A 34-year-old man was arrested after eight people were stabbed during a fight that started inside a Detroit hookah lounge and continued into the parking lot early Sunday morning, police said. Seven men and one woman between the ages of 23 and 30 were stabbed during the incident, during which shots were also fired but
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A suburban Georgia church removed suspected Atlanta spa shooter Robert Aaron Long from its membership ranks on Sunday morning, according to a statement from the church. Long, 21, was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the shooting deaths of eight people at three spas in the metro Atlanta area. Six of the victims were Asian
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone Electric Cooperative is reporting a power outage affecting that is now affecting nearly 400 customers on Sunday. A spokeswoman for the company said a car crash brought down power lines on New Haven Road. The outage originally was affecting more than 1,500 people. As of 9:45 p.m., 397 customers are
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Republican Julia Letlow won the special election in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District Saturday night, becoming the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the state. Letlow will take the seat that her late husband Luke, who won last year’s election but died in December after being diagnosed with Covid-19, was never able to hold. The
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Doom-scrolling getting you down? Put the phone away for an hour. Or, better yet, make it 24 hours — you might just get $2,400 out of it. Reviews.org, a company that tests home services and products, is holding a 24-hour digital detox challenge. They’ll pay their chosen challengers over two grand to survive a whole
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Republican Rep. Tom Reed of New York apologized and took “full responsibility” on Sunday for the sexual misconduct allegations made against him by a former lobbyist. Reed also announced that he would not be seeking office in 2022 after his current term in Congress ends. In a statement, Reed claimed that he had not heard
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The current Columbia/Boone County health order is set to expire at 11:59 a.m. on Wednesday afternoon unless the order is extended or modified by the Columbia/Boone County Health Department. “Something will be issued before it expires on Wednesday,” Sarah Humm of the Columbia/Boone County Health Department said. Humm said the department takes
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Jami Webb was planning to celebrate her mother’s 50th birthday last week. But Xiaojie Tan, the owner of Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, was killed Tuesday along with seven others at three Atlanta-area spas in a shooting rampage that has rattled the nation. “I just want to hold her tight,” Webb told CNN about
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TONIGHT: Winds will briefly calm down overnight tonight as temperatures fall into the mid 40s. TOMORROW: We’ll wake up to mostly cloudy skies as a cold front approaches the area. High temperatures will be aided by southerly winds at around 10-15 mph, and the afternoon high will be in the mid-60s. Rain chances will move
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Jami Webb was planning to celebrate her mother’s 50th birthday last week. But Xiaojie Tan, the owner of Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, was killed Tuesday along with seven others at three Atlanta-area spas in a shooting rampage that has rattled the nation. “I just want to hold her tight,” Webb told CNN about
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The outer fencing put up to protect the US Capitol following the January 6 insurrection has started to come down, allowing the public to regain access to the iconic building’s grounds. CNN observed National Guardsmen beginning the removal process this weekend, and by Sunday, much of the black fencing that had made the complex a
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Media outlets are ramping up their coverage of anti-Asian violence following last week’s Atlanta shootings, but many Asian-American journalists feel the issue has been ignored for far too long. “We have been miserably late,” journalist Connie Chung told CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “We are insignificant, and it’s so apparent
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined Sunday to provide a timeline for when the Biden administration will open new facilities capable of handling the surge of unaccompanied children at the southern border. “We established three new facilities last week. … We are working on the system from beginning to end. We are working around the
Continue Reading Chicago police have charged a man with five counts of attempted murder after five officers were shot at, the city’s police department said Sunday. The Chicago Police Department said 29-year-old Tracey Thomas Jr. was arrested Saturday afternoon after allegedly shooting at five police officers, striking one in the hand. At one point Thomas was barricaded
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Jami Webb was planning to celebrate her mother’s 50th birthday last week. But Xiaojie Tan, the owner of Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, was killed Tuesday along with seven others at three Atlanta-area spas in a shooting rampage that has rattled the nation. “I just want to hold her tight,” Webb told CNN about
Continue Reading A 12-year-old was waiting in line with his family at a Pittsburgh McDonald’s when a man stabbed the boy in the neck with a box cutter, police told CNN affiliate KDKA. Police arrested Charles Edward Turner, 51, in the 2 p.m. Saturday incident, police say. He faces multiple charges, including criminal attempt homicide and four
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When officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that they were relaxing the physical distancing guidelines for many schools, White House officials hailed it as another moment when the barriers to in-person instruction were falling. But the persistent tensions between White House officials and teachers’ unions immediately resurfaced, demonstrating the
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Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of GOP leadership, argued on Sunday that Americans don’t need “alternative versions” of what occurred the day of the US Capitol insurrection, pushing back on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s comments that mischaracterize the riot and its participants. “We don’t need to try and explain away or come up with alternative
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Mass vaccinations and natural protection from those already infected are likely to prevent a fourth wave of Covid-19 in the United States, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said Sunday. “We’re talking about some form of protective immunity in about 55% of the population,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s Face the
Continue Reading Bella Thorne and her boyfriend, Italian singer Benjamin Mascolo, are engaged. Thorne, a former Disney star, and Mascolo, who have been dating for two years, announced the news on their social media accounts Sunday. “She said yes!” Mascolo captioned his Instagram post of the couple. Throne has a giddy smile in her Instagram stories as
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