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Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — State officials announced on Monday that the COVID-19 vaccine will be opened up to nearly a million people in the next phase, which should start next week. Connecticut’s vaccine distribution panel is expected to meet on Tuesday to talk about facilitating “Phase 1B.” In

Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WLS) — Teachers unwilling to teach from inside their classrooms are expected to teach virtually from outside the building once again Tuesday, according to the Chicago Teacher’s Union. Chicago Public School officials have threatened to dock pay for teachers who are unwilling to return to in-person teaching.

Thousands of babies and children died in 18 of Ireland’s mother and baby homes — church-run institutions where unmarried women were sent to deliver their babies in secret, often against their will — over eight decades, according to a landmark report. On Tuesday, the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — The Kansas City Police Department is holding a board meeting on Tuesday to discuss the 2020 fatality crash report among other things. The meeting will be closed to the public in person. It will be available to watch via live-stream on the City

Click here for updates on this story     PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Steve Wozniak is from New Jersey and says it didn’t take long after moving into his new home to find out that Arizona can get really hot. “We noticed the sun comes directly into the house during the summer time,” Steve told 3 On Your

Click here for updates on this story     TEMPE, Arizona (KPHO/KTVK) — The soft launch of the State Farm Stadium COVID-19 vaccine site and the open registration that began Monday brought frustration for numerous families who tried to sign up. Many seniors say they struggled to make appointments, hitting roadblocks and finding themselves unable to get

Israel is no longer a democracy but an “apartheid regime” devoted to cementing the supremacy of Jews over Palestinians, the country’s best-known human rights group said in a report published Tuesday. B’Tselem, which until now has confined its work to scrutiny of human rights issues in the Palestinian territories, has now also decided to look

Click here for updates on this story     HONOLULU (KITV) — A family in Waialae Iki claims they were robbed at home twice Monday. The second time was by an armed man. Madisyn Goto’s father lives in the house on Laukahi Street. She says a man entered the master bedroom while two people were sleeping Monday

Click here for updates on this story     BROOKHAVEN, Georgia (WGCL) — The city of Brookhaven announced it has filed a lawsuit against DeKalb County over a popular Brookhaven park. Brookhaven Park, located at the southwest corner of Peachtree Road and Osborne Road, is a 21-acre park that has athletic fields and courts, trails, multi-use fields

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — A metro-Atlanta man in critical condition and his fiancé are stuck in the Dominican Republic trying to find a hospital that has room to take them. They cannot find a hospital in the Atlanta area – or the surrounding states — that will take him

Click here for updates on this story     LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon (KPTV) — Lake Oswego teachers are pushing back on the district’s plans to start hybrid in-person learning next month. In a press release titled “Lake Oswego teachers don’t want to die or kill their families,” the education association said teachers responded with fear and anger

Click here for updates on this story     UMATILLA COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — It took a team effort to rescue a snowmobiler after a crash in Umatilla County. The sheriff’s office was notified about the crash at 1 p.m. Sunday. A 56-year-old man was thrown from his snowmobile while navigating an embankment. The snowmobile then landed

Click here for updates on this story     LAUREL RUN, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — State police in Wyoming said the driver of a pickup truck has died after a crash with a cement truck along East Northampton Street in Laurel Run. It happened around 11:30 a.m. Monday. The steep, winding road is also called Giant’s Despair. It’s

Click here for updates on this story     LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — At the beginning of the pandemic, he worked three nights at Lancaster General Health. But, his week was far from over. The next day, a University of Pennsylvania student made an hour-and-a-half commute to Temple University hospital where he worked two nights. His week

Click here for updates on this story     COLUMBIA, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Pharmacists are encountering an unexpected consequence of the COVID-19 vaccine process: at the end of the day, they’re often left with a few extra doses. Many are taking measures into their own hands to ensure those doses don’t go to waste. There are several

A US Capitol Police officer bounded up the stairs of the Capitol building, a growing mob of insurrectionists behind him. Using himself as “bait,” he lured the rioters away from the entrance to the Senate chambers, where lawmakers were still debating an objection to Arizona’s Electoral College vote count. That man is Officer Eugene Goodman.

Following the reopening an investigation into the 2009 fatal police shooting of Oscar Grant, no charges will be brought against a second former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer, the Alameda County district attorney said in a statement Monday. Grant was fatally shot on January 1, 2009, while lying face down on a platform at the

2020 was one of the deadliest years for law enforcement officers in history, according to a group that tracks officer deaths in the line of duty. A report released Monday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) found that 264 federal, state, military, tribal and local law enforcement officers to date died in

The Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced the theme of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration: “America United.” Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Capitol riot  The FBI