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Distribution of White supremacist propaganda reached the highest amount ever recorded since the Anti-Defamation League began tracking it, the group said in a report released on Wednesday. There were 5,125 documented cases of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters distributed in the US — an average of 14 incidents per day and
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After Sebastian Araujo’s parents spent a week on a waitlist for leftover Covid-19 vaccines, the family was relieved when the pharmacy called to let him know that two spots had opened up. On Saturday, the trio showed up for their appointments at a Rite Aid in Mission Hills, California, a suburb outside of Los Angeles,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GWINNETT, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Gwinnett County police said they conducted more than 300 traffic stops during a two-day sweep aimed at street racing operations earlier this month, which resulted in several arrests of people wanted on felony and misdemeanor warrants. The stops conducted on March 5
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Click here for updates on this story LODI, California (KFSN) — After four years of fighting, a North Valley family is finally getting justice. The parents of Tyler Turner, who died skydiving at the Lodi Parachute Center in 2016, just won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the facility owner. Attorney for the family, Paul Van
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Click here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (KFSM) — A dramatic fire caught on camera by Fayetteville Police has them feeling thankful no one was hurt. The van caught fire on Jimmie Ave., but it wasn’t your typical vehicle fire. It was on the move, making what police are calling an ‘epic movie
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Students and teachers alike never thought weeks of virtual learning would turn into months. “Especially in the beginning, it was like, how do you teach band online?” said Nina Pryor, the Band Director at Howard Middle School. But more than a year since the pandemic
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling on US President Joe Biden to ensure vaccine equity, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Speaking from Sao Paulo, Brazil, da Silva said the US has a surplus of vaccines and suggested the excess could be donated to countries in need. “One suggestion
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Hate crimes, defined by the United States Department of Justice, are crimes motivated by bias. The Justice Department clarifies that “hate” doesn’t mean anger or dislike — but rather bias against people with specific characteristics like race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion or disability. The “crime” part is often violent, like an assault or
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Within the space of a few days, the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has ground to a standstill in virtually all of western Europe. France, Spain, Germany, Italy and more than a dozen other countries have paused rollout of the shot, calling it a precautionary measure following concerns that it could be linked to
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Click here for updates on this story Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Asia and Nigel Taylor’s love story started back when they were just teenagers in high school. “From there we’ve been literally inseparable everyday together ever since,” said Asia Taylor. But soon after they got married–they had to face their first bump in the road.
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Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A California condor at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation surprised keepers by laying a second egg just as her first one was hatching. The first fluffy chick of 2021 hatched on March 13 to condor parents No. 765 and No. 55.
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Robinson will continue to be held without bond in the Boone County Jail.
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The first observed interstellar object zipped through our solar system in October 2017 — and astronomers have been trying to understand it ever since. Scientists scrambled to observe the object before it disappeared, moving along at 196,000 miles per hour, and their observations caused more questions than answers about the “oddball,” as scientists dubbed it.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — A 13-year-old boy got to live out a dream he became a firefighter for a day thanks to the Miami Children’s Initiative. Sherrod Scott’s 6-year-old sister, Chassidy Saunders, was killed in a drive-by shooting at a birthday party in Liberty City back in January. After
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Click here for updates on this story ANTELOPE, California (KOVR) — A violent reaction to a restaurant order led to chaos at a Wingstop in Antelope over the weekend. The wings are supposed to be fiery — not the customers — but cellphone video shows a man wild about wings getting upset over his order.
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A Los Angeles judge announced Wednesday that the murder trial of millionaire Robert Durst, the subject of the HBO crime documentary “The Jinx,” will resume on May 17 with the jury present. Durst, heir to a New York real estate empire, left his jail cell to hear the ruling from Superior Court Judge Mark Windham.
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Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) — When Southern California’s theme parks reopen as early as April, it could be with one very significant and silent difference: no screaming on rides. The California Attractions and Parks Association (CAPA), a trade group which represents theme parks statewide, is backing a plan that
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Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — It’s frustrating enough having your car taken away from a parking lot. Some drivers who abandoned their vehicles during Sunday’s blizzard have now been jolted by the fact they have to pay to get the vehicle back from tow lots. “They towed my car in
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Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — South Florida doctors say a healthcare worker who received a COVID vaccine while she was pregnant passed those antibodies to her newborn. “To our knowledge, this was the first in the world that was reported of a baby being born with antibodies after a vaccination,”
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