Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — California’s drought is impacting more than how you water your lawn, but also the way your food is grown on hundreds of thousands of acres in the Sacramento Valley. Growing rice is a multi-billion dollar industry that supports 25,00 jobs. “Farmers are eternal optimists to
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Click here for updates on this story SOUTH SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — The aftermath of a paintball hit can be breathtaking with bruises and broken skin. After a few quiet days, more random drive-by paintball attacks are being reported in Sacramento. Yvonne Ugarte sees a crowd at Lawrence Park in South Sacramento and she worries. Ugarte
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Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KPIX) — Workers at a COVID vaccination clinic in San Jose had a gave recognition to a special recipient of the vaccine, a man who was alive during the last global pandemic more than a century ago. Staffers at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center cheered
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Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — A Sacramento police officer has been arrested and is accused of filing a false police report, the department announced Thursday. The officer, 26-year-old Alexa Palubicki, is charged with two felony counts of filing a false police report and had been placed on administrative leave
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Nearly three years before Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes, the former Minneapolis police officer allegedly knelt on the neck and back of a teen for almost 17 minutes. Chauvin, who was convicted last month on state murder charges in Floyd’s death, has now been indicted
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Click here for updates on this story BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy last summer. Dashawn Austin, 25, has been arrested in connection with the death of Davell Gardner, Jr. Advertisement Gunman riding black bike wanted in 2 Central Park robberies “This is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO KTVK) — A Phoenix mom got the surprise of a lifetime from a Cardinals legend and his wife. It came just in time for Mother’s Day! After cutting the ribbon to her brand new home Thursday, Munira Abdulkadir thought the surprises were over. Habitat for Humanity
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A plan to restructure the University of Missouri’s social justice centers this summer has been pushed back indefinitely. MU spokesman Christian Basi said Friday that the plan had been postponed to give Maurice Gipson, vice chair of diversity, inclusion and equity, more time to communicate with those affected by the changes. MU
Continue Reading The mother of a Latino man who died in police custody in Alameda, California, after being restrained for about five minutes says her son asked the officers for help, but they didn’t have compassion for him. Mario Gonzalez Arenales died on April 19 after officers arrived at a local park, answering separate calls about a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GILBERT, Arizona (KPHO KTVK) — As we enter triple digit territory, people in Gilbert said their community pool is locked up. At Breckenridge Townhomes, the only thing hotter than the temperature is Lissa Coari’s attitude toward the HOA who locked up the community pool. “It’s disappointing when you
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State Rep. Sara Walsh, R-Ashland, took to the House floor Thursday to praise Rush Limbaugh as the chamber voted on creating a day in his honor.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WNEM) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced two men accused of intimidating minority voters in Detroit and other cities through a robocall meant to suppress turnout in the 2020 presidential election will go to trial after a failed dismissal attempt. Last October, Arlington, Virginia residents
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Bad economic news was once again greeted with cheers on Wall Street. Investors brushed off Friday’s surprisingly weak jobs report, which showed far fewer jobs were added last month than expected. The Dow and the S&P 500 both rose to new all-time highs Friday, and the Nasdaq was up nearly 1% as big tech stocks
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You would think that federal safety regulators would have broad powers to order the recall of products they find dangerous or even deadly. You would be wrong. Agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration typically can only request — not demand — that companies order a recall
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story INDIANAPOIS (WISH) — As Nurse’s Week is underway, News 8 is getting to know one of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health’s oldest newest nurses. Jeff Bick spent more than 30 years at Eli Lilly and Company before he was offered retirement at 58 years old. He
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A suspect who held five people captive during an eight-hour standoff at a Wells Fargo bank in St. Cloud, Minnesota, has been arrested and will be charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping and second-degree assault., authorities said. It was a “peaceful resolution, the best possible outcome we could have had,” said St. Cloud Police Chief Blair
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MU is honoring 5,547 students with more than 6,115 degrees through a series of in-person, socially distanced ceremonies.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRANGER, Indiana (WBND) — A new 20-megawatt solar farm, the size of 30 football fields, was unveiled in Granger Thursday. The “St. Joseph Solar Farm,” completed in March of this year, is so big, it can power close to 3,000 homes every year. State and local officials were
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story South Bend, Indiana (WBND) — Downtown South Bend and the Civic Theatre are hosting the first-ever ‘Fringe Festival’ over the weekend. More than two dozen acts will be performing over the course of the next three days. “Fringe is a very exciting, worldwide movement that started in Edenborough,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Judges with the Texas Court of Appeals sided with Houston firefighters in a decision that could cost city taxpayers millions. In a long-running battle over Houston firefighters’ salaries, the city of Houston tried to have their collective bargaining rights declared unconstitutional. It would have been
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