Erik Chase says he was already having a rough week when he found out that he may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Chase told CNN’s “New Day” that he got his hair cut May 17 at a Great Clips salon in Springfield, Missouri, where health officials say two stylists worked for up to eight
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Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (WPMT) — A registered nurse at the UPMC Magee Women’s Hospital has been arrested for stealing a patient’s Oxycodone prescription, according to a press release issued by the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Tiffany Hafner turned herself in to Pittsburgh authorities Tuesday, Shapiro said. She
Continue Reading Authorities are offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information that can help find the assailants who attacked five mail carriers with paintball guns. Several of the carriers suffered minor injuries after being hit with paintball pellets on Saturday, said Michael Martel, a spokesman for the Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAYTON, Utah (KSL) — The family of a woman police say was killed by a man she met on Tinder Saturday night called the crime “senseless” and that their lives have been forever changed by it. Layton Police Department identified the victim as 25-year-old Ashlyn Black, of Layton.
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HBO Max, AT&T’s bet-the-farm streaming service, is about to take on Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu. It has a lot going for it: a deep content vault and the exclusive streaming home for DC superheroes, Turner Classic Movies and some of the world’s most celebrated TV shows. But it comes with a hefty price tag. The
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HBO Max, AT&T’s bet-the-farm streaming service, is about to take on Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu. It has a lot going for it: a deep content vault and the exclusive streaming home for DC superheroes, Turner Classic Movies and some of the world’s most celebrated TV shows. But it comes with a hefty price tag. The
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As multiple police agencies search for a University of Connecticut student in connection with the killing of two people and an abduction, his family is pleading for him to surrender. Peter Manfredonia, 23, is suspected of killing one man and seriously injuring another on Friday morning in Willington, Connecticut State Police said in a news
Continue Reading S. Lee Merritt, an attorney for the family of Ahmaud Arbery, told CNN on Monday that the US Department of Justice is investigating the shooting death as a hate crime. Merritt said he learned about the development after meeting with United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Bobby Christine on Thursday. A spokesman
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Floor trading reopened at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell, and traders exulted in cheers. It was the perfect setting for investors’ unbridled enthusiasm about the markets. The Dow rocketed 590 points, or 2.4%, higher and the broader stock market rallied — boosted by optimism about
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Despite dips in recent years in gun violence and the sanctioned stay-at-home orders, Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend in four years. Ten people were fatally shot over the weekend and 39 were injured in shootings as of Tuesday morning, said Chicago Police Department Public Information Officer Sally Brown. Last year, there were at
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Despite dips in recent years in gun violence and the sanctioned stay-at-home orders, Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend in four years. Ten people were fatally shot over the weekend and 39 were injured in shootings as of Tuesday morning, said Chicago Police Department Public Information Officer Sally Brown. Last year, there were at
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Over the last 10 days, President Donald Trump has repeatedly insinuated that former Florida congressman (and current MSNBC anchor) Joe Scarborough may have been personally involved in the 2001 death of an aide in his district office. Here’s Trump’s latest (of many) tweets on it — from Tuesday morning: “The opening of a Cold Case
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Formula E driver Daniel Abt has been suspended by his Audi team for using a professional esports gamer to compete for him. Abt had been taking part in the ‘Race at Home Challenge’ which raised funds for the UNICEF coronavirus relief fund. After being found not to have driven his car himself in the qualifying
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Despite dips in recent years in gun violence and the sanctioned stay-at-home orders, Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend in four years. At least eight people were fatally shot over the weekend and 24 were injured in shootings as of Monday afternoon, according to Chicago Police data reviewed by CNN. Last year, there were
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CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is joined by colleague and veteran anchor, Wolf Blitzer, to discuss covering the unprecedented story of this coronavirus pandemic. You can listen on your favorite podcast app or read the transcript below. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer (Archival clip): Our medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, is at a hospital
