WASHINGTON (AP) – The Treasury Department wants to start issuing direct payments to Americans by early next month as the centerpiece of a $1 trillion plan to stabilize the economy as the coronavirus epidemic takes a toll on taxpayers and businesses. In a memorandum issued Wednesday, Treasury is calling for two $250 billion cash infusions to individuals:
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Click here for updates from KSPR-TV. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Police say five people including an officer and a gunman are dead after a shooting at a gas station in Springfield, Missouri. Police Chief Paul Williams said Monday morning the dead also include three citizens. Williams said police began receiving reports of someone firing shots
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) – Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. It’s a sight the Hollywood mogul’s multitude of accusers thought they would never see. Weinstein was convicted last month of raping a woman in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and has endorsed Joe Biden. It was a stunning collapse for the former New York City mayor, who had pinned his 2020 hopes on the Super Tuesday states and drained more than $500 million from his own fortune into
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KRDO) — President Donald Trump has decided to donate his 4th quarter salary to “confront, contain, and combat” the novel coronavirus, according to White House Secretary Stephanie Grisham. Grisham tweeted out a picture of a check signed by the president and made out to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. The
Continue ReadingHANAU, Germany (AP) – At least eight people were killed in shootings in and outside two hookah lounges in southwestern Germany and police later said the suspect had been found dead. Police said in a tweet hours later that officers found the dead suspect and another body at the same address in the city of
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MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man is charged with firing shots at children who threw snowballs at his car, injuring two of them. Twenty-four-year-old William Carson is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless injury and five counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, all felonies. Prosecutors allege Carson fired nine shots at seven children in early
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A former candidate for mayor in Colorado Springs is accused of trying to steal a baby in Pierce County, Washington and claim it as her own. Juliette Parker, 38, not only ran for mayor in April of 2019, but she was also an advocate for the homeless community, most recently fighting the city’s ban on
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CAYCE, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say a 6-year-old South Carolina girl who disappeared Monday after getting off her school bus was found dead and a homicide investigation has begun. Cayce Police also announced at a Thursday news conference that a body of a man was also recently found in Faye Marie Swetlik’s neighborhood. Authorities didn’t
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A new bill introduced to the US Congress aims at getting veterans outdoors to promote their well-being. It’s called the Accelerating Vets Recovery Outdoors Act. On Feb. 27, a group of veterans will be promoting the newly proposed bill — H.R. 2435 — that would “require the Secretary of Veterans
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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama are searching for 7 people missing after a deadly fire consumed at least 35 boats docked along the Tennessee River. “We have some confirmed fatalities, but we don’t have an exact number yet,” Jackson County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Rocky Harnen told The Associated Press. “We have several people
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Now that the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is well underway, Colorado’s two U.S. senators are waiting to see how the historic proceedings will affect Trump, the nation, and the senators’ own political campaigns. Democrat Michael Bennet continues to run for president while Republican Cory Gardner seeks a second term. Speaking with KRDO NewsChannel
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- While lawmakers prepare for Tuesday’s historic trial, we are learning more about one congressman here in Colorado who will be right in the thick of it. If you’re unfamiliar with Democratic Representative Jason Crow, that will likely change once he is thrust into the national spotlight as one of the lawmakers prosecuting
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LONDON (AP) – Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will no longer use the titles “royal highness” or receive public funds under a deal struck to let them step aside as senior royals. The palace says the couple will repay some 2.4 million pounds of taxpayers’ money that was spent renovating their
Continue Reading SANDRINGHAM, England (AP) – Britain’s pragmatic Queen Elizabeth II has brokered a deal to secure the future of the monarchy, charting a course for Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, that allows them to live part time in Canada while still remaining firmly tied to the House of Windsor. The British monarch says a summit
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) – Federal prosecutors say jailhouse video no longer exists of the area around Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan told a judge Thursday that jail officials preserved video of the wrong jail cell and that a backup system also
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas (AP) – An American family returning to the U.S. from Mexico has come under attack just south of Texas, with armed gunmen killing a 13-year-old and wounding three others. The attorney general’s office in the state of Tamaulipas said the child was a U.S. citizen and that the parents were permanent residents
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- In light of Tuesday’s attack at a U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, we sat down with Marine sergeant John Tiegen who helped defend the Libyan consulate in Benghazi in 2012. Tiegen who was a military contractor at the time of the Benghazi attack says the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is a fortress meant
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