Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Racine historian Jim Mercier is always on the lookout for memorabilia to add to his collection, which contains thousands of items originated from the community. Mercier never knows what he’ll find, he said, but when he came across an online auction in
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One man was killed and three people were wounded in a Sunday night shooting in the historic and entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri, police reported. Officers responded to a report of gunshots around 10 p.m. and found four people shot near 19th and Vine streets, the police said in a news release. Officers provided
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Calling it the nation’s largest summer child nutrition effort, the Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand a key coronavirus aid program to help get food to more than 30 million kids after the school year ends. Eligible families will receive roughly $375 per child — or about $6.82 per child per weekday —
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Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan launched his Senate campaign on Monday, betting that the state that turned red in the Trump era can return to the Democratic party in 2022. Ryan, a Democrat who has represented the Youngstown area since 2003 and mounted a long-shot 2020 presidential bid, is closely aligned with organized labor and often
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Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — Three people have been charged, including two who are still wanted, after a missing person investigation from last year in Flint. Flint police started searching for Craig Myott Jr. in June 2020, who was last seen in May of 2020 in the city of
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Rock legend Ronnie Wood says he has been given the all-clear by doctors after battling cancer for a second time. Speaking to British newspaper the Sun, the 73-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist revealed he was diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma — a cancer that typically affects the lungs — during the coronavirus lockdown. “I’ve had cancer two
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President Joe Biden’s joint address to Congress may stand as the prime-time marker of his first 100 days in office, but it will also serve as the launch point for an all-out administration-wide blitz to highlight accomplishments — and the ambitious legislative push ahead. The Biden administration will launch what officials are calling the “Getting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A boy wishing to see his parent one more time has inspired a song that will help other kids going through grief. Jace and Emmy Lu Muller’s mother Amie died of cancer four years ago. They’ve been going through grief counseling at school, through a
Continue Reading As Michigan grapples with a surge of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, state officials have expanded the mask mandate to include children as young as 2. The mandate, which went into effect Monday, requires children ages 2 to 4 to wear face masks while in public spaces, including day care and camps. Before Monday, the mandate
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — A South Florida woman has made it her mission to make the world more accessible to people with disabilities after becoming paralyzed in an accident and now she is bringing that inspiration to Miami Beach. Sabrina Cohen is bringing that inspiration to create an
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Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — The search continues for the person who fired the shot that killed three-year-old Elijah LaFrance. “They killed him. Oh God, he is still on my mind. I was just with him playing with him, “ said Adrian Annestor, LaFrance’s uncle. “That boy was so
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Click here for updates on this story NORMAN, Oklahoma (KTVT) — Remember VHS tapes? One Texas woman now certainly does after a particular tape came back to haunt her over 20 years later. Caron McBride, a former Oklahoma resident, faced felony embezzlement charges for not returning a “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” VHS tape to a
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“Master of None,” the acclaimed Aziz Ansari-led Netflix comedy, is returning for Season 3 — but it’s unclear how much Aziz Ansari will appear at all. Netflix on Monday unveiled the first look at the new season, which it said will chronicle “the relationship of Denise (Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe) and her partner Alicia
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Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A Berwyn man has been charged in the stabbing death of Humberto Guzman, a good Samaritan who tried to stop an attack on a teen in a Berwyn grocery store Friday. Fernando Barrios is charged with first degree murder and attempted murder in two stabbings
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Seeing a loved one struggle with a serious illness is never easy. But if it’s a child that’s sick, the emotional impact can be even more devastating. But when Giselle Chiprez Ramirez saw her little brother Francisco hospitalized with a rare condition, she turned
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Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, MA (WBZ) — With more and more people going outside, so are business owners banking on food trucks to have a big spring and summer. “With the pandemic situation what it was, we thought, ‘let’s try to broaden our horizons and do something we’ve never done before,’”
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While President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are readying their plan to hike incomes taxes on the wealthy, a new government report shows that their $1.9 trillion relief package slashed taxes for lower- and moderate-income Americans for this year. Taxpayers earning less than $75,000 annually will pay no tax, on average, in 2021, thanks to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VENICE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A small but hateful message appeared on the sidewalk on Abbot Kinney leading one Los Angeles resident to take matters into his own hands. Daniel Khalili took a video of himself spray painting over an anti-Semitic message he found on the sidewalk in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — More fuel has been added to the continuing feud between federal officials and local police and sheriff’s departments regarding immigration enforcement. The divide between them was highlighted most recently by arrest of Enrique Guzman-Rincon. The 29-year-old man was caught in Aurora on April 9, five
Continue Reading President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Monday establishing a task force aimed at empowering workers to organize and bargain with their employers that will be chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, the White House said in a news release. The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment will be vice-chaired by
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