<div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=331m8q_0uywus8r00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=331m8q_0uywus8r00" width="1200" height="630" ><p>Nearly 2/3rds of Puerto Rico woke up in the dark Thursday morning after Hurricane Ernesto caused widespread flooding and knocked out power to a majority of the island. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has more from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and Weather Channel meteorologist Jordan Steele has a look at the forecast.</p><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div>

Columbus, OH

NBC News

Puerto Rico remained under a tropical storm watch as Ernesto turned into a Category 1 hurricane late Wednesday morning. Alarms began ringing in the municipality of Toa Baja on Wednesday morning, warning residents who live in the western part of the town to evacuate their homes as incessant rain from Tropical Storm Ernesto overflowed the main river there, exposing more families to dangerous floods.

Thousands in Puerto Rico without power and under flood threats as Ernesto turns into a hurricane

CBS News

Hurricane Ernesto is gaining strength in the Atlantic, heading north after bringing torrential rain and damaging winds to Puerto Rico. Also, former President Trump's economic address goes off topic to make more personal attacks on Vice President Harris. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.

Eye Opener: Hurricane Ernesto turns toward Bermuda after causing destruction in Puerto Rico

HuffPost

The latest blackout is likely to inflame the political blowback against utility LUMA Energy.

Half Of Puerto Rico Just Lost Power Amid Hurricane Ernesto

PBS NewsHour

Ernesto is forecast to move through open waters for the rest of the week and make its closest approach to Bermuda on Saturday.

Ernesto becomes hurricane after hitting northeast Caribbean and knocking out power in the region

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Herbie J Pilato

In the mid-1970s, Good Timesmade a star of actor/comedian Jimmy 'JJ'/'Dynomite' Walker. However, behind the scenes, the tension between the stars was relatively challenging. According to what Jimmie Walker once relayed, most of the show's cast rarely had any interaction behind the camera. Walker didn't recall having any conversations with actress Esther Rolle, who played his TV mother, Florida Evans, or actor John Amos, who played James Evans, his TV mother.

Actor/Comedian Jimmie "JJ" Walker Behind the Scenes of TV's 'Good Times' in the 1970s

Nevada State

Placer County, CA

CBS Sacramento

WASHOE COUNTY – Authorities say the body of a missing Tahoe-area woman has been found in Nevada. The Placer County Sheriff's Office says a body was found off of Mt. Rose Highway in the Washoe County area of Nevada. The sheriff's office believes the body is that of Patricia Portella-Wright, who had been missing since Aug. 3. Portella-Wright's boyfriend, Brent Clifford, was announced as a person of interest in a Reno homicide on Wednesday. He was taken into custody in Portola later that day. Clifford and Portella-Wright lived together, the sheriff's office said. He had also been named as a person of interest in her disappearance. A drone found the body believed to be that of Portella-Wright down a steep embankment. Crews are now working to recover the body.Clifford has been booked into Placer County Jail for homicide in connection to Portella-Wright's death, the sheriff's office says.


Body believed to be that of missing Tahoe-area woman found off Mt. Rose Highway

South Carolina State

Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Coral Springs, FL

A new lawsuit is claiming hackers have gained access to the personal information of "billions of individuals," including their Social Security numbers, current and past addresses and the names of siblings and parents — personal data that could allow fraudsters to infiltrate financial accounts or take out loans in their names. The allegation arose in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Christopher Hofmann, a California resident who claims his identity theft protection service alerted him that his personal information had been leaked to the dark web by the "nationalpublicdata.com" breach. The lawsuit was earlier reported by Bloomberg Law.The breach allegedly...

Here's what to know about an alleged hack of Social Security numbers

An TV meteorologist is being praised for how he handled an on-air panic attack.ABC News Australia's Nate Byrne was presenting his weather segment on Tuesday's Daily Breakfast when he felt the attack coming on. "I'm actually going to need to stop for a second. Some of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that's happening right now, Lisa, maybe I could hand back to you," he said before cameras cut to his colleague. "You certainly can Nate," said the show's co-host Lisa Mitchell, going on to promote a piece Byrne previously wrote about the same...

Meteorologist has panic attack live on air, prompts wave of praise online

California State

Kayakers and snorkelers exploring the Southern California coast spotted an extremely rare oarfish, nicknamed a "doomsday fish" since they are seen in some parts of the world as harbingers of imminent disasters.  It's one of less than two dozen confirmed sightings of an oarfish in the state in over 120 years, according to UC  San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The oarfish is a "strikingly large, odd-looking fish" with a long, silvery, ribbon-shaped body, according to the Ocean Conservatory. The fish can grow to more than 30 feet long, and have large eyes and "foreboding" red spines in a crown-like...

