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By Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story     April 25, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — The newly selected sole finalist for the presidency of Texas Southern University (TSU), James W. Crawford III, brings a wealth of leadership experience and a vision for the future to one of Texas’s most prestigious institutions. Crawford’s

By Rex Hodge Click here for updates on this story     HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A former janitor for a Haywood County school faces charges and is accused of making inappropriate advances on a student. Christopher Roy Giles, 29, is charged with indecent liberties against a student and indecent liberties against a child. Investigators

By Matthew Nuttle Click here for updates on this story     KAILUA, Hawaii (KITV) — A robot vacuum cleaner is to blame for starting a fire that devastated a home in Kailua on Monday, fire investigators say. The fire burned a two-story home at 16 N. Kalaheo Avenue. According to Honolulu Fire (HFD) investigators, a robot

By Dan Evans Click here for updates on this story     SALT LAKE CITY (KSTU) — MountainStar Healthcare hospitals are changing the anesthesia that patients breathe in the operating room to better improve the air that all of us breathe every single day. Dr. Filip Roos is no stranger to FOX 13 News and makes appearances

By Eliza Pace Click here for updates on this story     SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — A cat may have used a couple of its nine lives when it was accidentally shipped with an Amazon return from Utah to California. A Utah couple got the surprise of their life when they got a call that their

By Lauren Steinbrecher Click here for updates on this story     HOLLADAY, Utah (KSL) — Neighbors in Holladay are figuring out what it’ll take to clean up and who’s paying for the damage, after a massive home explosion planned by hazmat crews detonating old dynamite. Neighbors were finally allowed back into their homes Wednesday evening. They

By Nikiya Carrero Click here for updates on this story     MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — What started as an after-school activity center is now much more to the families it serves. The Multi-Ethnic Youth Group Association, or MEYGA, Learning Center in Liberty City is evolving with the area around it and making Miami Proud. “This is

By Tara Molina Click here for updates on this story     WILLOWBROOK, IIllinois (WBBM) — Many young Muslim girls did not play sports growing up – as fights to get exceptions for uniform restrictions often requiring a waiver and leading to embarrassment, or even rejection. Thus, the girls felt forced to choose between sports and faith.

By Jim Williams Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — She’s a powerhouse who built a ministry and changed the narrative on a Chicago street corner that was once famous for trouble. Week after week, Sandie Norman heads to the West Side’s Austin community, bringing food, prayer and hope, and as CBS

By Tim McNicholas Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — The Department of Justice is threatening to sue the NYPD if its members don’t stop parking police cars on sidewalks and crosswalks. It’s a change New Yorkers with disabilities have been fighting for for years. The scathing letter says sidewalks and

By Tim McNicholas Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — Looking for love online is becoming more popular, but imagine your match turns out to be a scammer based in another country. A Long Island woman said she lost more than $400,000 in a romance scam – and then was scammed

By Jesse Zanger Click here for updates on this story     EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut (WCBS) — Two heroic men saved a little girl that was running into into a busy intersection. The rescue was caught on video. Surveillance video shows the girl running down the street towards a busy intersection earlier this month in East Hartford.

By Madisen Keavy Click here for updates on this story     TRACY, California (KOVR) — A 29-year-old man was arrested after authorities said he was driving the wrong way on a Tracy freeway while drunk and with an 18-month-old in the back seat. The driver was caught on video traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of

By Ashley Sharp Click here for updates on this story     FAIRFIELD, California (KOVR) — A mother said she has now pulled her child out of Fairview Elementary School in Fairfield after he was allegedly choked with a jump rope by another student during an after-school program on April 16. The Fairfield Suisun Unified School District

By Karen Morfitt Click here for updates on this story     COLORADO (KCNC) — Working as a parole officer in Colorado means long and dangerous hours. “You are dealing with these same convicted felons; however, they are not under constant supervision like at the facility, so they have access to weapons and drugs as readily as

By Kelly Werthmann, Austen Erblat Click here for updates on this story     AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) — Parents from an Aurora elementary school are livid at the response of school staff during and in the hours following an alleged kidnapping attempt of a 5th-grader from school grounds. That kidnapping attempt is alleged to have happened last

By Patrick Damp Click here for updates on this story     PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Two people are now facing several charges after winning thousands of dollars during fraudulent roulette games at Rivers Casino. According to the criminal complaint provided to KDKA, Joe Jeng Chiou Lin and Chen Huan Lin on three separate occasions – February 22,

By Erica Mokay Click here for updates on this story     JEFFERSON HILLS, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Some aren’t even old enough to vote, but stationed at polling places in the South Hills and Mon Valley, a group of Thomas Jefferson High School students is helping voters fulfill their civic duty. Instead of the school bell, the

By Jo-Carolyn Goode Click here for updates on this story     April 23, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — The Texas Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay in the Uplift Harris litigation, temporarily blocking Harris County’s guaranteed income pilot program from proceeding until further deliberation by the Court. This decision comes after both a district court

By Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story     April 24, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — In a move that fortifies the city’s commitment to community development, Mayor John Whitmire has officially instated Herbert Sims as the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods (DON) for Houston, a position he has notably filled on