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Click here for updates on this story     Maggie Valley, North Carolina (WLOS) — Quality time with a mentor grows even more valuable with time. Dave Gildersleeve has been teenager Ryan Stuteville’s Big Brother for eight years. “Me and my grandma used to play this all the time at Cracker Barrel,” Stuteville explained, making his move

Click here for updates on this story     Portland, Oregon (KPTV) — Some essential workers say they feel they keep getting pushed back to get their vaccine, despite potential exposure to the virus everyday. UFCW local 555 represents 29,000 workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington, it says about 28,000 of those are essential. The union says

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new antiviral drug, delivered in a single shot, could be a key tool to slow community spread, according to a Canadian study that shows the treatment may be able to help those with milder cases of COVID-19 recover from the infection much

Click here for updates on this story     Brookhaven, Georgia (WGCL) — The mom of a Brookhaven child, who spent more than a week in the hospital due to complications from the coronavirus, believes now is not the time to return to in-person learning. On Wednesday, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Click here for updates on this story     Jackson County, Mississippi (WALA) — JCSO states that on Thursday morning, the child was crossing the westbound lane of Jim Ramsey Road to get on her bus when the car hit her. The bus was stopped in the eastbound lane. According to JCSO, the child was taken to

Click here for updates on this story     Mobile, Alabama (WALA) — Nearly a week after 21-year-old Bradley Nall was shot and killed, four people have been charged with felony murder in his slaying. Hours after FOX10 News reported that 22-year-old Julian Sullivan was wanted for questioning in the case, he turned himself in and was

Click here for updates on this story     St. Joseph, Missouri (KCTV) — St. Joseph Police, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol have successfully completed a human trafficking operation Friday night. The operation was completed at St. Joseph’s, Bucky’s and Love’s Travel Stop. St. Joseph Police Department, the Buchanan County Sheriff’s

Two days after officials welcomed back students to on-campus instruction, about 100 students and staff across a San Diego County school district were ordered to quarantine due to Covid-19 infections reported across various K-8th grade campuses — raising questions about whether schools in the region are ready to reopen their doors. “While the quarantines so

Four family members, including three children, were killed in an early Saturday morning mobile home fire in Snellville, Georgia, according to Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services. Police were in the area for a separate incident when they called in the fire at 2:19 a.m., officials said. Bystanders tried to get into the home to

US high school volleyball players no longer need approval to wear religious head coverings during matches, thanks to a 14-year-old Muslim player who inspired the rule change. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), which sets competition rules for most US high school sports, announced on Thursday the new rule and said it

China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first picture of Mars, according to the Chinese space agency. Tianwen-1, whose name means “Quest for Heavenly Truth,” sent back a black and white picture of the red planet, which was taken when the probe was around 2.2 million kilometers away from Mars, the CSA said. Launched in

Super Bowl LV will be more than a battle between two of the premier quarterbacks in the National Football League. The crown jewel of American sports will be played Sunday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which, like many sporting venues around the country, has been doubling as a coronavirus testing site during the pandemic

Pro-democracy protests broke out in Myanmar’s largest city on Saturday, with thousands of people taking to the streets of Yangon in the first major organized demonstration since the military seized power in a coup earlier this week. The crowd, many of whom could be seen waiving flags and holding banners, called for the military to

Ruby Alexander just wanted to go to the beach. As a transgender 11-year-old, she struggled to find comfortable, well-fitting bikini bottoms. So, her dad made them. That was two years ago. And since then, RUBIES — the clothing brand the dad-daughter duo in Toronto created — has shipped over 500 pairs to transgender girls around

The former police chief of Rochester, New York said Friday he didn’t see anything “egregious” or any criminal conduct from police officers when he first watched body camera video of the incident that led to the death of a Black man in the city in March 2020. La’Ron Singletary, who was fired in mid-September a