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Click here for updates on this story     LAWRENCE, Kansas (KCTV) — River Storm stood along Massachusetts Street on Wednesday afternoon with an unusual request for passersby. “Hi,” Storm said. “Would you sign my car to stand against hate?” Most people thought they’d misheard at first. “A card?” Storm would point at a nearby Chevrolet Equinox,

Click here for updates on this story     WOOD RIVER, Illinois (KMOV) — A shelter in place order has been activated for some residents in Wood River due to a chemical leak. Wednesday afternoon Norfolk Southern Railroad was notified that a stationary rail car containing spent sulfuric acid was over pressurized and venting. The rail car

Click here for updates on this story     NEW HARTFORD, New York (WKTV) — A macaw on its way to get its wings clipped flew into a tree outside of New Hartford Animal Hospital Wednesday morning. The owner, Amanda Bonanza, was taking the macaw, Charlie, out of her car in his cage when she says he

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Since February, a growing list of local police departments are warning their communities about an increase in overdoses and overdose deaths caused by drugs laced with fentanyl in Kansas and Missouri. Police say they are seeing an increase in overdoses among teens and

Click here for updates on this story     SOMERS, Westchester County, NY (WABC) — Man’s best friend is being hailed as a church’s guardian angel in Westchester County. Bear, a 4-year-old German Shepard, woke its owner early Sunday morning. “It was a very alarming bark, it almost sounded like a siren,” Kim Lewis said. “And I

Click here for updates on this story     WASCO COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A wildfire closed both sides of Interstate 84 five miles west of The Dalles on Wednesday. All evacuations have been lowered. The brush fire broke out the day after Wasco County implemented its burn ban. Stan Hinatsu with the National Forest Service said

Click here for updates on this story     OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (KCTV) — A Kansas man says his world is about to crash and he blames the Kansas Department of Labor. It seems the new updated security the department celebrated in January may be to blame for the interruption in benefit payments to some of those

Portions of the memorial at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis were being removed by city workers Thursday morning, city spokesperson Sarah McKenzie said. The square at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street, where Floyd took his last breaths as a police officer knelt on his neck, has been closed off for over a

The Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon, according to NASA. The new goal for the program, which seeks to land the first woman and the next man on at the lunar south pole by 2024, comes from the Biden-Harris administration. The administration submitted US President Joe Biden’s priorities for

As rich nations prepare for a return to some sort of post-pandemic normalcy, aided by high vaccination rates, many poorer countries are struggling with explosive case numbers and rising Covid-19 deaths amid a dearth of shots. Brazil, which has only fully vaccinated around 10% of its population, recorded more than 95,000 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, the second-highest

An emboldened Taliban poses a severe and expanding threat to the government of Afghanistan, remains close to al Qaeda, and believes it can return to power by force if necessary, according to a United Nations Security Council report released on Wednesday. With the last remaining US troops due to leave Afghanistan in the coming months,

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she didn’t think she was “tough enough” for a life in politics, in a wide-ranging interview where she also discusses preparing for Covid-19 and how relations with the US have evolved. “The biggest barrier for me was probably the fact that I didn’t necessarily think that the

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A smoldering container ship began to sink off the Sri Lankan coast Wednesday, officials said, heightening fears an oil and chemical spill could exacerbate one of the worst ecological disasters in the country’s history. Since May 20, the Sri Lanka Navy and Indian Coast Guard have been working round the clock to try to stop

A Georgia county sheriff has been suspended following a review of his indictment on federal civil rights charges, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Wednesday. Kemp suspended Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill after a commission found Hill’s indictment adversely affects the administration of the sheriff’s office, according to an executive order released from Kemp’s office.

Deputies in Volusia County, Florida, shot a 14-year-old girl on Tuesday night after she and a 12-year-old boy fled a group home, broke into a house, found multiple guns inside and then opened fire on deputies, according to Sheriff Mike Chitwood. The girl was shot in the abdomen and the arm and is in stable