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By LAUREN MARTINEZ Click here for updates on this story     LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A young boy from Las Vegas, killed by a distracted driver in 2020, was honored on New Year’s Day for helping hundreds of people through organ donations. Alex Bush was one of 35 organ donor heroes featured on the 2022 Donate

By KELLY MEYERHOFER Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — A blind UW-Madison professor requested to teach online this fall semester. She had the support of her department, documentation from her doctor and a long history of receiving disability accommodations from the university. UW-Madison instead offered English professor Elizabeth

By Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO (CTV Network) — A study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that the nearly all of the side-effects for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children five to 11 years of age have been mild. The CDC analyzed data

By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO (CTV Network) — With cases skyrocketing and many scrambling to book third shots, one question feels more pressing than ever at the start of 2022: When will COVID-19 end? The trajectory of pandemics — a term which refers to an epidemic of an

By RUSSELL KINSAUL Click here for updates on this story     ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Illinois (KMOV) — Questions are being raised about a suspicious pop-up COVID testing site that operated for a few hours on Friday in the parking lot of St. Clair Square Mall. A viewer contacted News 4 after visiting the site and become

By MARIYA MURROW Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 5-year-old boy is dead after a tree fell onto his home in DeKalb County Monday morning. It happened just after 5 a.m. along Glenwood Road. First responders rushed to the scene where they found the home forcefully split in half. Firefighters

By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Milwaukee’s acting mayor, Cavalier Johnson, has tested positive for COVID-19. Johnson said he tests for the virus every Friday, and he found out he was positive from a routine test taken on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. Johnson said he is vaccinated and

By JOYCE LUPIANI Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is advising passengers they can expect long wait times at security on Sunday and Monday. The airports says a combination of high passenger volume, potential weather impacts and staffing issues will likely increase wait times for the next

By Emerson Lehmann Click here for updates on this story     RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — At 64-years young, Sam Garcia is trying to put a smile on his neighbors’ faces and give their backs a break, traveling around to different homes in the Racine community clearing steps, sidewalks and driveways of snow. “Since 2 o’clock this

By TORRENCE BANKS Click here for updates on this story     HOPKINSVILLE, Kentucky (WSMV) — Damage to several buildings and businesses from Saturday’s severe weather has been reported in Hopkinsville Kentucky. A church, an AutoZone, and a grocery store on East 9th and South Campbell Street have been damaged. Several homes in Hopkinsville also sustained significant

By TREVOR SOCHOCKI, ANNA MUCKENFUSS Click here for updates on this story     Michigan (WNEM) — A group of Michigan residents got a head start to their New Year’s Resolutions on Saturday by rucking 20.22 miles. “Rucking” is like a walk or a march with weights. Local ruck club Hyland’s Hopeless and the Bay City Chapter

By SAVANNAH LOUIE Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — Just one day until Atlanta-mayor elect Andre Dickens officially takes over. His inauguration is scheduled for tomorrow at 1 p.m. at his alma mater, Georgia Tech. Before taking over for outgoing Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor-elect Dickens spent the first day of

By BETSY WEBSTER Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV) — As temperatures dropped into the single digits on New Year’s Day, about a dozen men and women sat inside a convention center loading dock, warmed by industrial heat lamps in the concrete ceiling above them, waiting to be checked in

By LEE PECK Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Despite Mobile Police sending out a stern warning — the new year was not without celebratory gunfire. A West Mobile family finding that out first hand — after a bullet came through the roof of their home. It happened in the

By Natalie Shepherd Click here for updates on this story     SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Wisconsin (WDJT) — When a Sheboygan County farmer got Covid-19, his neighbors did what any good friends would do. They put aside some of their own work to harvest his crops when he was hospitalized. “I appreciate it, I really do,” Dave Obbink