By Rachel Kubik Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Dabrion Whitehead, 22, of Milwaukee, has dreams of becoming a barber. He’s been incarcerated at the Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility since 2017 when he was involved in a high-speed chase in Fond du Lac with a stolen vehicle.
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By Nikki Carvajal and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday praised Pfizer’s report that its experimental treatment for Covid-19 cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% if given to high-risk adults within a few days of their first symptoms. “I am encouraged by the promising data released by Pfizer today, showing
Continue Reading By Nikki Carvajal and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday praised Pfizer’s report that its experimental treatment for Covid-19 cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% if given to high-risk adults within a few days of their first symptoms. “I am encouraged by the promising data released by Pfizer today, showing
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By Arnaud Siad and Jack Guy, CNN Malta is set to become the first European Union country to legalize cannabis for recreational use. The bill is expected to be signed into effect later this week by Malta’s President George Vella after legislators approved a bill by a majority vote in Parliament on Tuesday. “And the
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — An employee of the Kentucky candle factory where eight workers were killed by a tornado says a supervisor threatened her with written disciplinary action if she went home early because storms were approaching. Haley Conder worked at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory on and off for
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — An employee of the Kentucky candle factory where eight workers were killed by a tornado says a supervisor threatened her with written disciplinary action if she went home early because storms were approaching. Haley Conder worked at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory on and off for
Continue Reading By Emily Hamer Click here for updates on this story BARABOO, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — An urgent care clinic in Baraboo is temporarily closing because it is experiencing “extremely high patient volumes,” SSM Health said Monday. The urgent care inside of SSM Health St. Clare Hospital-Baraboo will be closed starting Tuesday. SSM Health did
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By Steve Almasy and Michelle Watson, CNN O.J. Simpson was granted an early parole discharge last week, according to a statement from the Nevada Department of Public Safety. Simpson had been on parole after being released from prison in 2017 for a Las Vegas kidnapping and armed robbery in 2007. His parole had been scheduled
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– El presidente Joe Biden conmemoró este martes los nueve años que se cumplen del tiroteo masivo en la escuela primaria Sandy Hook. En el aniversario, el mandatario apuntó a los proyectos de su gobierno para combatir la violencia con armas, mientras han fracasado repetidamente los múltiples esfuerzos de los demócratas en el
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Tuesday as traders took in the latest sign that inflation is still running high ahead of the Federal Reserve’s last meeting of the year. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% and the Nasdaq shed 1.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Tuesday as traders took in the latest sign that inflation is still running high ahead of the Federal Reserve’s last meeting of the year. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% and the Nasdaq shed 1.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Continue Reading FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A grand jury in Texas has returned a capital murder indictment against a man authorities have said confessed to killing five people, including three whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster earlier this year. The Tarrant County district attorney’s office says Jason Thornburg was indicted Monday on a
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press The St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Corp. says in a court filing that it will close a Missouri coal plant several years early, a move that follows a court order this summer requiring pollution controls that would potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The decision was announced Tuesday. In
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press The St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Corp. says in a court filing that it will close a Missouri coal plant several years early, a move that follows a court order this summer requiring pollution controls that would potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The decision was announced Tuesday. In
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press The St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Corp. says in a court filing that it will close a Missouri coal plant several years early, a move that follows a court order this summer requiring pollution controls that would potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The decision was announced Tuesday. In
Continue Reading By Alan Mauldin Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, Georgia (Albany Herald) — Alarm over a social media post sent out the evening of Dec. 8 by a student in the wake of several fights at a Dougherty County high school added to confusion the following day as parents rushed to remove their
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By Julia Jones, Ray Sanchez and Brad Parks, CNN Kim Potter was fully trained in her department’s Taser and use of force policies when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, a suburban Minneapolis police commander testified Tuesday. Video from the shooting scene on April 11 showed officers had pulled over Wright and
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Stars goalie Ben Bishop is ending his career because of degenerative condition in his right knee. Bishop has spent more than a year trying to get back while battling a knee that has bothered him since 2019. It’s not officially a retirement because Bishop is
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos dio de baja a 27 miembros del servicio por negarse a recibir la vacuna contra el covid-19, dijo la portavoz Ann Stefanek a CNN este lunes, lo que hace que estos sean probablemente los primeros soldados en ser retirados del Ejército por no obedecer
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Hackers linked with the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have moved to exploit a critical flaw in software used by big tech firms around the world, Microsoft warned late Tuesday. The activity from the foreign hacking groups includes experimentation with the vulnerability, integration into existing hacking tools and
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