McDonald’s will launch all day breakfast on Oct. 6
NEW YORK (AP) – If you’re one of those people who hates missing the end of breakfast hours at McDonald’s, hang on just a little longer: the chain says its breakfast menu will be available all day...
View ArticlePolice in Illinois hunt for 3 suspects after officer killed
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) – Police in helicopters, with dogs and armed with rifles conducted a massive manhunt in northern Illinois into Tuesday night after an officer was fatally shot while pursuing a...
View ArticleBiden to appear on Colbert’s ‘Late Show’
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Vice President Joe Biden will be among Stephen Colbert’s inaugural guests on “The Late Show.” CBS announced Tuesday that Biden will join previously announced guests Uber CEO Travis...
View ArticleKentucky clerk, citing God, defies courts on gay marriage
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – Invoking “God’s authority,” a county clerk denied marriage licenses to gay couples again Tuesday in direct defiance of the federal courts, and vowed not to resign, even under the...
View ArticleSenate leader: Not enough votes to defund Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate’s top Republican is conceding that his party will have to await the next president before it can cut off federal funds that go to Planned Parenthood, prompting heated...
View ArticleSchool shooter texted ‘I’m sorry’ to family before killings
SEATTLE (AP) – Minutes before a Washington state high school freshman fatally shot four friends and then himself, he sent a group text message to his family outlining his funeral wishes and apologizing...
View ArticleCourt sides with Uber drivers to expand case over pay
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal judge granted class-action status Tuesday to a lawsuit in California against Uber over the payment of its drivers, upping the stakes for the ride-hailing company in the...
View ArticleVa. off-duty K-9 jumps fence, bites three men
This report is from our sister station WAVY in Norfolk, Va. NORFOLK, Va. (WKBN) — Norfolk police said one of their K-9s bit three people Tuesday morning. Investigators say the Norfolk officer left the...
View ArticleConsumer Alert: Frozen corn recall
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKBN) — The Food and Drug Administration said in a press release that Bonduelle USA Inc. of Brockport, New York, is recalling 9,335 cases of frozen corn because it potentially is...
View ArticleHackers steal 225,000 iPhone accounts
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Nearly a quarter of a million iPhone accounts have been compromised. Hackers stole more than 225,000 Apple accounts from iPhone customers. The iPhones were infected with the...
View ArticleVideo: Texas train operator hits emergency brake to avoid hitting pedestrian
AUSTIN (KXAN) — New video released by Capital Metro shows it was a close call for one man walking at the Kramer MetroRail station. On Friday, Aug. 21, a MetroRail going southbound had to apply the...
View ArticleFully automated fast-food restaurant opens in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Imagine a restaurant with no waiters or cashiers or busers — just machines. A new automated fast-food eatery has just opened up in San Francisco, and you could call it the robot...
View ArticleKansas sperm donor fights back after state forces him to pay child support
TOPEKA (KSNT) – It’s probably one of the most bizarre Craigslist transaction, involving a lesbian couple desperate for a sperm donor, and a Topeka man willing to help. Little did he know that act of...
View ArticleHouston man killed while taking selfies, posing with gun
HOUSTON (AP) — A 19-year-old Houston man is dead after police say he accidentally shot himself while taking ‘selfies’ while holding a gun. Deleon Alonso Smith died of a gunshot wound to the throat...
View ArticleSurvey: More college students smoke pot than cigarettes
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – U.S. college students are making a habit of using marijuana, which has replaced cigarettes as the smoke-able substance of choice among undergraduates Researchers from the...
View ArticleNo charges against officer in Washington police shooting
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – A police officer who shot and injured two men he says repeatedly threatened him during a late night encounter on a dark street was justified in the shooting, and the men have been...
View ArticleIndian man injured by police testifies against officer
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – An Indian man left partially paralyzed when he was slammed to the ground during a police stop in Alabama testified Wednesday that he’d been in the state only about a week when...
View ArticleFederal Sony data breach lawsuit settled, lawyer says
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose personal information was posted online last year after a massive data breach have reached a settlement in a proposed class action...
View ArticleNew Ferguson report offers lessons on handling protests
WASHINGTON (AP) – The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns such...
View ArticleMan charged in connection with OJ Simpson Heisman theft
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A man arrested in connection with the theft of a copy of O.J. Simpson’s Heisman Trophy more than 20 years ago from the University of Southern California pleaded not guilty Wednesday...
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