Month: February 2021

The son of two former slaves, Garrett Morgan had little more than a grade-school education. But that didn’t stop the Ohio man from becoming an inventor with a rare gift for designing machines that saved people’s lives – including an early version of the traffic light. As a teenager Morgan got a job repairing sewing

Here is a look at the NFL Pro Bowl, the all-star game of the National Football League. January 31, 2021 – The first-ever virtual Pro Bowl takes place via EA Sports’ “Madden NFL 2021” video game. The NFC defeats the AFC, 32-12. The 2021 Pro Bowl was originally set to take place at Allegiant Stadium

They were there to “Stop the Steal” and to keep the President they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting. One was Donovan Crowl, an ex-Marine who charged toward a Capitol entrance in paramilitary garb on

Click here for updates on this story     RUTHERFORD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS ) — A Rutherfordton man has been arrested and charged with multiple sex offenses against minors from as far back as the 1980s. Claude Linden Keever, 85, has been charged with multiple sex offenses against minors that occurred from the 1980s to the

In-person learning for thousands of Chicago students has been pushed back to Tuesday after Chicago officials and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) failed to reach an agreement on Covid-19 reopening plans. About 67,000 students — 62,000 who are in grades K-8 — had indicated to the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district that they intend to

Click here for updates on this story     TOWN OF DANE, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal ) — Vaughn Watzke was clearly in his element. He has been snowmobiling for over 50 years, but on this day he was behind the wheel of a Tucker 2000 Sno-Cat less than 24 hours after the biggest snowfall of the

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. conducted a spacewalk Monday to finish battery upgrades and install high-definition cameras outside of the International Space Station. Although the astronauts began the spacewalk later than expected at 7:56 a.m. ET, they worked through their list of tasks quickly and even accomplished some “get-ahead” items that were planned

Deborah Archer, a clinical law professor at New York University, has been elected as the new president of the American Civil Liberties Union — the first Black person to hold the position. The ACLU made the announcement Monday, calling Archer “an established civil rights attorney, scholar, and teacher.” In addition to her professorship, Archer is

Early modern humans and Neanderthals lived in Europe and parts of Asia at the same time — overlapping for several thousands of years before our archaic relatives disappeared around 40,000 years ago. During this time, Homo sapiens and Neanderthals encountered each other and sometimes had sex and gave birth to children. The evidence is buried