By Ubah Ali Click here for updates on this story EAGAN, Minnesota (WCCO) — Video captured rescuers climbing 250 feet up a radio tower to make a sky-high save in the south metro. “I’ve never experienced anything this physical or mentally draining,” said Sgt. Alex Eckstein. Early Thursday morning, a typical shift for Eckstein turned
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AP Sports Writers Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett is retiring effective immediately. The program said Thursday that Bennett will announce his retirement at a news conference Friday. No reasons were given for Bennett’s abrupt departure less than three weeks before the start of the season. The 55-year-old Bennett led the Cavaliers to the national title
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By Chris Lau, Marc Stewart and Martha Zhou, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — A takeout delivery rider suddenly loses it in the middle of the road, smashing his cellphone on the pavement after getting a negative review from a customer. Another delivery worker gets on his knees to apologize to a cop who pulled him
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Judge issues 11th-hour delay in execution of Texas man who would be 1st in US put to death in shaken baby syndrome case.
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Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Election Day will be here before you know it, and Americans across the country are already casting ballots.
Continue Reading By Madeline Bartos Click here for updates on this story MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Another rare wildlife sighting was captured on a trail camera in Western Pennsylvania. PixCams says one of its cameras caught a piebald deer, which is both brown and white. Piebald deer are reported at rates well under one percent of the
Continue Reading AP Pro Football Writer FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys have a wildly fluctuating first six games to ponder on their bye week, perhaps best illustrated by two recent glimpses of their quarterback. After midnight on a rain-delayed Sunday night into Monday in Pittsburgh, Prescott’s winning throw in the final seconds
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Andrea Gomez (CNN) — Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik y Louis Tomlinson, exintegrantes del grupo musical One Direction, publicaron un comunicado conjunto sobre la muerte de su excompañero Liam Payne. “Estamos completamente devastados por la noticia del fallecimiento de Liam. Con el tiempo, y cuando todos puedan, habrá más que decir. Pero por ahora,
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By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — University of Virginia men’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett is set to announce his sudden retirement on Friday, according to the university. A three-time national coach of the year, Bennett has posted a 364-136 record with the Cavaliers. He guided the men’s program to their first NCAA national championship
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Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident has been ordered to remain closed and not conduct tours while its operations are reviewed, state regulators said Thursday. In a statement, the Division of Reclamation,
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — The survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre want the individuals who carried out the violence “to be identified,” an attorney representing them said Thursday, days after the Department of Justice began interviewing survivors and descendants as part of the first-ever federal probe into the
Continue Reading By SARA POWERS Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — The Detroit Police Department is searching for a suspect wanted in connection with an arson on Detroit’s west side in June. Police say the incident happened in the 19200 block of Appleton on June 7. Three suspects walked up to the
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against an Indian government employee in connection with a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader living in New York City. Vikash Yadav, 39, faces murder-for-hire charges in a planned killing that prosecutors first disclosed last year. They have said it was
Continue Reading Associated Press Megan Marshack, an aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with the former vice president when he died in 1979, has died. Marshack died on Oct. 2 of liver and kidney failure in Sacramento, California. She had a long and varied career in journalism. But she suddenly gained national attention after Rockefeller collapsed and
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Durante meses, los frustrados funcionarios estadounidenses que tratan de poner fin a la guerra en Gaza han reflexionado en voz baja sobre el único escenario que creían que podría desbloquear las estancadas conversaciones de alto el fuego: la muerte del líder de Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, que se cree que estaba escondido en
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By Kylie Atwood and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Lebanese nationals residing in the United States will be granted a form of humanitarian relief, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday, citing ongoing armed conflict and conditions in Lebanon. The Biden administration’s move to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Lebanon in light of the ongoing
Continue Reading Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast who weathered back-to-back hurricanes now have something else to keep an eye on: A possible plume of harmful algae in the waters off of the state’s southwest coast. Red tides occur when algae grow out of control and produce harmful toxins that
Continue Reading SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division shut down its phone lines following a barrage of calls from people responding to false claims that the state’s voters pamphlet does not include Republican nominee Donald Trump. The voter’s pamphlet does list Trump as a candidate and notes that he declined to provide
Continue Reading AP Music Writer One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31. In life, Payne was critical part of One Direction, a boy band unlike any other. Experts told The Associated Press that he was the grounding force of the group,
Continue Reading By Jesse Zanger Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS, WLNY) — Big changes are coming to New York City’s iconic Fifth Avenue. The city plans to transform the stretch between Bryant Park at 42nd Street and Central Park at 59th Street into a “pedestrian-centered boulevard.” The vision includes widening sidewalks, and
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A mother convicted of abandoning her newborn son in the New Hampshire woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022 has been handed a suspended sentence. A judge said Thursday that Alexandra Eckersley must maintain contact with mental health providers as part of her suspended sentence. Eckersley is the daughter
Continue Reading Associated Press Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million federal loan. Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, processing plant after filing for bankruptcy in September. The company had provided chicks
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de México presentó una iniciativa de reforma a la ley Federal del Trabajo para regular las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores de plataformas digitales, como choferes y repartidores. Abarcaría a cerca de 658.000 personas, según datos del Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT). La reforma otorgaría a estos trabajadores acceso
Continue Reading AP Science Writer How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people. “We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades. Experts say the settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.
Continue Reading Associated Press/Report for America BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast are digging out from mountains of sand after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered them with back-to-back hits in less than two weeks. Storm surge as high as 10 feet swept sand into communities. The fine, white sand helps make Florida’s beaches
Continue Reading Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months
Continue Reading Associated Press A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges that were later dropped over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election is accusing the state attorney general in a lawsuit of malicious prosecution. Michele White’s lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court. She says she was wrongly vilified in the only criminal
Continue Reading Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans. The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending
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