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Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — St. Louis police officers will now face the same disciplinary process as other city employees. During a Tuesday vote, the St. Louis Civil Service Commission voted in support of repealing a measure that allowed police officers different rules for discipline. Civil Service Rule XIX,

Click here for updates on this story     FERGUSON, Missouri (KMOV) — Hundreds of pieces of mail were found in a dumpster behind a Ferguson business Monday night. The man who found them, Jonathan Tremaine Thomas, said he has no idea who did it or why. He found the mail after going to drop something off

Click here for updates on this story     HILLSBORO, Oregon (KPTV) — Firefighters say spontaneous combustion is responsible for a fire at an apartment complex in Hillsboro that started Tuesday morning. At 10:30 a.m. fire crews got a report to an automatic commercial fire alarm at 305 Southeast Edgeway Drive in the Wyndhaven Apartment complex. More

Click here for updates on this story     VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — Washingtonians have avoided further COVID-19 restrictions, but they aren’t moving any closer to fully reopening either, as Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday announced a “two-week pause” on moving between phases. It comes as COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations have been on the rise, but

Click here for updates on this story     OTIS, Oregon (KPTV) — Oregonians who lost their homes during the historic wildfires debate rebuilding as timber prices continue to rise. Dezarae Lawrence says the cost to rebuild a 1,500 square foot house is about $20,000 more expensive than last year just in lumber costs. She says it’s

Click here for updates on this story     NEW HANOVER COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — More allegations of sexual misconduct involving students are coming out against a former New Hanover County Schools teacher. Three additional former students have joined the lawsuit against former Laney High School and Isaac Bear Early College High School teacher Michael Kelly.

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Two weeks after clearing homeless campsites, the city of Asheville is weighing long-term solutions to address homelessness. A plan proposed during the city council’s April 27 budget work session includes a $10 million budget to increase long-term shelter options. The funding accounts for

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) says there have been 6,789 confirmed COVID-19 cases in those who have received the first dose of a vaccine out of more than 13 million people who have been vaccinated. In an emailed statement to CTVNews.ca,

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — After the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recently doubled down on its recommendation that mRNA vaccines are “preferred” over their viral vector-based counterparts in the fight against COVID-19, questions have been raised about the vaccines’ differences. So far, Health Canada has currently authorized

Family members of the missing 22-year-old airman found his body Tuesday morning off the Texas Coast, according to the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office. Elijah Posana, 22, was swimming approximately 100 feet from shore at Surfside Beach near Freeport, Texas, Sunday when an individual saw him pulled away by a rip current, according to a news

Stars experience very violent lives that usually end in dazzling explosions, and scientists have tried for years to determine what happens to massive stars just before this bombastic finale. Now, an unusual supernova is helping researchers piece more of that stellar puzzle together. An international team of researchers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to observe

Germany is considering new plans to give extra rights and freedoms to people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The proposed changes to the existing pandemic rules would involve lifting certain social contact and movement restrictions. Inoculated and recovered people will no longer need a negative test if they want to go shopping, to

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just released new national climate normals, and no, it’s not your imagination. Your city really is getting warmer. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox

An aircraft crashed into a home late Tuesday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the police department said. Two people died in the incident, the Hattiesburg Assistant Fire Chief Danny Wade said, according to CNN affiliate WDAM. Emergency personnel on the scene said it was a small civilian plane, WDAM reported. The Federal Aviation Administration has been contacted

An aircraft crashed into a home late Tuesday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the police department said. Two people died in the incident, the Hattiesburg Assistant Fire Chief Danny Wade said, according to CNN affiliate WDAM. Emergency personnel on the scene said it was a small civilian plane, WDAM reported. The Federal Aviation Administration has been contacted

An aircraft crashed into a home late Tuesday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the police department said. Two people died in the incident, the Hattiesburg Assistant Fire Chief Danny Wade said, according to CNN affiliate WDAM. Emergency personnel on the scene said it was a small civilian plane, WDAM reported. The Federal Aviation Administration has been contacted

An aircraft crashed into a home late Tuesday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the police department said. “Emergency personnel responded to a report of a downed aircraft on Annie Christie Drive around 11:20 p.m.,” the Hattiesburg Police department said on Twitter early Wednesday morning. When authorities arrived at the scene, “it was confirmed that a civilian aircraft

Painted a camouflage patchwork of gray and green, Ukrainian coastguard Boat 23 cuts through the rolling swell of the turbulent Sea of Azov. At the stern, a gunner tightly grips the handles of a single heavy machine gun bolted to the rear, carefully scanning the horizon for any threat. An hour into the coastal patrol,

A plane crashed into a home late Tuesday in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the police department said. “Emergency personnel responded to a report of a downed aircraft on Annie Christie Drive around 11:20 p.m.,” the Hattiesburg Police department said on Twitter early Wednesday morning. When authorities arrived at the scene, “it was confirmed that a civilian aircraft

Seven people were arrested after authorities found the mummified remains of a woman who was the leader of a controversial religious group inside a rural Colorado home last week. An arrest affidavit from the Saguache County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) said that deputies searched a home in Moffat last Wednesday after a man who lived there