ATLANTA (AP) — Former Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke has been named Georgia Tech’s quarterbacks coach. Coach Geoff Collins fired three assistants, including offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Dave Patenaude, following a 3-9 season that ended with six consecutive losses. New offensive coordinator offensive Chip Long will coach the Yellow Jackets’ tight ends. Weinke led
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — New Jersey Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton is scheduled to have surgery Wednesday on his broken jaw. The team did not give a timetable for his return. Hamilton was put on injured reserve retroactive to Sunday, when he took a puck to the face off a shot from Washington defenseman Justin Schultz. The
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. public health officials are investigating how civilians have been affected by the leakage of petroleum into Pearl Harbor’s tap water from a Navy fuel storage facility. The Hawaii Department of Health says it asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic
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CNN By Tierney Sneed Former President Donald Trump was hit with two new federal lawsuits Tuesday from law enforcement officers who were at the US Capitol on January 6 and who allege that Trump directed the assault that left them injured and emotionally traumatized. The two complaints — one filed by a US Capitol Police
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By Tierney Sneed Former President Donald Trump was hit with two new federal lawsuits Tuesday from law enforcement officers who were at the US Capitol on January 6 and who allege that Trump directed the assault that left them injured and emotionally traumatized. The two complaints — one filed by a US Capitol Police officer
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury has ended the suspense surrounding the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes by finding her guilty on four of the 11 charges facing her, but some issues in the legal drama remain unresolved. Perhaps the biggest question centers on how
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury has ended the suspense surrounding the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes by finding her guilty on four of the 11 charges facing her, but some issues in the legal drama remain unresolved. Perhaps the biggest question centers on how
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Charlie Munger, the longtime pal of Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, is apparently a very big fan of Alibaba… even though the 98-year-old has recently praised the Communist government of China for cracking down on the Chinese e-commerce company and cloud giant. Munger, who is a vice chairman at
Continue Reading By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are explaining why they recently shortened their COVID-19 isolation and quarantine recommendations. They also clarified that the guidance applies to school kids as well as adults. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintained that, for people who catch the coronavirus,
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HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say the oldest Texas death row inmate is set for an April execution for killing a Houston police officer more than 30 years ago. A Houston state judge scheduled 77-year-old Carl Wayne Buntion’s execution for April 21 during a Tuesday court hearing. Buntion had been on parole for just six weeks
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After getting trapped on I-95 in Virginia overnight, truck driver Jean-Carlo Gachet dipped into his own food supply to feed stranded motorists.
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, CNN After hours stuck with other drivers on a frozen highway, a long-haul trucker with a two-day supply of food left popped out of his semi Tuesday morning to offer his neighbor a hot meal. A drink and a Jimmy Dean bacon, egg and cheese breakfast bowl. “He was shocked when I
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EL PASO, Texas – Pets become members of our families when we welcome them into our homes. We take care of their every need, shelter them and love them. That is the case for most families who own pets but not all. In El Paso, specific laws are put in place to protect animals from
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed this week from San Diego under the command of Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in U.S. Navy history. Bauernschmidt had served as Abraham Lincoln’s executive officer from 2016 to 2019. She took over command from Capt. Walt Slaughter during a
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Kentucky Fried Chicken is going to sell a new menu item that contains no chicken — but tastes like it does. The new plant-based fried chicken nugget alternative, called Beyond Fried Chicken, will be added to menus nationwide beginning Monday, Jan. 10 for a limited time. It marks the first
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A family that was stuck on Interstate 95 and other roads in Virginia by a snowstorm says they went more than 18 hours without eating or sleeping. Jennifer Travis, her husband and their 12-year-old daughter were driving home to northern Virginia from Florida when the storm stranded them on I-95.
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say 97 hostages, mostly women and children, have been rescued more than two months after they were abducted by armed groups in the northwest part of the country. Among the freed hostages are 19 babies, seven pregnant women and more than a dozen
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The US military conducted strikes in Syria after indirect fire posed what a US-led coalition official called “an imminent threat” to troops near Green Village, a base in the east of the country near the Iraqi border. While the US is not officially confirming it conducted the strikes,
Continue Reading ELFRIDA, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona couple has been arrested after authorities say they left their 11-year-old son home alone for two weeks. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office arrested the couple last week after they returned to their home in Elfrida, about 100 miles southeast of Tucson. Authorities say the mother left the state before
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By Katia Hetter, CNN The United States is facing an unprecedented surge of Covid-19 infections, driven in large part by the very highly contagious Omicron variant. New research is coming out every day about Omicron, and people have many questions about what this surge — and the new variant — means for considering personal risk.
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN The United States is facing an unprecedented surge of Covid-19 infections, driven in large part by the very highly contagious Omicron variant. New research is coming out every day about Omicron, and people have many questions about what this surge — and the new variant — means for considering personal risk.
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business At-home Covid-19 rapid test kits were already in short supply at stores. Now, a popular version is getting more expensive. Walmart and Kroger are raising prices on BinaxNOW test kits, made by Abbott Laboratories, after an agreement with the White House to sell the kits at cost expired. The White
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CNN, WFOR By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business At-home Covid-19 rapid test kits were already in short supply at stores. Now, a popular version is getting more expensive. Walmart and Kroger are raising prices on BinaxNOW test kits, made by Abbott Laboratories, after an agreement with the White House to sell the kits at cost expired.
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. public health officials are investigating how civilians have been affected by the leakage of petroleum into Pearl Harbor’s tap water from a Navy fuel storage facility. The Hawaii Department of Health says it asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic
Continue Reading CNN, TWITTER @TIMKAINE By Chandelis Duster and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Sen. Tim Kaine on Tuesday recounted his hours-long journey on a Washington-area highway after a winter storm crippled the region and left hundreds, including the Virginia Democrat, stranded for hours on roads. “At some point it switched from a miserable travel day into kind of
Continue Reading By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Paula Reid, Angelica Grimaldi and Alex Rogers, CNN Fox News host Sean Hannity was concerned about former President Donald Trump’s strategy and conduct before, during and after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a letter sent to him on Tuesday by the House select committee probing
Continue Reading CLEVELAND (AP) — Doug Dieken, who after retiring as a left tackle for the Browns became a beloved radio color commentator for the team, is retiring from broadcasting after spending 50-plus years with the organization. Dieken’s last game will be Cleveland’s season finale on Sunday against Cincinnati. The 72-year-old Dieken played in 203 consecutive games
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN In its first update of travel advisories for 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added just one new destination — a popular Caribbean winter getaway — to its highest-risk category. The CDC advises travelers to avoid Aruba, a Dutch island just off the coast of South America,
Continue Reading BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that thousands of documents related to security during the construction in North Dakota of the heavily protested Dakota Access Pipeline are public and subject to the state’s open records law. The ruling by South Central District Judge Cynthia Feland is a victory for The Intercept news
Continue Reading BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that thousands of documents related to security during the construction in North Dakota of the heavily protested Dakota Access Pipeline are public and subject to the state’s open records law. The ruling by South Central District Judge Cynthia Feland is a victory for The Intercept news
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