By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese health officials say an airstrike in Sudan’s capital Khartoum has killed at least 17 people, including five children as fighting continued between rival generals seeking to control the country. The attack was one of the deadliest of the clashes in urban areas of the city and
Continue Reading BALTIMORE (AP) — At least 15 people were injured Saturday when a mass transit bus crashed with two cars before hitting a building in Baltimore, authorities said. Baltimore police said officers in the city’s central district responded to a Maryland Transit Administration bus crash at about 10:20 a.m. A preliminary investigation showed that the bus
Continue Reading By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni official says a commercial flight carrying more than 270 Yemeni Muslim pilgrims has left the rebel-held capital of Sanaa to Saudi Arabia, the first such flight in about seven years. The flight Saturday by Yemen’s national carrier Yemenia — also known as Yemen Airways
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St. LOUIS (AP) — Video shows a security officer for St. Louis light rail repeatedly punch a man in the head as he lay facedown at a busy platform. The guard has since been removed from duty. Obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the video shows the MetroLink security officer hit the man with a
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By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Mississippi authorities say they have captured the second of two escapees who broke out of a detention facility in May. “Escapee-Joseph Spring was captured this morning by HCSO and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force following a brief vehicle encounter in the west Jackson area,” Hinds County Sheriff Tyree
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, Camila Bernal and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — Asylum-seekers transported from Texas to California’s capital city of Sacramento two weeks ago say they were misled by people who convinced them to travel with promises of work and shelter. A total of 36 migrants were driven from Texas to New Mexico where they
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard has seized more than 14,153 pounds of cocaine worth more than $186 million, according to a news release. Authorities said the drugs were intercepted during nine separate cases in international waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Twelve suspected smugglers were also apprehended
Continue Reading By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities continued to search Saturday for victims and survivors of a trawler that sank off the coast of Greece with as many as 750 migrants on board, as conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis blasted critics of the rescue operation. Naysayers, Mitsotakis said at a campaign stop in
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists have received an unexpected boost from its main rival in next month’s national elections after his party won the mayor’s office of Barcelona following a tight vote at city hall. Sánchez’s Socialists took a beating in local and regional elections
Continue Reading CASSELBERRY, Fla. (AP) — Ray Lewis III, the son of two-time Super Bowl champion Ray Lewis, has died, according to a police report detailing a suspected overdose. Lewis died Wednesday after officers were called to a central Florida home and found him unconscious in a bedroom, according to the Casselberry Police Department. Lewis was reported
Continue Reading NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — The district attorney in Massachusetts’ most populous county has postponed a public event where people could’ve voluntarily provided DNA samples to help law enforcement solve crimes or identify human remains. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said she postponed the “DNA Drive Day” event on Saturday in Newton amid concerns raised by
Continue Reading QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care. Bella Montoya’s family made the announcement on Saturday and Ecuador’s health ministry confirmed her death. The woman’s son told The
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say five people were killed when a driver ran a red light and slammed into their vehicle in Minneapolis after a state trooper spotted him speeding. Minneapolis police said in a statement that the driver was on Interstate 35 when the trooper first encountered him around 10 p.m. Friday. Police say
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press Communities from Houston to New Orleans opened cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settled across a broad swath of the U.S. South on Saturday, and beachgoers fled a waterspout that swept ashore on a Florida beach. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, visited Perryton in the Texas Panhandle, where
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Fire Protection District says three people were home but made it out safely when a broke out in 6700 block of East Southfield Drive in Boone County around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. When ABC 17 News crews arrived on the scene, they saw crews working to control the smoke and
Continue Reading By Samantha Beech and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The damaged section of Interstate 95 that collapsed in Philadelphia will be reopened within the next two weeks, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday. The interstate crumbled June 11 after a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed and exploded in flames under the highway,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia will hold several events in honor of “Juneteenth”, including its Third Annual Juneteenth Parade in downtown Columbia. The parade is set to start on Broadway and Waugh Street at 9:00 a.m. and make its way to Douglass Park. The Columbia Police Department posted on its Facebook Friday saying Broadway will be closed
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — At last, help came for Vitalii Shpalin. From a distance, he spotted the small Ukrainian rescue boat traversing floodwaters that had submerged the 60-year-old’s entire neighborhood after a catastrophic dam collapse in the country’s embattled south. He and others boarded with
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — At least 17 people were injured Saturday after a bus collided with two civilian vehicles in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department. “Fortunately, there were no critical life-threatening injuries at this incident,” Baltimore City Fire Department communications director Kevin Cartwright told CNN affiliate
Continue Reading PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — A Colorado runner has raced through drizzle and fog to the top of New England’s tallest peak to win the Mount Washington Road Race. Joseph Gray of Colorado Springs won for a record-tying seventh time, completing the course in little more than an hour, followed by Sam Chelanga, also of
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