By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Stetson Bennett delivered the biggest throws of his storybook career and Georgia’s defense sealed the sweetest victory in program history, vanquishing rival Alabama 33-18 to win the College Football Playoff title game. The Bulldogs won their first national championship in 41 years. Bennett connected
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer The Beijing Winter Olympics are fraught with potential hazards for major sponsors. They are trying to remain quiet about China’s human rights record while protecting the billions they’ve collectively paid to the IOC for the branding rights. The International Olympic Committee’s top sponsors include household names like Coca-Cola, Procter
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By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer The Beijing Winter Olympics are fraught with potential hazards for major sponsors. They are trying to remain quiet about China’s human rights record while protecting the billions they’ve collectively paid to the IOC for the branding rights. The International Olympic Committee’s top sponsors include household names like Coca-Cola, Procter
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By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN As Covid-19 cases skyrocketed across Britain in late December, Stuart Guest spent his vacation poring over scientific reports about air cleaning and filtration systems. Guest, a head teacher at an elementary school in Birmingham, England, scoured Amazon for affordable air purifiers in the hopes of stopping the more transmissible Omicron variant
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By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago scrapped classes for days in a confusing standoff with the teachers’ union over COVID-19 safety measures in the nation’s third-largest school district. From remote instruction to testing, both sides have been negotiating nearly a dozen complex points of a safety plan that has cast a shadow
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By Samantha Beech, CNN European Parliament President David Sassoli has died in Italy, according to a Tweet from his spokesman early Tuesday local time. “The @EP_President David Sassoli passed away at 1.15 a.m. on 11 January at the CRO in Aviano (PN), Italy, where he was hospitalized. The date and place of the funeral will
Continue Reading By Samantha Beech, CNN European Parliament President David Sassoli has died in Italy, according to a Tweet from his spokesman early Tuesday local time. “The @EP_President David Sassoli passed away at 1.15 a.m. on 11 January at the CRO in Aviano (PN), Italy, where he was hospitalized. The date and place of the funeral will
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK and JOHN PYE Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The prime ministers of Australia and Serbia have discussed Novak Djokovic’s precarious visa after the top-ranked Serbian tennis star won a court battle to compete in the Australian Open but still faces the threat of deportation because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Continue Reading By SAM COWIE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — The scorching Amazon sun beats down as agents inspect the body of a black helicopter. Nearby, in the backyard of the federal police headquarters in the city of Boa Vista, sit more than twenty aircraft — all seized. Some bear signs of
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people. It wasn’t clear how long the lockdown of Anyang, home to 5.5 million people, would last. Mass testing was being enforced, standard procedure whenever
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Prosecutors have agreed to dismiss separate perjury counts Ghislaine Maxwell faces at sentencing if she is unsuccessful in getting a new trial “in light of the victims’ significant interests in bringing closure to this matter and avoiding the trauma of testifying again,” according to a court filing on Monday. The filing
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it will keep its borders closed to most foreign citizens through February as it attempts to accelerate coronavirus booster shots for elderly people and expand hospital capacity to cope with the rapidly spreading omicron variant. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday said the stringent border
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At the Columbia Public Schools Board of Education meeting Monday night, the board members plan to vote on adding an $80 million bond issue to the City of Columbia’s April ballot.
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Actress Betty White died after suffering a stroke six days prior, according to her death certificate. The official cause of death listed on the Los Angeles County document obtained by CNN is cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for a stroke, when blood flow to the brain is blocked causing impairment due
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — La embajada de Estados Unidos en Ecuador informó mediante un comunicado de prensa que revocó las visas de no inmigrante de varios jueces ecuatorianos y otras personas que trabajan en los ámbitos legal y judicial por considerar que “ya no califican para estas visas”. “La embajada de Estados Unidos toma seriamente
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TUSCUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Miller County Sheriff’s Department is reporting Detention Sergeant Janell Visser has died from the coronavirus. Visser began her career with the Miller County Sheriff’s Office in 2007 and was recently named the 2021 Jailer of the year. According to a post on Facebook, Visser served for over 14 years and was
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By Amir Vera and Josh Campbell, CNN A federal judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit from 13 Los Angeles Police Department employees who protested against the city’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, testing and reporting requirements. Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti approved an ordinance in August requiring all city employees to be vaccinated by
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arkel Lamar had 20 points as Kansas City narrowly defeated Nebraska Omaha 64-61. Nick Ferrarini led the Mavericks on Monday night with 17 points.
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Canadá pasó este lunes a la categoría de mayor riesgo para los viajeros en la lista que elaboran los Centros de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). Canadá, el segundo país más grande del mundo por superficie total, ha experimentado un fuerte aumento de
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A Boone County prosecutor has charged a Columbia man with multiple crimes after a New Year’s Day shooting near Silverball bar.
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