By RYAN TROWBRIDGE, AUDREY RUSSO Click here for updates on this story AGAWMAM, Massachusetts (WSHM-LD) — After a two-day cleanup period, Six Flags New England will reopen to the public Friday, just in time for the holiday weekend. The amusement park was forced to close after Tuesday’s strong winds and rain brought trees down. It’s
Continue Reading By ALVIEANN CHANDLER, ANISA SNIPES Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, South Carolina (WHNS) — Troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol said a pedestrian died after getting hit by a pickup truck Wednesday night. According to troopers, a pedestrian was walking across the street around 9:34 p.m. when a F-150 pickup truck
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASA’s Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space — is finally getting her time amongst the stars. She’s been selected by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, to accompany him, his brother, and an as-yet
Continue Reading Wally Funk is an American aviator who trained to become an astronaut in the 1960s, but the NASA program was scrubbed. Roughly six decades later, Funk’s dream of going to space is finally going to come true.
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Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was led into court in handcuffs before prosecutors charged him with 15 felony counts including a scheme to defraud, conspiracy, grand larceny and falsifying business records.
Continue Reading By Curt Yeomans Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Volunteers who give their time to staff the Gwinnett County Veterans Memorial Museum are veterans themselves and have some experience doing battle. But the kind of battles they are fighting these days don’t involve guns. Well, it technically
Continue Reading By Matt Kling Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — A nurse from a Las Vegas hospital was able to assist a sick passenger on a recent flight. Southern Hills Hospital said Josie Rodriguez, a pre-operative nurse, was on a Frontier Airlines flight out of McCarran International Airport to Philadelphia
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declaró este miércoles a China oficialmente libre de malaria, lo que la convierte en el primer país de la región del Pacífico Occidental en eliminar esta enfermedad potencialmente mortal en más de 30 años. La malaria, una enfermedad parasitaria transmitida por la picadura de
Continue Reading By Alex Cheney Click here for updates on this story CATALINA ISLAND, California (KABC) — A boy who was part of a Boy Scouts camp at Catalina Island was bitten on the hand by a shark while kayaking on Wednesday, officials said. The incident occurred near Parson’s Landing around 7:15 a.m., according to lifeguards with
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 speaks with former Borderland food columnist Ruth Taber on ways to utilize your microwave to cook gourmet meals. Here’s a recipe to try: Microwaved Fish in a mustard/wine/honey sauce for two Sauce: enough for one or two pieces of fish – total weight ½ to ¾ pounds. I almost always
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Robinhood has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a 20-year-old trader who died by suicide after seeing a negative account balance of $730,000. The controversial trading app disclosed the settlement on Thursday in its IPO filing. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The family of
Continue Reading Germán Padinger Nota del editor: Kara Alaimo, profesora asociada de relaciones públicas en la Universidad de Hofstra, es autora de «Pitch, Tweet or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication». Fue portavoz de asuntos internacionales en el Departamento del Tesoro durante la administración de Obama. Síguela en Twitter @karaalaimo.
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the unsuccessful terrorist bombings on July 21, 2005, in London. No one was killed or injured in the attacks. Facts The attacks took place two weeks after a similar one killed 52 people and injured more than 700. The bombs were homemade and believed to contain a white,
Continue Reading Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN Depending on you and your life experiences, Bill Cosby is either an abuser or the latest Black man to fall prey to being unjustly accused. In the case of the 83-year-old actor, it is actually dozens of women — the majority of them White — over several years who
Continue Reading By Alan Mauldin Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, Georgia (Albany Herald) — Sometimes there is something new under the sun, at least that was the case for local law enforcement when a suspect illegally set up house in a Dougherty County residence after filing bogus paperwork. The suspect, now in custody, moved
Continue Reading By Joe Holleman Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — After a lifetime of devotion to the old St. Louis Browns, 102-year-old superfan Gertrude E. “Gert” Slama will be remembered next week. Slama, who died June 20, was the breakout star of “A Baseball Legacy: Fans Remember the St.
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By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is appearing in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday afternoon to respond to criminal charges against him and the company in connection with alleged tax crimes. The indictment charges the Trump Organization, Trump Payroll Corporation and Allen Weisselberg. Prosecutors in court described a
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MISHAWAKA, Indiana (WBND-LD) — Police are investigating a crash involving an officer and a bicyclist Wednesday night. At 11:18 p.m. Wednesday night, the Mishawaka Police Department was called to the area of Capitol Avenue and Lincoln Way East for reports of an accident involving a
Continue Reading By Lori Pilger Click here for updates on this story WILBER, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — Just three weeks after Aubrey Trail was sentenced to death for the 2017 murder and dismemberment of Sydney Loofe, a three-judge panel began hearing evidence Wednesday to determine if Bailey Boswell, Trail’s co-conspirator, should get the same punishment. Boswell
Continue Reading By Kristy Kepley-Steward & Anjali Patel Click here for updates on this story HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Still, very few details are known after a serious crash in Henderson County Wednesday night involving first responders. A spokesperson for the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with News 13 that first responders were involved in
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Pinterest on Thursday announced that it will ban all advertisements related to weight loss from its platform in an effort to prevent content that could encourage unhealthy or disordered eating habits. The bookmarking site said it will also prohibit ads with language or images that promote or disparage certain body
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Pinterest on Thursday announced that it will ban all advertisements related to weight loss from its platform in an effort to prevent content that could encourage unhealthy or disordered eating habits. The bookmarking site said it will also prohibit ads with language or images that promote or disparage certain body
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — El aeropuerto de Fiumicino en Roma ha estrenado un mural símbolo de la reactivación del tránsito de viajeros en Europa una vez iniciada la campaña de vacunación. En él se muestra nada menos que a Leonardo Da Vinci en una versión moderna, con el brazo tatuado, gafas de sol y
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NEW YORK, NY — Donald Trump’s company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what a prosecutor called a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme. The indictment says Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg allegedly receive more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including apartment rent, car payments and school tuition. It is the
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic increased the number of people at risk for human trafficking as traffickers took advantage of the social and economic crisis created by the global outbreak, the State Department said in a report released Thursday. The pandemic also caused governments to divert resources away from anti-trafficking efforts, the State
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Robinhood has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a 20-year-old trader who died by suicide after seeing a negative account balance of $730,000. The controversial trading app disclosed the settlement on Thursday in its IPO filing. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The family of
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — Criminal charges against one or more Caddo Parish sheriff’s deputies are not appropriate, the Caddo Parish grand jury concluded Wednesday after reviewing how a dying inmate was treated at the parish jail earlier this year. The grand jury decided not to
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story WAIANAE, Hawaii (KITV) — An attempted murder investigation has been opened after a woman in her 30s was found stabbed to death in Waianae. The woman was pronounced dead on arrival Wednesday morning around 7:15 a.m. on Hakimo Road. Police responded to a call about
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop and Joe Sutton, CNN Five members of the Champlain Towers South condo association’s seven-member board — including its president, Anette Goldstein — decided to resign in the fall of 2019, when the association was debating multimillion-dollar repairs, the Washington Post reported, citing board meeting minutes and Goldstein’s resignation letter. The majority of
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN The restrictive voting laws that Republican-led states are implementing this year are more likely to withstand legal challenges, experts said, after the Supreme Court on Thursday gave states the tacit green light to go as far as they want in imposing measures they say are intended to combat election fraud —
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