WANF, WXIA, CNN By Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his mother, Marcee Gray,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza. “Anyone our age
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as “one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade,” made its way
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft resolution asking the United Nations to begin planning for a U.N. peacekeeping operation to replace the Kenya-led mission now in the Caribbean nation helping police to quell gang violence. The proposed Security Council resolution, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, says
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts left behind at the International Space Station have both flown long space missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been at the space station since June after arriving as the first crew of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. But their trip to the
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The Missouri high school football season continued Friday with some Mid-Missouri teams playing host and others on the road.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low tide, where she plucked black snails, spiny lobsters and spiky sea
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An abandoned 22-story building in Louisiana that became a symbol of the destruction inflicted by back-to-back hurricanes in 2020 has been imploded. The once gleaming building in Lake Charles came down Saturday after the demolition crew set off a series of explosions inside. Formerly known as the Capital
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are veering sharply in how they gear up for Tuesday’s presidential debate, setting up a showdown that reflects not just two separate visions for the country but two politicians who approach big moments very differently. The vice president is cloistered in a historic hotel in
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on “Big Mouth” at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first for her narration of the National Geographic show “Queens.” The former and future
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers SAO PAULO (AP) — Saquon Barkley has been practicing the art of positive thinking since switching teams for the first time in his career. Yet he probably couldn’t have imagined making such a spectacular debut for the Philadelphia Eagles. Barkley scored three touchdowns Friday night in the first NFL game in South
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DOVER, N.H. (AP) — As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles grew to become a pop culture sensation, the place where they were conceived rarely got mentioned. It wasn’t the New York City sewers, where the Turtles mutated from regular reptiles into a crime-fighting quartet who battled foes with nunchucks, snark and pizza. Rather,
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer While tennis fans savor the last matches of the U.S. Open, a subset of viewers have watched the tournament as a source of fashion inspiration. It may have escaped people who don’t pay attention to clothing styles, but cities from Australia to America are awash in pleated skirts, tennis dresses and other
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have denounced the conservative Project 2025 blueprint in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop and mentioned it frequently. On Saturday, they took their campaign against the blueprint from allies of Donald Trump to the sky above college football stadiums in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Authorities have charged a 14-year-old boy with four counts of murder in this week’s fatal shootings at a high school in Winder, Georgia. Colt Gray’s father, Colin Gray, has also been charged. He is accused of knowingly allowing his son to possess a a weapon and is the first parent in Georgia to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first sign of trouble came before the debate even started. “Folks, how are you?” President Joe Biden said as he shuffled onto the stage. His voice was raspy and thin, his movements stiff. “Good to be here. Thank you.” It was an inauspicious glimpse of what would become a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The mother of the 14-year-old who has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of four people at his Georgia high school called the school before the killings, warning staff of an “extreme emergency” involving her son, a relative said. Annie Brown told the Washington Post that her sister, Colt Gray’s mother,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City mural honoring ancient and modern figures in medicine could end up in pieces if it can’t find a new patron soon. The metal and mosaic mural titled “Medical Research Through the Ages” has sat in midtown Manhattan since Pfizer opened the building in 1961. But
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion award Saturday. The film, which is Almodóvar’s English-language debut and stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, took home the top honor. Nicole Kidman won the best actress award for her portrayal of a CEO in
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