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Click here for updates on this story     Atlanta, GA (WGCL) — The Georgia State University school officials announced Friday that all men’s basketball team activities will be paused due to multiple positive COVID-19 test results. The school says this will impact Tier 1 individuals which include student-athletes, coaches, and support staff. According to school officials,

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A St. Louis company is now the first in the state to be granted a license to both cultivate and manufacture medical marijuana and be able to do it under one roof. The state granted Proper Cannabis a license to grow marijuana plants

Aalayah Eastmond was scrolling through Twitter this week when she saw a meme comparing lawmakers on lockdown at the Capitol to students during active-shooter drills in public schools. Eastmond survived the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. She was a junior and recalls sheltering in place that day

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Money is coming in for a scholarship honoring a nurse shot and killed on I-440 in December. Caitlyn Kaufman was on her way to work at St. Thomas West when it happened. The scholarship is called the Caitlyn Kaufman Legacy Nursing Scholarship at Butler

Wendy Walsh has gone from frustrated to angry about the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine in Florida. She wants her mom protected, fearing that if the 92-year-old gets the virus, it’s essentially a death sentence. “It’s like a ticking time bomb — you’re just waiting,” Walsh told CNN. Her mom, Marie Schreiner, lives in an

Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air lost contact with a plane that left Jakarta on Saturday, according to Indonesia’s Head Of National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on Saturday, according to state-run Antara news agency. The missing Indonesia

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, nursing homes across the United States scrambled to protect their vulnerable residents. They shut their doors and banned visitors, leaving seniors isolated from the outside world. It was only March, but 16-year-old Hita Gupta suspected that life wouldn’t return to normal for a long time. To support lonely seniors

As the NFL regular season came to a close, Michael Carsley knew the penalty for finishing last in his fantasy football league. Their rule: Whoever ended that season at the bottom of the league had to spend 24 hours in a Waffle House. For every waffle eaten, one hour would be removed from the total

It’s been almost five months since Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Officer Rusten Sheskey. Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down. No charges were brought

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is developing new weaponry including a nuclear-powered submarine, tactical nuclear weapons and advanced warheads designed to penetrate missile defense systems. In comments published Saturday, Kim said North Korea is pushing ahead with the armaments to deter the United States, comments that appear to show President Donald

For Augustine Tang, driving a taxi was a way to carry on his father’s legacy, who died unexpectedly in 2015. But the coronavirus pandemic has turned his taxi into a burden, a sentiment shared by thousands of other cabdrivers in New York. “It’s a ghost town,” Tang remarks, as he drives through Chinatown. With ridership

The relentless surge of Covid-19 patients has strained resources and health care workers at Los Angeles hospitals to the point that officials are preparing to ration care with triage officers, who will decide which patients receive what treatment. Once a hospital reaches a phase called “crisis care mode,” triage officers at the county’s four public