Sol Amaya (CNN) — Antes de quitarse la vida, Brian Laundrie escribió en un cuaderno que era el responsable de la muerte de Gabby Petito, según el FBI. “Una revisión del cuaderno reveló declaraciones escritas del Sr. Laundrie en las que se responsabiliza por la muerte de la Sra. Petito”, dijo la Oficina de Campo
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By Liz Stark, CNN The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is investigating “numerous complaints” about labs and testing sites associated with the Center for Covid Control, the agency confirmed to CNN Friday. “We take seriously any allegations of fraud or misbehavior by COVID-19 testing sites. CMS’s Center for Clinical Standards and Quality investigates these
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill Friday extending executive orders that help address crippling shortages of medical personnel and nursing home workers. One order allows hospital staff to perform a broader range of duties. The other makes licensing of nursing home workers more flexible so homes can hire people whose
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By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Joshua Berlinger, CNN At least seven fighters from the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces were killed when ISIS attempted to break thousands of its fighters out of a Syrian prison on Thursday, an attack underlining concerns the terror group could be quietly resurging. The assault on the Ghweran prison, located in the
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By JOHN SEEWER and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Chipmaker Intel says it will invest $20 billion to build a factory in central Ohio in an attempt to help alleviate a global shortage of chips that power everything from phones to cars to home appliances. The announcement Friday also signals the giant
Continue Reading Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Netflix, SunPower fall; Peloton, Bank OZK rise.
Continue Reading By Shelley Childers Click here for updates on this story FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the violent attack of a teenager outside of his Richmond-area home. “It’s traumatizing. I don’t like putting it that way, but it really is traumatizing,” said the teen who asked to
Continue Reading By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of two brothers who were sentenced in 2002 for four killings known as “the Wichita massacre.” Jonathan and Reginald Carr argued that a ruling declaring that the state constitution protects access to abortion opened the door to
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Imagina un futuro no muy lejano en el que puedas reservar ese viaje de verano a Italia o en el que no tengas que acordarte de quitarte la mascarilla para las fotos de graduación. Después de los últimos 25 meses, olvidarse de la pandemia, aunque sea por un tiempo, puede parecer
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks extended their losses on Wall Street Friday as major indexes finished with another weekly loss. The S&P 500 fell 1.9%, and notched its worst weekly performance since March 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.3% and the Nasdaq lost 2.7%. Technology and communications stocks fell. Netflix
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — In a Jan. 20 story about the sentencing of a woman in a Medicare fraud case, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Brandy McKay was sentenced by a federal judge in St. Louis. The sentencing was in Cape Girardeau.
Continue Reading CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A 39-year-old man who admitted that he stole a mortuary van with a body inside last year has been sentenced to six years in prison. Brian Schaake was sentenced Friday for a felony charge of stealing a motor vehicle. He pleaded guilty in October. Investigators said Schaake and a woman took
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By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams will not have left tackle Andrew Whitworth or safety Taylor Rapp available when they play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an NFC divisional playoff game Sunday. Whitworth hurt his ankle on the Rams’ first offensive play in a 34-11 win over
Continue Reading By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A U.S. Navy medical team will arrive in Missouri next week to help a St. Louis County hospital staff strained by an increase in COVID-19 cases. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force announced Friday that a 44-person team of medical specialists will arrive next
Continue Reading By WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — A Miami couple is accused of stealing $2.5 million from a Stock Island fish house and multiple commercial fishermen. Marianela Armenteros, 44, and Yamir Gonzalez-Betancourt, 53, worked for a fish house owned by the Valero-Duran Corporation. Armenteros worked as a general manager,
Continue Reading By WBBM Staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Chicago taxpayers are poised to pay out $14 million to settle lawsuits filed by two men wrongfully convicted of the 1989 murder of a retired Chicago police sergeant’s wife, as part of the latest round of settlements accusing CPD officers of misconduct.
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By Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett, CNN Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell defended himself against what he called a “deeply offensive” and “outrageous mischaracterization” of his record on voting rights and race relations, after he had “inadvertently” omitted a word in a comment earlier this week, which sparked a massive backlash on social media. “This
Continue Reading By Kevin C. Johnson Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Montez Coleman, a prominent East St. Louis jazz drummer who toured nationally and internationally with some of the genre’s greats, died Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, of congestive heart failure at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 48. Coleman was a
Continue Reading RIVERSIDE, Iowa (AP) — A former southeastern Iowa high school teacher has been charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee after police say he sexually abused an underage girl who was a student at the school. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says 41-year-old Justin David Rapier was arrested and charged Thursday. Investigators say Rapier
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Even some Republicans who have supported the “stand your ground law” in Kansas want to revisit it following the death of a Black teenager who was restrained at a juvenile intake center in Wichita last September. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said
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