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By Angela Williams Click here for updates on this story     HATTIESBURG, Mississippi (WAPT) — The Hattiesburg Zoo said Twig the ostrich is starting to return to her feisty self after undergoing surgery to fix a broken wing. Zookeepers noticed the 15-year-old ostrich’s left wing was drooping the morning of June 3. Zoo veterinarian Julia MacGregor

By Kate Amara, Barry Simms Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WBAL) — The jury reached a verdict in the case of a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, who was reported missing in May 2017. The jury found Michael Robertson guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of

By Pooja Lodhia Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A west Houston bookstore owner has filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas over a new law that requires booksellers to evaluate and rate books for sexually explicit conduct before selling them to schools. Books deemed “sexually explicit” will be

By WESH Staff Click here for updates on this story     PORT ORANGE, Florida (WESH) — An 11-year-old child was arrested by Volusia County sheriff’s deputies for allegedly making a false report that her friend was kidnapped. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, the Port Orange girl texted 911 Wednesday morning that a man driving

By Courtney Carpenter Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Officers walked up to a car stopped in a moving lane of traffic overnight and found a man shot to death inside. It happened around 3 a.m. Thursday in the 300 block of Neal Street at Howard Drive in southeast Houston.

By WGAL Staff Click here for updates on this story     UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — A woman was injured in a collision with a firetruck on Tuesday in Cumberland County. Upper Allen Township Police said the crash happened around 7:15 p.m. on the 1200 block of East Lisburn Road, which is near Gutshall Lane.

By WISN Staff Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE (WISN) — Four children were shot and two of them died in the 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday in Milwaukee. Celeste Cummings lost her son, Raul Rios, to the gunfire. Her family is dealing with this unimaginable loss, felt by too many families

By Randall Kamm Click here for updates on this story     HILLVIEW, Kentucky (WLKY) — A form of modern slavery takes place every day in cities and towns across the county. Law enforcement officials describe human trafficking as a situation where force, fraud or coercion is used to make someone have sex for money against their

By Jenna Rae Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WTMJ) — It was promoted to help with joint pain and arthritis, but it quickly turned into a nightmare scenario for a South Milwaukee woman who ended up in the hospital. Now, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is warning people not to buy

By Alvieann Chandler Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WHNS) — A man was arrested after he confessed to setting fire to a downtown business early Tuesday morning, according to the Asheville Fire Department According to fire officials, more than 30 firefighters were called to the 50 block of Southside Avenue

By Freeman Stoddard Click here for updates on this story     LAURENS COUNTY, South Carolina (WHNS) — Laurens County Conservatives announced that they recently put up a new billboard in response to a campaign from the Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA) supporting the LGBTQ+ community. Last month, the AFFA put up a billboard along I-385 that

By Kaitlyn Hart Click here for updates on this story     IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — A Hawaii man was arrested after police found a loaded gun, drugs, and unbuckled children in his car, one wearing almost no clothes. Gerald Richard Peto, 60, was pulled over on I-15 on Monday, for going 65 mph in an

By Alexis Ramanjulu Click here for updates on this story     HEREFORD, Arizona (KGUN) — Joy Vanveen left her house last Monday for a quick trip to Benson. Little did she know that would be the last time she would be able to step through her front door. “I was just so frantic,” Vanveen said. “I

By Peter Maxwell Click here for updates on this story     MICHIGAN (WXYZ) — The Michigan House is scheduled to discuss bills related to distracted driving Tuesday during a hearing for the Transportation, Mobility, and Infrastructure Committee. The group is trying to expand Michigan’s texting and driving ban to include holding or using a cell phone

By DAVID SCHUMAN Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Metro Transit is putting in the work to make its buses and light rail trains safer. The police department’s Homeless Action Team partnered Monday with community group, A Mother’s Love, to do outreach at the Brooklyn Center Transit Center. It’s one of

By Web staff Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New video shows a man smashing glass at a Minneapolis mosque. Early Monday, worshipers saw the man trying to get inside the Umatul Islam Mosque, located on 2nd Avenue South near East Lake Street. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic

By MARLEE GINTER Click here for updates on this story     SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — It’s been more than a year since California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation making ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement. While the mandate doesn’t go into effect until 2030, schools in our area have already rolled it out – including at

By Lydia Fielder Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Nashville author and speaker Carlos Whittaker raised almost $285,000 in 24 hours for The Covenant School. Specifically, Whittaker said, the money will be earmarked for therapy for parents and faculty at the school. Donations came from all 50 states and even