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FILE - The sign for Joint Base Andrews is seen, Friday, March 26, 2021, at Andrews Air Force...

Intruder breaches base of Air Force One, shot fired

Updated: 23 minutes ago
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By The Associated Press
Joint Base Andrews is one of the nation’s most sensitive military bases.

National

FILE - Steve Morton shows his scan card for his personal selection numbers for a ticket for a...

Winning numbers drawn for $747M Powerball jackpot

Updated: 44 minutes ago
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By The Associated Press
Lottery officials normally take hours before announcing whether there has been a winning ticket sold.

National

After a powerful earthquake, buildings were reported collapsed in a wide area extending from...

Rescuers scramble in Turkey, Syria after quake kills 4,000

Updated: 2 hours ago
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By MEHMET GUZEL, GHAITH ALSAYED and SUZAN FRASER
Authorities feared the death toll would rise further as rescuers searched through tangles of metal and concrete for survivors.

National

Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving is seen during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the...

Irving trade official as Mavs essentially start season over

Updated: 3 hours ago
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By SCHUYLER DIXON
The blockbuster deal with Brooklyn sending the mercurial Irving to the Mavericks became official Monday, two days before what figures to be his Dallas debut at the Los Angeles Clippers.

National

Crews release toxic chemicals from derailed tankers in Ohio

Updated: 3 hours ago
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By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says a “controlled release” of vinyl chloride will take place on Monday at 3:30 p.m.

National

Texas attorney shot by Dick Cheney during 2006 hunting trip dies

Updated: 3 hours ago
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By JAMIE STENGLE
Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years ago, has died. He was 95.

National

Vikings hire Brian Flores as defensive coordinator

Updated: 4 hours ago
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By DAVE CAMPBELL
The Minnesota Vikings hired Brian Flores as their defensive coordinator on Monday, their first step toward trying to revive a once-dominant unit that ranked among the NFL’s worst last season.

National

NYC ending COVID-19 vaccination mandate for city employees

Updated: 4 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The vaccination mandate for city employees was one of the last COVID-19 measures still in place in New York City.

National

Woman sentenced in death of daughter killed days before her graduation

Updated: 4 hours ago
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By 7 News Staff and Andrew McMunn
A woman who pleaded guilty in the death of her daughter in 2020 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

National

Boy who shot teacher allegedly tried to choke another

Updated: 5 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The notice of claim, which was obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request, outlines prior behavioral issues the boy had at Richneck Elementary School and troubling interactions he had with teachers and students.
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National

Woman plotted with neo-Nazi to attack power grid, feds say

Updated: 5 hours ago
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By LEA SKENE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
The arrest of Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Baltimore County, was the latest in a series across the country as authorities warn electrical infrastructure could be a vulnerable target for domestic terrorists.

National

‘Dances With Wolves’ actor charged in Nevada sex abuse case

Updated: 6 hours ago
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By RIO YAMAT Associated Press
Chasing Horse has been held without bail since his Jan. 31 arrest near the North Las Vegas home he shares with several wives.

National

Funeral home finds woman breathing hours after declared dead

Updated: 6 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The case has been referred to the state attorney general’s office for investigation, police said.

National

White House: Improved surveillance caught Chinese balloon

Updated: 7 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that after Biden took office, the U.S. “enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace, we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect.”

National

‘Pieces of mailbox everywhere’: Pipe bomb explodes in family’s mailbox

Updated: 7 hours ago
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By Ashlyn Nichols and Andrew McMunn
A handmade explosive launched fragments everywhere in surveillance video which captured the whole event.

National

Smart watch alerts first responders to motorcyclist who fell off cliff

Updated: 7 hours ago
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By Emily Van de Riet
A motorcyclist has his smart watch to thank for potentially saving his life.

National

Massachusetts diocese publishes nameless clergy abuse report

Updated: 8 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The new report updates a 2004 report that covered 1950 until 2004.

National

8-year-old suffers stroke after colliding with sister on trampoline

Updated: 8 hours ago
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By Michael Chen
An 8-year-old boy in California has woken up from a medically-induced coma after sustaining a brain injury on a trampoline last week.

Watching Your Wallet

Study: American personal debt tops $16 trillion, average debt load reaches $165K per household

Updated: 8 hours ago
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By Rachel DePompa
Americans are going further into to debt according to a new study from NerdWallet. The average US household owes more than $165K in debt, an increase of 8% over last year. Consumer Investigator Rachel DePompa shares expert tips to help pay down your debt.

National

Florida teen pleads guilty to fatally stabbing classmate

Updated: 8 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The teen was originally charged with second-degree murder, but the charge was upgraded because of the severity of the crime.

National

Tom Brady will not move into Fox announcing booth until 2024

Updated: 9 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
Tom Brady will not go immediately from the playing field to the broadcast booth.

National

Man gets 16 years in prison for shooting at children throwing snowballs

Updated: 9 hours ago
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By Vanessa Kjeldsen and Andrew McMunn
A man in Wisconsin will spend 16 years in prison after he was convicted of firing a gun at children who were throwing snowballs.

National

3 mainland US tourists stabbed in Puerto Rico neighborhood

Updated: 9 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The community was once a dangerous slum considered the island’s biggest distribution point for heroin, but crime has dropped since a 2011 raid by federal agents.

National

Mom charged after throwing 1-month-old baby in dumpster, court documents say

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By KXII Staff and Emily Van de Riet
A mother in Oklahoma has been charged with child abuse after she threw her 1-month-old son into a dumpster, court documents state.

