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Click here for updates on this story     LEE’S SUMMIT, Missouri (KCTV, KSMO) — Lee’s Summit school parents could find school start and end times changing come fall. It’s one of several options being discussed to address an expected shortage in school bus drivers. A school bus now sits along Tudor Road for all to see

Amnesty International has reversed its decision to strip the jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status, the human rights group said on Friday. The group had revoked the label from Navalny in February over past comments he had made. The activist has been criticized in some corners for past statements against

A judge has issued a written order to allow the immediate family of Andrew Brown Jr. to see the videos of his fatal encounter with law enforcement. Brown was fatally shot when Pasquotank County deputies were trying to execute warrants on April 21, officials said. The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s office and a media coalition petitioned

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Andrea Brooks is on two feet instead of two wheels after being hurt in a hit and run bicycle crash. “I am lucky to be alive because my bike took a terrible hit, it’s broken completely in three different places,” she said. “I don’t

The kidnappers of at least 20 students abducted in Nigeria have threatened to kill the remaining hostages if their ransom demands are not met, the brother of one of the captives has told CNN. The government has said that five students from Greenfield University in Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria, have been killed since the group

Louisiana State University has hired the first African American president in the Southeastern Conference. William Tate IV will begin in July, LSU said on its website. Tate is currently at the University of South Carolina as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, LSU said. “This position is all about what we can do

Click here for updates on this story     SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) — Two Sheboygan teenagers died in a head-on crash involving their car and a semitrailer truck in Columbia County, the State Patrol said. The crash happened shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 33 and Polinske Road in the town of Marcellon near

Click here for updates on this story     EDMONTON, Alberta (CTV Network) — If you have been making a concerted effort to improve your sleep by turning on your gadget’s blue light-reducing features, a new study may provide some much-needed insight into why you’re not seeing an improvement in your nightly shut eye. Researchers at Utah’s

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — As the medical officer of health for a region in Ontario hard-hit by the pandemic, Dr. Lawrence Loh has spent more than a year making difficult decisions and enacting strict measures in a quest to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Region of

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 3 million lives, an almost unfathomable human toll. Now, new figures suggest that the true global Covid-19 death toll has been grossly undercounted. Coronavirus has killed 6.9 million people, more than double the 3.2 million deaths that have been officially reported worldwide, according to analysis from the Institute

Scientists were in for a shock when they encountered a “real life river monster” — a giant fish believed to be more than 100 years old. Staff from the Alpena Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office caught the fish — a female lake sturgeon measuring 6′ 10″ and weighing a whopping 240 pounds — in the

Before you swat a stinging wasp away from your next picnic, pause to consider the delicate and beautiful hammer orchid. The Australian flowers evolved to resemble the rear end of a female thynnine wasp. It’s a ruse to attract male thynnine wasps. When a passing wasp makes his move on the flower — tries to

The coronavirus pandemic is devastating lives and families in India. Hospitals are scrambling for supplies, medical staff are in shortage and health care infrastructure is being pushed beyond its limit. The effect of this crisis is being felt all across India and around the world. We want to know how you and your loved ones