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A mild start to winter. Drought conditions are worsening.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson Welcome to winter 2023/2024. Today marks the first day of winter. Tomorrow Morning!I will be on WMOK Friday morning. Be sure and listen in as we will be talking...
Paducah Officers Help Collect for local food pantries
PADUCAH, KY - Employees of the Paducah Police Department and their families volunteered for Christmas In The Park this year at Noble Park. They collected canned goods for local food pantries and...
Community Christmas Dinner Planned
MARION, IL - Herrin House of Hope is serving a Community Christmas Dinner on Monday, December 25 from 11am-2pm at Marion First Church of God. This meal is free & open to everyone!Meals can be...
Slow-moving Pacific storm threatens to bring California flooding and mudslides
By JOHN ANTCZAK and STEFANIE DAZIO LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy rains drenched parts of California on Wednesday, bringing the threat of flooding and mudslides as millions of people geared up for holiday...
A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors’ home are investigated by FBI
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard last month facing...
Vigil held for 5-year-old migrant boy who died at Chicago shelter.
CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of migrants and other people turned out Wednesday night for a vigil held for a 5-year-old migrant boy who died after becoming ill in a Chicago shelter. Jean Carlos Martinez...
The checkered history of the poinsettia’s namesake and the flower’s origins get new attention
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season in the U.S. and across Europe....
Health officials push to get schoolchildren vaccinated as more US parents opt out
By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were...
Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 people.
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas sent a plane with more than 120 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago in an escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's busing...
Oklahoma judge rules a man who wrongfully spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder is innocent
By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of a...
Descendants fight to maintain historic Black communities. Keeping their legacy alive is complicated
By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Sallie Ann Robinson proudly stands in the front yard of her grandmother’s South Carolina home. The sixth-generation native of...
Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places.
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates...
Biden needs a new approach to Black voters based on Georgia and Michigan, group of strategists says
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Some top Democrats are worried that a dip in Black voter turnout, along with other challenges, could doom President Joe Biden and his party in 2024. A...
Ukraine ends year disappointed by stalemate with Russia, and anxious about aid from allies
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press The year started with high hopes for Ukrainian troops planning a counteroffensive against Russia. It ended with disappointment on the battlefield, an increasingly...
Pompeii’s ancient art of textile dyeing is revived to show another side of life before eruption
By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily...
‘Total systemic breakdown’: Missteps over years allowed Detroit serial killer to roam free
By ED WHITE, DEL QUENTIN WILBER and MADDY PEEK Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The serial killer lured women one by one into vacant homes to be murdered, posing their nude or partially clothed...
Cat-owner duo in Ohio shares amputee journey while helping others through animal therapy
By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press TROY, Ohio (AP) — Each morning when she wakes up, Juanita Mengel removes the silicone liner of her prosthetic leg out from under a heated blanket so that the...
Custom made by Tulane students, mobility chairs help special needs toddlers get moving
By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE and STEPHEN SMITH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At 19 months old, Elijah Jack, born with no femur bone in one leg and a short femur in the other, is unable to walk...
More US auto buyers are turning to hybrids as sales of electric vehicles slow
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — America’s automakers have staked their futures on the notion that electric vehicles will dominate sales in the coming years, spurred by buyers determined...
Were your holiday deliveries stolen? What to know about porch piracy and what you can do about it
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You found the perfect holiday gift online. You ordered it. A notification arrived on your phone, showing the package had arrived. But when you...
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