The Pittsburgh Steelers are making headlines during their bye week, which is typically not something NFL teams want to do. Steelers linebacker Anthony Chickillo, 26, was arrested Sunday and charged with assault after a dispute with his girlfriend, the NFL said on its website. The incident occurred at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington, Pennsylvania,
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The chance to see Helen Mirren play another queen (OK, empress) is incentive enough to watch “Catherine the Great,” a four-part British-American miniseries airing stateside on HBO. The fascinating history of Russia’s longest-serving female monarch, court intrigue and lusty bodice-ripping merely seal the deal. A little disorienting at first, “Catherine” essentially opens in the middle
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A 17-year-old male was arrested Monday for allegedly posting on Facebook that he would participate in a shooting at an Albany, New York, high school, police said. The suspect allegedly posted the threat Sunday night, and was charged with making a terroristic threat Monday, Albany police spokesperson Steven Smith said. The Facebook post went viral
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Louisiana, MO (KMOV) — The Missouri Department of Transportation’s Northeast District is issuing an apology after posting an edited photo of an Illinois boy on social media. On Oct. 18, MoDOT crews demolished the old Champ Clark Bride, which spanned across the Mississippi River for 90 years. In
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The drones are coming — and they’re bringing your aspirin. CVS is the latest drug store to explore delivering to you via a drone. The pharmacy chain is partnering with UPS, which received a Federal Aviation Administration certificate earlier this month to make limited drone deliveries. CVS said in a brief statement Monday that it
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The strike at General Motors has already gone on for five weeks. It might drag on even longer if strikers reject a tentative agreement reached last week between the company and negotiators for the United Auto Workers union. The negotiating team and union leadership are both recommending that the nearly 50,000 strikers vote to ratify
Continue Reading The bomb squad was called to Midway International Airport in Chicago on Monday after a cell phone battery or charger in someone’s luggage exploded, police told CNN. The incident was cleared by the squad and no one was injured, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a tweet. The bag had been run over by a
Continue Reading US stocks closed higher Monday, but the rally would have been even stronger if it hadn’t been for Boeing, whose falling shares held back the Dow. All major stock indexes ended in the green, with the S&P 500 closing up 0.7%, and the Nasdaq Composite finishing 0.9% higher. But the Dow only inched up 0.2%
Continue Reading While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began observing it in 1982, according to a joint release by NASA and NOAA. Unusual weather patterns in the upper atmosphere limited depletion of ozone, the layer in our atmosphere that acts like sunscreen
Continue Reading Fury at political elites has engulfed Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets across the country for anti-government protests, paralyzing its economy and blindsiding its government. These are the largest demonstrations the country has seen since March 2005, when mass protests ended a decades-long Syrian military presence in the country. Sparked by a
Continue Reading At 62, the Whopper is approaching retirement age. But Burger King is squeezing new life out of its iconic menu item through themed special editions throughout the year. The latest release, ahead of Halloween, is a Ghost Whopper, which is a regular burger with a special white cheddar-cheese-flavored (and colored) sesame-seed bun. It’s only available
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Genesee County, MI (WJRT) — A big group of Mid Michigan law enforcement officers and firefighters made sure a boy’s birthday party was extra special. The effort started when 13-year-old Johnny of Genesee County sent a letter to emergency responders, inviting them to his party. An employee at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha, NE (KPTM) — The United Way of the Midlands (UWM) has announced a new partnership with Lyft to provide free rides to those in need. Rides will be available to people with ‘limited access to safe, reliable transportation.’ The partnership will allow people to take rides to
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Hours before the first federal trial in the opioid epidemic was set to begin, four pharmaceutical companies reached a settlement totaling $260 million. The four companies — McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. — reached a settlement Monday morning with the two plaintiffs, Summit and Cuyahoga counties in Ohio.
