Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — For many people, going for a walk is one of the most reliable ways to get some fresh air and alleviate stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. But for people like Claudia Tersigni, the closure of public washrooms during lockdowns has made leaving the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — In 2012, Vishal Vijay, then 12, returned home from a family trip to India determined to make a change. For the first time in his life, Vijay had witnessed the realities of extreme poverty and saw first-hand the impact it has on children.
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After spending two-and-a-half years together, a NASA spacecraft bid farewell to its asteroid companion Monday and began the long journey back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, and it carries a generous amount of material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It’s the culmination of years of hard work
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FOLSOM, California (KOVR) — There’s a kiddie kitchen, a sandbox and climbing toys in the Jones’ backyard, but right in the middle of all the baby toys, Debbie Jones found a massive arrow. Kevin and Debbie spend a lot of time in their backyard. So they set up
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — People in southwestern Pennsylvania reported seeing a strange line of lights in the sky. People took to Twitter on Friday to see if others saw what they claimed: a line of lights shooting across the night sky. But it was not an alien invasion. KDKA
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A disoriented duck got a big helping hand from New York’s Finest. Two NYPD officers rescued the dozen ducklings, who had wandered to Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side Sunday morning. The officers placed the ducklings into a large carrier. Video posted to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ANDOVER, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Andover parents Kristin and Scott are speaking out on behalf of their daughter. She along with two of her friends are freshmen at UMass Amherst. A picture posted on social media of the three friends not wearing masks outside was handed over to the
Continue Reading A Florida school principal did not commit a crime when she paddled a 6-year-old girl on the buttocks, as she appeared to have been asked by the child’s mother to discipline the girl, according to a review by the state attorney’s office. The girl’s mother secretly recorded the incident at Central Elementary School in Clewiston,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Lauren Swope’s daughter Arabella will have quite the story to tell when she grows up. “What a crazy birth story she has, especially because the outcome was what we wanted it to be,” Swope said. Swope, now a mother of three, was a patient at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota golden retriever puppy has been special since birth. Marvel was the only puppy from her Litchfield litter born without a front right paw, says Barb Felt, the breeder of Rolling Oaks Goldens. “When she was born, we knew right away she had a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — “Special” probably isn’t a strong enough word to describe this Mother’s Day holiday for one Plymouth family. Autumn Wiste donated one of her kidneys Friday to her youngest son, Lucas. She was released from the hospital Sunday and got to visit him. “I think it
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Tensions in Jerusalem reached their highest point in years Monday with rocket sirens sounding just after 6:00 p.m. (11 a.m. ET), capping another day of violence in the holy city, where hundreds of Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli police. In response to what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said were dozens of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PACIFIC PALISADES, California (KCNC) — Police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti that has been sprayed on benches and pathways from Will Rogers State Park south into Venice over the past month. The neon spray-painted messages are hard to miss and especially upsetting with phrases like “the Jew is guilty”
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Tensions in Jerusalem reached their highest point in years Monday with rocket sirens sounding just after 6:00 p.m. (11 a.m. ET), capping another day of violence in the holy city, where hundreds of Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli police. In response to what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said were dozens of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PINE, Colorado (KCNC) — Starting in June, a handful of all-terrain wheelchairs will be made available to disabled “hikers” at Staunton State Park. Four battery-powered Action Trackchairs and one GRIT Freedom Chair have been provided to users through the end of October. “Being able to offer the therapeutic
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Critical race theory. You may be hearing those three words a lot these days. Lawmakers in Tennessee and Idaho have banned its teaching from their public schools’ curriculum, while parents in Texas are opposing a school district‘s efforts to combat racism with lessons in “cultural awareness” — seen by some as critical race theory. It’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOVELAND, Colorado (KCNC) — There are exactly 108 stitches on a baseball. Christopher Valerio has that beat. Easily. The 12-year-old baseball player from Loveland received 500 stitches on his noggin last month after he dove for a foul ball and ran head-first into a chain link fence. Chris’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — Kellen Buffington is the organizer one of the biggest AAU tournaments the North Texas area has seen in a while, with 189 teams from all over the nation having come to play. In addition, his job is to evaluate the talent for some of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANIER ISLANDS, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — A woman and two teenagers were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta on Sunday after they were injured when a boat exploded at Margaritaville at Lanier Islands and caused a dock fire at the lakeside attraction. Hall County Fire Services
Continue Reading A lightning strike sent a chunk of highway through the windshield of a truck in Florida on Monday and authorities say the truck’s occupants are lucky that their injuries weren’t more severe. When fire rescue crews in Walton County, 40 miles north of Destin, responded to the scene of a traffic accident near mile marker
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