By Lily O’Shea Becker Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) — Friends and family gathered for a unique celebration on Saturday for a Kansas Citian who turned 105 years old. “She’s not like your regular 105-year-old grandmother, if there is such,” said Mark Byrd, grandson of Mason Byrd. Mason Byrd’s
Continue Reading By Caroline Hogan Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KSHB) — In June, KSHB 41 talked with residents at Westport House Apartments about air-conditioning issues and allegedly unresponsive landlords. Two months later, the issues persist. This time, resident Betty Boykins said a bat bit her in her apartment. She showed KSHB
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Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer for Rudy Giuliani said Monday that the charges against his client in Arizona’s fake elector case should be thrown out because Giuliani did nothing criminal in contesting Joe Biden’s narrow 2020 victory in the state over Donald Trump. An indictment said Giuliani spread false claims of election fraud
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By Larry Madowo and Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of Kenyan police officers leading an international policing force in Haiti have not received their full pay for two months, the latest complication in what has been a rocky start to the security mission in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation. The first Kenyan officers deployed
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By Maya Davis, CNN (CNN) — After six sewage samples taken in Gaza in late June tested positive for poliovirus, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that it was “just a matter of time” before the disease reached thousands of Palestinian children. At the time of his warning in late July, cases of acute flaccid paralysis,
Continue Reading By Rae Daniel Click here for updates on this story GRANDVIEW, Missouri (KSHB) — The United States Postal Inspection Service needs your help. James Waits, a USPS letter carrier in Grandview, was robbed at gunpoint at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, near the 6600 block of East 134th St. “He looked a little sketchy,
Continue Reading Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ski season is still at least several months away, but the unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast mountain peaks late last week brought a rare preview of winter in August. The calendar briefly skipped ahead to November as the system dropped out of the Gulf of Alaska, down
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Belén Liotti (CNN) –– Los negociadores que trabajan para alcanzar un acuerdo para un cese del fuego en Gaza y la liberación de rehenes israelíes lograron avances durante el fin de semana, según un alto funcionario estadounidense familiarizado con las conversaciones en El Cairo, donde los mediadores discutieron los “detalles finales” de un posible acuerdo,
Continue Reading AP Technology Writer Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in Paris over allegations that his platform was being used for illicit activity including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images. He was taken into custody at Paris-Le Bourget Airport in France on Saturday, after
Continue Reading Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Hone blasted the Big Island with rain and is swirling past Hawaii’s main islands. Hone was a hurricane at its peak but was back to a tropical storm on Monday with top sustained winds of 65 mph. Tropical Storm Hector gained strength in the eastern Pacific, but no
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CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith is arguing to revive his office’s classified documents case against Donald Trump with a vigorous defense of its authority in the first formal filing since Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the criminal case last month. In a brief filed with the 11th US
Continue Reading AP Entertainment Writer Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge Monday to throw out a lawsuit from a music producer who accused the music mogul of a broad pattern of sexual abuse and other misconduct. The lawsuit filed in February by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones — one of many filed against Combs in the past
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith is arguing to revive his office’s classified documents case against Donald Trump with a vigorous defense of its authority in the first formal filing since Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the criminal case last month. In a brief filed with the 11th US Circuit
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Un reciente reporte de la Oficina del Inspector General de Estados Unidos (OIG), que se envió al Congreso el martes, arrojó que el Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE), no tiene información sobre el paradero de más de 32.000 menores migrantes no acompañados que tendrían que
Continue Reading FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who led the case against Native American activist Leonard Peltier at trial in 1977 has died. Lynn Crooks died Sunday at the age of 83. He was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1969 to 2002 and served at various times as first assistant U.S. attorney and acting
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called “unlawful practices,” which include misleading both the job seekers and job posters who use the site. “Care.com used inflated job numbers and baseless earnings claims to lure
Continue Reading The sports world is reacting to the death of Swedish soccer coach Sven-Göran Eriksson. England’s first ever foreign-born manager died Monday at home surrounded by his family, his agent Bo Gustavsson told The Associated Press. He was 76. His death followed eight months after he revealed he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Continue Reading KPNX, FACEBOOK, TAMARA MORALESGRAND CANYON NPSLATRICIA MIMBSBINGCARLY VANDERHORST JOHNSON AZ NATIONAL GUARD, CNN, Facebook/Tamara MoralesGrand Canyon NPSLatricia MimbsBINGCarly Vanderhorst Johnson AZ National Guard By Rebekah Riess, Zoe Sottile, Chris Boyette and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — The body of a missing hiker was recovered along the Colorado River on Sunday after flash flooding in Grand
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal appeals court Monday to reinstate the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump after it was dismissed by a judge last month. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon threw out the case, one of four prosecutions of Trump, after concluding that Smith’s appointment
Continue Reading By Hamilton Kahn Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Police arrested a 26-year-old man Sunday for the fatal stabbing of his 28-year-old brother, stemming from an argument they had while being driven home around 2 a.m. after a night out at downtown bars, an Albuquerque Police Department news release
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Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Latino voting rights group called Monday for a federal investigation after its volunteers said Texas authorities raided their homes and seized phones and computers as part of an investigation by the state’s Republican attorney general into allegations of voter fraud. No charges have been filed against
Continue Reading Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian airlines Avianca and Latam Colombia say they will operate most of their flights Tuesday and resume full schedules Wednesday, after warning earlier Monday that they would have to cancel dozens of flights due to shortages of jet fuel. The late announcements by the airlines capped off a
Continue Reading Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A woman injured in the mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery store that killed four has sued the man charged in the attack. The lawsuit was filed last week in state court against Travis Eugene Posey, who’s been charged with four counts of capital murder and 11 counts
Continue Reading By Hira Humayun and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV said Monday. The rescue operation, which started Sunday evening, is now complete, with police saying that no one was trapped under the ice, according
Continue Reading Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will remain on the ballot in Wisconsin after the state Supreme Court decided not to hear a Democratic challenge seeking to oust her. The court on Monday decided against hearing the challenge brought by an employee of the Democratic National Committee. He had
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El Gobierno y las aerolíneas Latam y Avianca dijeron que retomarían las operaciones normales en Colombia, después de que durante el día llegaron anunciar que tendrían que cancelar vuelos y en otros casos reprogramarlos porque los distribuidores de combustible alegaron escasez en los inventarios. Fueron varias horas de tensión entre
Continue Reading Associated Press Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent in the presidential race four years ago. Appearing Monday with Trump in Detroit, Gabbard said that the GOP nominee “understands the grave responsibility that a president and commander in chief bears
Continue Reading Associated Press FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Visitors to the Minnesota State Fair sought relief from soaring temperatures under misters Monday while some Midwestern schools dismissed classes early or called off sports practices. Highs approaching the century mark combined with oppressive humidity to made it feel like 105 to 115 degrees (40 to 46 Celsius)
Continue Reading Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man scheduled to be put to death is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution so his challenge to Florida’s lethal injection procedures can be heard. Loran Cole is slated to be executed Thursday for raping a woman and murdering her brother in
Continue Reading Diseases spread by mosquitoes are in the spotlight again because of recent U.S. illnesses. People in some areas of Massachusetts have been warned to stay indoors when mosquitoes are most active after a rare case of eastern equine encephalitis was discovered. And Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, was recently hospitalized
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