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By WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story     MIAMI (WFOR) — A Miami couple is accused of stealing $2.5 million from a Stock Island fish house and multiple commercial fishermen. Marianela Armenteros, 44, and Yamir Gonzalez-Betancourt, 53, worked for a fish house owned by the Valero-Duran Corporation. Armenteros worked as a general manager,

By WBBM Staff Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Chicago taxpayers are poised to pay out $14 million to settle lawsuits filed by two men wrongfully convicted of the 1989 murder of a retired Chicago police sergeant’s wife, as part of the latest round of settlements accusing CPD officers of misconduct.

By Kevin C. Johnson Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Montez Coleman, a prominent East St. Louis jazz drummer who toured nationally and internationally with some of the genre’s greats, died Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, of congestive heart failure at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 48. Coleman was a

By Jason Allen Click here for updates on this story     FORT WORTH (KTVT) — Fort Worth political leaders celebrated the now more-certain completion of the Central City project Thursday, January 20, while pointing the finger at politics for the long delay in securing funding for the flood control work. Rep. Marc Veasey compared the frustration

By WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Florida man has been charged with human smuggling after four people, including an infant, were found dead from apparent exposure to the cold Wednesday, just feet away from Minnesota’s border with Canada. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Steve Shand,

By Tori Mason Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — Catalytic converter theft has been on the rise in the Denver metro area. Now state lawmakers are working to curb these crimes affecting the livelihoods of Coloradans. More than 2,000 catalytic converters were stolen in the city of Denver alone in 2021.

By KPIX Staff Click here for updates on this story     SAN LORENZO (KPIX) — Authorities in Alameda County have arrested a man on animal cruelty charges after deputies said he was caught on video abusing ducks in a San Lorenzo park. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said it learned about the January 15 incident near

By KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story     BEVERLY HILLS (KCAL, KCBS) — After last weekend’s hostage standoff at a synagogue in Texas, local and federal authorities held a news conference Friday morning in Los Angeles to address safety concerns for local synagogues. The news conference at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills was

By KOVR Staff Click here for updates on this story     SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — Sacramento City Unified School District is working to eradicate racism at its schools. It’s hired its first-ever race and equity liaison to tackle the issues while investigating several incidents. Attorney Mark T. Harris will oversee two internal investigations involving racism. Last summer,

By Breana Albizu Click here for updates on this story     New Mexico (KOAT) — Cynthia Chavez Lamar has been named director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is the first Native woman and first New Mexican to be named as a Smithsonian museum director in its history. “Yesterday was pretty exciting

By Orko Manna Click here for updates on this story     SACRAMENTO COUNTY, California (KCRA) — Loved ones of a 17-year-old girl killed in a Sacramento County shooting gathered Thursday evening to remember her. Family members tell KCRA 3 17-year-old Alynia Lawrence, nicknamed “Lena,” was shot and killed last Thursday, Jan. 13, while in a car

By Josh Haskell Click here for updates on this story     HANCOCK PARK, Los Angeles (KABC) — Exactly one week from when Brianna Kupfer’s life was cut short, friends, family, co-workers and many who didn’t know the 24-year-old UCLA student gathered Thursday to honor her memory in front of the Hancock Park furniture store where she

By Liz Nagy Click here for updates on this story     AURORA, Illinois (WLS) — Another Aurora police officer has died from COVID-19, marking the second COVID-related death in the department within days. Flags outside the Aurora Police Department were already flying at half-staff for the death of an officer just last week. Now, that symbol

By Erin Coogan Click here for updates on this story     KAHULUI, Hawaii (KITV) — In an effort to combat the ill-effects of climate change, one local organization has made it its mission to tackle the issue from the ground up. The Maui based group: “Re-tree Hawaii” has now planted more than 16,000 plants and trees

By MARISSA SULEK Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Marshall County woman says her life turned upside down when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder months after she had a mild case of COVID-19. The disorder is called ITP, or Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. It destroys platelets in your