Pain, trauma and regret spilled out from a Minneapolis courtroom during a first week of critical testimony in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who knelt on the neck of George Floyd. The week concluded with potentially devastating testimony from the police department’s most senior officer, who called Chauvin’s actions on
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Evelyn Colon was one of five siblings in Jersey City, New Jersey, when she got pregnant in 1976 at age 15 by her 19-year-old boyfriend, Luis Sierra. “Back then, things were a little different,” said Miriam Colon-Veltman, Evelyn’s niece. “It was a different culture, a different time, in the 70s. You get your girlfriend pregnant,
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Friday banning the use of Covid-19 passports in the state. The order prohibits any government entity from issuing vaccine passports and blocks businesses from requiring any such documentation. DeSantis cited freedom and privacy concerns as the primary basis for the action, arguing that the implementation and enforcement
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Nine years after being assaulted by a boy she alleges was a student at Eton College, Zan Moon can still remember the moment as if it was yesterday. “I can picture the hallway where it happened, his hands around my neck choking me,” she says. “Then he put his hands down my pants… It was
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A 10-year-old girl bolted down the escalator of a Texas airport and into the arms of a mother who hadn’t held her for six years. Both of them sobbed. “I just told her that she was OK, and that she was with me now. I didn’t have any more words,” says Sonia Almendarez, who feared
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Former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have weighed in on Major League Baseball’s decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s new sweeping election law that imposes significant new obstacles to voting. Obama on Saturday congratulated the league “for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all
Continue Reading At least five people were injured during a shooting outside a bar in Alabama early Saturday morning. Police responded to a call in downtown Tuscaloosa at 2:47 a.m. after shots were fired in a bar parking lot in Temerson Square, the Tuscaloosa Police Department said in a news release. The shooting took place outside of
Continue Reading Philadelphia 76ers’ shooting guard Danny Green surprised a 94-year-old fan with a signed jersey after seeing a tweet from the fan’s granddaughter that went viral. After learning that her grandmother had spent the past year studying the NBA while in quarantine, Lili Gu tweeted her picture with a notepad where she had drawn a table
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — A man was arrested on Thursday after a Process Server came to a home to serve civil papers. Carlos Rodriguez was booked on charges of terroristic threats and two counts of possession of a weapon by a prohibited person. The person made eye contact
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — The future of how employees work is unclear in a post COVID-19 world. Over the past year, many people have been sent home to work. But will that continue once everyone is vaccinated? A new space located near 19th and Howard has been transformed
Continue Reading Major League Baseball’s decision to move its All-Star Game from Georgia in response to a new restrictive voting law is likely to cost the state tens of millions of dollars. The “estimated lost economic impact” from the relocation is more than $100 million, according to a statement from Holly Quinlan, president and CEO of Cobb
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAPEER COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — One person is dead and another is hospitalized after a pickup truck crashed into a tree Thursday afternoon. It happened about 2:25 p.m. on April 1 on Haines Road, east of Roods Lake in Lapeer County’s Mayfield Township. A 40-year-old Lapeer man was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) will resume visitation for inmates at all facilities beginning next weekend. During COVID-19 restrictions, the possibility of inmate visitation varied across counties and facilities. Now the TDOC has opened up all facilities for visitation with modified schedules to
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The mid-air explosion of a Nigerian military jet shown in a video released by Boko Haram was faked, according to a CNN analysis. Conflicting reports had emerged in Nigeria over the video of a downed plane, after the country’s air force disputed claims from Boko Haram that its militants shot down a jet. Boko Haram
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The US is on track to encounter more than 2 million migrants at the US-Mexico border by the end of the fiscal year, according to internal government estimates reviewed by CNN, marking a record high. Here’s what’s happened this week: Harris diving into migration diplomacy. The Vice President and her team are staring down attempts
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CAROLL COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Carroll County investigators call the shooting of a local teen a ‘horrific accident,’ as two families are heartbroken. The teen’s friend was arrested and charged after a backyard target practice went wrong. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office asked for more gun security and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DUNWOODY, Georgia (WGCL) — Dunwoody police responded to reports of a cow blocking traffic in the area of I-285 Westbound near Ashford Dunwoody Road on Saturday morning. The cow fell out of a trailer and began running down the interstate. With help from a bystander who had a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLORISSANT, Missouri (KMOV) — A person was found dead by suicide after barricading themselves inside a Florissant home Friday. Officers were called to a home in the 2400 block of Allen Friday morning. While attempting to contact the homeowner, officers heard a single gunshot from inside of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANE COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — Deputies say a call about a stolen vehicle led to the discovery of firearms and hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs. On Thursday deputies responded to the 27000 block of Lawrence Road that is northwest of Elmira regarding the location of a stolen
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RUTHERFORD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A man is facing several charges, including trafficking methamphetamine and driving while license revoked, after leading deputies on a chase Friday night in Rutherford County. Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office deputies said they attempted to stop a motorcycle for a traffic violation in
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