WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A man who crashed a stolen fuel tanker into other vehicles before smashing into a Waterloo home last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. KWWL reports that 26-year-old Dakota Luck was sentenced Monday after he pleaded guilty in July to theft, reckless use of explosives, reckless driving and
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Hard Rock wants to build a casino in or near New York City, even as it moves forward with a plan to build another one about 8 miles away in northern New Jersey. New York state has three remaining casino licenses to be awarded in
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Twin Metals says it will appeal a federal decision that dealt a serious blow to its proposed copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. Last week, the Biden administration ordered a mineral withdrawal study that could lead to a 20-year ban on mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a popular recreational
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By STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe walked into the Virginia governor’s race late last year as the overwhelming frontrunner in a state former President Donald Trump had just lost by 10 percentage points. But less than a week before the final votes are cast, McAuliffe is locked in a
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says Europe stood out as the only major region worldwide to report an increase in both coronavirus cases and deaths over the last week, with double-digit percentage increases in each. The World Health Organization said Wednesday that cases in its 53-country European region, which includes former Soviet republics
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By David Williams, CNN If the Houston Astros win the World Series this year, it will be hard to find anybody happier about it than Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale. The flamboyant Houston furniture store owner is not only a huge Astros fan, he’s also set to win $38.9 million if his bets on the team
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By Laura Klairmont, CNN When the Covid-19 pandemic struck Indonesia’s island of Bali, tourism — the driving economic force in the region — just about came to a halt. More than half of Bali’s economic revenue stems from tourism, employing hundreds of thousands of Balinese people in the industry. Many moved back to their home
Continue Reading By Laura Klairmont, CNN When the Covid-19 pandemic struck Indonesia’s island of Bali, tourism — the driving economic force in the region — just about came to a halt. More than half of Bali’s economic revenue stems from tourism, employing hundreds of thousands of Balinese people in the industry. Many moved back to their home
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By Gregory Lemos and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Broward County Public School Board in Florida voted to relax masking protocols in district-area high schools Tuesday. Masks will no longer be required but are strongly encouraged in high schools starting Monday. Broward County was one of eight school districts the Florida State Board of Education sanctioned
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joanna Hogg first had the instinct to make a film about her then unfolding relationship to her heroin-addicted first love in 1979. Back then, she didn’t feel capable of tackling something so ambitious and personal. Her career detoured, instead, into television. It wasn’t until Hogg
Continue Reading By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland-area roller derby team that has called itself the Guardians since 2013 is suing Cleveland’s newly renamed Major League Baseball team to stop it from using the Guardians name. The former Cleveland Indians announced in July it would change the team’s name to Guardians after years
Continue Reading By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland-area roller derby team that has called itself the Guardians since 2013 is suing Cleveland’s newly renamed Major League Baseball team to stop it from using the Guardians name. The former Cleveland Indians announced in July it would change the team’s name to Guardians after years
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By Martin Goillandeau and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The European Union’s top court has ordered Poland to pay a daily fine of €1 million ($1.2 million) for failing to suspend a disciplinary chamber for judges that the bloc says breaches EU law, in yet another escalation of the conflict between Warsaw and Brussels. The European Court
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling colleagues that Democrats are in “pretty good shape” on President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy plan and a related $1 trillion infrastructure bill. However, pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is panning his party’s
Continue Reading IRVING, Texas (AP) — Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford, Iowa State All-America tight end Charlie Kolar and Michigan star defensive end Aidan Hutchinson are among 13 finalists for the Campbell Trophy, which honors the top scholar-athlete in college football. The National Football Foundation chooses finalists from all levels of college football and the winner will
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For nine months under President Joe Biden, the U.S. has pursued a diplomatic strategy that could be characterized as about China, without China. On security, trade, climate and COVID-19, the Biden White House has tried to reorient the focus of the U.S. and its
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — El ser humano ha explorado las montañas, las selvas y los desiertos de la Tierra por siglos. Pero a pesar de cubrir más del 70% de la superficie terrestre, el océano sigue siendo prácticamente un misterio. De hecho, sabemos más de la superficie de Marte que del fondo marino; apenas
Continue Reading By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer Expectations are sky high in the Southeastern Conference for Dawn Staley and top-ranked South Carolina. The Gamecocks were picked to win their sixth SEC regular-season women’s basketball title in the past nine years. They’ve also won six of the last seven SEC Tournament titles. And don’t expect a drop
Continue Reading WAUKON, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of people and law enforcement officers filled the Waukon High School gymnasium on Wednesday for the funeral of an Iowa State Patrol trooper who died from injuries he received in a car crash in the line of duty. Trooper Ted Benda was hurt Oct. 14 in a single-vehicle crash while
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Taxes on alcoholic drinks in the U.K. are being radically simplified in the biggest overhaul in more than 140 years. Britain’s Treasury chief Rishi Sunak said Wednesday in his annual budget speech the changes will take into account a drink’s strength as opposed to what type of
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