The Pittsburgh Steelers waived safety Kameron Kelly on Friday, hours after he was arrested for an alleged altercation with police officers at a Pittsburgh bar. Kelly, 23, faces two charges of making terroristic threats and one charge of resisting arrest, according to the criminal complaint. The Steelers confirmed they had waived Kelly in a news
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police have confirmed that the man seen in a another social media video firing a weapon has turned himself in. In a tweet posted online Monday night, EPPD wrote, “Subject did the right thing and turned himself in this afternoon. Currently being processed by officers of the Gang Unit.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo harshly criticized a veto by Russia and China of a United Nations security council resolution that would allow humanitarian aid to reach Syrian rebels, calling the action “shameful.” “Russia and China, who have chosen to make a political statement by opposing this resolution, you have blood on your hands,”
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Every year, Angela Young’s family sends out themed holiday cards to family and friends, but they decided to go out of this world this year. Young, along with her son and daughter, took to the streets of Toronto in a re-creation of the 1998 Beastie Boys music video “Intergalactic.” The original video shows the hip-hop
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WHITE SANDS, New Mexico — Boeing aimed to bring its Starliner crew capsule back to Earth on Sunday to end its first test flight, a mission cut short by an improperly set clock on the spacecraft. The Starliner — carrying no astronauts, only a test dummy — was supposed to spend the coming week at
Continue Reading Police investigating the deadly stabbing of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in New York said Friday on social media that they are looking for a male individual in connection with the case. New York Police Department officials said Saturday they would like to question the boy. Rodney Harrison, chief of detectives, had tweeted: “The New
Continue Reading Like a lot of people, you’re probably not taking down your Christmas tree for a few months. So now’s a good time to learn how to keep it from catching fire and burning your house down. Between 2013 and 2017, US fire departments responded to an average of 160 home fires per year that started
Continue Reading One woman was killed and another “severely injured” Saturday morning in what the Houston Police Department called a “vicious dog attack.” Homicide detectives responded to the area of 5500 Arlington Street in north Houston where the women were found after the attack, the police department said on Twitter. The injured woman was taken to a
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Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Police are searching for two suspects after a brazen robbery ended in a shooting at a popular Atlanta mall on Saturday. Around noon, a Macy’s employee went to her car in the first floor parking deck at Lenox Square Mall when she was approached by
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Liverpool won the Club World Cup for the first time as Roberto Firmino struck in extra time to finally see off the spirited challenge of South American champion Flamengo. Firmino’s 100th minute goal secured a 1-0 victory for Jurgen Klopp’s men in the Khalifa Stadium in Doha Saturday to win a competition that had seen
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Martin Peters, who scored England’s second goal in its 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany, has died, aged 76, following a long battle against Alzheimer’s disease. Peters was part of a triumvirate of West Ham players who starred in the famous final at Wembley, with club teammate Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-trick in
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(CNN Español) — Este sábado, el presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel nombró al ministro de turismo Manuel Marrero Cruz como primer ministro del país, un papel inexistente dentro de la política cubana en más de cuatro décadas. El anuncio se produjo después de que su candidatura fue ratificada por unanimidad por los 594 diputados de la
Continue Reading About 15,739 pounds of frozen beef patties are being recalled because they “may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically small, green, soft plastic,” the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said. The ready-to-eat products from Cincinnati-based AdvancePierre Foods were not sold in retail stories, the FSIS said Friday in a news release,
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s praise of Macao this week stands in stark contrast to Beijing’s irritation with the political turmoil in neighboring Hong Kong. The leader lauded Macao for successfully following China’s “one country, two systems” rule since its handover from Portugal 20 years ago — remarks widely seen as an implicit rebuke of Hong
Continue Reading There’s a man dressed as a Christmas tree roaming the streets of the Big Apple. He’s Mr. Christmas Tree, and he’s fast become one of New York City’s most beloved holiday characters. Thomas Liberto, 46, has been making his holiday trip dressed as a Christmas tree for the past five years, visiting the city every
