By Melissa Wright Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KMTV) — As temperatures soar across the metro, local volunteers are stepping up to protect the city’s most vulnerable residents. With extreme heat gripping Omaha, a team of medical professionals and community workers is taking action—bringing relief directly to those without shelter. On
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has charged a man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a group of people demonstrating in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages with committing hate crimes. The indictment comes days after a federal judge in the state said the department could proceed with hate crimes
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By Greta Goede Click here for updates on this story SOUTH OMAHA, Nebraska (KMTV) — Robert Elkins, an 80-year-old master gardener, has spent thousands of hours planting, weeding, and caring for the garden beds along South 24th Street. “I was retired, sitting around the house doing nothing, bored to death,” Elkins said. The 69 garden
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By Bri Pacelli Click here for updates on this story TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — Monsoon rains may bring relief from the heat, but they also bring out a hidden danger to pets: poisonous toads. They’re known as Sonoran Desert toads or Colorado River toads; these amphibians emerge from underground once storms roll in. While they
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CNN By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Emil Bove, was pushed to repeatedly deny several accusations of corruption – one made by a whistleblower at the Justice Department – during his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I am not anybody’s henchman,”
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The community is invited to meet St. Joseph Mustangs players and coaches while supporting one local non-profit.
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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth in a first-of-its-kind procedure for a bear. The 800-pound (360-kilogram) Tundra was put under sedation Monday and fitted with a new crown — the largest dental crown ever created, according to the
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By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) – So long as you’re not made of wax, right now is a great time to visit Las Vegas. Part of this is on Mother Nature; summer temperatures can hit a beastly 115 in the Mojave Desert, a harsh reality that can literally fry an egg on Las Vegas Boulevard
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By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will create new work groups to study the cumulative effects of the
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By Tom Allen Click here for updates on this story TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (WVTM) — Gas up The Mystery Machine. It looks like the Tuscaloosa Police Department has another mystery on its hands. Tuscaloosa Police are searching for a Scooby Doo suit-wearing burglar. At 3:45 in the morning on Sunday, the cartoon clad criminal broke into
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By DeAndria Turner Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — More than two years after the murder of a Louisville mother, her killer was sentenced to decades in prison. Kierrea Stone-Gonzalez was shot and killed, and her child was left abandoned in her Rangeland Road apartment by Jeremy Thompson in September
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By Kyndall Jones Click here for updates on this story MADISON COUNTY, Mississippi (WAPT) — Days after conflict with Iran began involving Israel, Iran and the United States, nearly one dozen Iranian nationals in the country illegally have been detained. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals living in the United States illegally
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There is much to unpack with the portion of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding invitation that was leaked to the world. The explicit request for no gifts — the only option, really, for the one of the world’s richest individuals; along with the donation pledge to UNESCO’s Venice
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LIBERTY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A St. Joseph man charged for allegedly threatening to shoot up William Jewell College’s campus said the college “ruined his life”.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Local children interested in participating in a youth tennis summer camp in July can now register.
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For many Iranians it was a lightning sequence of events: A 12-day war with Israel and a sudden, U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Now, as they return to their neighborhoods deeply shaken by Israeli air assaults, fears mount over what the country’s theocracy may do next. Human
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — City leaders are preparing immediate action in the wake of results from a wide-ranging city survey distributed to residents this year, with code enforcement, streets and police services topping the list of priorities to address.
Continue Reading To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— US–Dying to Serve-Benefits-Backlog Sen. Grassley calls delays at a benefits program for deceased officers ‘absolutely unacceptable’ SUMMARY: A powerful U.S. senator is calling on
Continue Reading To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— US–Dying to Serve-Benefits-Backlog Sen. Grassley calls delays at a benefits program for deceased officers ‘absolutely unacceptable’ SUMMARY: A powerful U.S. senator is calling on
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Continue Reading By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State University master’s student said Wednesday that he’s making an independent bid for governor in 2026. This marks Timothy Grady’s second go at the office. The 28-year-old who says he advocates “new economic thinking” and systemic political change ran what he describes as
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By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When he announced his run for mayor back in October, Zohran Mamdani was a state lawmaker unknown to most New York City residents. On Tuesday evening, the 33-year-old marked his stunning political ascension when he declared victory in the Democratic primary from a Queens rooftop bar
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By JON GAMBRELL and LEE KEATH Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The bombing has quieted in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel. Now its battered theocracy and 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must regroup and rebuild in a changed landscape. Israeli airstrikes decimated the upper ranks of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and
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The June Community Market will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Center for Joy.
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By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s security services arrested one of the country’s top religious leaders on terrorism charges Wednesday and accused him of plotting to overthrow the government, the second arrest in a week of a prominent political opponent. Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, a major figure in the influential Apostolic Church,
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KMBC By Brian Johnson Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are giving fans a first look at their new upscale steakhouse, 1587 Prime, set to open later this summer. The two-floor, nearly 10,000-square-foot restaurant is located at the base of
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By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — The S&P 500 is on the cusp of a record high. That’s a remarkable change of events, since the index was on the brink of a bear market just two months ago. US stocks on Wednesday were mixed, with a new high for the S&P 500 less
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