Month: December 2020

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 148 new Covid-19 deaths on Thursday, the second day in a row that the county reported its highest number of new deaths. “A person now dies every 10 minutes in L.A. County from COVID-19,” Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer said in a statement, “and

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Nashville Fire is responding an explosion on Second Ave. North downtown early Friday morning. Emergency crews have closed a 10-block radius around the site of the explosion. Smoke was visible on the Nashville skyline as people in the area reported feeling a large shaking

Click here for updates on this story     SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — A local company has joined forces with the Air Force to try to save lives on the battlefield. But before they got into the business of a potentially life-saving platelet powder, they first dipped into the benefits of Olive Oil. You probably have some

Click here for updates on this story     OVERLAND PARK, KS (KCTV) — The Overland Park Police Department and Overland Park Police Officers Foundation helped a family in need on Christmas Eve. On Dec. 17, a thief stole a mother’s vehicle while she was preparing to take her children to school. Inside the vehicle’s trunk were

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — While a number of events have been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic, a few St. Louis attractions are keeping their doors open on Christmas Day. The St. Louis Aquarium and Union Station are both open on Christmas. The aquarium opened just

Pope Francis used his Christmas message to say that coronavirus vaccines must be available for all, and pleaded with states to cooperate in the race to emerge from the pandemic. “Today, in this time of darkness and uncertainty during the pandemic, different lights of hope appear, like the discovery of the vaccines … they must

The holidays may look a little different this year due to the pandemic, but they will still happen — even in space. The International Space Station will host seven crew members throughout the holiday season, the most ever for the orbiting laboratory in its 20 years of having humans living aboard. The international crew includes

Click here for updates on this story     Fenton, MI (WNEM) — It’s Christmas Eve, a night when people of faith flock to church. But this year Wes Morris, a pastor at The Rock Church of Fenton, says, “it’s going to look different, it’s going to feel different than it has, but that’s because we’re all

Adam Finley loves his job as a mail carrier for USPS. He loves visiting with the people on his route and is always looking for ways to help the neighborhood during his more than 12-hour long shifts. So, when the schools in his Georgia community moved entirely online in the spring, Finley, or “Mr. Adam”

Click here for updates on this story     OZARK, AR (KFSM) — A tanker truck carrying gasoline overturned and caught fire Wednesday morning near Ozark, blocking the eastbound lanes of I-40 at Exit 35. The driver of the tanker truck was killed, and now police have arrested a suspect they say caused the wreck and fled

Instead of eating turkey or opening presents, European Union ambassadors will spend part of Christmas Day reviewing the details of the bloc’s post-Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will brief the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER), formed of ambassadors from EU nations, on the agreement, which was finalized on Thursday