Click here for updates on this story TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Rosman man, who faces dozens of animal cruelty charges after more than 50 animals were seized from his property, says he’s adopted more dogs since his arrest. Rob Haas told a News 13 reporter on Wednesday that the 43 misdemeanor and
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Hong Kong police declared the Apple Daily newspaper office a crime scene Thursday, after 500 officers descended on the premises to arrest executives and top editors and seize journalistic materials under the city’s national security law. Apple Daily said Thursday that the company’s CEO Cheung Kim Hung, COO Chow Tat Kuen and chief editor Ryan
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Harry Bemboom, 66, was pronounced dead Wednesday at University Hospital after the Tuesday crash, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment when it froze the contract of a Catholic Foster Care Agency that refused to work with same-sex couples as potential foster parents. Read the opinion here:
Continue Reading House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized President Joe Biden’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying in a statement on Thursday that Biden “gave Vladimir Putin a pass.” “The American people suffered massive disruptions because of Russia-linked cyber-attacks,” McCarthy said in a statement released Thursday. “Two Americans, both Marine veterans, are being held as prisoners
Continue Reading A north Georgia police officer and a suspect are dead following a shooting that stemmed from a traffic stop Wednesday, authorities said. The officer worked for the Holly Springs Police Department. The deaths happened after an “officer-involved shooting” that “started as a traffic stop,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday on Twitter. “At this
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Pamela J. Cordrey, a store employee who was working at the time of the fire, was booked into the Callaway County Jail without bond on suspicion of first-degree arson, the Fulton Police Department said in a news release. Information about her case was not available in online court records Thursday morning.
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For the second time in 10 days, a giant chunk of the internet briefly broke because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard of. The websites for Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and others all went dark on Thursday after an issue
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The pressure to stand out plagues us all. Even if we don’t really want that job, that body, that car, that trip or that kitchen, we’re aware of the attention given to those who have them — on Instagram, TikTok and even in real life. And we might feel bad for not having them ourselves.
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There are three 50-year-old cars parked on the moon. Now, General Motors and Lockheed Martin wants to build some new ones and put them on the moon, too. In the 1960s, GM worked with Boeing to create the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Three of them — LRV-1, LRV-2 and LRV-3 — were driven on the moon’s
Continue Reading The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday in a decision that will leave the law intact and save health care for millions of Americans. The justices turned away a challenge from Republican-led states and the former Trump administration who urged the justices to block the entire law. The justices
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Shares in CureVac plummeted on Thursday after the German biotech company said that interim trial results showed its experimental Covid-19 vaccine was only 47% effective in preventing symptomatic disease. The disappointing results sent shares down 45% in afternoon trading in Germany, wiping nearly $8 billion off the company’s market value. Shares listed in the United
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Brian Holmes spent months in the hospital after getting diagnosed with COVID-19 on December 14. His case was so severe, doctors said he needed a double lung transplant to survive. “On Christmas Eve I begged and begged and said you’re going to the hospital,”
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the social media network, Facebook. Facts Facebook had 2.8 billion monthly active users around the world, as of March 31, 2021. It is blocked in North Korea and China. There were 60,654 full-time employees at Facebook, as of March 31, 2021. Facebook introduced words such as “friending” to the lexicon. Timeline
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Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA. Personal Birth date: December 30, 1963 Birth place: Orange, California Birth name: Michael Richard Pompeo Father: Wayne Pompeo, machinist Mother: Dorothy (Mercer) Pompeo Marriages: Susan (Mostrous) Pompeo (date unavailable publicly-present); Leslie (Libert) Pompeo (1986-1997, divorced) Children:
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINN COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — Deputies say a man is in custody after an armed stand-off in Lane County on Wednesday. At 10:54 a.m., 31-year-old Austin Kane Waszkiewicz surrendered to deputies after six hours of negotiation. Deputies say Waszkiewicz was reported to have hit a family member in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BEAVERTON, Oregon (KPTV) — A suspect was hospitalized Wednesday night after a shooting during a chase with Beaverton police. According to the Beaverton Police Department, a patrol officer attempted to apprehend a person suspected of a residential burglary earlier in the day and wanted on an outstanding felony
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Even Queen Elizabeth II wanted to know: What would President Joe Biden say to Vladimir Putin? “We had a long talk,” Biden said of his tea with the monarch, who he was surprised to discover resembled his mother. Traveling across Europe for the past week, Biden found his reputation as a foreign policy wiseman preceded
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) According to Boone County Joint Communications, West Highway 40 at Henderson road was closed after a trash vehicle collided with a car earlier this morning. Two people were in the trash vehicle at the time of the incident. One female was transported to University Hospital with moderate injuries, and a Volkswagen was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Friends are remembering Christian Redinger, a 15-year-old boy killed in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood. “It was some type of ambush. I know it wasn’t a drive-by because they hopped out of the car,” said the victim’s best friend, who didn’t want to be identified. The loss
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