Boone Electric Cooperative in Columbia said while they’ve seen some pretty high spikes in usage, it isn’t completely out of the normal for the summer months.
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Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Nashville firefighters rescued a dog from a locked car on Friday morning. According to Nashville Fire, the dog was locked in the car for 40 minutes. Firefighters gave the dog water, and Metro Animal Care and Control arrived to help with the situation. Firefighters use
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A body found in the Osage River is that of a man who went missing Wednesday while fishing, the Miller County Sheriff’s Office said.
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President Joe Biden on Friday marked the United States administering 300 million Covid-19 shots in 150 days, urging unvaccinated Americans to roll up their sleeves to protect themselves against emerging variants of the virus. In a speech at the White House on Friday, Biden called 300 million shots in 150 days “a truly American accomplishment.”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MT. MORRIS, Michigan (WNEM) — Several Mt. Morris residents and the township supervisor are calling for the resignation of their treasurer after she accused a black employee of assaulting her with a cane. But video surveillance footage showed no such attack. The township supervisor says she isn’t taking
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It’s been a big year for America’s oat milk fans — and the companies serving them. In March, Starbucks rolled out the option only to sell out a month later. Silk added oat milk to its line of plant-based milks in April. Oatly had a splashy IPO in May. And a slew of new ad
Continue Reading A Colorado baker, who was the subject of a 2018 Supreme Court case for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, has violated state discrimination laws in another case, a Denver district court has found. A judge on Tuesday found the Masterpiece Cakeshop illegally refused to bake a cake to celebrate a trans
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CAPE CORAL, Fla (WBBH) — A Cape Coral woman is thanking City leaders for taking action and installing new signs and safety measures near her home on SE 20th Court. A few weeks ago, a suspected drunk driver smashed into Laura Langone’s home and caused significant damage. A
Continue Reading About 50 officers assigned to the Portland police department’s crowd control team resigned one day after one of the team’s officers was indicted for allegedly using his department-issued baton to assault a protester last summer. The wholesale resignation of the police department’s Rapid Response Team (RRT) took place after a Multnomah County grand jury handed
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A police response team quits after they face scrutiny for their tactics during civil unrest in Portland, Oregon.
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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story and headline misstated the findings of the McKinsey study on wealth. It has been updated and corrected. An estimated 19% of Black American families, roughly 3.5 million households, have a negative net worth because of a history of discriminatory policies from the government and private industry that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAVERFORD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — “I’ve said this from day one. In AWB, it doesn’t matter how you look, how you sound, how great your voice is,” said Will Thomas. “You’re just automatically included.” The 25-year-old from Wilmington, Delaware, says that if it were not for Acting Without Boundaries,
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Former President Donald Trump endorsed Alaska GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka on Friday, pledging to campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict him of inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. “Lisa Murkowski is bad for Alaska,” Trump said in a statement. “Murkowski has got to go!” Trump lambasted
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — A newly-released state report reveals what happened when abuse was reported three weeks before 8-year-old Keyontae Holzendorf was found dead inside a hotel with “horrendous” injuries. The Child Fatality Report, released Thursday by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, includes information on the
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Former Vice President Mike Pence took aim at his successor on Friday at a conference for religious conservatives in Florida, criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris for declining to visit the US-Mexico border during a recent immigration-focused trip to Central America. Echoing a complaint lodged by other Republicans in recent weeks, Pence said it was “past
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Houston police are searching for the gunman who ambushed and killed two men in northwest Houston. Police say just before 9 p.m. Thursday, the two men were pulling up to an apartment complex in a pickup truck on West Tidwell near Antoine. The suspect then
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VALLEJO, California (KGO) — The ABC7 I-Team is learning more about a grass fire that damaged eight homes and forced dozens to evacuate in Vallejo Tuesday night. Neighbors say they’ve been bracing for a fire to erupt over the past year, citing a controversial relationship with the property
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Most federal government employees across the country have Friday off after President Joe Biden signed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a US federal holiday. But the introduction of a new federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States has created a patchwork of responses — leaving some government offices, schools and businesses
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For the first time, the 94-year-old woman who was stabbed multiple times while on a walk in San Francisco is speaking from her hospital bed. Ahn Taylor, who goes by Peng, is recovering at San Francisco General Hospital after a man stabbed her in
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Several students and three teachers were abducted Thursday by armed men from a federal college in Nigeria’s north-western Kebbi State, State Governor Abubakar Bagudu told CNN. According to Governor Bagudu, the gunmen — locally known as bandits — raided the co-educational Federal Government College in Kebbi’s Birnin Yauri district on Thursday, killing a policeman in
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