Police warn about package theft due to increase in online shopping
Police are asking people to be aware of package theft with an increase in online shopping this year.
Continue ReadingMonth: December 2020
Kentucky sisters lost their mom, dad and grandfather to Covid-19 within four weeks
Sisters Jessica Cheatham and Jama Allen plan to do everything they can to preserve for their kids the family’s Christmas traditions — even as they mourn the crushing loss of their mom, dad and grandfather to Covid-19. The festivities would start each year with their mom, Lisa Cheatham, 58, setting out a plate-bending buffet with
Continue Reading
Columbia woman arrested after allegedly assaulting a person with brick, kicking an officer
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman is arrested Tuesday for assault after allegedly hitting someone in the face with a brick and kicking an officer in the groin. According to court documents, Zariah Gilmore, 18, threatened the victim by claiming she would hit the victim with a brick. The victim told police that she ran
Continue Reading
US reaches out to intelligence alliance partners on suspected Russian hack
White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien held a call on Tuesday with his counterparts in an international intelligence sharing alliance to discuss the suspected Russian cyberattack on US government agencies and propose a joint statement condemning the breach, according to a senior administration official and two officials from the other nations. O’Brien’s proposal for
Continue Reading No fresh crab this Christmas as fisherman go on strike
Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY, California (KSBW) — The year 2020 has been a bad for just about everybody and the seafood industry is no exception. When it comes to crab, it’s usually a question of there being fresh caught in time for Thanksgiving, but this year it looks like there won’t
Continue Reading Pittsburgh police responding to reported assault find farm animals living in poor conditions in home
Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — Pittsburgh police found numerous farm animals living in poor conditions inside a Homewood home while responding to a reported assault on Monday. Police said when officers arrested a suspect at the home on Blackadore Avenue, he alerted them to numerous animals living inside the home.
Continue Reading Students make blankets to give to nursing home residents
Click here for updates on this story BRENTWOOD, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A community service project will help to keep some seniors warm this winter. Blankets arrived Wednesday at Rockingham County Nursing Home, courtesy of some students at Sanborn Regional High School. Spearheading the project was Dacey Schreiber, who also works as a licensed nursing
Continue Reading
Concerns for home health care patients receiving the coronavirus vaccine
As the vaccine distribution plans roll out, health care providers are concerned for their elderly patients who are receiving home health care.
Continue Reading DOJ report details widespread ‘systemic’ sexual abuse at Florida’s largest women’s prison
Click here for updates on this story OCALA, Flordia (WESH) — The United States Department of Justice on Tuesday released a scathing report alleging that Florida’s largest women’s prison, located in Ocala, has repeatedly failed to protect inmates from being sexually assaulted by staff. As part of an investigation that dates to 2018, the DOJ
Continue Reading 21 taken to hospitals after explosion; crews rescue 2 workers trapped on scaffolding
Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WBAL) — Firefighters rescued two workers who were trapped on a dangling scaffolding after an explosion at a downtown Baltimore building that seriously injured as many as 21 people. The Baltimore City Fire Department reported there was an explosion with a partial roof collapse around 8:30 a.m.
Continue Reading Suspect arrested in connection of deadly shooting of 25-year-old man at apartment complex
Click here for updates on this story ENID, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Police arrested a suspect accused of shooting and killing a 25-year-old man at an apartment complex in Enid. Around 10:10 p.m. Monday, Enid police officers responded to multiple 911 calls regarding a reported shooting at the Pine Manor Apartments in the 1000 block of
Continue Reading Family seeks help to find missing Sacramento 13-year-old Matthiya Miller
Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A Sacramento mother is pleading for her 13-year-old daughter’s safe return after she went missing nearly a week ago. Matthiya Miller was last seen Thursday near Del Luna Court off 24th Street and Meadowview Road in south Sacramento, police said. She is considered at-risk.
Continue Reading
Trump vetoes massive defense bill despite overwhelming GOP support
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the sweeping defense bill that both chambers of Congress recently passed by veto-proof majorities, setting up a possible veto override that would pit members of his own party against him. Trump had previously threatened to veto the defense bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, because it doesn’t
Continue Reading
Sentence of nonviolent drug offender commuted by Parson
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A nonviolent drug offender who argued that a change in state law should have made him eligible for parole is among nearly 30 people whose sentences were commuted or who were pardoned by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson. Gary Mitchell, of Joplin, was handed a sentence of 15 years in prison
Continue Reading
A Delta passenger who slid out of a moving plane with his dog says ‘I have panic attacks’
As a Delta Air Lines plane taxied to the runway at LaGuardia Airport on Monday, a flight attendant saw a man and woman walking through the aisle. “I need to get off the plane. I don’t want to sit here. I’m gonna pop the door,” the flight attendant paraphrased him as saying. The man felt
Continue Reading
Tech-averse Missouri Senate makes changes because of virus
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s tradition-bound Senate is installing an audio monitoring system in its committee hearing rooms so employees, lobbyists and the public can listen to debate in their homes or offices as the pandemic rages. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Senate Administrator Patrick Baker said the changes could mean fewer people
Continue Reading
State Department says US believes Russian FSB used a Novichok nerve agent to poison Navalny
The State Department on Wednesday issued the most decisive statement yet from the Trump administration blaming the Russian Security Service for the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, days after CNN reported on the first direct evidence of the agency’s involvement in the poisoning. “The United States believes that officers from the Russian Federal Security
Continue Reading
A Delta passenger who jumped out of a moving plane with a dog was allegedly about to lose control
One of two passengers who exited a Delta flight with their dog as the plane taxied onto a runway felt he needed to leave or he would lose control, according to statements from a Tuesday hearing. The two passengers and the dog were aboard an Atlanta-bound flight at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Monday, when
Continue Reading
Thousands of truck drivers scramble for tests at UK port after France eases blockade
Thousands of stranded truck drivers at the British port of Dover vented their anger Wednesday as they struggled to access coronavirus tests, after France agreed to ease a blockade despite fears over a new Covid-19 variant. The UK and France struck a deal late on Tuesday evening to allow truck drivers, French citizens and residents
Continue Reading
Trump lauded, then derided Barr. A look inside the attorney general’s tumultuous term.
At his confirmation hearing nearly two years ago, Attorney General William Barr boasted that there was an advantage to putting him in charge of the Justice Department — he could afford not to care about the consequences of his decisions. Mostly retired and 68 years old at the time, Barr’s pitch to senators in January
Continue Reading