National

AMC to charge more for good seats in movie theaters

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By JAKE COYLE
AMC Theaters, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, on Monday unveiled a new pricing scheme in which seat location determines how much your movie ticket costs.

National

Police: Man fatally shot by Indiana officers fired several shots

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
A man who was fatally shot Sunday during an exchange of gunfire that left two southern Indiana law enforcement officers wounded had fired several shots before he was killed, police said.

National

Father killed, 7-year-old son injured in farm tractor crash

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By Debra Worley
According to the Preble County Sheriff’s Office, 41-year-old Michael Toschlog was driving a 1970 John Deere farm tractor on an Ohio Road just before 6 p.m.

National

Report: World creating more plastic waste than ever

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By CNN Newsource staff
Report finds that the world is producing record amounts of waste from single-use plastics.

National

Man saves infants left alone in Memphis home

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By Stephanie Douglas
He said that when he went to investigate, he found one of the children alone and cold.

National

What to Watch: New political vibes this State of the Union

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
President Joe Biden, like presidents past, will make the case that the nation is strong and that better days lie ahead. But he finds himself in choppy waters as he passes the halfway mark of his term.

National

Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By SUSIE BLANN
Weeks of intense fighting continued to rage around the city of Bakhmut and the nearby towns of Soledar and Vuhledar, Ukraine’s presidential office said.

National

Strongest earthquake in decades startles western New York

Updated: 11 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m.

National

Student Bet: Offshore, unregulated and illegal gaming sites target underage gamblers who are in high school or college

Updated: 11 hours ago
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By Joce Sterman, Emma Uber, Mitchell Tiedman, Mina Denny, Haley Ryan, Jacob Spudich and Lauren Winnefeld
Sports betting now is legal in 36 states and Washington, D.C. But laying down at a bet as a teenager is illegal in every state. InvestigateTV and its reporting partner, the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University, looked into the secretive world of underage gambling on offshore gaming sites and found there’s little public information about these operations. But this much is clear: Many of these sites do not have any protections in place to guarantee that the person betting is of legal age to do so or that winnings actually will be paid.

National

Missing girl found in basement of convicted sex offender on probation, officials say

Updated: 11 hours ago
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By Debra Worley
Utah Department of Corrections stated in news releases that agents received information from Arizona about a missing girl and a possible connection to a man on probation in Utah.

National

Dell lays off more than 6,000 workers

Updated: 12 hours ago
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By CNN Newsource
Computing giant Dell said it’s letting go about 5% of its workforce.

National

2 abducted children from Missouri found in Florida grocery store

Updated: 12 hours ago
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By Gabe Swartz and Debra Worley
Two abducted children who were missing from Missouri for almost a year were found in a grocery store in Florida Wednesday.

National

3 teens found dead in garage likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, police say

Updated: 12 hours ago
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By Emily Van de Riet
Three teenagers found dead in a New Mexico garage likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said.

National

US states take control of abortion debate with funding focus

Updated: 13 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The U.S. abortion debate is shifting to funding as states take control of policymaking.

National

More than 400 ready-to-eat foods recalled due to possible listeria

Updated: 13 hours ago
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By CNN Newsource Staff
The FDA recall includes a long list of ready-to-eat sandwiches, salads, yogurts, wraps and other grab-and-go products sold the last week of January.

National

Two planes nearly collide in Texas

Updated: 14 hours ago
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By CNN Newsource Staff
The National Transportation Safety Board says it is investigating this as a “possible runway incursion.”

National

State Department switches to Calibri font

Updated: 15 hours ago
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By CNN Newsource Staff
The agency is now using the Calibri font in all of its communications.

National

Retailers try to curb theft while not angering shoppers

Updated: 15 hours ago
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
Across the retail landscape, businesses have been putting items under lock and key as a quick way to stop thieves.

National

Human remains found in barrel, encased in concrete, authorities say

Updated: 15 hours ago
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By Gray News staff
The remains have been identified as Michael Bradley Cox, a man missing since December, Lee County Sheriff’s Department said.

National

Hospitals are as full as ever even as triple virus threat eases

Updated: 16 hours ago
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By CNN Newsource Staff
Most states are now reporting low or minimal levels of respiratory activity.

National

3-year-old Ky. girl looking for kidney donor

Updated: 18 hours ago
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By Chandler Wilcox and Gray News staff
Doctors have not specified a life expectancy for the little girl, but her recent trouble with dialysis has worried her family.

National

Pope, Anglican, Presbyterian leaders denounce anti-gay laws

Updated: 18 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference.

National

Janitor, 72, gets accidentally locked in holding cell for 3 nights

Updated: 18 hours ago
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By WESH Staff
The 72-year-old was cleaning at the courthouse when the inmate holding cell door shut behind her, according to the incident report.

National

Sinkhole swallows 71-year-old woman, 2 trying to rescue her

Updated: 21 hours ago
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By WCBS Staff
A typical morning took a terrifying turn when three people fell into a sinkhole that had opened up in their front yard.

National

Teenage girl killed by shark while jet skiing in Australia

Updated: 24 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
Police pulled the victim from the water with critical injuries and tried to save her life, but she died at the scene.

National

Beyoncé emerges as Grammys queen; Styles wins album honor

Updated: 24 hours ago
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By The Associated Press
Harry Styles won album of the year at the Grammy Awards, taking home the top honor on a night that Beyoncé dominated.
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