There was a little bit for everyone at Tuesday’s Festival of Lights with the highlight being the parade again, though the weather was a bit chilly for some in attendance.
NEW YORK (AP) — UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed Wednesday morning in what investigators suspect was a targeted shooting outside a Manhattan hotel where the health insurer was holding an investor conference.
(AP) — A central California teacher died last month after she was bitten by a bat inside her classroom that presumably had rabies, officials and the woman’s friend said.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human traffickingrelated charges for acting as surrogates in Cambodia for a ring selling babies to foreigners for cash.
(AP) — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years, filling one specialized animal hospital with the endangered creatures.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union agreed to delay by a year the introduction of new rules to ban the sale of products that lead to massive deforestation, caving in to demands from several producer nations from across the globe and domestic opposition within the 27-nation bloc.
ATLANTA (AP) — The long-running gang and racketeering trial that led Atlanta rapper Young Thug to plead guilty in October ended on Tuesday with the last two defendants found not guilty of racketeering, murder and gang-related charges. Deamonte Kendrick, who raps as Yak Gotti, was acquitted of all charges and Shannon Stillwell was found guilty only of gun possession.
(AP) – It is an ambitious social experiment of this moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids o social media until they turn 16.
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UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Rescuers searched Wednesday for a woman who went looking for her lost cat and apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine.