Click here for updates on this story WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Firefighters responded to a house fire in West Hartford on Wednesday morning. According to the West Hartford Fire Department, it broke out in a single family home on Prospect Avenue before 6:30 a.m. Firefighters asked drivers to avoid the 700 block of Prospect
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Click here for updates on this story Gwinnett, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — As she reflected on U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ life, the congressman’s longtime aide, Tuere Butler, recalled an occasion where he used his words to diffuse a heated situation involving a man who had called Lewis’ office. The man, who was not from
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Rep. Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Interior Secretary, defended her record during Senate confirmation hearings as Republicans grilled her over past statements and painted her as partisan and liberal. The Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico, who would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary if confirmed by the Senate, pledged to work
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The Pennsylvania Republican state committee is holding a meeting Wednesday night with the expectations that the issue of censuring Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Pat Toomey over his impeachment vote will be discussed. Several Republican county committees across the commonwealth have issued censure resolutions against Toomey for his vote to convict former President Donald Trump at the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Dozens of people who live in an East Hartford condominium complex awoke to the shriek of fire alarms. It happened at the Lamplight Condominium Complex on Burnside Avenue around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The road was closed but reopened later in the morning.
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In the last several days, we’ve seen the earliest signs of Democratic divisions popping up. In a normal Senate where there were a few votes to spare, one member wouldn’t have so much power. But, if you have watched closely, you’ve seen the wave that a single senator’s comments can bring when they talk about
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LEBANON, Oregon (KPTV) — Three people were injured after a motorhome caught fire in Lebanon Wednesday morning. The Lebanon Fire District says crews were called out to the fire on River Road just before 6:30 a.m. Crews arrived to the scene and found a fully-involved 30-foot Class A
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Click here for updates on this story Cayuga County, New York (The Citizen) — Wegmans has been fined $1,000 by the Cayuga County Board of Health for its second violation of New York’s mask mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fine is the result of a hearing in December after a Cayuga County Health Department
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV/KSMO) — The Urban League of Greater Kansas City and KCATA will unveil its Racial Equity and Social Justice Bus to Commemorate Black History and the Urban League’s 100-Year Civil Rights Legacy. The news conference is at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Urban League Parking
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV/KSMO) — A wild street-racing event in downtown Kansas City on Tuesday night ended with dozens of vehicles fleeing the area, shots fired near young baseball players and bricks thrown at officers. Kansas City police said they received several calls Tuesday night about street racing,
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Axl Rose is getting animated. The Guns N’ Roses frontman appears as himself in the latest episode of “Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?” when he meets Fred, Scooby, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy while they are taking a trip down Route 66. When a group of bad guys steal the Mystery Machine, the gang ends up stranded
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Bruce Springsteen pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he imbibed alcohol at New Jersey’s Sandy Hook National Recreation Area, despite knowing it was prohibited. “I had two small shots of Tequila,” Springsteen said in a virtual appearance before New Jersey Federal Court. The plea came after federal prosecutors agreed to drop charges that Springsteen was operating
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Lyft is adding an option to allow people to order a ride in a more retro way — by phone call — a year after Uber tried doing the same before shutting it down. The ride-hail company said Wednesday it launched a special service in dozens of Florida cities to allow people to call a
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To Democrats last year, he was the ultimate boogeyman: Louis DeJoy, the man they believed mounted a brazen campaign to slow down the mail and thwart Joe Biden’s presidential hopes. But Biden is now President — and times have changed. Changes made to the Postal Service under DeJoy, the US postmaster general and major donor
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A former U.S. attorney will be the special prosecutor in the case of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters last summer.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHUNCHULA, Alabama (WALA) — As Eric Roney made a familiar trek down a dirt road just outside of his family’s home early Tuesday morning in Chunchula, the 33-year-old man fell prey to a pack of vicious dogs. At least five dogs ambushing him, leaving him with hundreds of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story 70 year media conference goes fully virtual for the first time as Savannah State Host 70th Southern Regional Press Institute (Tigers Roar Staff SSU) — Students interested in working in journalism, public relations, and multimedia and digital communications are invited to attend the 70th Annual Southern Regional Press
Continue Reading A video shared by NASA on Monday revealed the first-ever look at a spacecraft landing on Mars — and the internet was quick to take up a challenge to decode a message hidden in the parachute of the Perseverance rover. In the video, the colorful orange-and-white parachute can be seen above the rover as it
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Dozens of protesters marched in Rochester on Tuesday night, just hours after New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a grand jury voted not to indict any police officers on charges relating to Daniel Prude’s death. Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, was having a mental health episode on March 23 when officers handcuffed him, covered
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Click here for updates on this story Nashville (WSMV) — Tyler Al-Shemari, 19 is behind bars after two separate incidents involving a gun. Earlier today on Harding place near Jonquil Drive, Al-Shemari was driving a Toyota Yaris when he cut off a pickup truck driven by a 36-year-old Portland, Tennessee man. The man’s wife and
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