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Click here for updates on this story     HENDERSONVILLE, NC (WLOS ) — A local World War II veteran recently spoke with News 13 about past combat and the current battle to save lives from COVID-19. The interview happened just after his 100th birthday. Decorations were placed on his front lawn this week by family and

Click here for updates on this story     OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT ) — After a snow delay earlier in the week, hundreds of volunteers braved the cold for the Open Door Mission’s Diaper Drive. With over 300 volunteers, two trucks, and 1.1 million diapers, many lives were changed. The remnants of Tuesday’s snowstorm are still lingering

A family of 12 siblings broke the Guinness World Record for highest total combined age, with the oldest at 97 and the youngest at 75. The D’Cruz family has a combined age of 1,042 years and 315 days, and their record was confirmed on December 15, according to a news release from Guinness. Their names

The New York City Sheriff’s office raided three large gatherings during New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, Sheriff Joseph Fucito told CNN. One celebration in Queens had in excess of 300 patrons, who were “consuming alcohol, singing karaoke, and dancing.” Congregants went unmasked, according to the sheriff. The party, held

Click here for updates on this story     COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, Oregon (KPTV ) — More than three years after the Eagle Creek Fire burned 48,000 acres on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, the Eagle Creek Trail has reopened. The U.S. Forest Service for Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area announced Friday that

Click here for updates on this story     WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut (WFSB ) — The new year is bringing changes to Bradley International Airport, as a battle is brewing between firefighters and the Connecticut Airport Authority. On Thursday, 2020 gave one final scare for Bradley Airport as a private plane landed with no landing gear. Thankfully,

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL ) — New Year’s Eve may be over, but celebrations continued Friday with out-of-towners packing bars and nightclubs across Atlanta. CBS46 spoke with a dozen people waiting in line outside of oAK Atlanta in downtown. All of them said they were either from Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV ) — A local woman who lives in downtown Nashville caught bizarre video of two base jumpers leaping from the rooftop of the Grand Hyatt. The woman who sent us the video tells us she was sitting at the rooftop bar around 6 p.m. last

Click here for updates on this story     EAST ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV ) — After 10 months of searching high and low for his missing dog, a Missouri man was reunited with his pooch as the new year began. In February of 2020, Dylan Summers’ disabled dog Athena disappeared from his yard in Bourbon, Mo.

Click here for updates on this story     NUUANU, Hawaii (KITV) — Hundreds received a New Year’s blessing at Daijingu Temple of Hawaii n Nu’uanu on Friday morning. KITV4’s Diane Ako was part of the ceremony – dressed as a “miko” or traditional priestess – helping sweep out the bad luck, and hopefully welcome in good

Click here for updates on this story     OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT ) — “It’s just wonderful to be alive. You don’t know what it’s like but if you think you’re close to it… it’s good to be alive,” Mary Kusek recalled her experience with COVID. She and her daughter Pat Kusek both caught COVID in early

A Massachusetts police officer used his own money to buy Christmas dinner for a family in need instead of charging two women with shoplifting. Somerset Police Officer Matt Lima was called to a Stop & Shop grocery store on December 20 after store security said the women didn’t scan everything that they put in their

Native Americans are losing their elders to Covid-19. As death tolls continue to climb, tribes are struggling to protect some of their last remaining knowledge and language keepers. “Every time one of those elders leaves this world, it’s like a whole library, a whole beautiful chapter of our history, of our ceremonies — all that

The new year begins with the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower on Saturday evening into early Sunday. While it may be one of the strongest meteor showers of the year, a bright waning gibbous moon will likely limit the amount of meteors visible. It’s also notoriously hard to observe due to January’s difficult weather

Being stuck in the hospital is no fun — especially when you’re a kid. So what better way to pass the time than by playing some video games? That’s the idea behind the new Nintendo Switch gaming stations being rolled out to hospitals and health care systems across the country. The gaming stations are the

You’ve undoubtedly seen and heard the phrases in commercials since the pandemic began. “We live in unprecedented times.” “In these challenging, difficult times.” “Out of an abundance of caution.” “We’re in this together.” According to one university, that’s gone on for long enough. In its annual review, Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie,

Malachi A. Love-Robinson, the Florida man who pleaded guilty to practicing medicine without a license as a teen, has been arrested on new allegations of fraud. Love-Robinson, 23, was booked Thursday morning into the Palm Beach County Jail in south Florida on charges of grand theft and fraud, jail records show. CNN has attempted to