By Kara Peters Click here for updates on this story FORSYTH COUNTY, North Carolina (WXII) — A Triad family is starting from square one after their home exploded last Thursday in Forsyth County. It left five people injured, including a firefighter. Zach Shirley says his family lived at their home on Friedberg Church Road for
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Opinion by Dr. Jerome Adams (CNN) — The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which experts predict will reduce Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans, combined with the proposed elimination of a $56 million grant for overdose reversal training and distribution, threatens to undermine progress in reducing opioid overdose deaths. Medicaid, particularly through its
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Werner Enterprises Inc. (WERN) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $44.1 million. On a per-share basis, the Omaha, Nebraska-based company said it had profit of 72 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 11 cents per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The
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By Andi Babineau, Eric Levenson, CNN Centennial, Colorado (CNN) — The fate of James Craig, the Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife with poisoned protein shakes, doctored pills and a lethal injection, is now in the hands of the jury. Jury deliberations in his murder trial began Tuesday afternoon after the prosecution and defense
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By Jake Shindel Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — A van that was pulled out of the Inner Harbor on Thursday had likely been submerged underwater for years, Baltimore police told WBAL NewsRadio. Police said an underwater recovery team received a notification about a possible submerged vehicle near East Pratt
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ATCHISON, Kan. (News-Press NOW) — Benedictine College is hosting a free youth camp for young and aspiring baseball players.
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By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean authorities said Tuesday they turned six valuable watches stolen from Canadian actor Keanu Reeves — including an engraved Rolex worth at least $9,500 — over to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, months after recovering them in a police raid. The FBI will arrange for
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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as a long-lived line of storms with extreme winds. The weather service’s Storm Prediction Center said Tuesday it made
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — High-level representatives at a U.N. conference on Tuesday urged Israel to commit to a Palestinian state and gave “unwavering support” to a two-state solution, signaling widespread international determination to end one of the world’s longest conflicts. The “New York Declaration” sets out
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All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Toronto 63 46 .578 — New York 58 49 .542 4 Boston 58 51 .532 5 Tampa Bay 54 54 .500 8½ Baltimore 50 58 .463 12½ Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 63 46 .578 — Cleveland 53 54 .495 9 Kansas City 53
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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as a long-lived line of storms with extreme winds. The weather service’s Storm Prediction Center said Tuesday it made
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The new “Cell 8” at the St. Joseph Landfill has been accepting household waste after an accelerated construction period took place to complete the work.
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press The leading international authority on food crises said Tuesday that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza.” It predicted “widespread death” without immediate action. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said Gaza has been on the brink of famine for two
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By Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon, Curt Devine, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — A decade before police say he gunned down four people at a Manhattan tower that is home to the National Football League, Shane Tamura was a celebrated high school football star whose coach once described him as “lightning in a bottle” and among
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Chinese and American trade negotiators concluded their two-day meeting in Stockholm without a resolution to avert tariffs from skyrocketing back to ultra-high levels that formed an effective blockade on trade between the world’s two largest economies. But President Donald Trump’s trade advisers and their Chinese counterparts sounded a hopeful
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By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is pressing for a deal with Harvard University that would require the Ivy League school to pay far more than the $200 million fine agreed to by Columbia University to resolve multiple federal investigations, according to two people familiar with the matter. Harvard
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Nearly six years ago, when the Kansas City Chiefs were just beginning their rise to prominence, Chris Jones tweaked a muscle in practice bad enough that coach Andy Reid made the difficult decision to hold him out of a playoff game against Houston. Jones
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Karrueche Tran’s emotional response as she waited with NFL legend Deion Sanders for him to have surgery for bladder cancer has caused speculation that the pair are dating. Tran appeared in a YouTube video titled “For Your Glory: (Part 1),” which documents Sanders’ treatment around his surgery, and
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By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced. If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s
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By Curt Merrill and Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — CNN is tracking mass shootings in the United States using data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group formed in 2013 to track gun-related violence. Both CNN and GVA define a “mass shooting” as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not
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By Naomi Keitt Click here for updates on this story GREEN COUNTY, Oklahoma (KJRH) — As more than 100,000 people sit on the transplant waiting list across the United States, one Green Country teenager can finally mark his name off that list thanks to a generous donation. 2 News first introduced you to Logan
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By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Officials in Massachusetts’ Nantucket island on Tuesday accused the developer of the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind project of not responding to their safety queries since Donald Trump’s election after a massive wind turbine broke apart last year and its fragments washed up on beaches. Nantucket’s select
Continue Reading SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that they chased a boat for more than 12 hours and discovered 1½ tons of cocaine aboard it. It’s one of the Caribbean country’s biggest seizures in history, said Carlos Devers, spokesperson for the country’s Anti-Drug Agency. Helicopters, boats and cars were
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Wide receiver Marquise Brown was among several Kansas City Chiefs who left practice with an injury Tuesday, when the nearly 2 1/2-hour workout was conducted in temperatures that produced a triple-digit heat index by its conclusion. Chiefs coach Andy Reid said that Brown, who
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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Retailers scrambling to stock up ahead of anticipated stiff tariffs on imports boosted the Port of Savannah, one of the top U.S. container ports, to its second-busiest year ever, Georgia officials said Tuesday. The Savannah port moved 5.7 million container units of imports and exports across
Continue Reading By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Tracee Ellis Ross, the actor best-known for her roles in shows like “black-ish” and “Girlfriends,” happens to be single and without children, but she doesn’t let either hold her back from experiencing a fulfilling, joyful life, especially when it comes to vacations. When friends and family can’t join her, or
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