(AP) -- Rent has exploded across the country, causing many to fall behind on payments, dig deep into their savings or downsize to subpar units. According to Realtor.com, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia high school senior who was born with no right leg and a left leg that ends at the middle of his thigh took home a state wrestling championship, surprising everyone but himself. Adonis…
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A gemstone, billed as one of the largest gem-quality opals ever found, has been sold for nearly $144,000 at auction in Alaska on Sunday. The auction house, Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals, said the opal, dubbed…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A published report says a federal indictment accuses a former Tennessee sheriff’s deputy of misusing funds. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the indictment unsealed last week in U.S. District Court charges former Knox County Sheriff’s…
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek emergency workers have rescued a Belarussian truck driver from a burning ferry off the island of Corfu and found the body of another man as they combed the wreckage for missing passengers. The victim has…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah has lots of natural beauty that's attractive to people who make movies and TV shows. But Kevin Costner says something that can make the state even more attractive to Hollywood - is tax rebates.…
(AP) ---Tom Holland might be without his Spider-Man suit in “Uncharted,” but his latest action-adventure is still doing good business at the North American box office. The video game adaptation starring Holland and Mark Wahlberg is on its way to…
NEW YORK (AP) — A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds on Long Island in New York. Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center and…
(CNN NEWSOURCE)---Two people were transported to a hospital after a helicopter crashed into the ocean near the Miami Beach shore, according to a tweet by Miami Beach Police. The FAA and the…
GARNER, N.C. (AP) — The owner of a towing and repossession business that was featured in a reality TV show confirmed that his son was killed in a shooting in North Carolina. In a post on Facebook, Ronnie Shirley confirmed…
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms. The palace said Sunday that the 95-year-old British monarch will continue with light duties. The palace says “she will continue…
KADIMA-ZORAN, Israel (AP) - It's enough of a strawberry to make a strawberry LONG cake. And now it has a place in the Guinness World Records book. A strawberry tipping the scales at more than a half pound has been…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The $73 million settlement that some of the Sandy Hook shooting victims' families won against Remington is not the end of their efforts to hold the gun industry accountable. The agreement announced this week by the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say actor Lindsey Erin Pearlman, who had roles in “General Hospital,” “American Housewife” and other shows, was found dead days after she was reported missing in Los Angeles. Police had sought the public’s help in…
LONDON (AP) — Crews are clearing fallen trees and working to restore power to about 400,000 people in Britain as Western Europe cleans up from one of the most damaging storms in years. Named Storm Eunice by the British and…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Drop in for dinner, why don't you? It's cool if a friend or a family member takes you up on that offer. But a raccoon? That's what happened at a dining hall at Louisiana State…
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say a modeling agent who was close to disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell. Agent Jean-Luc Brunel was being held in an investigation into the rape of…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has given final approval to legislation that averts a weekend government shutdown. The chamber has sent President Joe Biden a measure to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal to fund federal…
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge has ruled ex-President Donald Trump must testify under oath in New York state’s civil probe into his business dealings. In his ruling, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his two oldest children, Ivanka and…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been indicted after being accused of stealing roughly $10,000 worth of sports cards from a store in Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that a federal grand jury handed down the indictment against…
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Federal inspectors say they found more than 1,000 rodents inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumer complaint prompted officials to inspect the West Memphis, Arkansas, facility…
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police aggressively pushed back protesters, took control of trucks and cleared the street in front of Parliament. Scores of the trucks left under the pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against…
