Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The shootings in Portland are becoming more brazen, after a man died from a gunshot wound in Dawson Park Tuesday afternoon. Portland Police identified the victim as 42-year-old Titus McNack. Several leaders in the Black community are joining the conversation about the spike in
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A bill that would allow state and local governments to collect online sales tax from companies without a physical presence in Missouri could win House approval as early as Thursday.
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Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Pediatric specialists and researchers at Washington University are behind a major research effort led by the Nation Institutes of Health to investigate an illness common in children that develops weeks after contracting COVID-19. According to doctors, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, also known as
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All living former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and their respective former first ladies — with the exception of the Trumps — are part of a newly released ad campaign urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine when it is their turn, a push that is aimed squarely at combating
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Rosie Arguello spent the past couple of months glued to her cellphone and landline, calling a hotline to get a Covid-19 vaccine. When she heard the busy signal, she called again, and again, and again. The 66-year-old who lives in San Antonio’s South side would only put her phones down to take her 2-year-old grandniece
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PEARL CITY, Hawaii (KITV) — Officials have suspended the search for a person who was swept away by a raging river on Oahu’s north shore on Tuesday. Wednesday at 5:58 a.m., the Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) resumed the search for a person in the Waiawa Stream in Pearl
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Click here for updates on this story MAUD, Texas (KTBS) — Stress from the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll on people’s mental health. But for military veterans already suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, it can be even worse. Tony Vargas has been living at the Lancer Legacy Ranch since the beginning of the pandemic.
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THURSDAY: Showers and storms that might have woken some of us up will start to slide further south. Coverage in the rain will pick back up this afternoon, south of I-70. Temperatures will hold steady throughout the day, in the 50’s on the cool side of the front. Winds will turn out of the north, but
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Staggering numbers of health care workers — more than one in five — have experienced anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder during the pandemic, new research has revealed. Health care workers have been working for long hours under strenuous conditions. Because of this, Nathaniel Scherer, co-lead author of the systematic review and meta-analysis published Wednesday
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — March 10 marks one year to the day that Gov. Roy Cooper issued a state of emergency in North Carolina as COVID-19 cases began popping up across the state. On that same day, state health officials began recommending long-term care facilities start restricting
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Despite a busy start to Joe Biden’s administration, Republicans are struggling to find effective lines of attack against the new Democratic president. No Republicans on Capitol Hill supported the Biden-backed Covid stimulus package, but the GOP also did relatively little to marshal public opposition to the bill beyond calling it a “liberal wish list.” That’s
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Click here for updates on this story TOBYHANNA, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Springtime means baby season: bear cubs, fawns, baby squirrels, and many more. “It starts in a wave across the springtime. It starts with squirrels and then bunnies, and then we get baby owls and hawks and then fawns and raccoons and skunks, and last
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Police in Derry Township said Thursday that several residents have reported recent sightings on coyotes in the township. The Dauphin County police department said it has been in contact with the Pennsylvania Game Commission about the animals and any concerns they might present
Continue Reading Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra picked up the support of two crucial votes on Thursday, all but ensuring his eventual Senate confirmation. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Democrat and a Republican, announced they would vote to confirm Becerra despite their differences. Manchin said that even though
Continue Reading Multiple security failures, including a distracted gate guard, allowed an unauthorized man to illegally enter Joint Base Andrews in Maryland last month, where he roamed around for over five hours before boarding a C-40 military aircraft that’s part of a fleet frequently utilized by senior government leaders, according to a new report released Thursday by
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Uber and Lyft have largely operated in silos when it comes to deactivating drivers over the most severe reports of safety incidents, potentially allowing bad actors to hop from one platform to the other. Now, the companies say they are ready to change that, announcing the creation of an industry sharing safety program Thursday to
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President Joe Biden will sign his sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic relief package into law on Thursday afternoon, the White House said. He had originally been expected to sign it on Friday.
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The NBA fined Miami Heat’s Meyers Leonard $50,000 on Thursday after the center used an anti-Semitic slur while livestreaming a video game. The league also suspended Leonard from team facilities and activities for one week. Leonard was playing “Call of Duty: Warzone” on Monday when he said: “F**king cowards. Don’t f**king snipe at me. You
Continue Reading The number of unaccompanied migrant children in Border Patrol custody continues to climb, reaching more than 3,700 on Wednesday, many of them in jail-like facilities along the US-Mexico border, CNN has learned. On Wednesday, Border Patrol apprehended nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, according to a Customs and Border Protection official, signaling an ongoing spike in
Continue Reading The House passed gun legislation that would expand background checks on all commercial gun sales, marking the first congressional move on significant gun control since Democrats won the White House and the majority in both chambers of Congress. The House passed the legislation in two separate votes. The first vote on H.R. 8, the Bipartisan
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