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A key witness in the case of missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki has the support of his community, according to a statement released by friends of his family on Sunday evening.Konanki, a 20-year-old Virginia resident, was last seen walking on the beach outside the Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic in the early hours of March 6, according to authorities. The lone known eyewitness in the case, 22-year-old Joshua Riibe, of Iowa, has been questioned by authorities from various agencies as they seek answers in Konanki’s disappearance. He was the last person seen with Konanki…

JOHOR BAHRU: A seven-year-old Singaporean boy died in a Johor Bahru hospital following a fatal accident involving a car and a lorry. The collision – which occurred at Johor Bahru’s Jalan Pantai – caused the boy to be thrown out of the car. The lorry driver, who tested positive for methamphetamine, has been detained by the police. Investigations also found that he did not possess a driving licence. In a press statement on Monday (Mar 17), Johor Bahru South police chief Assistant Commissioner Raub Selamat said that the accident occurred at 10.34pm on Sunday. “Initial investigations found that the lorry,…

Thatta, Pakistan – On a sunny afternoon at Dando Jetty, a small fishing village in Pakistan’s sprawling Indus Delta, a boat is being unloaded and another is about to leave for the Arabian Sea. The melodious voice of Sindhi folk singer Fouzia Soomro rises from a loudspeaker playing on a nearby parked boat. About 130km (81 miles) from Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi, Dando Jetty sits on the bank of Khobar Creek, one of the two surviving creeks of the Indus River in Thatta, a coastal district in the eastern Sindh province. “There should be freshwater in this creek, flowing…

President Donald Trump is expected to visit the Kennedy Center for a board meeting on Monday, two sources familiar with the planning tell CBS News Organizers have arranged for the meeting to be held onstage at the venue’s opera house. “‘Riverdance’ loaded out tonight, so they’re onstage tomorrow,” one source told CBS News.There are costs associated with staging the meeting in the opera house at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, like stage crew overtime, the sources said.”There is a ton of security, associated stagehand costs. They’ve changed the plan about five times in three days, so lots of extra…

A teenage boy who shared a video of a stolen luxury car speeding at 150km/h is one of the first to feel the impact of a state’s “post and boast” laws.

By Michael Silver, Dianna Russini and Alec LewisThree days after becoming a free agent, Aaron Rodgers remains a quarterback without a team. As the four-time MVP ponders his next move, one thing has become clear: The person who currently holds the biggest sway over his playing future is Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell.After conversations with more than a dozen league sources, this is where Rodgers, the Vikings and two other teams courting the 41-year-old quarterback — the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers — stand.Rodgers is hoping to sign with the Vikings, who went 14-3 in 2024 before suffering a…

An airman stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota was charged in the murder of a woman who had been missing since August and was killed on the base, officials said on Saturday.The airman, Quinterius Chappelle, 24, was arrested on federal second-degree murder charges in the death of Sahela Sangrait, 21, the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said on social media.Ms. Sangrait’s remains were identified last week after they were found on March 4 by a hiker who discovered a badly decomposed body about 37 miles southwest of the Air Force base, the sheriff’s office said.The hiker found Ms.…

But Posey’s performance cracks me up. And it appropriately matches the way Victoria is written by White: as someone who takes every hypothetical to the extreme and refuses to accept any difference of opinion. (It may help that I have spent nearly my whole life in the South and have known many Victorias.)Victoria and Piper have an entertainingly spicy dialogue regarding Buddhism, with mom calling the young people who live at the monastery “a bunch of grungy kids who have no purpose” and insisting to Piper that “You can be interested in this stuff, but you can never really be…

Ishiba, 68, has come under fire for handing out gift vouchers each worth ¥100,000 (US$670) to 15 new LDP lawmakers – a move he has defended as legally sound and not a political donation. Grilled by opposition MPs in parliament, Ishiba apologised on Friday “for causing trouble and worry to many people” over the voucher scandal. Ishiba said the vouchers – which he paid for personally – were intended as a token of appreciation, not a donation, for the families of lawmakers who took office for the first time after last year’s general election. On Monday, Ishiba apologised again, saying…

It was the site of the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil. Now the terminal at Muan International Airport serves as a community center for grieving relatives of the 179 people who perished in the crash. Families gather here to talk, eat together — some even stay overnight in tents.It was in that cavernous building in southwestern South Korea that the families waited anxiously for news after Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 crash-landed on Dec. 29. Then there were tears and outbursts of anger as officials periodically read out the names of the dead, many identified by DNA tests.“We’re a…