Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — A high-speed chase landed a suspect behind bars. State troopers said the person was driving under the influence and had a young child in the car with him. The heartwarming picture of state Trooper Gary Hightower of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol comforting the 2-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DUNMORE, PA (WNEP) — Police in Dunmore are now looking for a man who was caught on camera, passing fake $100 bills to several businesses. In a surveillance picture taken at Cara Mia’s Deli on East Drinker Street, the man has visible tattoos on his hands. The photo
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police say they found several stolen guns after a chase that included shots fired at officers early Thursday. Police suspect the gun used to fire at officers was one of the stolen weapons. The shooting, in which a police cruiser was damaged, happened after officers tried to stop a stolen vehicle
Continue Reading Scientists think they have discovered the undersea lair of a giant predatory worm that lived on the ocean floor some 20 million years ago and would pounce on unsuspecting marine creatures. Paleontologists from National Taiwan University believe the 6.5-foot-long burrow was once home to a worm-like predator that would surface from the seabed to ambush
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CRESTON, Iowa (KCCI) — A Central Iowa mom wants others to take COVID-19 seriously after her son landed in the hospital with a rare, but potentially life-threatening complication from the virus. Eleven-year-old Jaxson Green is back home in Creston and doing well, but in November, he was in
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House Democrats plan to send the article of impeachment to the Senate on Monday, triggering the start of the Senate’s trial of former President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday. Unless senators strike an agreement to delay the trial, it would begin on Tuesday at 1 p.m.
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Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make medical-grade face masks mandatory in the hope that they can slow the spread of the disease. The French government has now mandated that citizens wear single-use surgical FFP1 masks, more protective FFP2
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Advocates say having a computer is more important now than ever thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Many doctor’s office have increased their telehealth appointments and more schoolchildren are learning from home.
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Thousands of Boone County residents and University of Missouri Health Care patients have already signed up to say they’re interested in getting the coronavirus vaccine.
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Americans want more diversity on TV, and they’re increasingly finding more of it on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney+ than on cable, according to a new Nielsen study. In the ratings company’s first-ever TV diversity and inclusion report, Nielsen examined the 2019 on-screen cast demographics for the 100 most popular, first-run shows in
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A Senate stalled. That’s how we start the day and end the week. The talks of bipartisanship are quickly getting ensnared by must-move Senate business, not the least of which is getting an agreement on how the Senate will be run over the next two years. It seems simple, but it’s a big deal and
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A Tallahassee man in his nineties begs for his 70-year-old caretaker to be bumped up in the vaccination queue. A woman over 75 in Raleigh asks what number to call to make an appointment. The daughter of a nursing home resident in San Jose wants to know why her mom has not received the Covid-19
Continue Reading Walmart is rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine in more states as the Biden administration tries to accelerate distribution. The company has been administering vaccines in recent weeks in some of its locations in New Mexico and Arkansas. Now, Walmart, the largest retailer in the nation, will roll out the vaccine to select stores in New
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A new feature on the relaunched White House website contact form allows people to choose their own pronouns, reflecting the new administration’s commitment to diversity. The change did not go unnoticed — it was shared widely on Twitter, including by LGBTQ civil rights organization Equality California which wrote, “In this @WhiteHouse we respect pronouns.” GLAAD,
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Given all the problems faced by the cruise industry in 2020, the announcement by one operator that all passengers must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 before they board sounds sensible. But when Saga Cruises this week became the first to introduce the requirement, not everyone agreed — the British operator was inundated with so many
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The former head of the Vatican bank, Angelo Caloia, has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for money laundering and aggravated embezzlement. The 81-year-old was handed an eight year, 11 month jail term on Thursday, making him the highest-ranking Vatican official to be convicted of a financial crime. His lawyer is appealing his
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It had once been a transatlantic art scandal — or at least various actors of questionable intent would have you believe it was. Overheated, confusing and laden in the end with blatant racism, the case of the White House bust of Winston Churchill still persists. President Joe Biden has removed it from the Oval Office
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A futuristic project by Google’s parent company Alphabet to provide internet from high flying balloons has burst. Loon, the Alphabet subsidiary that used giant balloons to beam internet to people in remote areas around the world, has announced that it is winding down its operations. It was formerly part of X, Alphabet’s innovative “moonshot” factory.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPRINGDALE, Arkansas (KFSM) — A family in Springdale is searching for answers two weeks after their father was hit by a vehicle walking to work. The driver of that vehicle took off. The family of Jose Flores says he survived but is fighting for his life. Flores’ family
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Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron, the Baseball Hall of Famer who broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record and lived a life as an ambassador to the game, has died. He was 86.
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