As May arrives, the US is taking a major step toward resuming normal life, with cities, businesses and entertainment venues announcing plans to begin reopening after the deadly winter surge of Covid-19 infections. The travel industry is gearing up for a big summer season. This week, Delta will resume filling the middle seat on flights
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Chinese regulators have ordered more than a dozen tech companies to fix the most “prominent problems” of their financial units, escalating a historic crackdown on the sector that has already engulfed some of the country’s top players. In a statement Thursday, the People’s Bank of China said that it had summoned 13 companies, including Tencent,
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The Pasquotank County sheriff on Thursday identified three deputies he said fired shots at Andrew Brown Jr. and four other deputies involved in the incident in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, who have returned to duty from administrative leave. Sheriff Tommy Wooten said in a news release that he looked at body camera footage and other
Continue Reading Israeli investigators are examining what caused a crush that killed at least 44 worshipers and injured 100 more at a mass religious gathering in Mount Meron overnight. Thousands of worshipers had crowded onto the mountain burial site to celebrate the Lag B’Omer holiday, an annual event where participants sing, dance and light fires in homage
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TODAY: Mostly sunny and beautiful with highs in the low to mid-70s. TONIGHT: Pleasant and warm with lows in the low 50s. EXTENDED: Saturday looks like the better day to get outside for the weekend as high pressure warms us into the upper 70s to around 80 with sunshine. It will be breezy with gusts up
Continue Reading A murder suspect who was being extradited to Arizona from Georgia and escaped while handcuffed walking to a tram connecting to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been captured, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Arizona murder suspect J’Saan Carlos Strover, 20, was taken into custody shortly before 11 p.m., after College Park Police received
Continue Reading The seven-day average of new Covid-19 deaths in the United States hit its lowest point since October 2020, a CNN analysis of Johns Hopkins University data found Thursday. As of Wednesday, 684 new deaths were reported, the JHU data showed, which is about an 80% drop since January. Since the beginning of 2021, the seven-day
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The agency says the products disproportionately affect young people, low-income people and minorities. The flavored products make smoking more attractive to new smokers, public health advocates claim.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Oakland, CA (Bay Area News Group) — OAKLAND — Chinatown Chamber of Commerce president Carl Chan was attacked on a public sidewalk Thursday afternoon, and police officers were able to detain a suspect, authorities said. In preliminary information, authorities confirmed that officers responded to reports of a victim,
Continue Reading The family of a Black man fatally shot by Delaware police officers after he was found resting in his rental car earlier this year filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the officers used excessive and deadly force and they are demanding a trial by jury. Lymond Moses was fatally shot by New Castle County Police (NCCP)
Continue Reading At least 44 people have been killed in a crush at a mass religious gathering on Mount Meron in northern Israel, emergency responders say. Attendees were celebrating the religious Lag B’Omer holiday, the largest annual public event in Israel. It commemorates the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Mishnaic sage whose book “The
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The top US general met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Hawaii Thursday, emphasizing America’s commitment to “long-term peace and stability in the region” and underscoring a broader US shift from the Middle East to China. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley reaffirmed the US commitment to two of its closest allies in Asia,
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Versailles man is seriously injured after hitting a deer while driving a motorcycle in Morgan County. According to online crash report, Michael Hibdon was driving on Route MM north of Hidden Valley road when he hit a deer and overturned the bike. Hibdon was thrown from the bike. Hibdon was
Continue Reading Almost half of Myanmar’s population could be forced into poverty by the end of the year as the country teeters on the brink of economic collapse caused by the double shock of a bloody military coup and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. Rising food costs, significant losses of income and
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Anne Douglas, widow of the late legendary Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas, died Thursday at the age of 102, her family said. “It is with great sadness that the Douglas family announces the passing of their matriarch, Anne Douglas, peacefully at home in Beverly Hills this afternoon at age 102,” family spokesperson Marcia Newberger said in
Continue Reading A former Louisiana police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly punching, pistol-whipping and kicking a man who was under arrest. Dylan Hudson of the Shreveport Police Department was arresting a man in Caddo Parish in August 2019, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice, when he allegedly
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville man is charged with child molestation after an investigation began April 13. According to court documents, Caleb “Logan” Phillips confessed to two people about molesting a 3-year-old. On April 14, the victim told two people that Phillips had hurt the victim. Phillips lived with the victim from Nov. 2020 to
Continue Reading On a normal day, the Ambassador Lagoon inside China’s Atlantis Sanya resort on the island of Hainan is home to about 86,000 marine creatures from over 280 animal species. But on April 28, this huge aquarium welcomed 100 mermaids, all flapping their technicolor tails while gliding through the water in choreographed movements. The purpose? To
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Responsibility for the devastating second wave of Covid-19 now sweeping India belongs “first and foremost” to the government, according to Narendra Taneja, a spokesman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “We are in power, we are the government in India so of course responsibility is first and foremost ours, good or bad, whatever it
Continue Reading Republican Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger resigned Thursday afternoon, hours after the state’s House Ethics Committee had unanimously recommended he be censured and stripped of the powers of his office without pay. Von Ehlinger was accused of pursuing inappropriate relationships with women who worked in the state Capitol, including sexual contact with a 19-year-old
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