By WLOS Staff Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A mountain nonprofit organization is raising money to help a long-time volunteer with medical bills after he fell from a ladder three stories high. BeLoved Asheville volunteer Lalo Aguilera broke his pelvis in three places in the fall, as well
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By Kay Jones and Holly Yan, CNN A California man faces federal charges after allegedly transporting tons of explosives from out of state — including devices that later exploded in a police bomb disposal truck, injuring 17 people, authorities said. Arturo Ceja III was arrested Saturday by special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Puede que los fuegos artificiales nos parezcan bonitos y festivos, pero explotan como disparos amplificados en los oÃdos extremadamente sensibles de muchas de nuestras mascotas. Los fuegos artificiales, que alcanzan entre 150 y 175 decibeles, son más ruidosos que muchos aviones al despegar (unos 140 decibeles). Los decibeles miden la intensidad de
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on former Mizzou star Karissa Schweizer in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Schweizer will represent the United States in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Olympics in Tokyo later this summer. You can watch the full conversation with the six-time national champion in the
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The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 9.9% on Sunday. The increase in positivity comes along with an additional 864 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 527,495. The state also added 312 probable cases of the virus to the dashboard Sunday. In total, 95,131 probable cases of COVID-19 were
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By Ganesh Setty and Alaa Elassar, CNN The 11 men who were arrested in Wakefield, Massachusetts, after an overnight standoff with Massachusetts State Police (MSP) have been charged with at least six offenses. The suspects “refer to themselves as a militia” and said they adhere to Moorish Sovereign Ideology, the MSP and Middlesex District Attorney’s
Continue Reading MA: Massachusetts State Police end standoff with a group called “The Rise of the Moors” by arresting 11 armed men
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, Nicky Robertson, Alison Main and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the top US military official overseeing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, said that there should be concern about the Taliban advances on the ground there. “We should be concerned. The loss of terrain and the rapidity of that
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By Chandelis Duster, CNN A pair of governors on Sunday called on the federal government for help and pushed for solutions as their states grapple with recording-breaking temperatures, drought and wildfires that officials have said is being driven by climate change. “We need resources and we need boots on the ground. For example, we need
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By Daniela Mohor W. Elisa Loncón, a Chilean linguist, grew up in a “ruka,” a traditional wood and straw hut where the Indigenous Mapuche people live in rural areas of south-central Chile. She went to school in the nearest city, where she was the only Indigenous child in her class and had to endure daily
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House Minority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) explains why he’s against a photo identification requirement to vote while saying that he is for an “equitable ID,” like a voter registration card, requirement.
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By Chandelis Duster, CNN James Clyburn, a member of House Democratic leadership, said Sunday he was “absolutely” open to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposed changes to election law reform that include a voter ID requirement — as long as it’s equitable. “We are always for voter ID. We are never for disproportionate voter ID.
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By Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge the core facts in New York prosecutors’ case against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer even as he characterized the charges as a political attack aimed at him. Trump told a crowd in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday night that “every company” does
Continue Reading At a rally in Florida, former President Donald Trump condemned the investigation and charges brought against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who was charged with a 15-year alleged tax scheme.
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling, CNN Defending world champion Joey Chestnut broke his own world record Sunday, devouring 76 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes during Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. It was the 14th time the top-ranked hot dog eater in the world won the title in the last 15 years, slinging down
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN When longtime coworkers Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis passed by each other at work, they would smile politely and say hello, oblivious to the fact that they’d one day team up to save their husbands’ lives. Both men were suffering from kidney disease and in desperate need of transplants. The women,
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Twenty states have reached the Biden administration‘s goal to partially vaccinate 70% of American adults by the Fourth of July as the Delta variant spreads and people gather for holiday celebrations across the country. White House officials acknowledged last month that they would fall short of their goal, which was set
Continue Reading President Biden set a goal in May for 70% of Americans to have at least one vaccine dose by the 4th of July. The US is at 67% vaccinated, almost 8 million people behind the goal. CNN’s Dana Bash talks with White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeffery Zients about the administration’s next steps in the vaccination effort.
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CNN’s Brian Stelter speaks with Emily Atkin and David Wallace-Wells on how reporters are adapting to having to cover climate change as a ‘permanent emergency’ rather than isolated incidents.
Continue Reading CNN’s Brian Stelter speaks with Emily Atkin and David Wallace-Wells on how reporters are adapting to having to cover climate change as a ‘permanent emergency’ rather than isolated incidents.
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