By Andy Rose, Christina Maxouris, Nick Valencia and Keith Allen, CNN Police have released the charges for the six people who were arrested Saturday evening in downtown Atlanta, authorities said, during protests that came in response to a proposed police training facility and the fatal police shooting of an activist earlier in the week. They
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By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Marcus Carr waited for his chance to score. Those opportunities came rushing to the Texas guard in the second half. Carr scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half to lead No. 7 Texas to a 69-61 victory over West Virginia on Saturday
Continue Reading HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Qua Grant scored 20 points as Sam Houston beat UT Rio Grande Valley 83-64 on Saturday night. Grant shot 7 for 8 (3 for 3 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free throw line for the Bearkats (15-5, 5-3 Western Athletic Conference). Cameron Huefner scored 17 points and
Continue Reading By Isa Kaufman-Geballe, CNN A Texas woman pleaded guilty to a felony charge and is facing up to four years in prison for stealing her cousin’s $1 million New York state lottery jackpot, officials said. Iris Amador Argueta, 34, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of second-degree grand larceny after allegedly stealing a $1 million
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Patrick Crusius Docs by KVIA ABC-7 on Scribd EL PASO, Texas (El Paso Matters) — The man accused of murdering 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 will plead guilty to federal hate crimes charges, his attorneys said in a court filing on Saturday. The announcement comes four days after the Justice Department
Continue Reading HAMMOND, La. (AP) — Sami Pissis scored 16 points as Southeast Louisiana beat Texas A&M-Commerce 79-73 on Saturday night. Pissis was 6-of-7 shooting, including 2 for 3 from distance, for the Lions (11-9, 5-2 Southland Conference). Roscoe Eastmond made all nine of his free throws and scored 15 with eight assists. Alec Woodard sank 6
Continue Reading SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — Greg Williams Jr. scored 22 points as Louisiana-Lafayette beat Texas State 60-51 on Saturday night. Williams was 7 of 11 shooting, including 2 for 4 from distance, and went 6 for 10 from the line for the Ragin’ Cajuns (16-4, 6-2 Sun Belt Conference). Jordan Brown scored 19 points while
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino and Emma Tucker, CNN New York City is set to open a relief center in a terminal for cruise ships, which will provide temporary respite to the continued influx of asylum-seekers entering the city, officials said. The new site will be located at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, one of three terminals for
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By Betsy Klein and Jeremy Herb, CNN FBI investigators on Friday found additional classified material after conducting a search of President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home, the president’s personal attorney said in a statement. Bob Bauer said that during the search, which took place over nearly 12 hours Friday, “DOJ took possession of materials it
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Denver Jones’ 27 points helped Florida International defeat UTSA 77-72 on Saturday night. Jones had five rebounds for the Panthers (9-11, 3-6 Conference USA). Petar Krivokapic added 14 points while going 5 of 9 (4 for 7 from distance), and he also had five rebounds. Dashon Gittens recorded 12 points and
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Kai Huntsberry had 19 points in North Texas’ 63-52 win against UAB on Saturday night. Huntsberry also contributed six assists and three steals for the Mean Green (16-5, 7-3 Conference USA). Abou Ousmane added 13 points while shooting 6 of 11 from the field, and he also had six rebounds. Tylor
Continue Reading By MURRAY EVANS Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Jalen Bridges scored 11 points and hit a trio of game-turning 3-pointers in the final five minutes as No. 21 Baylor rallied to hold off Oklahoma 62-60 on Saturday. Adam Flagler had 16 points and five assists, and Keyonte George added 11 points for Baylor (14-5,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Police Department has released the schedule for the funeral events to honor Chief Gregory K. Allen. There will be a tribute service for the El Paso Police chief at the Judson F. Williams Convention Center located at the Civic Center Plaza, on Thursday, January 26th. Doors will open at
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Happy Saturday! I’ve returned from my travels and I’m right back into the cold weather. Overnight tonight we are looking at a very cold night with all of us below-freezing by several degrees. This is your friendly reminder to protect the 4 P’s! No slacking yet, haha! Tomorrow will be a pleasant but cool Chinese
Continue Reading LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Antonio Reeves hit five 3-pointers and scored a season-high 23 points as Kentucky beat Texas A&M 76-67 on Saturday, handing the Aggies their first SEC loss of the season. After getting off to a 1-3 conference start that had created a lot of ire directed at coach John Calipari from fans,
