Click here for updates on this story OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) — Hawaii’s homeless are dying from methamphetamine, over any other cause. On average, every three days a homeless resident dies on Oahu’s streets. Many of those sudden deaths are being blamed on meth, and so are the chronic conditions killing off this vulnerable population. Tului
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Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Baseball returns to Wrigley Field Thursday as the Chicago Cubs take on the Pittsburgh Pirates and unlike last year, fans are back in the stadium to cheer on the home team. The Cubs are ready to begin a new year, hoping players like Kris Bryant
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The state of Florida had alleged in 2013 that Georgia’s consumption of water resources from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin had negatively impacted Florida’s river ecosystem and collapsed its oyster industry. The court ruled Thursday that Florida had engaged in unprecedented levels of oyster harvesting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A New Haven church, burglarized. Church leaders say electronics, instruments and donations were all taken from the church in the middle of the day. “It’s sad, he feels so sad that somebody would do that,” said church leader Jonathan Gonzalez. Gonzalez and Pastor
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Families held a rally to support saving the Portland Children’s Museum and Opal School from their upcoming closures. Last week, the museum’s board announced the permanent closure of both, set to happen June 30. The board said the decision was not made lightly and
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The 19-year-old cashier who suspected George Floyd had handed him a counterfeit $20 bill said Wednesday he still feels guilt for Floyd’s death under the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer. Christopher Martin took the stand on the third day of the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, echoing other witnesses who expressed helplessness and
Continue Reading The fear and outrage felt by Asian Americans after the Atlanta-area spa shootings hasn’t vanished and neither has the bias and violence that preceded it, lawmakers and activists say. A horrific attack on a 65-year-old woman in New York City this week has prompted widespread condemnation and became the latest reminder that anti-Asian bias and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A woman charged under a rarely used federal anti-riot law is scheduled to go on trial next month, but first a judge will have to decide whether to throw the charges out. A federal grand jury indicted Tia Deyon Pugh in June after Mobile
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The astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year — and now they have relocated a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, flew the Soyuz MS-17 capsule from its current port to another one on
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Humanity’s first Wright Brothers moment on another planet will happen in April. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on Mars no earlier than April 8, according to NASA. It’s fitting that the mission, an experimental companion to the Perseverance rover, is carrying a piece of history. A postage stamp-size piece of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — John Hoopes, 74, has always enjoyed playing the organ ever since he was a young boy. So when he was called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy, he loved spending his preparation days playing
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A British contractor missing since Islamist militants first attacked the town of Palma in northern Mozambique just over a week ago is presumed to have died, his family said Thursday. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds are still unaccounted for following the days-long attack by the ISIS-affiliated group. Relatives of contractor Philip Mawer said
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Residents of one Chicago suburb are divided over how to rechristen a school named for a founding father who enslaved hundreds of Black people. A majority of residents in Waukegan say they don’t want the district’s Thomas Jefferson Middle School to keep its name. But they haven’t yet been able to agree on someone else
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Gov. Mike Parson is set to give a coronavirus briefing Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
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Georgia’s Republican-controlled House on Wednesday voted to revoke a major tax break for Delta Air Lines as punishment for its CEO’s public criticism of the state’s controversial new law clamping down on ballot access. The state Senate did not take up the measure before lawmakers adjourned for the year, rendering it dead for this year
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Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey is escalating his criticism against recently passed voting laws in Georgia, saying he wants to be “crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed” in the legislation. In a new statement released Thursday, Quincey said that Coke, which is headquartered in Atlanta, has “long championed efforts to make it easier
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, South Carolina (WHNS) — South Carolina Charities, In. (SCCI) is teaming up with Univar solutions to create a program to send zero waste to the landfill at the 2021 BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by Synnex Corporation. Tournament officials say that this program is part of a three-year
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A major fault-line within the Republican coalition over transgender student athletes has opened up, and one potential White House hopeful, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, has found herself caught in the middle. After saying earlier this month she was “excited” to sign a bill preventing transgender students from competing in same-gender sports, Noem effectively killed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (WHNS) — The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) says a man was arrested on Wednesday when he tried to break into the Tyger River Correctional Institution to distribute contraband. The SCDC says that the suspect, Nathaniel Jose Perez, was charged with Trespassing onto a
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Four people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting at an office complex in Orange, California, on Wednesday, a police official said. A fifth victim was wounded and transported to a local hospital in critical condition, Orange Police Department spokesperson Lt. Jennifer Amat said at a news conference. Police responded to a call
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