Month: January 2024

NEW YORK CITY — A New Jersey man was indicted on multiple charges Tuesday after authorities said he injured several people by driving his car into crowds gathered following the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square. Mohamed Alaouie, 44, of Fort Lee, was charged with multiple counts of first-degree assault and vehicular assault…

BOLINGBROOK, IL — The food pantry and resource center proposed by DuPage Township to be built in Bolingbrook is back in Plan Commission hands after a Village Board vote. Board members assembled Jan. 23 for their regular meeting and discussed the development proposed to be built at the northeast corner of Canterbury Lane and Lily…

Ukraine’s rapid counteroffensive on multiple fronts is gaining pace by the hour as forces penetrate Russian defense lines in the Kherson region in the south, while pushing further into the eastern Donbas region after recapturing the strategic city of Lyman.  Click Here: parramatta eels rugby store CBS News traveled to Lyman on Wednesday to see…

A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled. At least 36 people were slain in the deadliest rampage in the nation’s history. The assailant, who was fired earlier this year, took his…

Stockholm — French author Annie Ernaux, who has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that illuminates murky corners of memory, family and society. Ernaux’s autobiographical books explore deeply personal experiences and feelings – love, sex, abortion, shame…

Banjul, Gambia — Gambia has launched an urgent door-to-door campaign to remove cough and cold syrups blamed for the deaths of more than 60 children from kidney injury in the tiny West African country. Speaking to The Associated Press, the Director of Health Dr. Mustapha Bittaye confirmed the wave of child deaths from acute kidney injury,…

NEW YORK CITY — A push to change how tips count toward restaurant workers’ wages should be 86’d, said an overwhelming majority of New York City restaurant owners. Eliminating the tip credit would be a “disaster” said 88 percent of eatery owners polled in a survey released Monday by the NYC Hospitality Alliance. An even…

At least 19 people are confirmed dead after an avalanche struck climbers in the Indian Himalayas, authorities said Friday, with bad weather hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts. A group of climbing trainees and instructors were caught in Tuesday’s massive snowslide near the summit of Mount Draupadi ka Danda II in the…

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine — We’ve been to the front lines, and to cities recently liberated from Russian occupation amid Ukraine’s lightning counteroffensive. But you don’t have to go that far to see the destruction Russia is capable of. We visited the city of Zaporizhzhia, miles from any front-line combat, not long after it was hit with a…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — The mother of a 16-year-old Iranian girl has disputed official claims that her daughter fell to her death from a high building, saying the teen was killed by blows to the head as part of the crackdown on anti-government protests roiling the country. Nasreen Shakarami also said authorities kept her daughter…