Continue Reading Vaping helped 50,000 to 70,000 smokers in England quit smoking in 2017, new research estimates. But different policies and cultures around e-cigarettes mean those results might not be replicated elsewhere. The study, recently published in the scientific journal Addiction, found the success rate for people quitting smoking rose as the use of e-cigarettes increased from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Milwaukee, WI (WDJT) — Police are investigating after a 4-year-old girl picked up her father’s gun and shot him and herself on Sunday, Oct. 20, near South 60th Street and Warnimont Avenue. According to police, it happened around 10:14 a.m. Both sustained non-life threatening injuries and were treated
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House Democrats are facing a time crunch to quickly wrap up their investigation into allegations President Donald Trump abused his office in pushing Ukraine to probe his political rivals, prompting growing expectations that votes on impeaching Trump could slip closer to the end of the year. Some Democrats had hoped that a narrow probe —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Westminster, CO (KCNC) — Dozens of female high school students gathered at Maxar Technologies on Friday for an event to encourage them to further their interests and capabilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The keynote speaker at the American Heart Association’s “Bring Stem To Life” event
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Chicago, IL (WBBM) — The Chicago teachers’ strike is causing issues for high school soccer teams and they’re pleading with state officials to let them play. The Illinois soccer playoffs start on Tuesday. Several teams from Chicago say that student athletes will miss out on the opportunities to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Peabody, MA (WBZ) — Peabody police arrested a man and made a major seizure of “illegal marijuana products” over the weekend. Photos posted on the department’s Facebook page showed boxes full of marijuana-laced candy, including Wonka bar and Nerds Ropes lookalikes. The products are estimated to be worth
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Baltimore, MD (WJZ) — Baltimore’s Penn-Mar Human Services works to find employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Up until now, they’ve always placed people in a local business or company. Raven says he’s been interested in being a D.J. since he was 4-years-old. Now, Penn-Mar is
Continue Reading When Andrella “Lashae” Jackson was pulled over on October 12 by a Milwaukee police officer who noticed her two young daughters were not in car seats, the single mom of five expected to leave with a hefty ticket. Instead, Officer Kevin Zimmerman purchased and installed two car seats for the girls, Niyah and Sky, and
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(CNN) — En una entrevista exclusiva concedida a CNN en Español en Barcelona, el presidente de la Generalitat de Cataluña, Quim Torra, quiso desmarcarse de los actos violentos registrados durante la última semana en la comunidad autónoma. “A mí no me representa la violencia, en absoluto, y la condeno. Es más, esto podría entorpecer nuestro
Continue Reading When the police shooting of unarmed father Terence Crutcher happened on September 16, 2016, in Tulsa, the city’s reaction was furious — but peaceful. There were prayer vigils at black churches and, within a week, first-degree manslaughter charges filed against the officer who shot him. But the incident also shed fresh light on a dark
Continue Reading Lori Harvey, a model and the stepdaughter of comedian and television host Steve Harvey, was arrested over the weekend after a single vehicle car accident, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department. She received a misdemeanor hit-and-run citation, BHPD Sgt . James Keenaghan told CNN, for allegedly hitting a parked vehicle around 9 p.m. Sunday
Continue Reading Shay Mitchell is now a pretty little mama. The star of “Pretty Little Liars” and “You” announced the arrival of her first child Sunday on her official Instagram account. Mitchell posted a photo showing her holding the hand of her newborn. “Never letting go,” the caption read. The 32-year-old actress and her 38-year-old boyfriend Matte
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Juno the elephant has successfully completed her fourth cancer treatment procedure. The El Paso Zoo said Monday that the 52-year-old Asian elephant is recovering and closely being monitored after her procedure to take care of a malignant mass in her right mammary gland. “Our goal with electrochemotherapy and electrogene therapy is to decrease the size
Continue Reading In her high school yearbook, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir wrote “go for a spacewalk” on the list of her plans for the future, Meir said Monday during a news conference from the International Space Station. Now, she can check that box. Meir, alongside fellow astronaut and friend Christina Koch successfully conducted the first all-female spacewalk
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Natalie Portman just proved she’s an ’80s baby. The “Thor” actress basically lost her mind when she received a signed “Baby-Sitters Club” book, with a special note written by the author herself, Ann M. Martin. “Today was a VERY IMPORTANT day for me,” Portman wrote on Instagram. “I read every single Babysitter’s Club book when
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