GENEVA (AP) — Nine days after the race at the Beijing Olympics, the bronze medal in women’s skicross was changed on appeal Saturday. Fanny Smith of Switzerland will now be awarded the bronze medal after she was wrongly demoted to fourth in China, the International Ski Federation (FIS) said in a statement. Smith was blamed […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A senior Los Angeles bomb technician raised serious concerns about overloading a containment chamber with homemade fireworks last year before the detonation caused a catastrophic explosion, injuring 27 people and rocking a neighborhood, according to an inspector general’s report released Friday. The vessel exploded, and debris rained down on scores of […]
Three deaths within 24 hours last week truly knocked me off-kilter. I was asking why since they still had so much to give. Two of the three, Walter Dellinger of Chapel Hill and P.J. O’Rourke of New Hampshire, I did not know, but felt like I did through their writings and public conversations. The third […]
Comments supporting Russia’s attack on Ukraine ‘sickening’ How sickening it is to hear Donald Trump praise Vladimir Putin. Sickening, too, to hear former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praise the murderous dictator who is attacking Ukraine. More: Condemnation, Biden blame: What Ohio officials, Senate candidates are saying about Ukraine Sickening to hear congressional Republicans criticize […]
In this Sept. 25, 2019 file photo President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly in New York.AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Donald Trump said the Ukraine crisis would not have happened if he were still president. Trump was impeached in 2019 […]
A retired police SWAT commander testified Thursday that he fatally shot a man in a movie theater eight years ago during an argument sparked by cellphone usage and escalated by a thrown popcorn bag because he feared he was about to be attacked by an “out-of-control” person who “looked like a monster.” Curtis Reeves, a […]
Traffic cameras are great for checking traffic flow, weather conditions and crash sites. On Wednesday morning, one York County camera was also good for catching a pair of men who appear to be stealing a road sign. A state Department of Transportation employee was doing a routine camera check and saw two men taking a […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech announcing a military operation in Ukraine that countries that interfere with Russian actions will face “consequences you have never seen,” The Associated Press reported. Russia almost immediately launched an invasion into the country. Putin says the operation is to protect citizens from Ukraine aggression and to demilitarize […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A limousine driver testified Wednesday that he was driving Harvey Weinstein around Beverly Hills in 2013 on the night that prosecutors allege that Weinstein raped an actor at a hotel there. The driver, Alfred “Freddy” Baroth, gave conditional testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom that was recorded on video for potential […]
The former head of the Texas power grid on Wednesday testified that he was ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott to keep power prices at the maximum price cap during last winter’s winter storm, the Houston Chronicle reports. Driving the news: Bill Magness, the former CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said that former […]