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Plastic will be the likely calling card of our time on Earth when modern sites are excavated by future researchers. And plastic is leaving its mark at historic sites as well, according to a new study. Castell Henllys is the site of an Iron Age village in the Welsh Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It was

Click here for updates on this story     ANNANDALE, New Jersey (WCBS) — With their baby sister battling leukemia, five siblings stepped up to see if their bone marrow could be a match, and the results were unbelievable. Meet the Hewitt siblings — Justine, Kurtis, Morgan, Colin, Andrew and Ian. In September, 15-year-old Morgan, the baby

Click here for updates on this story     DALLAS (KTVT) — MIS-C is multisystem inflammatory syndrome and it develops in children with COVID-19 days and weeks after infection. With a lot unknown about its long-term impact on ones health, parents are warning others to be on a close lookout. One day Natalie Torrez was a joyful

Click here for updates on this story     NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A 16-year-old Montgomery County boy has been arrested in the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman inside her Norristown home. Police charged Victor Bell Jr. with third-degree murder, possessing an instrument of crime and manslaughter. Officers found 23-year-old Diamond Rahatt suffering a gunshot wound

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — H&R Block is getting flooded with complaints after millions of stimulus checks wound up in the tax preparer’s hands instead of those of their customers. As the company sorts through what happened, we are hearing about other IRS messes too. CBS 2’s Lauren Victory talked

Click here for updates on this story     HANOVER, Md. (WJZ) — Police are searching for a man after he allegedly threatened an employee with a gun, pushed down another after they both asked him to wear his mask correctly in an Arundel Mills Mall store. At around 4:20 p.m. on Monday, a store employee at

Click here for updates on this story     ELKTON, Md. (WJZ) — A Cecil County man earned the first-ever state record for the invasive flathead catfish, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Joshua Dixon caught a 57-pound, 50-inch long flathead catfish, or Pylodictis olivaris, on Dec. 27, 2020 while he was fishing near the

Father Michael Pfleger, senior pastor of the St. Sabina parish in Chicago, is “devastated, hurt” and angry after being asked to step aside after an allegation was made against him of sexual abuse of a minor, Pfleger said in a post on his Facebook page. In the post, the social activist said his “life is

Click here for updates on this story     GRANITE BAY, California (KOVR) — For the first time, we are hearing from the man who lives in the Granite Bay mansion that hosted hundreds in a New Year’s Eve bash, feared to be a super-spreader party. And we’re learning he’s also got a controversial past, with a

Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A San Francisco couple that got stranded in New Zealand due to coronavirus restrictions has been reunited with their dogs, Whiskey and Waffles after living nearly 10 months apart. Michelle Paulson and Eric Denman left the dogs with a dogsitter in San Francisco last

Click here for updates on this story     DAVIS, California (KOVR) — Donating your stool could get you a shopping spree. UC Davis is paying for poop for its latest study. The smelly study is giving 20 volunteers a $75 Target gift card for their trip to the golden throne. “I think ew, like that kind

The Rev. Raphael Warnock is the latest HBCU grad breaking barriers and standing up to shape the nation. Students and alumni from historically Black colleges and universities around the country are celebrating Warnock winning his US Senate race in Georgia, hoping it will change the misconceptions around the institutions’ quality of education and graduates’ social

Click here for updates on this story     LOMA LINDA, California (KCAL/KCBS) — Doctors and nurses in San Bernadino County are swamped as a surge of COVID-19 patients continues to pour into hospitals. Tad Worku, a trauma nurse at Loma Linda University Medical Center, heals patients in many ways and helps them to recover by managing

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — A 38-year-old Zimmerman man is accused of assaulting a Minnesota State Patrol trooper after he crashed his vehicle in Brooklyn Center. Authorities say he was arrested with help from a good Samaritan who stopped to assist the trooper According to the Hennepin County Attorney’s

Click here for updates on this story     LOWELL, MA (WBZ) — A pair of Lowell police officers are being praised for “beyond the call of duty thoughtfulness” after they brought groceries to an elderly woman whose items were run over by a car. Last month the elderly woman was taken by van to her weekly

Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — A fourth grader from Parker has a steel bar behind her sternum. It was surgically placed there to push her sunken chest into a normal position. With the fix, Mackenzie Kurko is breathing easier. “Hey Mackenzie, how are you doing?” asked Dr. Steve Rothenberg during

A Washington, DC, church unveiled a massive Black Lives Matter banner Wednesday morning to take a stand against violence just hours before a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol. The National City Christian Church erected the 16-foot banner ahead of protests over Congress certifying the election for President-elect Joe Biden. “As followers of Jesus Christ,