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Stuart Hammer/Kentucky Lottery (FLORENCE, Ky.) — A group of current and former staffers at Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence, Kentucky, are celebrating this week after they played the Kentucky Powerball and won $1 million. The group calls themselves the “Jones 30” and among them are Sharon Reynolds, Jones’ 7th-grade vice principal, and Michelle […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted Wednesday night to pass a bipartisan tax bill that would enhance the popular Child Tax Credit to benefit millions of American families. The House voted 357-70 to pass the measure — a rare bipartisan win. It now goes to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. If […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley, testified she and her husband often argued with their son about missing school assignments and said her husband struggled to keep a job as her manslaughter trial continued Thursday with her taking the stand in her own defense. Jennifer […]
Carol Yepes/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department announced Wednesday it has successfully disrupted an effort by Chinese government-sponsored hackers to target U.S. critical infrastructure networks using a malware that had hijacked “hundreds” of home and small business routers. Through a court-authorized operation launched last month, U.S. officials say they were able to dismantle the […]
Atlanta Police Department (ATLANTA) — Police in Atlanta said they are searching for three suspects who chased down and opened fire on an 11-year-old boy, injuring him. Atlanta police released surveillance footage on Wednesday that captured the incident while asking for the public’s help in identifying the three male suspects. The incident occurred on Jan. […]
RapidEye/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid mounting court battles, former President Donald Trump’s legal fees cost his political fundraising committees more than $50 million in 2023, leaving his leadership PAC that once boasted a $100 million war chest with just $5.1 million in the bank entering 2024. And those 2023 legal bills came before Trump last […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, one of her top prosecutors in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others, have been subpoenaed to testify at an upcoming evidentiary hearing set to examine allegations that they were involved in an improper relationship […]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with the U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps at the Pentagon on Jan. 31, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, facing reporter questions for the first time since his secret hospitalization, said his cancer diagnosis was a “gut punch” […]
Greensboro Police Department (GREENSBORO, N.C.) — A 25-year-old mother made a distressed call to 911 before she vanished in Greensboro, North Carolina, and police are asking for the public’s help in locating her. Marissa Carmichael was last seen in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 14 at the Exxon on 809 East Market St. in […]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with the U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps at the Pentagon on Jan. 31, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is holding a press conference at the Pentagon podium, his first media briefing since his surgery and subsequent hospitalization […]
