Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WGGB, WSHM) — There was major development Thursday for a Russian immigrant who entered sanctuary in western Massachusetts nearly three years ago. Irida Kakhtiranova left the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence this afternoon, hoping to seek legal residency. “Now, I’m going home,” Kakhtiranova said. Kakhtirnova
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Kalista, an Amur tiger, has died at the St. Louis Zoo. According to the zoo, Kalista was euthanized on March 27 at her Big Cat Country habitat. Zoo officials said Kalista had been receiving treatment for age-related degenerate joint disease for several years and
Continue Reading
The Minneapolis Police Department’s top homicide detective was on the scene after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May, the sergeant who secured the area testified on Friday. Sgt. Jon Edwards, a 14-year police veteran, said he arrived to secure the scene of a “possible
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WILSON COUNTY, Tennessee (WSMV) — Many people are still dealing with the issues from flooding this past weekend. But in Wilson County, some homes are still experiencing high waters. Directly behind the Love’s gas station on 840 in Lebanon there is still flooding from this weekend’s rain. Since
Continue Reading
US Customs and Border Protection encountered 171,700 migrants in March, including a record number of unaccompanied minors, far exceeding the prior month’s totals and continuing an upward trend dating back to last year, according to preliminary data obtained by CNN. The data underscores the ongoing challenge facing the Biden administration as officials scramble to set
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A driver was ejected and died Thursday night in a major rollover crash on I-435 near Interstate 70 in Kansas City, according to police. The gold-colored Nissan was traveling quickly northbound on Interstate 435 around 10:25 p.m., when the driver lost control and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, Pitt County, North Carolina (WLOS) — A child is dead after investigators said he found a gun in a family member’s parked car Wednesday evening. Greenville Police said the gun discharged while the child, age 8, was handling the weapon and he was shot in the abdomen.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KIHEI, Hawaii (KITV) — An an age when some people are becoming grandparents, or even great-grandparents, a Maui man became a father for the first time. Shep Gordon is 75 and his son is eight-months-old. Meet the Gordon family: Dad Shep, 42-year-old mom Katie, and little Benjamin Robert
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia (WGCL) — Thursday, bin trolleys showed up and rolled in to save Andreas Flaten from a slippery pile of headaches. “Finally getting all this taken care of, I was dreading, thinking I was going to have to go through hours and hours of cleaning this
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story IRVINGTON, Alabama (WALA) — On the same day authorities say James Carl Caballero nabbed his kids on Thursday, his estranged wife asked a judge for a protection-from-abuse order. The woman, who is the mother of the two young children, said in her handwritten court petition that Cabarello, 27
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — The Final Four is this weekend for both the men and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments. And a Vancouver based business is filling the stands with fans, cardboard fans that is! “We are filling the entire lower bowl here,” Joe DiPietro is in San Antonio
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WOODBURN, Oregon (KPTV) — One person was killed and two others were injured Thursday afternoon in a crash near the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. At about 12:30 p.m., emergency crews were called out to a two-vehicle crash on Highway 211 at South Meridian Road, about four miles east
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALDWIN COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — Baldwin County and its municipalities said they’re still owed more than $100-million-dollars from FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. County and city leaders met Thursday morning, April 1, 2021 to discuss the problem and decide what the next step is. “They are
Continue Reading
Hungary has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, struggling to contain the latest surge of new coronavirus cases even as its vaccine rollout speeds up. The government announced Wednesday that 302 people died in a single day, bringing the country’s total death toll to 20,737. The government said in a statement that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — There is a coordinated effort underway to help a vessel in distress after a number of its crew members tested positive for COVID-19. The rush is on the find appropriate quarantine quarters for seven crew members still out on the water. The Port Milwaukee took
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SWANNANOA, North Carolina (WLOS) — One of the greatest college basketball coaches in history began his journey at Owen High School, and announced Thursday, April 1, that he will now close his basketball journey at UNC Chapel Hill. Legendary UNC coach Roy Williams retired Thursday with former Owen
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CULLOWHEE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Recordings of local African-Americans made in the 1980s have been upgraded at Western Carolina University. University leaders want the collection preserved so they can better teach race relations. The recordings at Hunter Library at WCU have now been transferred from analog to digital
Continue Reading The international poverty charity Oxfam has suspended two aid workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and abuses of power. In a statement sent to CNN Friday, the charity said it was looking at claims made against senior members of staff in
Continue Reading
Dawit was watching television at a relative’s one-room apartment in Axum, a historic city in Ethiopia’s war-torn, northern Tigray region, in early March when a news bulletin flashed up on the screen. Graphic, unverified footage had surfaced of a mass killing near Dawit’s hometown of Mahibere Dego, in a mountainous area of central Tigray. In
Continue Reading Italy’s government has passed a decree making vaccination mandatory for all healthcare and pharmacy workers with the aim of protecting medical staff, patients and vulnerable people. Healthcare workers who refuse the vaccine will be reassigned where possible to roles where they are not in contact with patients. Where that is not an option they now
Continue Reading