Continue Reading Six times this month, in a vile attempt to punish a political rival, President Trump has tweeted about a decades-old conspiracy theory about MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. Twitter has come under increasing pressure to remove the tweets, but the company is not bending, despite being called out by some of the people personally hurt by the
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On Memorial Day, President Donald Trump attacked a Democratic congressman who is a Marine veteran, Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb, as an “American fraud.” But Trump’s own next sentence was entirely false. Trump claimed that Lamb — whose first and last name he misspelled as “Connor Lamm” — is a “puppet” for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Sometime in the next few days, the 100,000th American will succumb to Covid-19 in a pandemic that President Donald Trump once predicted would just “miraculously” disappear. Yet despite, and perhaps because of, his earlier cavalier attitude, Trump spent the long holiday weekend bemoaning everything but the tragic roll call of death — while also finding
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Okla. (Tulsa World) — Ayden Korn feels a sense of duty to turn a bad situation into an opportunity to help others. The 16-year-old Tulsan donated his convalescent plasma Thursday for the first time. His father, Kiley Korn, did the same the day before. Both contracted COVID-19
Continue Reading The anchovies we know today are small, plankton-eating fish that often flavor our Caesar salads and pizzas. But fossil records show that anchovies of yore were more formidable. An international group of researchers recently reported two species of fishes that roamed the seas about 40 to 45 million years ago. The two species had fangs
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Daily Progress) — Friends and family in California, the British Virgin Islands and Sweden were able to watch Lillian Showalter take a big step in her Jewish faith earlier this month, but the ceremony was far from the usual celebration. Lillian’s bat mitzvah was held in
Continue Reading Floor trading reopened at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell, and traders exulted in cheers. It was the perfect setting for investors’ unbridled enthusiasm about the markets. The Dow rocketed 580 points, or 2.4%, higher and the broader stock market rallied — boosted by optimism about
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BILLINGS, Mont. (Billings Gazette) — For as long as Mikkayla Johnson could remember, she has always wanted to be a teacher, a mom and a wife. Planning to marry her boyfriend of seven years, the elementary education student was ready to at least cross “wife” off the list.
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Packing pool parties and other Memorial Day events, many Americans marked the unofficial start of summer just like they did before coronavirus. But while the revelers shunned face masks and ignored social distancing guidelines, the virus keeps spreading unabated, killing both the elderly and the young. By Tuesday morning, more than 1,660,000 Americans have been
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EDGERTON, Wisc. (Wisconsin State Journal) — This is where reminders of this city’s tobacco past are preserved with faded lettering on exterior brick walls. The T.W. Dickinson & Sons building stands out on the corner of West Fulton Street and Highway 51. A few hundred feet away, a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WGN) — With businesses on the brink of re-opening, many still wonder if the damage has already been done. Can reduced hours, fewer customers or more social distancing keep their companies afloat? One suburban business says two months of closed doors is all they can take. Now
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Stanley Ho, Macao gambling tycoon and one of Hong Kong’s first billionaires, has died at the age of 98, his family said on Tuesday. The businessman, who came to be known as the “godfather of gambling,” passed away in his sleep on Tuesday, Pansy Ho, one of his daughters, told reporters outside a hospital in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — Families who are wondering what happened to a loved one gather in the streets to remind their neighbors — someone has the answers. In some cases, the victims have been gone for years — and the case has gone cold. The billboard at 30th
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Nick Cordero continues to battle his way back from Covid-19. The Broadway actor’s wife, Amanda Kloots, posted Monday on her Instagram Stories that he was “doing slightly better than yesterday.” “He is still very sick and battling a lot,” she wrote. “They turned him to a proning position today to open his airways. He has
Continue Reading Stanley Ho, Macao gambling tycoon and one of Hong Kong’s first billionaires, has died at the age of 98, his family said on Tuesday. The businessman, who came to be known as the “godfather of gambling,” passed away in his sleep on Tuesday, Pansy Ho, one of his daughters, told reporters outside a hospital in
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