By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time in its 85-year history, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director. Geochemist and space scientist Laurie Leshin will serve as the director for JPL as well as the vice president of the California Institute of Technology, both located in Pasadena. Faculty and students from Caltech founded
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WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) — Wolfsburg has signed American winger Kevin Paredes from Major League Soccer’s D.C. United for a $7.35 million transfer fee. The German club says the 18-year-old Paredes has signed a contract until the end of the 2025-26 season. Wolfsburg sporting director Marcel Schäfer says Paredes can play both on left wing and
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WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) — Wolfsburg has signed American winger Kevin Paredes from Major League Soccer’s D.C. United for a $7.35 million transfer fee. The German club says the 18-year-old Paredes has signed a contract until the end of the 2025-26 season. Wolfsburg sporting director Marcel Schäfer says Paredes can play both on left wing and
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Stacker investigated the most extreme temperatures in Arizona history using data from NOAA’s State Climate Extremes Committee.
Continue ReadingBy Shelby Montgomery Click here for updates on this story STILLWATER, Oklahoma (KOCO) — A high-speed chase through Stillwater’s busiest areas led to 11 cars being smashed. The chase started along Hall of Fame and Western. That’s where police say a suspect took off. And the moment it ended was caught on camera. Video captures
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN Andy Parker, whose daughter Alison, a TV reporter, was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015, announced Thursday that he’s running for Congress. “In 2015, my 24-year-old daughter, Alison Parker, was shot and killed on live television. I had a choice to retreat into my grief or honor Alison’s life
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Super Bowl already has a winner: E-Trade. The online broker, now owned by Morgan Staney, is bringing back its famous talking baby for the February 13 big game. A source close to the company confirmed that E-Trade will run a commercial during Super Bowl LVI on NBC
Continue ReadingBy Janell Stelson Click here for updates on this story MIDDLETON, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — The Dauphin County District Attorney is investigating a school resource officer’s use of a taser on a Middletown Area High School student. Superintendent Dr. Chelton Hunter told News 8 that it happened Wednesday as three students were fighting in the cafeteria.
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The NFL Foundation is awarding a variety of organizations in 30 locales with a total of $6 million to build or refurbish neighborhood football fields. The awards are the most in a single year since the NFL Foundation/LISC Grassroots Field Grant Program began in 1998, and bring the program’s total commitment
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The NFL Foundation is awarding a variety of organizations in 30 locales with a total of $6 million to build or refurbish neighborhood football fields. The awards are the most in a single year since the NFL Foundation/LISC Grassroots Field Grant Program began in 1998, and bring the program’s total commitment
Continue ReadingBy Marcie Cipriani Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — Surveillance video from just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, captured six juveniles walking into Macaron Bar on Penn Avenue in East Liberty and walking behind the counter and into the back. Pittsburgh police have called this a trend in the area and local
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By Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist Bomb. It’s not a word you can say on an airplane (cue Ben Stiller). You also have to be careful when using it to describe a storm system. But the term “bomb cyclone” does pop up from time to time in weather stories — the latest being the powerful nor’easter
Continue ReadingBy Aleks Klosok, CNN Iranian women were allowed to share a landmark moment as Iran secured qualification on Thursday for November’s World Cup in Qatar. According to the national team’s website, female supporters entered through a special entrance via a car park, controlled by policewomen wearing black chador robes and red badges on their arms.
Continue ReadingBy Scott Heidler Click here for updates on this story PALM BAY, Florida (WESH) — Frank Ruggeri is like many of his fellow senior classmates at Bayside High School in Palm Bay – he’s a big NFL fan. But Frank, unlike his peers, has taken up a cause for a big change within the NFL
Continue ReadingNicola Ruotolo, Sana Noor Haq, Livia Borghese and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Italy’s former royal family has asked the country’s central bank to return the crown jewels, a lawyer for the family confirmed to CNN. The jewels were deposited in the Bank of Italy by a representative of the family on June 5, 1946 — three
Continue Reading CNN By Jay Croft and Laura Ly, CNN The widow of slain New York Police Department Officer Jason Rivera tearfully recalled her childhood love at his funeral Friday, and said she has been living in a “nightmare” since his killing a week ago. “I would say good morning to you all, but in fact, this
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Laura Ly, CNN The widow of slain New York Police Department Officer Jason Rivera tearfully recalled her childhood love at his funeral Friday, and said she has been living in a “nightmare” since his killing a week ago. “I would say good morning to you all, but in fact, this is
Continue ReadingCNN By Jay Croft and Laura Ly, CNN The widow of slain New York Police Department Officer Jason Rivera tearfully recalled her childhood love at his funeral Friday, and said she has been living in a “nightmare” since his killing a week ago. “I would say good morning to you all, but in fact, this
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Una poderosa tormenta invernal amenaza con traer una combinación potencialmente devastadora de nieve y hielo en gran parte de Estados Unidos. Más de 100 millones de personas están bajo advertencias de tiempo invernal, desde las Montañas Rocosas hasta Nueva Inglaterra. Sigue las tormentas de nieve | Revisa las actualizaciones Así es como se espera
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Six months ago, Elon Musk said he would stop attending investor conference calls unless there was “something important” that he needed to say. He should have stuck with that plan. After skipping Tesla’s third-quarter call, he returned to the call Wednesday to discuss fourth quarter’s record earnings and revenue. But
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