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Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES, CA (KCAL / KCBS) — Los Angeles Unified School District students went back to school for the start of the spring semester this week, but some parents of children with special needs say their children are struggling with the online-only format. Silvia Baker, a single working

Click here for updates on this story     HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — OSHA is investigating after a 12-foot concrete retaining wall collapsed Wednesday morning in Hendersonville, killing one man and injuring four others. The wall collapse happened near Hajoca Corporation, a plumbing supply, kitchen and bath showroom, as a crew of workers for an independent

Afghanistan’s intelligence agency have said they foiled an attempt by an ISIS cell of four members to assassinate a US diplomat in Kabul. The US Charge d’Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson, was the target of the planned attack on Monday, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement released on Tuesday. All four

The US has banned imports of cotton products and tomatoes produced in China’s Xinjiang region over forced labor concerns, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Wednesday. The agency said the region-wide ban was “based on information that reasonably indicates the use of detainee or prison labor and situations of forced labor,” saying it

Click here for updates on this story     FRANKLIN, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A 43-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of picking up a woman as a rideshare driver and taking her to a motel and sexually assaulting her. According to a criminal complaint, on Dec. 18, the 30-year-old victim went out to a few Milwaukee bars and

Click here for updates on this story     THIENSVILLE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A historic restaurant in Thiensville is being demolished after a fire destroyed the building in November. Dozens of community members came out to watch the demolition on Wednesday, January 13. “It’s been a heartbreak,” Owner Jesse Daily said. Daily and his wife Barkha opened

Click here for updates on this story     NEPTUNE CITY, New Jersey (WCBS) — One family’s good deed means others won’t go hungry in one New Jersey town, and it turns out their love of giving is contagious. Stephen and Rosalyn Smith stock the Blessing Box standing proudly in front of their Neptune City home. “Crackers,

Click here for updates on this story     WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — The Connecticut Police Chief’s Association says its attempt to recruit is being stifled. This comes after social media platforms rejected a number of ads about an upcoming entry exam. The vendor they use, policeapp.com, is appealing the decision. The president of the CPCA says

Superintendents from Texas, Florida, Washington, North Carolina and other states are pushing for an organized plan to vaccinate the country’s teachers and school staff more quickly, in order to allow schools to open for more in-person learning. “We are all in a race against time,” said Mike Magee, CEO of Chiefs for Change, an advocacy

Click here for updates on this story     COWETA COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — One Coweta County School Board member, Linda Menk, appeared to have posted on Facebook that she had attended the January 6 Trump rally that culminated with a siege of the U.S. Capitol. In her post, Menk claimed, “Just FYI. I’m here in DC

Click here for updates on this story     KIRKWOOD, Missouri (KMOV) — Kirkwood police arrested three people after racist and derogatory’ statements were spray-painted onto three schools Wednesday. Daniel Moore, 18, and Christian Reese, 18, were charged with property damage. A juvenile was also taken into custody. The school district said Reese and Moore are Kirkwood

Click here for updates on this story     Omaha, NE (WOWT) — Two Omaha women are giving a much-needed boost to the Salvation Army’s Winter Night Watch program. Colleen Haack and her sister-in-law, Theresa, are collecting winter clothing to donate to people in need, and they’re doing it right from Colleen’s doorstep. The Winter Night Watch

Click here for updates on this story     CORAL GABLES, Florida (WFOR) — It may not have set a new record, but a giant Burmese python found slithering outside of a Coral Gables home shook up residents just the same. Alicia Perez Carillo and her family spotted the giant snake outside their home near San Souci

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO ) — Voices from within the community are speaking out and want to be heard about two separate trials for four former Minneapolis Police officers involved in the death of George Floyd. The news is not sitting well with some members of the community, especially for

Click here for updates on this story     DALLAS (KTVT) — The family of a North Texas Uber driver is searching for answers after he was killed by one of his passengers. Dallas police say 21-year-old Joshua Scott stabbed, choked and ran over Joshua Miller multiple times. “I normally can handle a lot, but knowing it’s

The universe may be a little darker after a recent discovery has shown that there could be fewer galaxies populating it. A previous measurement by Hubble Space Telescope suggested there were 2 trillion galaxies spread across the universe. Now, the latest research points to only hundreds of billions of galaxies instead. After NASA’s New Horizons

A third of Americans don’t see systemic racism as a barrier to good health even after communities of color have been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers say. The new findings of the ongoing national survey conducted by the RAND Corporation with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation were released Wednesday. Among

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — Chicago firefighters put their lives on the line every day, and the risks of their jobs are ramped up even more during the coronavirus pandemic. But hundreds of Chicago firefighters who got COVID-19 said they were stunned when they were told it is not considered