishag of Des Moines was arrested and charged Friday with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. The shooting on Monday killed 40-year-old
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MONTGOMERY Co. (KMIZ) One woman was seriously injured in a Montgomery County car crash at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, 44-year-old Deanna Huffaker was driving southbound along MO 19 at Winkelmann Road when she went off the right side of the road. Huffaker then over corrected and
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By Alta Spells and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least 13 people were injured in nine shootings overnight in Chicago, according to police. A 4-year-old boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition after he was shot twice in the head Friday night while inside a home on South Ellis Avenue, the Chicago Police Department
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Sharks and rays have seen declines in their populations since 2014 and more and more are now threatened with extinction. That’s according to a new red list released Saturday at a global conference aimed at protecting dwindling species. There are signs of hope, too. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of shots were fired in the Plush Lounge parking lot in Columbia early Saturday morning. ABC 17 News crews on scene saw at least 25 evidence markers on the ground, five Columbia Police Department cars and one van. Evidence markets in Plush Lounge Parking lot on Sept. 4, 2021 The Columbia
Continue Reading LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian rescue workers say they have recovered the body of a U.S. climber who died at about 6,200 meters (more than 20,000 feet) altitude near the peak of the Illimani mountain. The name of the 24-year-old climber was not immediately released. Rescue worker Javier Thellaeche says death was “probably because
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shawnee County authorities say a man and a woman were found dead in what is believed to be a murder-suicide. Sheriff Brian Hill says the bodies were found Friday afternoon in a home just south of Topeka. He says the preliminary investigation indicates the two people were shot to death in
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An exhibit explaining the history of the LGBTQ community in Kansas City will reopen in a state building in Jefferson City after being removed from the Missouri Capitol earlier this week. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources said the exhibit will open Saturday in the Lohman Building near the Capitol.
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Veteran-led rescue groups say the Biden administration’s estimate that no more than 200 U.S. citizens were left behind in Afghanistan is too low and also overlooks hundreds of others they consider to be equally American: permanent legal residents with green cards. Some groups
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jessica Chastain has been friends with Oscar Isaac since their Julliard days but says it was “a blessing and a curse” to play his wife in a remake of Ingmar Bergman’s classic “Scenes From a Marriage.” The film premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival. It
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The end of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case has left a bitter taste for those who wanted to see more accountability for members of the Sackler family. A federal judge this week gave preliminary approval to a plan that settles some 3,000 lawsuits against the maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The end of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case has left a bitter taste for those who wanted to see more accountability for members of the Sackler family. A federal judge this week gave preliminary approval to a plan that settles some 3,000 lawsuits against the maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Experts call it “warning fatigue,” and no one can be sure what role it might have played in a tragedy that killed at least 49 people when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the northeast. Cellphones across New York and New Jersey pulsed with
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Experts call it “warning fatigue,” and no one can be sure what role it might have played in a tragedy that killed at least 49 people when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the northeast. Cellphones across New York and New Jersey pulsed with
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman accused of killing a 4-year-old Jefferson City boy who she was babysitting will not be released on bond. A judge ruled Friday that Quatavia Givens will remain in jail awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Darnell Gray in October 2018. A grand jury
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Democrats are wondering if they erred in pushing too hard in some states for a nonpartisan redistricting process. Redistricting is the once-a-decade process by which state legislatures redraw political maps. Parties can gain major advantages if they draw seats in a way that favors their candidates. But
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers. The women’s march Saturday, the second in as many days in
Continue Reading GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas operatives have launched a number of incendiary balloons from Gaza into Israel, protesting the continuing blockade on the territory. Photos and videos posted online on Saturday showed masked operatives holding pictures of Gazans killed in recent clashes with Israeli forces while they launched balloons in the direction of
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top health official has called on more citizens to get vaccinated. He is warning that if the numbers don’t go up, Germany’s hospitals may get overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients toward the end of the year. Health Minister Jens Spahn tweets that “we need at least 5
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