By Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites — including one of the largest ever found on the continent. The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms). The specimen is
Continue Reading CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks with Brandon Tsay, the man who confronted and disarmed the suspect of the Monterey Park, California, mass shooting that killed 11 people and injured 9 others, about the moment Tsay came face to face with the gunman at a second location nearby.
Continue Reading By Nouran Salahieh, Stella Chan and Eric Levenson, CNN All 11 victims of the mass shooting at a dance studio on Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California, were between the ages of 57 and 76, the LA County Coroner Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. The victims, five men and six women, were
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Seven people were injured and one person was killed in a shooting Monday night in Oakland, California, police said. Officers were dispatched to the 5900 block of Macarthur Boulevard just after 6:00 p.m. to investigate an alert from a ShotSpotter, which is gunshot detection technology, the Oakland Police Department said in
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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard had 37 points and 12 assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the San Antonio Spurs 147-127 on Monday night to stop a three-game losing streak. Jusuf Nurkic added 25 points and 11 rebounds for the struggling Blazers, who had lost eight
Continue Reading MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Kehlin Farooq scored 21 points to lead Texas Southern to a 71-65 victory over Alabama State on Monday night. Farooq added nine rebounds for the Tigers (7-14, 3-5 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Davon Barnes totaled 15 points and Zytarious Mortle scored 13. Antonio Madlock led the Hornets (6-14, 4-3) with 15 points,
Continue Reading HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Olisa Akonobi finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds to lead Alabama A&M to a 67-59 victory over Prairie View A&M on Monday night. Akonobi added four blocks for the Bulldogs (7-13, 3-4 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Garrett Hicks added 13 points and five boards. Lorenzo Downey scored nine on 3-of-3 shooting
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer WACO, Texas (AP) — Langston Love came up huge for 17th-ranked Baylor after No. 9 Kansas took its only lead in a matchup of the last two national champions, both of whom have endured three-game losing streaks in Big 12 play. The reigning champion Jayhawks are on their three-game
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Rookie defenseman Owen Power scored his first goal of the season 56 seconds into overtime and 41-year-old Craig Anderson stopped 29 of 31 shots in his 700th career NHL appearance as the Buffalo Sabres beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Monday night. Rasmus Dahlin and Victor Olofsson also scored for the Sabres,
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By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Alex Marquardt and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration has recently raised concerns with China about evidence it has suggesting that Chinese companies have sold non-lethal equipment to Russia for use in Ukraine, in an effort to ascertain how much Beijing knows about the transactions, according to two US
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LUBBOCK, Texas – The UTEP tennis team was upended at BIG 12 member Texas Tech, 7-0, Sunday afternoon. It marked the second match in three days for the Miners (1-1), who had blasted Western New Mexico in their home opener on Jan. 20. “We played them very tough today,” UTEP head coach Ivan Fernandez said.
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Jalen Green scored a career-high 42 points and the Houston Rockets held on for a 119-114 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night to snap a 13-game losing streak. Green, the second overall pick in the 2021 draft, had 21 points by halftime and kept
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A local group that offers shelter to human trafficking victims is expanding its operation to increase the current emergency shelter capacity for victims of trafficking and child exploitation in the region this January, which is human trafficking awareness month. The Paso del Norte Center of Hope received a grant of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – A video of parents involved in a fight at a Pebble Hills High School basketball game is circulating on social media. It was a home game against the Pebble Hills Girls Varsity Basketball team facing Americas High School on Jan. 20. In the video, you can see an altercation that
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso fire crews responded to a fall from the border wall Monday evening. It happened along Loop 375, near Riverside Middle School. The person fell into the water but was pulled out. There are reports of injuries, but it is unclear how severe they are. This is a developing
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Jack Forrest, CNN Rep. Greg Steube, a Florida Republican, announced Monday that he will be “sidelined” in his home state for several weeks as he recovers from multiple injuries suffered in an accident at his Sarasota property last week. Steube wrote on Twitter that he is recovering from “a fractured pelvis,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Independent School District and El Paso police are investigating the theft of a package containing new uniforms intended for the Nolan Richardson Middle School cheer squad. ABC-7 learned on January 18, the package was mistakenly delivered to the coach’s house instead of the school. Krystle Ramirez’s daughter
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By Annie Grayer, CNN House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has sent a letter to the US Secret Service requesting the visitor logs from President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, where more classified documents have been found. In the letter, Comer, a Kentucky Republican lawmaker, says there has been a “lack of transparency” from
Continue Reading Video shows police in Half Moon Bay, California, taking away a suspect after shootings in two locations that left at least seven people dead. CNN’s Camila Bernal reports.
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By Joe Sutton, Theresa Waldrop and Aya Elamroussi, CNN At least seven people were killed and one person critically injured Monday in shootings at two separate locations in a small coastal community in the San Francisco Bay area, becoming the state’s second mass shooting in three days, officials said. The suspect, identified as 66-year-old Chunli
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency, however, warned that the estimate has limitations and should be interpreted with caution. The actual amount of pandemic
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Editor’s note: Follow this story for updates as they come in. Tornillo ISD UPDATE (6:46 p.m.): According to a tweet from Tornillo ISD Superintendent Rosy Vega-Barrio, the district will be on a delayed start Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. School starts at 10:00 a.m. Bus pick-up will be at 9:00 a.m. at the students’ designated locations.
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A winter storm arrives tonight and overnight giving us the chance for some rain and light snow overnight. Snowfall, if we see any at all, is expected to be light – no accumulation is anticipated at this point. Tuesday will be cold with highs in the upper 40’s and some wind chills. Winds will be
Continue Reading CNN, WABC By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed Upcoming state-level pushes to further restrict abortion access will be on the radar of the US Justice Department, top DOJ officials said Monday as they touted the work the Biden administration has sought to do to shore up abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court‘s Roe v. Wade reversal last
Continue Reading By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways. EPA has not revised its rules dealing with the nation’s largest animal operations — which hold thousands of hogs,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Two students are dead and one school employee is in serious condition after a shooting incident at a “charter school” in Des Moines, Iowa, according to the City of Des Moines Police Department. At 12:53 p.m., Police and fire personnel responded to a report of a shooting at 455 SW 5th Street, which
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scott Rolen could become just the 18th third baseman elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, the fewest of any position. “It stems from an original prejudice that third base is not important defensively,” John Thorn, Major League Baseball’s official historian, said Monday. “I think Brooks
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A co-worker who saw an Alabama airport employee nearly knocked over by exhaust from a jet tried to warn her to stay back, but moments later the employee walked in front of one of the engines and was pulled in, killing her on Dec. 31, federal investigators said Monday. Another ground worker
Continue Reading LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s Emmanuel Bandoumel will require surgery and miss the rest of the season after injuring his knee in a game over the weekend, coach Fred Hoiberg announced Monday. Bandoumel’s knee buckled as he drove to the basket in the first half of the Cornhuskers’ 76-65 loss Saturday to Penn State. He
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