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A man is dead after a hit-and-run in West Baltimore. On January 4, an officer was on patrol in the 1200 block of West North Avenue when he was told that a man had been struck by a car. Police say they found a 48-year-old man suffering from multiple abrasions to the head and body. He was taken to a hospital where he remained in critical condition. The man, later identified as Philip Jones, died three days later. Investigation determined that the incident was not accidental and that a homicide had occurred. Ollice Weaver was heading to church across the...

The Brief: * Two men from Philadelphia are accused of traveling to Minnesota to take advantage of "easy money" through the state’s Medicaid programs. * The FOX 9 Investigators confirmed both men will plead guilty during plea hearings scheduled for next month. * Authorities allege the pair’s scheme involved $3.5 million in fraudulent Medicaid billing. Federal prosecutors charged Anthony Jefferson and Lester Brown, both from Philadelphia, with exploiting the state’s social service programs to line their own pockets. At the time they were charged in December, Joe Thompson, First Assistant U.S. Attorney, stated, "These defendants came here not to enjoy...

You’ve heard of DEI in the workforce, but DEI in the National Football League isn’t all that different of a ball game. And after looking at the stats, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock determines it’s been doing far more damage than good. In 2018, 19 quarterbacks averaged more than 250 passing yards per game. Now, in 2025, there are only five quarterbacks who average more than 250 passing yards per game. “There are five quarterbacks that average more than 250 passing yards per game: Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford, Jared Goff, Patrick Mahomes, and Drake Maye. ... What are we watching? What...

True the Ballot has been under development for quite a while. The object is to ensure that anyone who appears on the ballot in St. Joseph County, Indiana has a basic understanding of why we have government or declines to say. Yesterday our first commercial aired on local talk radio. Here is a link to that ad. There are five others that will be circulating over the coming weeks as filing season takes place. Yours truly is monitoring everyone who files for office like a hawk. They will be notifies of our self-assessments by email, phone, and mail. If they...

Tuesday morning in Middle River, a neighbor's quick thinking saved a family's life, and his Ring doorbell camera captured it all. Steven Angelini was asleep in his Bowley's Quarter's home when he heard popping from outside. When he looked at his Ring doorbell camera, he saw the home across the street up in flames. "My immediate reaction was I want to make sure that everyone's out of the house," Angelini said. In his Ring doorbell video, he could be heard screaming, "Is anybody there?" A mother and two young children were inside. "By the time I got to the middle...

Cam Higby is on the ground in minneapolis, following about 1k protesters that have been going around to hotels they think have ICE staying as guest and trying to make entry or harrassing them. They appeared to have broken into one building, but have moved on from that scene. There has been hardly NO police presence, and only 2 cars had been seen.

Research suggests that a small shift in how you move through a plate may matter more than you’d expect, and experts say it’s worth paying attention to.KEY POINTS: -According to recent studies, food sequencing, or eating vegetables and protein before carbohydrates, may help reduce post-meal blood sugar spikes and promote steadier energy levels throughout the day. -This approach doesn’t restrict foods or calories — it simply focuses on the order of eating to support blood sugar and metabolic health. While short-term studies show promise, research on the long-term benefits of food sequencing remains limited, and experts recommend it as one...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Thursday to ban cell phones in schools throughout New Jersey. The State Senate originally passed Bill S3695 last month, which calls for guidelines to restrict and/or ban the use of cell phone or cell phone adjacent devices during school hours. The law makes it mandatory for all school districts in New Jersey to adopt strict cell phone guidelines for students. But the restrictions would have different rules for different grades. Regardless of the restrictions, it would still prohibit the non-academic use of a cell phones or social media during class time. "The guidelines shall,...

Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi made waves last fall after saying her country might intervene if China invaded Taiwan. In response, China launched state-organized boycotts against Japan — canceling concerts, restricting seafood imports, and even recalling pandas. Today on the show, what does it look like for a state to organize a boycott, and does it work? For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.

The conservative commentator wrote the 37-year-old mother likely has different immigration views from him, “But that shouldn’t matter. Her death is a tragedy, regardless of her partisan affiliations, ideological beliefs, or who pulled the trigger. A woman got shot in the face.” He compared the conservatives’ response to the left-wing reaction to Charlie Kirk’s killing, arguing Americans have become desensitized to home-turf violence because American leaders are “normalizing bloodshed.”

