By Cameron Montemayor Sheri Gray remembers a time when she was one of, if not the only, Special Olympics coaches in the St. Joseph area 15 years ago. “So much has changed,” she said. “At first, you know, there might be 30 people at a St. Joe event … But now there’s 150. It’s great.”
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By AP PHOENIX (AP) — A shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix left two people injured by gunfire and another person stabbed in an incident related to a family dispute, police say. Phoenix police said the shooting happened at about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at an airport restaurant located outside the security checkpoints in Terminal
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By MELISSA GOLDIN – Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A taxi driver whose car hit six pedestrians when he jumped a curb in a Manhattan shopping district on Christmas Day was having a medical episode at the time, New York City police said Thursday. Two of those hurt are Australians, according to that country’s
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By ALEX VEIGA – AP Business Writer Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street Thursday, as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 fell less than 0.1% after spending the day wavering between small gains and losses. The tiny loss ended the benchmark
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON – AP Medical Writer The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people can protect their pets. Bird flu has been spreading for years in wild birds, chickens, turkeys and many other animals. It was
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By CHARLES MANGWIRO – Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique. (AP) — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country’s police chief said, as widespread post-election riots and violence are roiling the country. Police chief Bernardino Rafael said 33 prisoners died and 15 others were
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN – Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of harassing political opponents and a witness in the Israeli leader’s corruption trial. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara made the announcement in a terse message late Thursday, saying the
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By Cameron Montemayor Sheri Gray remembers a time when she was one of, if not the only, Special Olympics coaches, in the St. Joseph area 15 years ago. “So much has changed,” she said. “At first, you know, there might be 30 people at a St. Joe event … But now there’s 150. It’s great.”
Continue Reading By The Manhattan Mercury, Kan. (TNS) Dec. 26—A cyber attack targeting Ascension Via Christi hospitals, including the one in Manhattan, in May impacted about 5.6 million people, the company reported to federal regulators. Ascension officials said they’re working with third-party experts to investigate the personal information that may have been compromised and, over the next
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By The Associated Press A wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen’s main airport Thursday just as the World Health Organization’s director-general said he was about to board a flight there. One of the U.N. plane’s crew was wounded, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. The Israeli military said it attacked
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By AP DALLAS (AP) — Some flights were delayed or canceled in Texas on Thursday after a line of thunderstorms started moving across parts of the state in a system the National Weather Service predicted could bring high winds, hail and possible tornadoes. More than 100 flights were delayed and dozens more canceled at Dallas
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER – Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez asked a federal judge on Thursday to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges and acting as an agent of the Egyptian government, saying his family would suffer a “tremendous emotional toll” if the New Jersey Democrat were sentenced during
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By Taco Cabana SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The countdown to 2025 just got tastier! Taco Cabana is kicking off the new year with a showstopping lineup of bold, flavorful menu items designed to wow your taste buds. Starting Thursday, January 2, 2025, join us as we celebrate the new year with a menu that’s
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN – Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A 7-year-old boy who died in a shooting that left 24 bullet holes in a home on a tribal reservation in Colorado was lying next to his father in bed when he was hit, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. Zackieus Lang told investigators that his
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By Cameron Montemayor Whether it’s arriving early or staying late for her fellow nurses or patients, going above and beyond for others is simply in Christie Amos’ nature. As a patient care representative with Mosaic Life Care’s Cardiac Cath Lab, Amos offers a calming voice for patients through prep and recovery for various procedures like
Continue Reading By Christopher Braunschweig – Newton Daily News, Iowa (TNS) Dec. 26—Disagreements over the allocation of funding for various partner agencies have reared their ugly head once again at the City of Newton’s budget workshops. While city staff has recommended the bare minimum of assign funds for HIRTA and the Des Moines Airport’s expansion project, the
Continue Reading By Cheyenne Roche – The Creston News Advertiser, Iowa (TNS) Dec. 26—”Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — Allen Saunders Well life hit us pretty hard these past few months. For weeks, it felt like every sign in the universe was pointing us toward moving to Dubuque — a
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By DEEPA BHARATH and JESSIE WARDARSKI – Associated Press The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as
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By AP ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law requires companies responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to pay into a state fund for infrastructure projects meant
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By Nicole Scott Colonel Eric T. Olsen, the Superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol announced on Thursday afternoon that he will be retiring effective Feb. 1. Colonel Olsen is the 24th Superintendent of the MSHP and has put 34-years into the state agency. “I appreciate the support and friendships I have made across the
Continue Reading By Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa (TNS) The Clear Lake Fire Department extinguished a blaze on Christmas Eve afternoon at a 2 1/2 story detached garage at 1019 S. Eighth St. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly before 2 p.m. and found the garage was fully involved in flames, according to a press release from
Continue Reading By MARY PIEPER – Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa (TNS) Cerro Gordo County Sheriff Kevin Pals, who is retiring Dec. 31 after more than 45 years in law enforcement, first became involved in that career field as a teen. When he was a senior at Clear Lake High School, the town’s police department started a
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER – Associated Press A Nebraska man is getting title to his home back, years after losing it over a $588 tax debt, one of his lawyers said Thursday. Kevin Fair of Scottsbluff has been involved in a legal dispute since 2018, when he lost title to the home he had owned for
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ – Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jason LaCroix felt privileged to work from home, especially as a father to two young children. He needed flexibility when his son, then 6, suffered a brain injury and spent 35 days in intensive care. LaCroix, a senior systems engineer based in Atlanta, took time
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By 365 Retail Markets, LLC Announcement Comes as Two Long-Time Executives Retire TROY, Mich., Dec. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — 365 Retail Markets, the global leader in unattended retail technologies, today announced the appointment of Anton Rakushkin as Chief Technology Officer and Bill Reidy as VP of Sales for North America. These strategic hires come as
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By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors. U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. The year featured many familiar winners, such as Big Tech, which got even bigger
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By DEEPA BHARATH and JESSIE WARDARSKI – Associated Press HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green peyote plant can be found growing naturally, nestled under thorny
Continue Reading By AP JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli attorney general orders investigation after TV report alleges that Netanyahu’s wife harassed political opponents.
Continue Reading By AP KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A pizza deliverer in central Florida has been charged with pushing her way into a motel room with an accomplice and stabbing a pregnant woman after a dispute over a tip, authorities said. Brianna Alvelo was charged with stabbing a woman in her motel room in Kissimmee, Florida, a
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By DAVID McHUGH – Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Finnish authorities detained a ship linked to neighboring Russia as they investigate whether it damaged a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables, police said, in the latest incident involving disruption of key infrastructure in the region. Finnish police and border guards boarded the
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