(Source: NN, KABB, WOAI, KSAT, TWITTER, CNN, CNN, KABB/WOAI, KSAT via CNN Newsource) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Students in Uvalde are going back to school for the first time since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a classroom attack that shocked the country. Children began arriving at Uvalde Elementary before dawn, walking through newly installed 8-foot (2.4-meter)…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle a multi-state investigation into its vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping. Connecticut announced the deal Tuesday on behalf of the 33 states plus Puerto Rico. Attorneys general joined together in 2020 to probe…
(Source: Memphis Police Department via CNN Newsource)MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said Tuesday that a body found during a search the day before is a woman who was abducted and forced into an SUV during an early morning jog. Police said on Twitter that investigators identified the body of 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher, a school teacher and granddaughter…
(CNN, CBC NEWS via CNN Newsource)WELDON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police are searching for two men two men suspected of killing 10 people in a series of stabbings in an Indigenous community and a nearby town. The massive manhunt for the perpetrators of one of the deadliest attacks in the nation’s history stretched into its second day Monday. Authorities have…
SMITH MILLS, Ky. (AP) — State police say three people were fatally shot, including one by a self-inflicted gunshot, at a home in western Kentucky. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at a home in Smith Mills in Henderson County. Officers found two gunshot victims outside the home. One, a woman, was already dead. The second, a man,…
(Source: CNN, NASA TV, Kennedy Space Center Newsroom via CNN Newsource)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has called off a second launch attempt for its new moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak. The test flight is now off for at least a few weeks, if not months. Mission managers decided after Saturday’s scrub to haul the 322-foot rocket…
FRANKFORT. Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams says the number of people registering to vote as independent is outpacing those who are registering with the two major political parties. Adams said in a statement that the number of people who registered as “other” in July grew at more than double the rate of those registering as either…
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say an eastern Kentucky man has been charged in the fatal shooting of his 12-year-old daughter. News outlets report Johnson County Sheriff Doug Saylor said 47-year-old Stacy Collins was charged with murder in the death of Stacia Collins. Saylor says the girl’s body was found on Aug. 11 along a rural road after her father…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he’s far from satisfied with the federal response to catastrophic flooding in eastern Kentucky. But the senator acknowledges that communication problems has complicated the outreach to flood victims. McConnell on Monday visited the Kentucky Emergency Management Operations Center. He was updated on the government response to the flood-stricken Appalachian region….
(Source: NASA TV via CNN Newsource) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has scrubbed the launch of its new moon rocket on a no-crew test flight after a cascade of last-minute problems, including unexplained trouble related to an engine. The next launch attempt won’t be until Friday at the earliest. The 322-foot rocket was set to lift off Monday morning…
