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Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago alderman is blaming “gang culture” for the shooting of a 14-year-old girl who was walking her dog Wednesday night in Back of the Yards. “If we want our children to be able to grow up, to live and to be able to thrive,

Joslyn Carlon wore her dad’s firefighting jacket over her graduation gown when she walked across the stage to accept her high school diploma on Thursday, just two days after he was killed in a shooting at his Los Angeles County fire station. Dozens of firefighters dressed in black uniforms lined the entrance to College of

Click here for updates on this story     SAN TAN VALLEY, Arizona (KPHO KTVK) — A man was arrested after allegedly getting into a fight with a Burger King store manager over a wrong order and loading his gun in the restaurant. According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, 50-year-old Carter Mounet, a food delivery driver,

Some buildings in Minneapolis were vandalized and looted late Thursday and early Friday, police said, amid protests over authorities’ fatal shooting of a suspect during an arrest attempt. While trying to arrest a person wanted on a felony warrant in a parked car in Minneapolis on Thursday afternoon, US Marshals task force members shot the

A top cleric in Germany’s Catholic Church has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades,” Cardinal

Click here for updates on this story     RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Twenty-seven days. That’s how long tenants at a Raleigh apartment complex have to find a new place to live. The units in southeast Raleigh, just off MLK Blvd., were recently sold. The low-income tenants who live there were told last month they have

Click here for updates on this story     GREENVILLE, North Carolina (WTVD) — Four teens died when a box truck crossed a median and hit their vehicle head on in Pitt County. North Carolina State Highway Patrol said it happened on US 264 west of Greenville just a few minutes before noon Thursday. The box truck

Click here for updates on this story     LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — It’s been nearly a month since the disappearance and death of Amari Nicholson. The case of the 2-year-old boy gripped and angered the Las Vegas community. Now a social media army is not stopping their work to help other children. More than 7,500 people

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law Friday banning individuals designated as “extremists” from running for public offices, a move condemned by the opposition as an effort to further limit political competition. The new legislation was signed and posted on a government website on Friday, the day which also marks the birthday of jailed

It’s not just tourists who invade Florida in the summer. The colorfully named, obnoxious — and sometimes deadly — microorganisms known as red tide and blue green algae also take advantage of the change in temperature to proliferate. And it causes major problems. Both types of algae bloom are starting to make their presence known

Click here for updates on this story     DOUGLAS COUNTY, Kansas (KCTV KSMO) — “There’s always traffic on Kansas Highway 10 throughout the day,” says Officer Michael Rubow of the Eudora Police Department. It was no different last Friday when officer Rubow and members of the Eudora Police Department responded to a very scary call, at

More than a dozen cities are developing “alternative” or “co-response” programs to minimize or eliminate the role of police officers responding to 911 calls involving mental health, homelessness, or substance abuse. Thirteen cities just finished an eight-week “policy sprint,” coordinated by advocacy groups Everytown For Gun Safety and What Works Cities. The goal was for

The B.1.617.2 coronavirus variant that was first identified in India is now believed to be dominant in the United Kingdom, Public Health England (PHE) said Thursday, adding that early evidence suggests it could cause an increased risk of hospitalization in comparison to the strain that was first detected in England. While PHE cautioned that more

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A man generated attention with a sarcastic performance in front of TV news cameras after police charged him with stealing a Prichard Fire Department vehicle Wednesday has a criminal record. Surveillance video released Thursday shows a man police identified as Jeffery McCants Jr. walking