Summer is unofficially here, and many people in the United States are ready to get back to flying, driving cross-country and soaking up the sun after the pandemic hammered travel plans for basically all of 2020. With an increase in vaccinations and a decrease in travel restrictions, that summer vacation in the sand is much
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Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — Two people in a privately owned aircraft experienced a hard landing Saturday morning around 9:15 a.m. at Flint Bishop Airport according to an airport spokesperson. A pilot and the pilot’s father were in a piper aircraft Saturday morning leaving Flint Bishop Airport. After takeoff,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — One-month-old Maddison, sleeping peacefully now, gave her Brockton mother the scare of her life on Tuesday. “I just gave birth to this little one and I feel so connected to her. At one point before they arrived I seriously thought I was going to lose
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An 8-year-old boy whose body was found by a hiker near Las Vegas has been identified by his mother, police said Saturday. Police are now searching for the boy’s 11-year-old half-brother and their father. The mother contacted police overnight, according to Las Vegas Metro Police Department Lt. Raymond Spencer. The mother told police a sketch
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 292 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday, pushing the total to 511,260 cases throughout the pandemic. In addition, 167 new probable cases were reported through antigen testing. That total now sits at 87,876. The state subtracted one death from its total today, now that state is reporting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAUREL, Maryland (WJZ) — Howard County Police charged a Laurel Man in a 40-year-old unsolved kidnapping case. Howard Jackson Bradberry, 62, of Montgomery Street was arrested at his on May 25 after DNA allegedly linked him the 1982 rape and murder of Laney Lee McGadney. Bradberry was charged
Continue Reading Los Angeles County authorities say the quick thinking of inmates at the North County Correctional Facility helped save at least two lives earlier this week. On Wednesday evening, deputies and staff in the facility responded to two inmates in medical distress and found the two unconscious and “suffering from possible overdoses,” a news release from
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Employers can offer incentives to employees to get vaccinated for Covid-19, according to new guidance from the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. Companies administering vaccines to employees also may offer incentives as long as the incentives are not “coercive,” the EEOC said. In December the EEOC said that companies can legally mandate that all employees
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A young man drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks on Friday afternoon, after leaving a residence intoxicated. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol Boating incident reports, 22-year-old Jose Ramirez of Columbia walked away from a home intoxicated, then never returned. Ramirez was later found in the water near Mile Marker
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A 14-year-old Florida teen is being charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey, prosecutors said. Aiden Fucci, 14, was initially charged with second-degree murder in connection with Bailey’s death, but the charge was upgraded to first-degree murder due to the nature of the crime, R.J. Larizza, state
Continue Reading Farrakhan Muhammad was extradited from Florida to New York City and charged Friday evening in connection to a shooting at New York City’s Times Square earlier this month, according to police. Muhammad, a 31-year-old New York City resident, has been charged with attempted murder, three counts of assault, four counts of criminal use of a
Continue Reading She’s spent the past four months pitching health guidance as head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, CDC director and Boston Red Sox fan Dr. Rochelle Walensky will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Boston’s game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday. It’s a big day not just for Walensky,
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The Department of Education under the Biden administration is rescinding a Trump-era policy that restricted states’ access to records and information in policing student loan servicing companies. Richard Cordray, the head of the Federal Student Aid office, announced new guidance Friday that he argued would “make it easier” for state attorneys general and regulators to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — U.S. researchers have discovered a drug that could potentially be a game-changing tool in treating COVID-19 patients, including variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania have found that the drug diABZI was highly effective at preventing severe COVID-19
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Neighbourhood walks have become a popular activity to combat COVID-19 boredom, but Debra Carey-Knox has kicked them up a notch, and it’s become a hotly anticipated event in her Ontario community. With two companions standing at two feet tall and full of attitude,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (WSMV) — For one man in Murfreesboro, he’s proven you just never know what kind of hidden treasure you’ll find in your backyard. What he found, is something no amount of money could not buy back. Bored at home during the pandemic, Doug Cook of Murfreesboro
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Nashville controversy brews on social media as a picture goes viral across the country. A hat shop just south of downtown is selling “yellow badges” that say “not vaccinated.” Many Jews were forced to wear similar badges in German-occupied areas during World War
Continue Reading A Florida man has been arrested in connection with the theft of nearly 200 ventilators intended for critically ill Covid-19 patients in Central America, federal prosecutors said. Yoelvis Denis Hernandez, 42, was arrested in Del Rio, Texas, Thursday, according to a statement from the US Attorney for the Southern District of Flcrida. The indictment charges
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Investigators in Mobile are now looking for two different people accused of very similar crimes, setting fires inside of Mobile Walmart stores just 24 hours apart. The first fire broke out at the Beltline Walmart on Thursday and then Friday on Rangeline. Photos shared
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, Connecticut (WFSB) — The sister of slain South Windsor mom Jessica Edwards accepted her sister’s college degree this week. Manchester Community College posted a photo on social media Friday that showed Yanique Edwards, sister of Jessica Edwards ’21, accepting Jessica’s Respiratory Care degree on behalf of her
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