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, facing a sharp spike in violence in and around territory held by Russia-backed rebels and increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade, has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials say an apparent typo was sending motorists in South Florida seeking to resolve their traffic citations to a website selling 2024 merchandise for former President Donald Trump. Miami Beach police spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez told…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials warned parents not to use infant formulas manufactured at an Abbott plant that they've linked to bacterial contamination. The Food and Drug Administration said it is investigating four reports of infants who were hospitalized…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, has been sentenced to two years in prison. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="46399290d8a3e69200a2e630460dedd07c7fc68c" vtitle="Kim Potter sentenced…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California bill would allow private citizens to go after gun makers in the same way Texas allows them to target abortion providers. …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — New Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Sarah Campbell has recused herself from a case over Republican Gov. Bill Lee's school voucher program, which remains blocked. The recusal last week came as justices prepare to rehear voucher oral…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A lease agreement says Ford Motor Co. and a South Korean company would have to create more than 5,000 full-time jobs at a planned electric pickup truck factory and battery manufacturing plant in Tennessee or pay…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fears of a new war in Europe have resurged as U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia could invade Ukraine within days, and violence spiked in a long-running standoff in eastern Ukraine that some fear could…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee and Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn say they will soon unveil their plan to rewrite how the the state funds its multibillion-dollar K-12 education system. According to the governor’s office on Tuesday, top state…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Van Morrison, Lil Wayne, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sarah McLachlan, Three 6 Mafia and the Foo Fighters are among the headliners set to perform at this year’s Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee. The music festival…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege. The committee…
ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman has been charged with statutory rape involving nine underage high school students. News outlets report 38-year-old Melissa A. Blair of Englewood isn't an employee at McMinn County Central High School but is a…
HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) — A flock of commercial broiler chickens in Kentucky near the Tennessee border has tested positive for avian influenza. According to a news release, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian…
HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) — A flock of commercial broiler chickens in Kentucky near the Tennessee border has tested positive for avian influenza. According to a news release, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s largest school district says a review of school safety that started after a 13-year-old student was critically wounded in a shooting last year is progressing. Memphis-Shelby County Schools asked former Memphis police chief Toney Armstrong…
NEW YORK (AP) — As telecom companies rev up the newest generation of mobile service, called 5G, they’re shutting down old networks — a costly, years-in-the-works process that’s now prompting calls for a delay because a lot of products out…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have passed a ban against instant runoff voting in elections. The House and Senate votes Monday seek to end a long-running legal dispute between the state and the city of Memphis, where…
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is invoking emergency powers to weaken the protests by demonstrators who are paralyzing the capital city of Ottawa and blocking border crossings. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="c22b1de98a5e921e43cf02c682a05767a42b5d37" vtitle="Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers to…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A former employee at a Murfreesboro Catholic church who pleaded guilty to four counts of statutory rape has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Tennessean reports Michael D. Lewis was sentenced on Monday after…
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin is signaling it is ready to keep talking with the West about security grievances that led to the current Ukraine crisis, offering hope that Russia might not invade its beleaguered neighbor within days as the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has posted another round of positive state tax revenues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration says January revenues totaled $1.8 billion, which is $309.2 million more than budget estimates and…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have been hit by a ransomware attack, with cyber criminals claiming they stole some of the football team’s financial data. The ransomware gang BlackByte recently posted some of the purportedly stolen team…
(CBS Newspath) ---WATCH: This baby elephant is predicting that the Los Angeles Rams will win the Super Bowl. "Brazos" kicked a ball decorated with the Rams' logo at the Fort Worth…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has suspended imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. The surprise suspension came on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of…
BEIJING (AP) — Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. A gold one. Jackson won the 500 meters with a time of 37.04 seconds to give the American speedskating program…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s president urged calm amid intensified warnings of a possible Russian invasion within days, saying he had yet to see convincing evidence of that. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's comments came as the U.S. updated its estimate of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Executive Editor Maria De Varenne, the first female executive editor at The Tennessean, is retiring from journalism. De Varenne has led the paper’s news coverage for more than a decade. She will step down in April,…
LONDON (AP) — Ian McDonald, a co-founder of pioneering prog-rock band King Crimson and stadium rock hitmaker Foreigner, has died. He was 75. A representative said McDonald died Wednesday at his home in New York City. Son Max McDonald said…