Yesterday, the fearsome Russian Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ‘Oreshnik’ (‘Hazel’) was launched from the Kapustin Yar range toward Lvov, right on the Polish (and NATO) border. The multi-warhead missile destroyed Europe’s largest underground gas storage facility, the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske in Stryi. The capacity of this facility accounted for over 50% of all Ukrainian gas storage. The “Oreshnik” flew to Lviv in 10–15 minutes — traveling 1,800 km at a speed of over 6 thousand miles per hour. The US knew in advance of the attack, since the American Kiev embassy issued a call earlier warning of a ‘potentially significant air attack’.

The types of snowflakes you see in the air while you’re out trying to catch them on your tongue are based on a few different factors, but the main one is the “dendritic growth zone.”

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As U.S. President Donald Trump insists his country needs Greenland for security purposes, Canada's former top soldier is warning that a U.S. takeover of the area could spell the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "We have no history of one NATO partner seizing territory from another," said retired general Wayne Eyre, formerly Canada's chief of the defence staff, in an interview with CBC's The House. "I share the Danish assessment that yes, this could be the shattering of NATO, much to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's delight." In the aftermath of Trump's operation in Venezuela, U.S. officials have stepped...

Police believe an attack at a Tempe community center that left several senior citizens hurt was racially motivated, based on statements the alleged suspect made to detectives following his arrest. Derek Carl Kirven, 62, is jailed on multiple charges in connection with the incident that happened on Wednesday morning at the Escalante Multi-Generational Center. According to court documents, Kirven walked into the main lobby around 9:15 a.m. and went to a hallway where he sat down. A City of Tempe security guard told Kirven he was in a restricted area and needed to return to the lobby. When he returned...

In Minneapolis a woman trying to resist ICE law-enforcement activity ended up being shot to death. Renee Good used her car to block traffic in both directions of a street in the enforcement zone. ICE agents made several attempts to get her to exit her car so she could be arrested for obstruction. Her wife Rebecca Brown Good exited the vehicle. As Rebecca yelled "drive baby, drive," Renee put her foot on the gas pedal. The car lurched forward toward an ICE officer. He fired his pistol at the driver. The car veered past and sideswiped him rather than hitting...

The family of Renee Nicole Good has received more than $1.5 million in donations after she was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. Officer Jonathan 'Jon' Ross shot Good three times in quick succession on Wednesday afternoon after she allegedly ignored ICE agents' demands to get out of her SUV. A GoFundMe campaign created to support her wife Rebecca and Good's three children, including her six-year-old son who is now orphaned, has amassed more nearly 38,000 donations in just two days. The crowdfunder sought $50,000 to support the Good family as they 'grapple with the devastating...

Tucker Qatarlson is currently at the White House where he is attending President Trump’s meeting with oil executives to discuss how to acquire the largest oil reserves in the world in Venezuela. Why is Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson attending when he has spent the last week completely trashing President Trump’s and @SecWar @SecRubio ’s military operation in Venezuela, and falsely claimed that President Trump is about to get us into a New World War and that he only captured Maduro so Trump could spread homosexuality in Venezuela? This is outrageous. Tucker Carlson is a virulent Jew hater and Islamic mouthpiece and...

Protests against the Islamic regime in Iran continued early Saturday morning, amid a reported deadly crackdown on demonstrators. TIME magazine cited a Tehran doctor speaking on condition of anonymity that just six hospitals in the capital recorded at least 217 killed protesters, “most by live ammunition.” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier in the day slammed the protesters as foreign-influenced agitators, dismissing U.S. President Donald Trump as having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians.” State media later referred to the demonstrators as “terrorists,” setting the stage for a violent crackdown as in other protests in recent years. Protesters are...

After nearly closing in 2019, a Western Massachusetts college continues to face challenges, missing its 2025 enrollment goal by half. Instead of recruiting 300 students, Hampshire College in Amherst enrolled about 150 new students. That makes for a total of 750 full-time students, Jennifer Chrisler, Hampshire’s newly named president, told MassLive in November. Chrisler attributes some of the admissions challenges to other institutions opening up their waitlists and taking more students than usual, forcing even more competition between institutions to vie for the same students. Many universities struggled with a decline in international students due to federal policies. “That had...