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) — It was standing-room only at a vigil Friday night in honor of murdered teenager Nikki Kuhnhausen. “Please remember to say her name,” said Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, one of multiple speakers at the ceremony. The body of the 17-year-old was found earlier this month on
Continue Reading South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn said Saturday he is not going to be intimidated by anyone in the White House after President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign falsely suggested Clyburn called for Trump’s hanging. “They’re bullies. They’re trying to intimidate,” the House Majority Whip told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on “Newsroom.” “My goodness, what I’ve been through in this
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHAWNEE, KS (KCTV) — A Shawnee woman’s stolen vehicle was recently returned to her by police only for her to find drug paraphernalia and a number of stolen items still in the car. Now, she is now taking on the hard task of tracking down the owners of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINDEN, MI (WJRT ) — 8-year-old Brinley Jungnitsch has been in Memphis, Tennessee for the last 6 months fighting cancer for the third time. At just four-years-old, Brinley was diagnosed with leukemia in 2015. She’s been all over the country for treatments since then but tonight she’s back
Continue Reading Yuyi Morales heard hateful rhetoric about immigrants and knew she needed to fight back. So she started drawing. The author and illustrator already had made her mark on children’s literature in more than a dozen books. With the 2016 election fresh in her mind, Morales felt it was time to tackle a more personal topic.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (KPTM ) — Thursday protesters in Benson stacked bikes alongside a car taking up space where Omaha’s only bike corral used to stand. Officials from Public Works removed the corral Wednesday, along with a bicycle that was still attached. Thursday morning Greg Lilly picked up his
Continue Reading The people wanted Tacko Fall. His coach gave in — but not before making the crowd work for it. With the Boston Celtics blowing out the Detroit Pistons in the fourth quarter Friday night at home, the crowd pleaded for Fall, an undrafted rookie who is nevertheless a fan obsession. Fall is among the planet’s
Continue Reading Weekend travelers are facing severe weather in opposite corners of the country, with storms in the Northwest and the Southeast. More than 5 million people are under flood watches along the Washington and Oregon coast as heavy rain continues to fall across the region. Areas in Washington state have picked up more than 7 inches
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Artificially-generated faces of people who don’t exist are being used to front fake Facebook accounts in an attempt to trick users and game the company’s systems, the social media network said Friday. Experts who reviewed the accounts say it is the first time they have seen fake images like this being used at scale as
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MADISON, WI (WDJT ) — A bill introduced on Friday by a Milwaukee lawmaker would make it a crime to call 911 unless there’s suspected criminal activity. As CBS 58 reported, on Saturday Waukesha police were called to a KFC after a woman said her sandwich was made
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT SMITH, AR (KFSM ) — A former Fort Smith 911 dispatcher accused of mishandling a call with a drowning woman has been cleared of wrongdoing following an internal investigation. The investigation was conducted by the Fort Smith Police Department and Fire Department. Reports state that though operator
Continue Reading The body of a woman found in a Houston-area home has been identified as missing Austin, Texas, mother Heidi Broussard, officials said Friday. The woman had been strangled in the trunk of a vehicle, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences said. Investigators also found a baby girl believed to be Broussard’s daughter, Margot Carey,
Continue Reading In June of 1982, NBC held a lunch in Los Angeles to publicize its then 7-year-old series, “Saturday Night Live,” which had all but died two years earlier, when the producer chosen to succeed creator Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, had presided over a disastrous season. At this lunch, I was looking to meet up with
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Stephen Biegun on Saturday was officially sworn in as deputy secretary, taking on the number two position at the State Department amid intense speculation about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s political ambitions. “It’s official: Stephen Biegun is the new Deputy Secretary of @StateDept. Honored to swear him in today. As I’ve said before, he’s exactly
Continue Reading “Bah Humbug!” The phrase, uttered by more than a century of Christmas scrooges across page and screen, has been popularized by almost endless adaptations of Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol.” But what does the word “humbug” really mean? It’s Humbug Day, and we want to know where the rallying cry of curmudgeons throughout history
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