By Jason Allen Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — A former police chief could receive more than $5 million from the city of Fort Worth as part of a settlement agreement over a whistleblower lawsuit. The deal would end the five-year battle with former chief Joel Fitzgerald, just months
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The series opener Friday between the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers was postponed until Saturday due to rain. With the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby expected to bring torrential rains and heavy winds well into the evening hours — and tornado watches being issued for parts of New
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The series opener Friday between the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers was postponed until Saturday due to rain. With the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby expected to bring torrential rains and heavy winds well into the evening hours — and tornado watches being issued for parts of New
Continue Reading By Camilo Montoya-Galvez Click here for updates on this story AUSTIN, Texas (KTVT) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to people living in the U.S. illegally. Through an executive
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un video que apareció en línea parece mostrar un convoy de camiones militares rusos quemados en la región suroccidental del país Kursk, la última señal de que el asalto transfronterizo de Ucrania está probando más profundamente en territorio ruso e infligiendo daños significativos a las fuerzas de Moscú. En el video
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Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Water quality data used by Paris Olympics organizers shows that bacteria levels in the Seine River were within acceptable levels on the days that athletes swam in the famed waterway. That’s according to their tests and established thresholds. The Associated Press on Friday obtained the results of daily tests for
Continue Reading By Marvin Hurst Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — Alicia Montes will be in a Tarrant County court Friday morning to see what kind of prison time Jesika Lynn Jones will get. “I hope the book gets thrown at her and that key locks behind her for the rest
Continue Reading By Jessica Guay Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Thousands of Taylor Swift fans from around the world, including Pittsburgh, are coming together in Vienna, Austria, despite her concerts getting canceled due to an alleged planned terrorist attack on the stadium. Christina McLachlan from Bellevue and Victoria Deardorff from Peters
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group launched one of its deepest strikes into Israel in mid-May, using an explosive drone that scored a direct hit on one of Israel’s most significant air force surveillance systems. This and other successful drone attacks have given the Iranian-backed militant group another deadly option for an
Continue Reading By Katie Houlis Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A Brooklyn man is facing charges after he allegedly threw a lit firework into a Verizon utility work van, injuring two people. It happened on the evening of Jan. 31 in Crown Heights. Authorities said 36-year-old Kevindale Nurse,
Continue Reading The Texas Tribune Students who started school during or after the COVID-19 pandemic have a harder time saying goodbye to their parents when they drop them off, Plains Independent School District Superintendent Robert McClain said. Third graders are behind in their reading, teacher Heather Harris said, so the district hired a reading specialist to work
Continue Reading By Naveen Dhaliwal Click here for updates on this story PATERSON, New Jersey (WCBS, WLNY) — A 75-year-old woman in New Jersey said she was drugged, then robbed of thousands of dollars. Tuesday morning, when Maria Ramos was returning from a doctor’s appointment, she said a woman approached her asking for directions. “She turned around,
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By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said he’s taking steps to ban the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, in the country for 10 days, after a public dispute with its owner Elon Musk over the contested election that Maduro claimed to have won. The embattled Maduro said Thursday that
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — As of this moment, Matt Anderson is planning to make another go at an Olympic gold medal in men’s volleyball four years from now. At age 41. If his body holds up. If his young family is all in on the idea. Four-time U.S. Olympians Anderson and David Smith
Continue Reading By Nick Caloway Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of Electric Lady Studios, which was opened
Continue Reading Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency says government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that they crossed to seek asylum. UNHCR spokeswoman Emilia Strovolidou told the Associated Press Friday that as many as 99 asylum seekers
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused Poland’s previous government of illegally spending 100 billion Polish zlotys or $25 billion as he announced a government effort to try to recover the money. Tusk said Friday that six months of investigations and audits had revealed widespread financial abuse with 62 members of the
Continue Reading By Nick Caloway Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of Electric Lady Studios, which was opened by
Continue Reading WLNY By Nick Caloway Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A street in New York City’s Greenwich Village is now named after Jimi Hendrix. A stretch of West 8th Street is now known as Jimi Hendrix Way. The sign stands outside of Electric Lady Studios, which was
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The Olympic Village is mystical place for us non-Olympians. But apparently, there are some perks that even some athletes aren’t aware of. Take Team USA’s rugby sevens bronze medalist Ariana Ramsey, for example. When the 24-year-old arrived in Paris, she apparently knew of the free food on offer in
Continue Reading Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior prosecutor in Norway says that a Russian citizen who was arrested in the Scandinavian country in 2022 on espionage charges and who was part of a massive prisoner swap between Russia and the U.S. this month is unlikely to be prosecuted. Frederik G. Ranke of the national
Continue Reading By Chantal Cook, Michael Hudak Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A quick-thinking neighbor stopped two thieves from stealing his friend’s motorcycle out of a Miami apartment parking garage. The last thing Ricky Boada expected to run into when coming back to his Little Havana apartment, on June 11, was
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — All four hotel workers charged in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death are now in custody, more than five weeks after they allegedly piled onto the Black man while trying to remove him from a Milwaukee hotel. Jail records show Herbert Williamson was taken into custody Friday, three days after he and his
Continue Reading By Naveen Dhaliwal Click here for updates on this story PATERSON, New Jersey (WCBS) — A 75-year-old woman in New Jersey said she was drugged, then robbed of thousands of dollars. Tuesday morning, when Maria Ramos was returning from a doctor’s appointment, she said a woman approached her asking for directions. “She turned around, the
Continue Reading AP Basketball Writer PARIS (AP) — Jayson Tatum has not played in two of the five U.S. games at the Paris Olympics, held out of both matchups against Serbia. And once again, U.S. coach Steve Kerr said Friday that it’s not an indictment of Tatum. “It’s not what I’m not seeing from Jayson. It’s what
Continue Reading Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal indictment has charged three current and former executives of Smartmatic in a scheme to pay more than $1 million in bribes to put its voting machines in the Philippines, a setback for a company that has been feuding with allies of Donald Trump over unsubstantiated claims that it
Continue Reading Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has voted to approve the nomination of Lee Roberts as the next chancellor of UNC at Chapel Hill. Roberts has served as the interim chancellor at UNC since the start of the year when former Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz left to become
Continue Reading Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protest from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sackler’s name on a museum building and second building
Continue Reading By Tynisa Senior Click here for updates on this story BELLE GLADE, Florida (WSVN) — A witness recalls the tireless rescue efforts of the sole survivor of the Palm Beach County canal crash that claimed the lives of nine people, including several young children. According to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Offices, four adults and six
Continue Reading WLNY By Katie Houlis Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS, WLNY) — A Brooklyn man is facing charges after he allegedly threw a lit firework into a Verizon utility work van, injuring two people. It happened on the evening of Jan. 31 in Crown Heights. Authorities said 36-year-old Kevindale
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