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Kentucky‘s governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the emergency management director in Kentucky ‘s hard-hit Perry County. “We still have missing people.”Powerful floodwaters swallowed towns that hug creeks and streams in Appalachian valleys and hollows, swamping homes and businesses, leaving vehicles in useless piles and crunching runaway equipment and debris against bridges.

The rocket carrying the Shenzhou-14 mission with three Chinese astronauts lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest Chinas Gansu Province on June 5, 2022. -(Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) A massive Chinese booster rocket fell uncontrolled to Earth on Saturday and landed over the Indian Ocean, according to U.S.

UPPER CHICHESTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Police say the pick-up truck that fatally hit a man walking on I-95 last weekend has been located in Delaware.A 44-year-old man was pronounced dead on the scene after he was reportedly struck by a blue Ford F-150 on I-95 North in Upper Chichester Township on July 23.Police say the truck swerved onto the right shoulder when it hit the man, another truck and a motorcycle, then fled.Family later identified the victim as Maurice Pinkard, a father of six children. His wife Caprice said he was on his way to fill up her vehicle's tank when he was fatally struck.Maurice Pinkard, 44, was fatally struck by a vehicle on the shoulder of I-95 in Upper Chichester Township, Pennsylvania, his family says.  (The Pinkard Family)"He was just a family man and he worked so hard for us," Caprice said.

PHILADELPHIAnews - A man who fled from officers in his car, then on foot has been arrested and charged, according to Philadelphia police.Police saw multiple vehicles fleeing a parking lot on the 4000 block of Cottman Avenue Friday night when responding to reports of a person with a gun.A short time later, officers found a white sedan crashed in a rear alleyway on the 4000 block of Glendale Street. Police say a firearm was found inside.The driver, who reportedly fled on foot, was found by police on the 1300 block of East Lycoming Street.

TRENTON, N.J. - Gas prices posted another double-digit drop in New Jersey and around the nation amid low demand and oil prices that remain in the mid-$90s per barrel. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $4.41, down 10 cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.18 a gallon on average a year ago at this time. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $4.25, down another 16 cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.16 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.

MORRISVILLE, N.C. - A 23-year-old man died Friday afternoon after he jumped or fell out of a plane before it made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina.Authorities said the pilot called air traffic control about an hour before making the emergency landing and said the plane had lost its right wheel."Emergency, we’ve lost our right wheel," the pilot told air traffic controllers. "We’d like to speak to Raleigh and make an emergency landing at Raleigh."The pilot pulled off the landing and was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - In one of this year's most competitive U.S. Senate races, the biggest moments aren't playing out on the campaign trail.

Kentucky's governor said it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 16 people when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia.More rainstorms are forecast in coming days as rescue crews continue the struggle to get into hard-hit areas, some of them among the poorest places in America.The rain let up early Friday after parts of eastern Kentucky received between 8 and 10 1/2 inches (20-27 centimeters) over 48 hours. But some waterways were not expected to crest until Saturday and Gov. Andy Beshear warned the death toll could rise further."From everything we’ve seen, we may be updating the count of how many we lost for the next several weeks," Beshear said.

HARVEYS LAKE, Pa. - Fifteen minutes. That’s all it took to transmit a rare, dangerous and debilitating tick-borne disease that seriously sickened an energetic, witty and generally healthy 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy.Jamie Simoson’s motherly intuition pushed her to seek further medical treatment for something her youngest son’s pediatrician assured her was a virus that needed to run its course. However, it was something she later learned required weeks of medical care and came with the possibility of lifelong effects.HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER ON YOUR TVJonny Simoson is one of the most energetic 3-year-olds you will meet, his mother said.

Call it a tale of two economies: the latest figures from Statistics Canada on Friday show economic growth in the country slowed but likely avoided a decline through the first half of the year, just as the United States reported its second consecutive quarter of contraction a day earlier.

Mega Millions jackpot.According to megamillions.com, there was one winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought in Illinois.The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.The jackpot was the nation's third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared an outbreak of the highly-infectious Marburg virus in Ghana after two men died of the disease. And even though it’s a cause for concern in the African nation, experts say there’s no need to panic in Canada just yet.

Nikita Jasmine has shared a health update after going under the knife at a private hospital earlier this year.The 27 year old, who recently branded Chloe Brockett a "lying little witch" as the pair lashed out at each other, opened up on the mystery surgery in an exclusive interview with OK! magazine at the National Reality TV Awards UK 2022. Arriving at the red carpet with her Married At First Sight pal Jessika Power, who starred in the Australian version of the show, Nikita insisted that she's "absolutely fine" following the procedure. "I needed it, but I'm fit, I'm well.

NEW DELHI: India’s health vision for the next 25 years will not only bring immense opportunities for our medical professionals but will also allow all our nation builders to serve our citizens in a better way, Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Health Minister.  The minister said this while delivering the presidential address at the 4th foundation day cum 21st convocation day of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences (ABVIMS) and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi on Saturday. A total of 172 medical students of batch 2018-2021 received their degrees and certificates followed by 24 students who received gold medals with certificates of merit and another 6 students who received certification of merit.

Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life.

recession in the US with the US Fed tightening its monetary policy to control inflation after the covid stimulus that included cash transfers. It is also significant given that India’s covid response had earlier faced criticism from the Opposition about its size and that it was focused more on the supply side and liquidity boosting measures. “While all other economies – both advanced and emerging – focused their policy primarily on stimulating demand, India’s policy focused on enhancing demand and supply.

Covid-19 cases detected before December 20 in 2019 were from the western side of the Wuhan market where mammal species were also sold. Meanwhile, another study that also backs the claim on China's Wuhan market to be the epicentre of Covid-19 disease, used genetic information to track the timing of the coronavirus outbreak.

