NEW DELHI (AP) — Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by more than a billion people in South Asia, has died. She was 92. She was hospitalized on Jan. 11 after…
IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — Morocco's king says a 5-year-old boy has died after rescuers pulled him out of a deep well where he was trapped for four days. Moroccan King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the boy’s parents in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jurors refused to make parole possible after 51 years in prison for the man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018. On Saturday, jurors deliberated the fate of 33-year-old Travis…
HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy is scrambling to contain a major crisis in Hawaii after jet fuel leaked from an 80-year-old Hawaii tank farm. It seeped into a drinking water well and polluted water streaming out of faucets in Pearl…
CORSICANA, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas say a gunman killed four members of his own family, including a child, before fatally shooting himself as officers approached. Corsicana Police Chief Robert Johnson told the Corsicana Daily Sun on Saturday that…
NEW YORK (AP) — Delta Air Lines has requested that the U.S. Department of Justice put any person convicted of a disruption on board a flight to the national “no fly” list. In a letter to the Justice Department Attorney…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Anti-abortion centers across the country are receiving tens of millions of tax dollars to talk women out of ending their pregnancies. An Associated Press tally shows that the spending is a nearly fivefold increase from a…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — “Alias” actor Jennifer Garner is being celebrated for her star power both on- and off-screen. Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals is parading Garner through the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon before roasting her as…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has reinstated a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that had accused him of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving NASA research grants. A lawyer for…
IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — Attempts to rescue a 5-year-old boy trapped in a Moroccan well have stretched into a fourth day, with unstable soil threatening the painstaking work of trying to digging him out safely. Online messages of support and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in a 2018 early morning attack has been found guilty on four counts of 1st-degree murder. A jury returned the verdict Friday after…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee says he supports placing more scrutiny over school libraries so that students consume “age appropriate” content. The Republican's remarks come less than a week after a local Tennessee school board attracted national attention…
HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — The battle with Islamic State group militants over a prison in Syria is finished, but the impact continues to reverberate. Syrian Kurdish-led forces have locked down nearby neighborhoods, hunting for hidden IS militants, but are angering…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The murder trial of a man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018 is going to the jury. Travis Reinking does not dispute the facts — he was naked save…
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Dozens of Tennessee National Guard members have returned home after a 10-month Middle East deployment. More than 190 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment returned Thursday. Another 140 soldiers are scheduled to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mark Green joined a bipartisan House delegation to Ukraine and Belgium late last month, saying the fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has largely united otherwise polarized political parties in Congress on the…
ATMEH, Syria (AP) — President Joe Biden says the leader of the Islamic State group has been killed in Syria during an operation by an elite U.S. military force. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="813e5a8d23b284640756efd1199a02f32cfc66ee" vtitle="Islamic State leader killed during US raid in…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy was being treated at a hospital for a gunshot wound suffered while attempting to make a traffic stop. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday that the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a Tennessee man lured the mother of his 2-day old daughter to a location in Memphis, shot the woman, and tossed the baby into the water off a boat ramp near the Mississippi River.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has reinstated a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that had accused him of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving NASA research grants. A lawyer for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has once again reinstated a Tennessee ban on abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, or because of the race or gender of the fetus. The ban is part of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Four men have been charged in the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams and New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Wednesday that the four were charged in a criminal…
University of Pennsylvania doctors say they've cured two patients of leukemia with a gene therapy that transforms someone's own immune cells into microscopic cancer killers. "What we…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville Metro Council has approved a pilot program to bring license plate readers to the city’s streets for six months, despite widespread community opposition. The Tennessean reported that the legislation was approved Tuesday after more…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities in Tennessee say they are searching for a missing 2-day-old girl whose mother was fatally shot. Memphis police say officers found an abandoned car late Tuesday and nearby found the body of a 27-year-old woman…
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter. That's the prediction made Wednesday by Punxsutawney Phil after he emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania to perform his Groundhog Day duties. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="c0985f72bc6b0069008b95d435346138e29c18df" vtitle="Punxsutawney Phil predicts…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Republican-led Tennessee Senate voted Wednesday to remove Democratic Sen. Katrina Robinson from office because of her recent wire fraud conviction. It's the first time the chamber has removed a senator since at least the Civil…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week, and sending part of an infantry squadron of roughly 1,000 troops based in Germany to…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="4589019fd445f17b013bd4dc02887c2c5766197e" vtitle="Minority women most affected if abortion…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady has retired after winning seven Super Bowls and setting numerous passing records in an unprecedented 22-year career. He made the announcement in a long post on Instagram. Brady has long stated his desire to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — has inspired many exaggerated claims through the years, both from fans and foes. Now President Joe Biden is adding his own. With a few loose words turned into a pithy…
TORONTO (AP) — Thousands of Canadian protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the country's capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill. Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5. The move could open the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots by early March. The nation’s…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man and woman have been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 7-year-old boy on the Fourth of July. The Shelby County district attorney's office said Monday that 19-year-old…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Gov. Bill Lee has unveiled his $52.5 billion budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, an increase from the $41.8 billion budget that Lee proposed for the current year. The 2022-23 spending plan unveiled Monday…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia accused the West of “whipping up tensions” over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought “pure Nazis” to power in Kyiv as the U.N. Security Council held a stormy debate on Moscow’s troop buildup near…
Many Americans — some traditionally religious, some religiously unaffiliated — are increasingly finding a sense of community through virtual reality. It comes at a time when…
Omicron's race across the globe has amped up concerns about long COVID, which some estimates suggest affects a third of COVID-19 survivors. Long COVID symptoms can include pain, fatigue…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine after reviewing additional data on its safety and effectiveness. The decision Monday by the Food and Drug Administration comes after many tens of millions of Americans…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The murder trial of a man who killed four people in a shooting at a Nashville Waffle House is scheduled to begin on Monday. Police say Travis Reinking was naked except for a green jacket when…
NEW YORK (AP) — Cheslie Kryst, the 2019 winner of the Miss USA pageant and a correspondent for the entertainment news program “Extra,” has died. Police said the 30-year-old Kryst jumped from a Manhattan apartment building. She was pronounced dead…
NEW YORK (AP) — Joni Mitchell is joining Neil Young in his protest against Spotify, seeking to have her music removed from the streaming service. Like Young a Canadian native and singer-songwriter with much of her success in the 1970s,…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A cold snap in Florida is different than in other places. We put on heavy coats when it’s 50 degrees. No blizzard conditions here in the Sunshine State, but we have our issues as well.…
NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Johnny Fever on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on “Head of the Class,” has died. He was 81. His manager Robbie Kass…
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota says it's working with Japan’s space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and eventually live on Mars. The vehicle being developed with…
(AP) ---Patients worried about getting hit with an unexpected bill after emergency care have a new layer of protection. The No Surprises Act went into effect this month. It prevents doctors or hospitals in many situations from billing insured patients…
NEW YORK (AP) — Experts say how often you can safely wear an N95 or KN95 mask will vary depending on how it’s used. Using a mask to run to the grocery store, for example, is very different than wearing…
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man has been sentenced to 43 years in federal prison for a violent kidnapping that crossed state lines. Federal prosecutors say Douglas M. Edmonson used a gun to force a victim into a car…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady is retiring from the NFL after an unprecedented career in which he won seven Super Bowls and set numerous passing records, according to ESPN. The 44-year-old Brady goes out after leading the Tampa Bay…
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A woman who once lived in Kansas has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants. The U.S. Attorney in Alexandria,…
