Officials at Fort Bliss have moved to court-martial a private first class accused of the sexual assault of a fellow soldier who was found dead on New Year’s Eve. Pfc. Asia Graham, 19, was found unresponsive in her barracks on December 31, Fort Bliss said in a press release issued January 2. Special agents for
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It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for 9-year-old Braeden Lousier-Hicks of Airdrie, Alberta, who has an extremely rare genetic disease. After the family waited five years to go on a charity-sponsored trip to Hawaii, it was postponed indefinitely due to Canada’s Covid-19 restrictions. His mother, Lia Louiser, says the heartbreak of
Continue Reading A massive search operation is underway in Indonesia to find the wreckage of a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from the capital Jakarta on Saturday with 62 people on board. Sriwijaya Air flight 182 — a Boeing 737-500 — was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on
Continue Reading A horrifying video from Wednesday’s Capitol riots showed an officer crushed between waves of a pro-Trump mob and officers defending the building. During the confrontation, captured on video by investigative outlet Status Coup, one officer was pinned between a door and the masses of people. At least one individual attempted to rip away the officer’s
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A Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people on board is feared to have crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on
Continue Reading The woman who was caught on video falsely accusing the 14-year-old son of a popular Black musician of cell phone theft has been charged with two counts of attempted assault, New York police said. Miya Ponsetto, 22, of Piru, California, also faces attempted robbery and grand larceny charges as well as a charge of acting
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The NFL playoffs are here. Beginning Saturday, 14 teams will face off for the honor of playing in the much-anticipated Super Bowl LV, scheduled for February 7. With games being played during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the season has been anything but typical. Now, though, we’ve reached the postseason. Here’s what you should know going
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2020 will be remembered for many unpleasant reasons — the global pandemic, political unrest, sky-high unemployment — and now we can add a record number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters to the list. An astonishing 22 separate weather and climate disasters costing over $1 billion each occurred in the US in 2020, the National
Continue Reading Firefighters in Florida this week helped rescue a bald eagle with a fishing hook stuck in its beak and the attached line wrapped around its wing and beak. Firefighters at Pasco County Fire Rescue Station 21 on Thursday were greeted by two children holding the injured bald eagle and seeking help, according to the station’s
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Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, last summer found themselves facing a massive show of force: military helicopters hovering over the city, National Guard troops patrolling the streets and tear gas filling the air. When a mob of President Trump’s supporters broke into the US Capitol on Wednesday, they were confronted by a far
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A man and a woman were shot and killed in Spanish Lake Friday night. Officers with the St. Louis County Police Department found a man and a woman shot in the 11000 block of Lilac Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. The woman was
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The police officer who died after a mob of President Trump’s supporters invaded the US Capitol on Wednesday was a New Jersey native who had served in the National Guard. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick died Thursday night “due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” Capitol Police said in a statement. He was one of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHEROKEE, N.C. (WLOS) — When you first walk into Indian Ink Studio, you instantly see there are a lot of options. Under the roof of what was at one time only a tattoo studio, now houses a retail space, barber’s chair, tanning bed, hair styling and cosmetic tattooing.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTHUMBERLAND, PA (WNEP) — Joe Diblin was a familiar face on Newswatch 16 throughout the years. The Air Force veteran from Northumberland enjoyed sharing his memories of World War II, both good and bad. Diblin died this week from complications with COVID-19 at the age of 103. “Joe
Continue Reading The Los Angeles Clippers found out just how hot Stephen Curry can be after allowing the Golden State Warriors to come from a 22-point deficit. It’s not like NBA fans have not seen this kind of performance from Curry before, but Friday night felt like the Warriors star was on another level. Curry hit 9
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Pope Francis has said the Vatican will begin Covid-19 vaccinations next week and that he is in line to receive the shot. The pontiff made the comments during an interview with Italy’s Canale 5 channel, set to air on Sunday night. “It is an ethical duty to take the vaccine, here in the Vatican we
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As images and social media posts of Wednesday’s insurrection at the US Capitol circulate online, some of those who were present are being identified, and some have lost or left their jobs because of it. A man wearing his Maryland company’s ID is terminated Navistar, a direct marketing company in Maryland, announced that an employee
Continue Reading Aaron Rodgers is showing his charitable side by throwing $500,000 to the Barstool Fund, a non-profit organization helping small businesses struggling in the pandemic. Barstool President Dave Portnoy hosted the Green Bay Packers’ quarterback on an Instagram live Friday not knowing what Rodgers wanted to discuss. But shortly into the conversation, Rodgers made his intentions
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — When an elderly woman got a call this week informing her someone would be stopping by her house the following afternoon to give her a COVID-19 vaccine, nothing seemed amiss. After all, the caller had key details. “I just thought it was a result
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