Firefighters in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday rescued a 77-year-old woman who said she had been trapped inside her van for at least four days during this week’s winter storm. The woman was identified by CNN affiliate News 12 New Jersey as Janet Ward, who is currently living in the vehicle. She told the station
Continue Reading Three suspended correctional officers are facing criminal charges for their alleged role in an assault of inmates at a New Jersey women’s prison. The charges, announced Thursday by State Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, involve the pepper-spraying and punching of one inmate 28 times and the punching of another inmate who was in handcuffs. Grewal
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President Joe Biden’s urgent goal of tackling the Covid-19 pandemic depends heavily on persuading Americans to get the vaccine as quickly as possible and educating the public about the virus — and his top aides have been eyeing this weekend’s Super Bowl as an opportunity to score some points. The President and first lady Jill
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Every NFL team will make its stadium available as a mass vaccination site, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden dated Thursday. The offer comes as the Biden administration has promised the opening of mass vaccination sites as part of its push to ramp up the pace of Covid inoculations.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Asheville, North Carolina (WLOS) — Animal Control is searching for the owner of a dog after a reported dog bite in front of the CVS store along Merrimon Avenue. Authorities say on Monday, Feb. 1, at around 8 p.m. Asheville Animal Control received a report of a dog
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Oakland, California (KPIX) — Oakland police said Thursday they are searching for the suspect who was caught on camera forcefully pushing down a 91-year-old man in Chinatown and victimizing two others. “This is something we must change and change it now,” said Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce president
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The first jobs report of the Joe Biden presidency was less than OK — but Wall Street cheered anyway. Stocks rose Friday, extending all-time highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The Dow gained more than 90 points, or 0.3% on Friday, while the S&P added 0.4% and the Nasdaq rose 0.6%. The government said
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A man gained access to a C-40 aircraft on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday that’s part of a fleet frequently utilized by senior government leaders, the base said in a statement Friday. The US Air Force Inspector General has been directed to investigate the breach and the Air Force will also launch a
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Florida volleyball team announced it will postpone its matchup with Mizzou, scheduled for Feb. 6 and 7, due to COVID-19 and contact tracing within their program. The Tiger’s next matchup will come on Feb. 12 when the team makes the trip to Knoxville, Tenn. The SEC said it will look into
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The uncle of a Missouri woman accused of participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month is now facing charges himself.
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Click here for updates on this story Shingle Springs, California (KOVR) — She’s got her diploma and her loans are due, but Sarah Stevenson, a cosmetology graduate from Shingle Springs, says the state is keeping her from getting her license. “All I want is to take my test and to get licensed,” said Stevenson. After
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Click here for updates on this story Coraopolis, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — The family of a 3-year-old boy allegedly killed by his mother’s boyfriend is remembering the child as an “angel.” Tyler Mason of Burgettstown was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, Aiden
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Philadelphia (KYW) — Injuries related to the winter weather are starting to mount as doctors are seeing a spike in strained muscles from shoveling snow and broken bones from slippery surfaces. Even though the sun was out today, the dangers will linger along with the freezing temperatures. Snow
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It’s Super Bowl weekend — a moment that many people, at the start of the season, did not think we’d ever see. After all, when the season kicked off with the opening of training camp in late July, we were in the middle of Covid-19 spikes around the country, and football is the very definition
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The path has been cleared for Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the first woman and the first African to lead the World Trade Organization after South Korea’s candidate pulled out of the race for the job. Yoo Myung-hee, the South Korean trade minister, announced her decision to withdraw in a televised briefing on Friday. Okonjo-Iweala,
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Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers at an Alabama facility will be able to cast their votes on whether to unionize by mail-in ballots beginning next week after the National Labor Relations Board rejected the company’s latest attempt to stall the vote by pushing for it to be held in-person, despite the pandemic. In a decision
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Swift Prepared Foods is looking for a new location for an Italian meats processing plant to open in 2022. And the company is considering Columbia.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — It’s one of the biggest events every year: the Super Bowl (this Sunday on CBS 11). Rae Mills, a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs said, “It’s a good day to party, just to get together with friends, what the last game of the season.”
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Four leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic heavy metals, according to internal company documents included in a congressional investigation released Thursday. “Dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury exist in baby foods at levels that exceed what experts and governing bodies say are
Continue Reading The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. Doctors had given him the antiviral drug remdesivir to fight the virus, anticoagulation drugs to prevent blood clots, immune modulators to try to control his out-of-control immune response and steroids to fight inflammation. He’d been home on and off but never seemed able fully recover.
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