Some travellers keen to get their passports will now be able to request their mail-in applications be transferred to any of the more than 300 local Service Canada centres for processing.

The country's active caseload witnessed a marginal dip from 1,43,988 on Friday to 1,43,384 infections today. Covid-19 cases in India continue to follow an upward trend with the country recording 20,408 fresh infections in the past 24 hours. With this, the overall Covid-19 tally has reached to 4,40,00,138 in the country, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

Concertgoers in Hong Kong were left stunned when a suspended video screen fell onto the stage injuring two dancers at a performance by the popular Cantopop boyband Mirror on Thursday night.

Earlier Friday, the lottery grand prize reached an estimated $1.28 billion with a $747.2 million cash option after continuing to climb from $1.02 billion on Wednesday. Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is the second-highest prize in the game’s history, as currently estimated. It also stands as the nation’s third-largest lottery prize ever. A $1.586 billion Powerball game in 2016 was split between the buyers of three winning tickets, and a $1.54 billion Mega Millions prize in 2018 went to the buyer of a single ticket.The latest jackpot has grown so large because no one has matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15.

PHILADELPHIA - Investigators with the Philadelphia Police Department are searching for two suspects wanted in connection with a robbery in North Philadelphia. According to police, the robbery occurred at the Dollar General store located at 2801 Ridge Avenue. Authorities say the duo walked into the store and one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and demanded money. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESAbout $2,000 was taken from a register and safe and $70 was taken from a customer inside the store. Anyone with information on the robbery or suspects is urged to call police at 215-686-8477 or submit an anonymous tip online. 

RELATED: Mega Millions lottery drawing: Winners can remain anonymous in these statesFive white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70, and one gold Mega Ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. Players win if the numbers on one row of a ticket match the numbers of the balls drawn on that date.Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play.

MIAMI - If you’ve been on TikTok or Twitter recently, you’ve most likely seen people talking about the "pink sauce."The food condiment has gained attention over the last few days as people have become invested in the drama behind it. Chef Veronica Shaw, known as chef.pii on TikTok, is the creator of ‘The Pink Sauce’ and her videos promoting her product have gained millions of views causing her small business to take off.Discussions about the sauce took off on TikTok when Shaw posted a video of her eating the sauce with a piece of chicken. Since then, people have had questions about what the pink sauce is and how it gets its color.When we spoke with Shaw, she told us dragon fruit is what gives the sauce that light color.

Today we are reporting 6,232 community cases, 769 current hospitalisations. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 7,405 As at yesterday, Friday July 29, there were a total of 1,479 deaths confirmed as attributable to COVID-19, either as the underlying cause of death or as a contributing factor. The average increase in deaths each day attributable to COVID-19, over the past seven days to yesterday, is now 18.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a man is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head Friday night in Kensington.Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the area of F and Tioga streets around 8 p.m.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, environmental samples confirmed the presence of B. pseudomallei in the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi during an investigation of two human melioidosis cases.B.

A Stag Arms retro AR-15 style semi-automatic 5.56mm rifle is displayed during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022.

Chick-fil-A in North Carolina have ended a controversial program in which they solicited "volunteers" to work the drive-thru in exchange for chicken sandwich vouchers.The Chick-fil-A in Hendersonville, N.C. issued the offer last week in a now-deleted post on Facebook."We are looking for volunteers for our new Drive Thru Express!" the post read.

WASHINGTON - Tears and emotions erupted inside a D.C. Superior Courtroom Friday after a judge ordered 48-year-old Shanteari Weems to be held without bail. The Maryland daycare owner, facing assault and firearm charges, admitted to shooting her husband inside a D.C. hotel room last week after she confronted him on claims he had molested some of the children her facility cares for.The judge did not accept the self-defense argument and focused on the fact that Weems went to D.C.

COVID-19 cases in Quebec is expected to decline slowly, the province’s public health director said Friday.Dr. Luc Boileau told reporters in Montreal that he expects the seventh wave of the pandemic to reach a plateau in the coming days, followed by the slow decline.“It went up more slowly and it will go down more slowly,” he said.

WASHINGTON - A recent report from researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Boston found that rising inflation has made it difficult for millions of elderly Americans to afford basic needs. The report published in the university’s Elder Index states that half of older women as well as 45% of older men who live alone are classified as living under federal poverty standards.The index accounts for health care, food, housing and transportation costs. In 2020, the index found that 2 million senior couples were considered "financially insecure" based on their incomes compared with the cost of living. Despite these alarming findings, the cost of living isn’t going down.Inflation surged in June and workers' average wages accelerated in the spring — signs that Americans won't likely feel any relief from rising prices anytime soon and that the Federal Reserve will feel compelled to raise borrowing costs further.An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Fed jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the government said Friday, the biggest such jump in four decades. Much of the increase was driven by energy and food.On a month-to-month basis, too, prices surged 1% in June, the biggest such rise since 2005.

SHARON HILL, Pa. - An investigative report looking at Sharon Hill Borough's police policies and procedures in the wake of a police shooting that killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility last year was released late Friday, but the report was largely redacted, with any findings and recommendations obscured from public view.The three former officers who fired their weapons in the direction of a crowd leaving a high school football game just outside of Philadelphia, killing Bility and injuring three others, are facing manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges. The borough council voted to fire the officers and to hire an outside special counsel, promising accountability and transparency.The report was given to the borough council almost a month ago.

Will Smith is finally ready to talk about his infamous “slap heard around the world.”

Analysis: our current shots could soon be updated to target new variants rather than the ancestral strain