Month: January 2021

It’s nearly February, and holiday packages and cards are still making their way to peoples’ doorsteps. The reason for all these delays? Like so much right now, the pandemic is partially to blame. Americans took to online holiday shopping in record numbers, which inundated the system with what the USPS says is a “historic volume”

Click here for updates on this story     WETMORE, CO (KCNC) — Five bear cubs will get another chance to live in the wild after Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers released them into two dens near Pikes Peak. Officers built the dens last week. The cubs were orphaned and spent months at the Wet Mountain Wildlife

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A new type of eye surgery has become increasingly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic because many people are finding their glasses fogging up when wearing a mask. “It’s called SMILE laser eye surgery and SMILE is short for small incision lenticule extraction,” Goel Vision Medical

Click here for updates on this story     WEST CHESTER, Ohio (KDKA) — A special needs shelter dog from Ohio is tugging on the heartstrings of animal lovers across the world after being stood up by a potential adopter. Cute little Jack is a 9-month-old, 30-pound American Bully pup who has spina bifida. He can get

It sure didn’t feel like Anthony Dowe’s lucky day when he accidentally hit two deer with his brand-new car. But a few hours later, the North Carolina man checked his lottery tickets and discovered he’d won a $2 million Mega Millions prize. Dowe had been on his way to work Saturday — the day after

The Senate voted Thursday to break a GOP filibuster and advance the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to be President Joe Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security after Republicans objected to efforts to quickly install a critical leader of the country’s national security apparatus. Now that the nomination has successfully cleared that procedural hurdle, a final vote

Germany’s vaccine commission said the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine should not be given to people older than 65 years, amid a bitter dispute between the European Union and the drugmaker over delayed supplies. The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s main public health authority, found there is insufficient data

The home of Emmett Till, the African American teen whose murder became an important catalyst in the civil rights movement, has been granted landmark status by the Chicago City Council. In 1955, Emmett traveled to Mississippi to visit his great uncle. It was during this visit that Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant,