Archives: 2018

Local News

Mayor Talks Money Management

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CHOCTAW COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – Money management isn’t always easy to talk about, but that was the message at a local church Saturday. Weir Mayor Shuni Miller-Coffey said she also works for a financial services company. Miller-Coffey invited a colleague to host a workshop on obtaining financial freedom. She said credit card debt, student loans, and bankruptcies are what commonly…
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Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer court case gets underway

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New fires sweep through Southern California

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What you need to know about Trump's top SCOTUS contenders

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President Trump has narrowed his shortlist of possible picks to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, and whoever he ultimately chooses Monday night, it will be a relatively young and conservative nominee. The president’s top contenders — Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge — have distinct records and focuses from which Mr. Trump can weigh his decision. Barrett has the…

CLEVELAND
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South Carolina gov vetoes $15.7 million over funding for abortion providers

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. Alex Wong/Getty Images South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster issued vetoes on Thursday cutting nearly $16 million from the state budget to prevent taxpayer dollars from directly or indirectly subsidizing abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. McMaster defended the budget vetoes as keeping a campaign promise. “There are a variety of agencies, clinics and medical entities…
Local News, Weather

Storms Continue but Drier Weather is Coming

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TONIGHT: Can’t rule out some patchy fog overnight tonight as temperatures fall into the low 70s and upper 60s.  We’ll call it partly cloudy but some spots still could see a stray shower by morning. SUNDAY:  Mostly cloudy with scattered to numerous showers and storms in the afternoon and evening, especially during the heating of the day.  Plan on highs in the…
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Mother survives car crash that killed husband, 4 daughters

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TOWNSEND, Del. — A family spokesperson has identified the New Jersey family who was killed in Friday’s crash in Townsend, Delaware, CBS Philadelphia reports. The spokesperson identified the father as 61-year-old Audie Trinidad. The children were identified as 20-year-old Kaitlyn, 17-year-old Danna and 13-year-olds Melissa and Allison. His wife, 53-year-old Mary Rose, was transported to a local area hospital after suffering…
Crime, Featured, Local News

Winona Police Arrest Shooting Death Suspect

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WINONA, Miss. (WCBI) – We have an update to a shooting in Winona that left one teenager dead Thursday night. Winona Police have arrested 16-year-old Markevion Merritt Saturday after issuing a warrant for his arrest on Friday. Markevion Merritt Merritt is being charged with murder as an adult in connection with the death of 16-year-old Ty’Quarruis Hardimon. Merritt’s bond is…

WASHINGTON
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Manafort's lawyers ask for trial to be moved away from D.C.

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Lawyers for Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, asked a federal judge Friday to relocate a criminal trial starting later this month because of pretrial publicity. The financial crimes trial of Manafort is scheduled to start July 25 in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. But his lawyers argued in court papers Friday that it would be impossible for…

FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington
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AP: Trump's lawyers blast Comey in confidential memo to Mueller

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Lawyers for President Trump unleashed a blistering attack on former FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel, casting him as “Machiavellian,” dishonest and “unbounded by law and regulation” as they sought to undermine the credibility of a law enforcement leader they see as a critical witness against the president. The letter, obtained by…
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Analysis reveals clues about Declaration of Independence copy found in U.K.

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Harvard scholars discovered a copy of the Declaration of Independence two years ago in an unlikely place: a public records office in England. The document was then sent to the British Library for further tests, which have revealed a little more about its story. It’s become known as the Sussex Declaration after the English county where the Harvard researchers discovered…
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Protesters plan to shut down major Chicago interstate to highlight gun violence

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Police search for evidence after a man was shot on May 27, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois.  Scott Olson/Getty Images CHICAGO — Protesters planning to shut down a major Chicago interstate say they’re trying to pressure public officials to address the gun violence that’s claimed hundreds of lives in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Hundreds and possibly thousands of people…
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Deadly prison uprising highlights widespread problem of understaffing

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On February 1 last year, inmates at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Delaware, took six correctional officers and a counselor hostage. Alisa Profaci, a correctional officer for nearly 30 years, was assigned to help rescue her colleagues. “When I got inside, the Major was out there and I said, ‘What’s going on?’ He said, ‘It’s…
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Mitch McConnell’s mission to reshape the courts

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was upbeat the night after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he was retiring from the Supreme Court. The Kentucky Republican had already led the Senate in confirming more circuit court judges in the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency than in that of any other president in history. Now McConnell had the chance to confirm a…

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol
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North Korea accuses U.S. of making unilateral demands for denuclearization

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Last Updated Jul 7, 2018 9:53 AM EDT SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s Foreign Ministry called talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “regrettable” after his visit this week to Pyongyang and accused the U.S. of making unilateral demands for denuclearization. The statement by an unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman on Saturday came hours after Pompeo concluded two…

LOS ANGELES
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Judge orders Trump administration to share list of separated children

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SAN DIEGO — A judge on Friday refused to grant the Trump administration a blanket extension of the deadline to reunite children separated from their parents at the border, instead acknowledging that more time may be justified only in specific cases. The administration said it needed more time to reunite 101 children under 5 years old to ensure the children’s…

A wildfire burns a structure in Goleta
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New fires sweep through sweltering Southern California

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GOLETA, Calif. — Firefighters battling wildfires that have torched hundreds of homes throughout the U.S. West hoped for some help from the weather Saturday even as new fires swept sweltering Southern California. A fire on the California-Oregon border that destroyed 40 buildings and claimed at least one life since Thursday remained virtually out of control, but a National Weather Service…
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Torrents of alcohol gushed into retention ponds after distillery collapse

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Whiskey barrels are piled in a heap Wednesday, July 4, 2018, after the rest of the Barton 1792 Distillery, a whiskey storage warehouse, collapsed in Bardstown, Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down.  WLKY-TV LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky officials say the final collapse of a whiskey storage warehouse sent torrents of spirits gushing into…