AMITYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Two nurses on New York's Long Island have been accused of forging fake COVID-19 vaccination cards and pocketing more than $1.5 million from the scheme. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney says Julie DeVuono, owner of…
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A university in Michigan says it erroneously notified students that they would receive top tuition awards, just days after another school in the state said its prospective students were mistakenly told they had won full-ride…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has not forgotten the comments singer and actress Bette Midler made about his state back in December. The actress sent an angry tweet after Sen. Joe Manchin refused to support President…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Stax Museum of American Soul Music and its music academy in Tennessee are once again offering an online concert and a virtual tour in honor of Black History Month in February. The Memphis-based studio produced…
NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic story about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.com and…
NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome, Willow, to a long line of presidential pets. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have added a green-eyed tabby from Pennsylvania to the White House family. She's the first feline tenant since President…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s police chief has stripped an officer of his policing authority after he fired the final two shots to end a fatal highway standoff in which nine officers opened fire on a man holding a box…
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge has approved an agreement by lawyers to destroy the assault-style rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to kill two people and wound a third during a 2020 street protest in Wisconsin. Assistant District Attorney Thomas…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hundreds of potential jurors who gathered at a Louisville courthouse on Friday will learn whether they could be chosen for the only criminal trial over the botched police raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. Former Louisville…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge has resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison. The former zookeeper — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — was convicted in a murder-for-hire case involving his chief rival, Carole…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a Tennessee man shot his wife and two daughters before calling police and shooting himself. Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson Brooke Reese told news outlets that a 6-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl, and the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say 62 Tennessee counties, cities and towns will receive more than $28 million in development grants to help the communities with improvements in housing, infrastructure, and health and safety. Gov. Bill Lee says the Community…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say law officers have fatally shot a man walking on a major interstate in Nashville during a confrontation that shut down a bustling travel corridor for a time. Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court. It’s also a…
ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman. That's according to minutes from the McMinn County School…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have passed their state House map, finishing the final task in their once-a-decade state legislative and congressional redistricting work. The Senate voted Wednesday to send the House plan to Republican Gov. Bill…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two sources tell The Associated Press that liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court. [field59_video…
BEIJING (AP) — Richer, more heavily armed and openly confrontational, China has undergone history-making changes since the last time it hosted the Olympics, in 2008. Then, as fireworks exploded over Beijing, China was about to pass Japan to become the…
Rihanna is backing her belief that climate change is a social-justice issue by pledging $15 million to the movement through her Clara Lionel Foundation. The “We Found Love” singer on Tuesday announced the donation to 18 climate-justice organizations doing work…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan can refuse to place children in LGBT homes under a settlement filed in federal court, months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for a Catholic charity…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Meet Methuselah, an elderly fish that likes to eat fresh figs, get belly rubs and is believed to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the world. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="b96cf965308346fbf01c879f02b235a8a72cc302" vtitle="Meet Methuselah, the oldest living aquarium…
ZOLOTE 4, Ukraine (AP) — Soldiers and civilians in eastern Ukraine are waiting with helpless anticipation to see if war comes. They understand that the decision will be made by people who know little about the lives of those on…
MIAMI (AP) — The Coast Guard has recovered one body and is keeping up the search for 38 other people missing from a capsized boat after a solitary survivor was found clinging to the overturned hull off the Florida coast.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say two men have died in separate shootings involving Tennessee law enforcement officers. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says one man died early Wednesday in Shelby County and the other died Tuesday across the state…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leaders are seeking to reassure the nation that a feared invasion from neighboring Russia is not imminent. Those comments came even as they acknowledged the threat is real and received a shipment of American military…
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer gravely wounded in a Harlem shooting that took his partner’s life has also died of his injuries. Officer Wilbert Mora’s death was announced Tuesday by police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. He…
(AP) -- Pfizer and BioNTech have begun studying a COVID-19 vaccine tweaked to match to the omicron variant in healthy adults. COVID-19 vaccine makers have been updating their shots in case global health authorities decide a change is needed. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. supply of computer chips has fallen to alarmingly low levels, raising the prospect of factory shutdowns. That's according to the Commerce Department, which on Tuesday said companies that use semiconductors are down to less than…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has called a Fox News reporter a vulgarity after the reporter asked him a question about inflation. The president was in the East Room of the White House on Monday to convene a meeting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jury selection is set to get underway in the murder trial of a man who killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in April 2018 with an assault-style rifle. Police have said 32-year-old Travis Reinking…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has put about 8,500 troops on heightened alert, so they will be prepared to deploy if needed to reassure NATO allies in the face of ongoing Russian aggression on…
(AP) -- World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could usher in a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. They warn of difficult weeks ahead and the possibility of another, more dangerous…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A prosecutor has told jurors that three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights ignored their extensive training and did nothing to save his life as fellow Officer Derek Chauvin pinned…
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy has been found dead with a gunshot wound inside her burning home. The Robertson County Sheriff’s Office says a colleague went to check on 22-year-old Deputy Savanna Puckett after she missed her…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee transportation officials say they are launching a plan to use all available staff to patch potholes carved out by back-to-back winter storms. The state Department of Transportation says crews will be patching the potholes over…
MIAMI (AP) — A cruise ship with hundreds of passengers has diverted to the Bahamas after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over unpaid fuel. The Crystal Symphony was scheduled to…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The British royal navy says it…
LONDON (AP) — Police in Ireland are investigating reports that the body of a dead man was brought to a post office in an attempt to collect his pension. The Irish Times said a man who appeared to be in…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The death of a Connecticut seventh grader from an apparent fentanyl overdose has renewed calls for schools to carry the opioid antidote naloxone. The 13-year-old student in Hartford died Saturday after falling ill in school two…
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Authorities in Cameroon say at least 17 people have died after a fire broke out at a nightclub and spread to an area where cooking gas was stored. A government statement Sunday says a series of…
(AP) --- After spending one weekend in second place, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” proved it still had some fight left. Sony’s superhero juggernaut swung back to first place in its sixth weekend in theaters and became the sixth highest grossing…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, has died. He was 88. The News Tribune reports Wilson died Saturday in Tacoma of natural causes, surrounded by his four children. …
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say three people have been wounded in a shooting outside a Waffle House in the Tennessee city of Clarksville. City spokesman Scott Beaubien said in a statement that police went to a Waffle House at…
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a driver shot and killed a Houston-area deputy during an early-morning traffic stop and then got back in his vehicle and drove off. Harris County Precinct 5 Constable Ted Heap identified the fallen deputy as…
BLUFF CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been charged with attempting to kill a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says 54-year-old Alan Coulter has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment and weapons…
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with attempted second-degree murder and other offenses following the shooting of a fellow student in a suburb of the nation's capital. A news release from…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Tennessee clinic owner has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for illegally prescribing about 15,000 opioid pills to patients, including one who died. The U.S. attorney’s office in Chattanooga says…
CYBERSPACE (AP) - Mickey P's? The Cauliflower-Burglar? Not quite, but McDonald's is expanding sales of its McPlant. The fast-food chain will sell its meatless burger at 600 stores in the San Francisco and Dallas areas, starting Feb. 14. The meatless…
(CBS Newspath) --- DOG RESCUE: Millie the dog ran away on January 13. Animal rescuers found the three-year-old and saved her from a dangerous situation with help from a drone ... and a sausage.
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) — More jobs are coming to north Mississippi where Walmart has plans to build a new fulfillment center. The company on Thursday said it is spending about $90 million to build a 1,000,000 square foot warehouse…
