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Click here for updates on this story     DURHAM, North Carolina (WRAL) — With brush, oil — and a lot of heart — Maria Bennett Hock painted 45 portraits or 45 heroes in 45 days. Every portrait is of an employee at Duke University Medical Center. Hock, a portraitist, longed to give countenance to the faces

Click here for updates on this story     WISCONSIN DELLS, Wisconsin (WiscNews) — The Wisconsin Dells community is helping a retired firefighter and his family rebuild after a fire destroyed their home March 5. At least two online fundraisers and two drop-off donation sites have been set up in Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo to help Chris

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a country’s food security, the United Nations uses the five-phase scale known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Famine can

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Portland City Council has finalized a big settlement between the city and the family of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed by police in 2017. The family of Quanice Hayes sued the city and the Portland Police Bureau after he was shot

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WLS) — A rideshare driver was beaten and carjacked on the South Side Wednesday night after Chicago police said he asked his passengers not to eat in his car. The 56-year-old driver brought the two passengers to a fast food spot in the 200-block of West Garfield

Click here for updates on this story     FLINT, Michigan (WNEM ) — A mid-Michigan family is reflecting on the unusual circumstances in which their twins were born nearly one year ago. “The first year of their life has been anything but normal,” said Andre Laubach. For Jen and Andre Laubach, the past 12 months has

Here are some facts about Bowe Bergdahl, a former American prisoner of war. Personal Birth date: March 28, 1986 Birth place: Sun Valley, Idaho Birth name: Bowe Robert Bergdahl Father: Robert Bergdahl Mother: Jani Bergdahl Military: US Army, 2008-present Other Facts Traveled throughout Europe before enlisting in the Army. Worked as a crew member on

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts Reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar led the Taliban from the mid-1990s until his death in 2013. Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib, which means student. Most members are Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. The

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — A recent study has found that hundreds of species in nine ecoregions across Canada are threatened by habitat and biodiversity loss due to climate change. The study, conducted by the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), analyzed nine “crisis ecoregions” in southern Canada housing

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — Defining the start of the COVID-19 pandemic varies greatly from person to person, officially referred to as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, it was in the days and weeks that followed, with cancelled trips and postponed surgeries, that the severity