TRAER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in Tama County say a $17,000 reward is now being offered to help solve a deadly shooting in June. KCCI-TV reports that the killing of 42-year-old Ryan Cooper remains unsolved. He was found shot to death inside his home in the small town of Traer. An autopsy determined the death
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two men are dead and two others are hospitalized after a gun battle in north St. Louis. Police say the shootings happened Monday night when two groups of men started shooting at each other. One of the injured men is in critical condition. The other has injuries not believed to be
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are moving higher on Wall Street in afternoon trading Tuesday as corporate earnings reporting gets into full swing. The benchmark S&P 500 was up 0.7%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.4%. Health care companies were making some of the biggest gains.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are moving higher on Wall Street in afternoon trading Tuesday as corporate earnings reporting gets into full swing. The benchmark S&P 500 was up 0.7%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.4%. Health care companies were making some of the biggest gains.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Business) — Aproximadamente 200.000 contenedores de envío permanecían paralizados frente a la costa de Los Ángeles este lunes, ya que las interrupciones relacionadas con la pandemia continúan afectando varias cadenas de suministro, según Gene Seroka, director ejecutivo del Puerto de Los Ángeles. “Tenemos cerca de dos semanas de trabajo anclado ahora
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been working the phones to try and bolster support for voting legislation teed up for Senate consideration this week, even as the bill is set to run into a Republican blockade. Biden spoke with Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Alex
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By Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been working the phones to try and bolster support for voting legislation teed up for Senate consideration this week, even as the bill is set to run into a Republican blockade. Biden spoke with Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Alex
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An investigation is underway after a jail detainee was found dead at the Shawnee County Adult Detention Center in Topeka. The Shawnee County Department of Corrections says 58-year-old Curley Charles Anderson Jr. was booked into the jail on Friday on charges that included aggravated battery, driving while license suspended and reckless
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has thrown out a lawsuit against American treasure hunters that accused them of having destroyed an underwater archaeological site when they looted a sunken galleon for tons of precious coins. In 2007, the Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration scooped up over half a million silver and gold coins when it
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has thrown out a lawsuit against American treasure hunters that accused them of having destroyed an underwater archaeological site when they looted a sunken galleon for tons of precious coins. In 2007, the Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration scooped up over half a million silver and gold coins when it
Continue Reading By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska expects to be charged with lying to the FBI while federal agents were investigating campaign contributions funneled to him from a Nigerian billionaire. The nine-term Republican is proclaiming his innocence and promising to fight the charges. Fortenberry says in a
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 22 people have died and others are missing in floods triggered by heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Indian Meteorological Department says heavy to very heavy rain will continue to fall in the state for the next two days. Several
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By Stephanie Halasz, CNN The trial of a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary has finally began in Germany, weeks after she went on the run just before she was due in court. The woman, named by German media as Irmgard Furchner, is accused of being an accessory to murder in more than 11,000 cases,
Continue Reading WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Ruby the K-9 officer for Kansas game wardens may be pushing 10 years of old, but her sniffer works just fine. That was evident earlier this month when Ruby played a key role in tracking down a man wanted by police in the south-central Kansas town of Wellington. A Monday Facebook
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By Claire Colbert and Omar Jimenez, CNN The funeral for 25-year-old Jelani Day, an Illinois graduate student whose body was identified nearly a month after he was reported missing, was held Tuesday in Danville, Illinois. About 30 people attended the ceremony, including civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and several members of his Rainbow
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are laying out plans to let most Americans buy hearing aids without a prescription. Tuesday’s announcement is a long-awaited move intended to make the devices more accessible to millions of Americans with hearing problems. The Food and Drug Administration said the proposal would
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are laying out plans to let most Americans buy hearing aids without a prescription. Tuesday’s announcement is a long-awaited move intended to make the devices more accessible to millions of Americans with hearing problems. The Food and Drug Administration said the proposal would
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U,S.-based missionary group has demanded a $17 million ransom for them. That’s according to Haiti’s justice minister, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. Liszt Quitel says the gang is demanding $1 million per person
Continue ReadingBy Fox 12 Staff Click here for updates on this story SEATTLE, Washington (KPTV) — Washington State Patrol announced Tuesday that 127 of its employees have lost their job after the state’s COVID-19 vaccinate mandate deadline. The deadline for Washington state employees to provide proof of vaccination or receive approved exemption was Monday. As of
Continue Reading By BRYAN ANDERSON AND JONATHAN DREW Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university may continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions. The ruling goes against a group working to undo affirmative action. Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-based
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