Extremely rare "doomsday fish" found off California coast

West Virginia State

Actor Bob Denver, who passed away in 2005, will forever be remembered for his leading role on the classic 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. Denver also played another famous TV character: the beatnik-type Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

TV's 'Gilligan Island' Stars Dawn Wells and Bob Denver and Their Controversy Behind the Scenes

Red Lodge, MT

A black bear mauled and injured a 3-year-old girl in a tent at a private campground in Montana just north of Yellowstone National Park over the weekend, state wildlife officials said.The girl was attacked at about 10 p.m. Sunday at a campground south of Red Lodge and taken to the hospital in Billings. Fish, Wildlife and Parks didn't have any information on her condition on Tuesday, game warden Randy Hutzenbiler said.The campground was evacuated and traps were placed in the area. A bear believed to have been involved was captured and euthanized on Monday afternoon, Hutzenbiler said. "FWP believes it...

Bear attacks and injures 3-year-old in tent at Montana campground

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According to cruise industry reports, the world's largest cruise ship is sailing well above 100% capacity, thanks to more beds being filled on recent sailings. Royal Caribbean’s newest flagship, the Icon of the Seas, is proving to be an unprecedented success, with occupancy rates far exceeding expectations.

The Largest Cruise Ship in the World is Sailing at 132% Capacity: How This is Even Possible

Pineapple candies dished out by a New Zealand charity have tested positive for "potentially lethal levels of methamphetamine," police said Wednesday, sparking an urgent race to remove them from the streets.A child, a teenager and a charity worker have already been taken to a hospital after tasting the candies.Although none are seriously ill, police have launched a criminal investigation and are trying to track down up to 400 other people who may have received the sweets."We need to round these up as quickly as we can," said Detective Inspector Glenn Baldwin, adding that 16 of the candies had been found...

Candy handed out by charity contains "potentially lethal" levels of meth

Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was sentenced by a Russian court to 12 years in a penal colony on Thursday after pleading guilty to treason earlier this month. She was arrested earlier this year while on a trip to Russia for donating $51 to an American-based humanitarian group helping Ukrainians suffering in the war, according to Russian state media.Karelina's lawyer, Mikhail Mushailov, said shortly after the sentence was handed down that Karelina would appeal."She admitted guilt in terms of transferring funds, but did not admit her intent aimed at transferring funds to those organizations where they most likely arrived," Mushailov said. "She did not...

U.S.-Russian woman sentenced to 12 years in Russian penal colony

North Carolina State

A manhunt is underway in North Carolina after convicted murderer Ramone Alston escaped on Tuesday morning. Authorities warn that Alston is extremely dangerous and urge the public to provide any information that could lead to his capture.

Manhunt underway for escaped convicted murderer in North Carolina

An outbreak of salmonella linked to recalled cucumbers has sickened 449 people in 31 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update.The CDC is among the federal and state agencies investigating the outbreak, determining that cucumbers contaminated with salmonella made people sick. As of July 2, 449 people had been infected with one of two outbreak strains, with 125 hospitalized, according to a post on Wednesday by the agency. Two Florida growers have been identified as likely sources of some but not all of the illnesses: Bedner Growers of Boynton Beach...

Recalled cucumbers in salmonella outbreak sickened 449, CDC says

The Pan-Mass Challenge, America's most successful athletic fundraiser, celebrates its 45th anniversary and surpasses $1 billion raised for cancer research. Nancy Chen sits down with founder Billy Starr to explore his personal connection to cancer, the inspiration behind the event and the legacy of the bikeathon that has inspired participants worldwide for over four decades.

A look at the Pan-Mass Challenge's journey, impact

Lexington, KY

A former University of Kentucky student pleaded guilty Monday to assault and other charges for a racist attack on a Black student that was captured on video.Sophia Rosing, 23, pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of disorderly conduct and public intoxication, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.Rosing, who is white, attacked a Black student in 2022 while she was working in a campus residence hall. Rosing was arrested the night of the assault and later expelled from school and banned from campus by the university president.Rosing had been previously indicted by a grand jury on six counts, including assault and...

Ex-University of Kentucky student pleads guilty in racist attack

Colorado State

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Nearly 2/3rds of Puerto Rico woke up in the dark Thursday morning after Hurricane Ernesto caused widespread flooding and knocked out power to a majority of the island. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has more from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and Weather Channel meteorologist Jordan Steele has a look at the forecast.

Power out in most of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Ernesto

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