Month: May 2021

Click here for updates on this story     RALEIGH, North Carolina (WLOS) — A bill to raise the minimum age to get married from age 14 to 18 has been halted in North Carolina’s General Assembly, despite bipartisan support. North Carolina and Alaska are the only two remaining states that allow 14-year-olds to marry, and North

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say a wanted suspect has been arrested with an illegally modified semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine. On Thursday at 7:20 p.m., detectives and officers located 20-year-old Marquise Brazile in the area of North Hunt Street and North Dana Avenue. The Enhanced Community

Lance Bass wants in on Justin Timberlake’s “It’s Gonna Be May” meme. The former *NSYNC member posted a video on TikTok of him dancing to the boy band’s song “It’s Going To Be Me.” In the caption, Bass made a nod to International Dance Day and called on his followers to use his dance video

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Officers are investigating an overnight double murder shooting of two juveniles near 8th and Olive. Around 11:30 p.m., officers were called to 8th and Olive on sound of gunshots. When they arrived at the scene, two victims were located outside of their apartment.

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A string of shootings across St. Louis left one person dead and several others wounded within a six-hour span. The first shooting happened before 10:30 p.m. Friday in the 4300 block of Gibson where a man was shot in the arm. One hour later,

Click here for updates on this story     EAST ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A MetroBus driver is being honored for his heroic actions Wednesday. Bus driver Nick was driving along his route in East St. Louis when he spotted a toddler sitting in alone in a field near a gated subdivision. Feeling uneasy, he pumped the

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say a 15-month-old girl is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a vehicle in northeast Portland on Friday. At 3:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of an injury crash outside a home in the 2200 block of

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police are looking for a person caught in surveillance video firing a gun through a southeast Portland homeowner’s front door. The shooting happened Tuesday, but Michael Posson, the homeowner, says he didn’t notice the bullet hole until early Thursday morning. He says that’s when

Click here for updates on this story     MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) team said it rescued four climbers that became stuck early Friday morning in the Columbia River Gorge. The sheriff’s office said it received a call just after midnight on Friday of the climbers that

Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. Space missions provide us with an incredible gift beyond knowledge: perspective. More color photos taken by the Ingenuity helicopter this week revealed what it looks like to fly on Mars, with the Perseverance rover making a cameo. It’s astounding to think of a 4-pound rotorcraft

For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. Civil rights leaders and attorneys have converged on Elizabeth City demanding answers and justice after Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office deputies fatally shot Brown and the

The Rev. Calvin Skinner has given hundreds of sermons, but he says this past Sunday’s felt more urgent than ever. “The city of Knoxville has hit its boiling point,” he told CNN. “The case of Anthony Thompson Jr. really solidifies this feeling that enough is enough.” Thompson, 17, was fatally shot by police when officers