TONIGHT: Mostly clear with winds diminishing and temperatures dropping into the low to mid-30s. Cover up any newly-planted or sensitive vegetation before midnight as frost will develop through morning. TOMORROW: Frost early, followed by sunshine. Highs in the upper 50s with light north winds. EXTENDED: Cloud cover rolls in Thursday evening ahead of our next chance of
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Kimberly Godwin is about to make history — as the incoming president of ABC News, she’ll be the first Black executive to run one of America’s major broadcast network newsrooms. ABC’s parent company, Disney, announced Godwin’s appointment on Wednesday. She will take over in May. Godwin is currently an executive vice president at CBS News,
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music — creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the arachnids spin their complex creations and even how they communicate. The MIT team worked with Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno to take two-dimensional laser scans of a spider web, which
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A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said. The shooting is the latest incident of police killing or wounding teenagers who were found with or near nonlethal guns, including recent cases in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story 4/14/2021 (OutSmart Magazine) — Dear Colton, Welcome to the family. I saw that interview where you came out as gay to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, and it took me back to when I was coming out of the closet. It was tough. But I promise you,
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McDonald’s is requiring anti-harassment training across all 39,000 of its restaurants, the company said Wednesday. The trainings, among other measures, are designed to hold up a new set of brand standards, which focus on preventing harassment, discrimination and retaliation, preventing violence in the workplace, collecting feedback from employees and health and safety more broadly. “There
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Editor’s note: This story was originally published on December 11, 2013, and has been updated. Bernard Madoff, the man behind the most notorious Ponzi scheme in history, died at age 82 while serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison. He was arrested on December 11, 2008, for bilking thousands of investors out of billions of
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor emerged from pandemic-inspired unofficial quarantine on Wednesday to talk about turbulent times in the country. “This is the scariest of times, and the most exciting times,” she said. The liberal justice appeared with her conservative colleague, Justice Neil Gorsuch, in a rare Zoom event to promote civic education and stress respect for
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor says she’s working with police after the House speaker raised concerns about a resigning lawmaker’s contact with a child. Emails obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press show House Speaker Rob Vescovo flagged fellow Republican Rep. Rick Roeber’s weekend visitation with a 12-year-old to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story STANDISH, Maine (WBZ) — A Maine college is cracking down on students not wearing masks on campus. Saint Joseph’s College in Standish is giving $50 tickets to students who violate the school’s face mask requirement. In the past two weeks, 21 tickets have been written. The school said
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A former student athletic trainer at the University of Evansville filed a lawsuit against the Indiana school, alleging sexual assault and a pattern of sexual harassment by former basketball head coach, Walter McCarty, according to the suit. The suit alleges that McCarty, a former NBA player, pressured the unnamed plaintiff, dubbed Jane Doe, into visiting
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Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were meeting Wednesday to review blood clot cases among people who received the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. The CDC and the US Food and Drug Administration a day earlier recommended the US pause the use of the single-shot J&J vaccine after “six reported US cases
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global finally went public Wednesday afternoon at a valuation of nearly $100 billion, as the company takes advantage of surging demand (and prices) for bitcoin, ethereum and other digital currencies. Coinbase shares began trading at $381 a share, a more than 50% jump from the reference price for its stock of $250
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Speaking at a rally, Minnesota state Rep. John Thompson offered a warning about violence against Black men in the state. Thompson was a friend of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, outside Minneapolis, in July 2016. “Somebody tell Al Sharpton and Ben Crump to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARDIN COUNTY, Kentucky (WLKY) — A disabled raccoon, affectionately known as “Boone the Raccoon,” is able to walk for the first time thanks to a group of engineering students at Central Hardin High School. The orphaned raccoon first arrived at Nolin River Wildlife Sanctuary in Glendale at just
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WCVB) — A Boston bishop facing several counts of child rape is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. George Swain, 71, the bishop of Greater Victory Temple in Mattapan, faces arraignment on seven counts of rape of a child and five counts of indecent assault and battery
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The 4-3 vote Monday means students and staff who were in quarantine because of exposure with a person who tested positive can return to school, Superintendent Tim Hadfield said in a message to families. The vote also makes masks and social distancing voluntary, Hadfield said.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) — Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation naming April as Confederate Heritage Month. The document also declares April 26 as Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi. The proclamation recognizes the month when the American Civil War began in 1861. “As we honor all who lost
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US intelligence agencies still do not know “exactly where, when or how Covid-19 virus was transmitted initially” in China but remain focused on two primary theories, that “it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals or it was a laboratory accident,” the nation’s top spy told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday. That admission from Director
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Kimberly Godwin is about to make history — as the incoming president of ABC News, she’ll be the first Black executive to run one of America’s major broadcast network newsrooms. ABC’s parent company, Disney, confirmed Godwin’s appointment on Wednesday. Godwin will be taking over in May for James Goldston, who announced in January that he
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