Continue Reading MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — This time, Markquis Nowell led the way for No. 13 Kansas State. Nowell had 23 points, eight rebounds and five assists, and Kansas State beat Texas Tech 68-58 on Saturday. The Wildcats posted a dramatic 83-82 overtime win against No. 2 Kansas on Tuesday. But Nowell had just four points on
Continue Reading By MARK ANDERSON and JOE REEDY AP Sports Writers The WNBA players’ union said Saturday it will review Dearica Hamby’s complaints about Las Vegas management after the Aces traded the two-time All-Star to the Los Angeles Sparks. In an Instagram post, the 29-year-old Hamby said the Aces attacked her character and work ethic. “Being traded
Continue Reading By DAVID SMALE Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Shahada Wells scored 17 points as No. 14 TCU beat No. 2 Kansas 83-60 on Saturday in one of the worst losses in Bill Self’s 20-year coaching career with the Jayhawks. It was Kansas’ second-largest loss at home under Self. The Jayhawks fell 84-59 to Texas
Continue Reading CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Haley Britzky, CNN Three active-duty Marines who work in intelligence — one of whom allegedly espoused support for a second civil war — were arrested this week for breaching the US Capitol building with a mob of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. Cpl. Micah Coomer and Sgts.
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Dream have acquired Olympic gold-medalist Allisha Gray in a trade that sent a pair of first-round picks to the Dallas Wings. The deal announced Saturday gives the Wings the No. 3 overall pick in this year’s draft, along with the Dream’s first-round pick in 2025. Gray, the WNBA rookie of
Continue Reading A woman confined herself to a room inside a Daytona Beach, Florida, hospital after shooting her terminally ill husband, police say. CNN’s Jim Acosta speaks with a cardiologist at that hospital, Dr. Joshua Horenstein, about the incident.
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn and Alaa Elassar, CNN A 76-year-old woman is in custody after fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in the head in what police say was an intended murder-suicide at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Saturday. The terminally ill man, 77, was hospitalized at the Advent Health Hospital and made a
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN White House chief of staff Ron Klain, the powerful force at the center of Joe Biden‘s first two years in office, is expected to step down in the weeks after the president’s State the Union address, according to multiple people familiar. Klain’s exact timeline
Continue Reading By Sharif Paget and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Diners at a Kentucky restaurant were outraged to see and hear what they believe was video footage showing the killing of Breonna Taylor at an event featuring John Mattingly, one of the officers involved in the 2020 raid, according to the local NAACP chapter and witnesses. Patrons weren’t
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EL PASO, Texas– Former smoker, Raymond Banuelos, said he had been smoking since the age of 10. Growing up Banuelos said smoking was something normal in his household. Along with that, peer pressure to be part of the kids in the neighborhood also played a role. After almost 30 years of smoking a pack and
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By Michael Callahan, CNN The United States carried out a strike in Somalia that killed approximately 30 al-Shabaab fighters, US Africa Command said in a statement Saturday. US forces on Friday “conducted a collective self-defense strike” in support of Somalia National Army forces who were “engaged in heavy fighting following a complex, extended, intense attack
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN To pry open the mysteries of our planet’s past, scientists typically study rocks and fossilized bones. Eggs are an often overlooked but extremely rich source of information, with birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals laying them on land for more than 200 million years. Rare fossilized eggshells can illuminate
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Andy Rose, CNN Attorneys representing the estate of Keenan Anderson, who died from cardiac arrest after he was repeatedly tased by Los Angeles Police Department officers, filed a $50 million claim of damages against the city of Los Angeles for his death, they announced in a news conference Friday. The claim is the first step needed
Continue Reading ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A woman convicted as a teenager in the murder of her mother almost eight years ago in eastern Pennsylvania has lost her bid for a new trial. Jamie Silvonek, who turns 22 next month, was 14 at the time of the March 2015 slaying. She was sentenced to 35 years to
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court marshal who investigated last year’s leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade has revealed that she spoke to all nine justices and found nothing to implicate them or their spouses. Friday’s remarks by Marshal Gail Curley come after the court’s investigative report
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