By Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop A is looking to speak with teachers who have had items stolen from their vehicles while at work recently. According to a tweet from MSHP Troop A, a suspect has been taken into custody who
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a series of enforcement actions to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems afflicting minority communities in three Gulf Coast states. The EPA’s actions follow a “Journey to Justice” tour by Administrator Michael Regan last fall in Mississippi, Louisiana
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FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a man died after being shot by a patrol trooper in southeast Missouri. The patrol says the shooting happened Tuesday evening after troopers responded to a call about a sexual assault in progress at Amidon Conservation area in rural Madison County. KFVS reports the caller
Continue Reading By Anjali Patel Click here for updates on this story North Carolina (WLOS) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is suing a telephone service provider for allegedly violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule and facilitating illegal and fraudulent telemarketing calls and robocalls that targeted millions of people in the U.S. — including hundreds of thousands
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Bomba. No es una palabra que puedas decir en un avión (¿recuerdas a Ben Stiller en Meet the Parents?). También debes tener cuidado al usarla para describir un sistema de tormenta. Probablemente escuchas que la frase “bomba ciclónica” aparece de vez en cuando en las historias del clima. Esto es lo
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers An early rally gave way to a broad slide for stocks and a surge in bond yields Wednesday after the Federal Reserve signaled it plans to begin raising interest rates “soon” to fight a spike in inflation that the central bank says is probably getting
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Relatives of passengers who died in one of the fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets are asking the U.S. attorney general to help them re-examine an investigation into Boeing. Several people who lost relatives in a 2019 crash held a video meeting Wednesday with Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A requirement to get vaccinated against COVID-19 kicks in Thursday for millions of health care workers in about half the states. The mandate is starting first in states that didn’t challenge the rule from the Biden administration. It will take effect later in February for 25
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Algunos la llaman la “opción nuclear”. A medida que avanza la invasión Rusia en Ucrania y varios gobiernos del mundo amenazan y anuncian una serie de sanciones sin precedentes contra Rusia, hay una medida en particular que parece infundir temor al Kremlin: cortar al país del sistema bancario mundial.
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon will end its “Sold by Amazon” program after an investigation by Washington state’s attorney general found it was anticompetitive and violated antitrust laws. A lawsuit and a consent decree filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle Wednesday says the company engaged in unlawful price fixing and unreasonably restrained competition to
Continue Reading KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Adair County authorities say a third person has died from wounds suffered in a shooting in Kirksville last month. Adair County Coroner Brian Noe told KTVO-TV that 18-year-old Alissa Anders, of Kirksville, died Tuesday at a Columbia hospital after being taken off life support. Anders was one of four people shot
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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN A high-ranking official in Cuba’s foreign ministry is calling for the Biden administration to restore relations with the island in light of a recent CIA report that found most “Havana syndrome” cases were unlikely to have been caused by a foreign power. The spate of mysterious health incidents that have plagued
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By Holmes Lybrand, Andrew Millman and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A federal judge appeared unconvinced on Wednesday that Donald Trump should be allowed to testify at a trial of a US Capitol riot defendant who is arguing the former President could be a helpful witness. Judge Reggie Walton said that having Trump and his allies testify
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of energy — and it’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. The spinning space object, spotted in March 2018, beamed out radiation three times per hour. In those moments, it became the brightest source of
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of energy — and it’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. The spinning space object, spotted in March 2018, beamed out radiation three times per hour. In those moments, it became the brightest source of
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor-lawmaker who has prescribed a parasitic worm treatment for COVID-19 symptoms says the state medical board has been investigating him since the summer of 2020. Conservative Republican state Sen. Mark Steffen disclosed the Kansas Board of Healing Arts’ investigation of him Wednesday during a
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN) — Ozzie, el gorila macho más viejo del mundo y el tercer individuo de la especie más viejo del mundo, murió este martes en el zoológico de Atlanta a los 61 años, según anunció la instalación. Aún se desconoce la causa de la muerte de este gorila de las tierras bajas occidentales,
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks fell, giving up their gains from an early rally, and Treasury yields climbed Wednesday as investors weighed the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate policy update. The central bank signaled that it plans to begin raising interest rates “soon” as it moves to fight inflation.
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett says he will not file charges against a Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual exploitation of a child while he was in Wichita in the 1990s. Bennett said in a news release Wednesday the statute of limitations has expired on the alleged crime. The Catholic
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos Kamala Harris encabezará una delegación que llegará a Honduras esta semana para asistir a la histórica toma de posesión de la presidenta electa Xiomara Castro. Harris buscará apoyo adicional para lograr su difícil tarea de abordar las causas fundamentales de la migración a la frontera
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