Click here for updates on this story BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (WTIC/WCCT) — Governor Ned Lamont announced on Thursday that the state has issued a $10,000 fine against owners of the property at 456 Connecticut Avenue in Bridgeport, the location of the Mango Z Sports Bar, for violating the state’s COVID-19 gathering size restrictions. The fine is
Continue Reading More than 2,500 partygoers attended an illegal New Year’s rave in the region of Brittany in France, despite the government’s strict coronavirus restrictions and a national night-time curfew. “In the early evening of December 31, several hundred vehicles began to converge on an industrial area in the town of Lieuron to set up a rave
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WTIC/WCCT) — The internal investigation into a “dead pool” wager inside the Hartford Police Department has been completed. Three Major Crimes Division supervisors who were under investigation will face discipline, according to Police Chief Jason Thody. The investigation focused on a group text message sent by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV ) — Local non-profit groups are gearing up to give more help to survivors of the Nashville bombing. Their goal, to bring in the new year with new hope. On Friday at 1PM, the Community Resource Center will start offering hygiene kits as well as
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLLINSVILLE, Illinois (KMOV ) — A man was killed while warning oncoming drivers of a previous crash on an icy Interstate 255 in the Metro East early New Year’s Day. The 38-year-old man was involved in a crash on the interstate near Black Lane around 1 a.m. Police
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It’s been a deadly year, and that’s not just due to Covid-19. Despite less activity outside with the closing of businesses and schools, 2020 saw a dramatic increase in homicides. Between January and October, there was a 29% increase in homicides compared to the same timeframe in 2019, according to a November report from the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SYLVA, NC (WLOS) — The only man in more than 200 years to be bestowed as Beloved Man by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will have a highway in Swain and Jackson counties dedicated in his honor. The Tribal Council bestowed Dr. Jerry Wolfe the honorable title
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — Many mountain distilleries stepped up to fill a pandemic need, now they’re facing hefty fees for the work. The FDA has reached out to many, charging them a $14,000 fee — a fee typically charged to drug manufacturer facilities — for production of hand
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — Douglas County set aside $10 million in CARES Act funds for rent assistance this summer, and there’s still roughly $2 million to be spent. That’s along with whatever amount comes down the pike from the COVID relief bill that was passed last week. Douglas
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — Ten thousand gallons and not one drop more. That’s how much liquor Nebraska distilleries can produce per year by law. Zac Triemert, president and master brewer at Brickway in the Old Market, said they reached their limit earlier this month and had to stop.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GENESEO, Illinois (WQAD) — A Geneseo woman is warning others to lock their cars, after catching two people on Ring camera video she says were trying to take hers. Nicole Rubitsky caught the video on her home security system at about 3:30 Thursday morning. The video shows two
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While former President Jimmy Carter is often remembered as a strait-laced figure, he embodied countercultural cool in 1976, when he was the Democratic presidential nominee. “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President,” an engaging documentary that airs on CNN on January 3, takes us back to when this largely unknown governor from Georgia — mocked as
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Police in Grafton, Wisconsin, have arrested a recently fired pharmacist they say removed 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from a local hospital’s refrigerator and left them to sit out. Investigators believe the man removed the vaccine “knowing they would not be usable,” a police news release from Thursday says. According to police, the hospital
Continue Reading The World Health Organization has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for lower and middle-income countries to begin immunizing their populations against Covid-19. The vaccine was first approved in the UK on December 8 for emergency use within the country, with the US, Canada and European Union following soon after. All
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Many people will want to put 2020 firmly behind them. But governments around the world have pleaded with people not to see in 2021 with traditional New Year’s Eve parties and street celebrations for fear of accelerating the spread of coronavirus. The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, India and Australia are among the many nations
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New body camera footage released by Columbus, Ohio, police Thursday shows the moments after Andre Hill was shot by a police officer — including Hill’s body being handcuffed as he lay on the ground and a woman telling police he was there to bring her Christmas money and “didn’t do anything.” The Columbus Division of
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Minneapolis police on Thursday released body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a Black man that happened during a traffic stop — the department’s first police-involved shooting since George Floyd died while being pinned down by officers in May. The shooting Wednesday evening involved a man suspected in a felony who Minneapolis Police Chief
Continue Reading Yes, it may be tempting fate. Yes, the 2020 version of this story now reads like a depressing farce. But come on. Something good has to happen in 2021, right? A lot of things that were canceled in 2020 are back on this year. Tentatively. And a lot of commonplace activities that we’ve previously taken
Continue Reading The New York Police Department has asked for the public’s help in locating a woman it says is seen in a short security video clip attacking the son of a prominent Black musician after she falsely accused the teen of taking her iPhone. The video was tweeted late Wednesday by NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney
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Her smile and positive attitude are what her family and school community are remembering as they mourn the loss of a beloved teacher. Zelene Blancas, a first grade teacher at Dr. Sue A. Shook Elementary School in El Paso, Texas, died Monday, her family told CNN. She was 10 years into her career as a
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