DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jared “Drake” Bell, an actor best known as a star of the Nickelodeon television show “Drake & Josh,” was found safe on Thursday, hours after authorities in Florida said he was “missing and endangered.” Bell was in touch with police officers and wasn’t in danger, Daytona Beach Police Department spokesperson
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that a group led by Josh Harris and Mitchell Rales and including Magic Johnson has an agreement in principle to buy the Washington Commanders from longtime owner Dan Snyder. Harris and Rales are set to
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER, TARA COPP and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI wants to question a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war, two people familiar with the investigation said Thursday. Investigators believe that the guardsman, who specializes
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California is asking to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee while she recovers from a case of shingles. Her announcement Wednesday came after two House Democrats called on her to resign because of her extended absence from Washington.
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A truck containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes was broken into while it was parked overnight at a Philadelphia store, and authorities say the thieves apparently made off with at least $100,000. The theft was reported around 6 a.m. Thursday. The tractor-trailer driver had picked up about $750,000 in
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who was freed from prison after serving more than 40 years for a triple murder he did not commit alleges in a lawsuit that misconduct by some Kansas City police officers led to his conviction. Kevin Strickland filed a lawsuit Tuesday against five former Kansas City officers
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A 5-year-old boy was flown to University Hospital in Columbia on Wednesday after being hit by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 44.
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University of Missouri Health Care is ending the requirement that patients and visitors in its hospitals and clinics wear masks to guard against COVID-19, more than three years after the pandemic began.
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection began behind closed doors Thursday in a defamation lawsuit seeking to hold Fox News responsible for repeatedly airing false claims related to the 2020 presidential election. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis previously made clear that the selection would be done out of public
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Thursday, elected members of the Jefferson City Board of Education are set to officially join the district’s leadership. The meeting is scheduled to take place at JCPS Education Center at 204 Dix Road in Jefferson City. Scott Hovis and Brad Bates are two members who will return for another term
Continue ReadingBy Adrienne Broaddus, Aya Elamroussi, Eric Levenson and Mark Morales, CNN The family of Connor Sturgeon — who was killed after he fatally shot five people Monday morning at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky — plans to have his brain tested for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, his father and a
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Kara Devlin, CNN A Minnesota judge has ruled the children of a missing woman will remain in county custody rather than be released to their father who says he is cooperating with law enforcement “at every turn,” nearly two weeks after the disappearance of 26-year-old Madeline Kingsbury. In a ruling on
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a federal rule in 24 states that is intended to protect thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways throughout the nation.
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Miller, Nick Thompson and Jennifer Gray, CNN El Niño is a climate pattern that originates in the Pacific Ocean along the equator and impacts weather all over the world. Warm water normally is confined to the western Pacific by winds that blow from east to west, pushing it toward Indonesia and Australia. But
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Andi Babineau, CNN An Indiana man with a history of schizophrenia died in the summer of 2021 due to organ failure following nearly three weeks in solitary confinement at a Jackson County jail, according to a newly filed lawsuit. The lawsuit says jailers placed Joshua McLemore, 29, in a windowless, padded
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, Holly Yan, Elizabeth Wolfe, Paul P. Murphy and Caroll Alvarado, CNN As a two-day inferno fizzles out at a plastics recycling plant a state judge deemed a public health hazard, up to 2,000 residents of an eastern Indiana city are still waiting to learn whether it’s safe to go home. Residents on
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Inflation fell in March, perhaps marking a sign of more easing to come.
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, Bonney Kapp, Sara Smart, Brenda Goodman, Michelle Krupa and Holly Yan, CNN The raging fire shooting toxic smoke from an eastern Indiana recycling plant has forced thousands of people to evacuate and countless more to wonder what the impacts might be to their health and environment. Plastics were among the items that
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — MJ Melendez drove in three runs to back another strong outing from Brad Keller, and the Kansas City Royals avoided a three-game sweep with a 10-1 rout of the Texas Rangers. The Rangers had their second three-game winning streak of the season stopped on the
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Jasmine King, a 22-year-old Jefferson City woman, became a victim of deadly domestic violence Monday night when the father of her child stabbed her in her apartment bedroom, police say.
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