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A Houston postal worker delivered more than just the mail to a mom recovering from Covid-19 with her two sons. She left a care package with canned soup, crackers, cookies and other goodies last week on Lisette LeJeune’s porch. “It warms my heart to see such a caring gesture from a stranger,” LeJeune told CNN.

Click here for updates on this story     Missoula, MT (KPAX/KAJ) — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is expanding its recommendation to not eat any fish from the Clark Fork River below Missoula, saying there are too many pollutants for safe consumption. FWP and other state agencies issued recommendations seven years ago telling people it

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A Canadian man learned the man who tried to abduct him years ago, was Michael Devlin. Devlin was sentenced to 74 life sentences and 170 years of federal time after the 2007 kidnapping of Ben Ownby and 2002 kidnapping of Shawn Hornbeck. Kevin

Click here for updates on this story     Missoula, MT (KPAX/KAJ) — The City of Missoula is working to turn a property on the Superfund list into housing. The Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA) approved $36,000 in Tax Increment Financing on Thursday to complete cleanup of the site in Midtown. The city will also need to get

Click here for updates on this story     Idaho Falls, ID (East Idaho News) — Opening an MMA gym was never Weston Barnes’ plan, but he’s grateful for the opportunity. He opened Team Lionheart MMA at 510 2nd Street in September. Barnes is a retired UFC fighter and he tells EastIdahoNews.com interest in the sport has

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Country music artist Tucker Beathard is honoring the memory of his brother, Clay Beathard, by helping others this Christmas season. Nearly a year ago, Clay Beathard was stabbed and killed outside a Midtown bar. Tucker Beathard spoke only with News4 on Tuesday about an

Click here for updates on this story     RURAL SCOTT COUNTY, IA (Quad-City Times ) — Country music plays from a radio as Robb Ewoldt steers his big white Chevy pickup down gravel and paved roads to two hog confinement barns about 12 miles from his home place. Feed and water flow into the hogs’ troughs

Click here for updates on this story     MICHiGAN, USA (WNEM) — A family is mourning the loss of their son after he drowned in a pond. First responders were sent to a home in Shepherd on Dec. 19 at 2:55 p.m. for a 4-year-old boy that fell through the ice on a pond. Michigan State

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — DeKalb police are trying to find the person who shot an 8-year-old girl while she was lying in her bed. According to DeKalb police, officers responded to a person shot call at a home at the 3000 block of Orbit Circle in Ellenwood. The

A newly discovered sungrazer comet was photographed approaching the sun during last week’s solar eclipse before it evaporated into dust particles. The comet was first spotted by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod in satellite data on December 13, a day before the eclipse, NASA said on Saturday. He was taking part in the NASA-funded Sungrazer

Click here for updates on this story     SHARON, CT (WFSB) — A bald eagle rescued by a hiker in Thomaston is rehabbing a broken wing at the Sharon Audubon Center. The bald eagle, which was unable to fly, was found last week near the Thomaston Dam and carried 3 miles to safety. Environmental Conservation Police

The European Union drugs regulator has recommended authorizing the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use, paving the way for the first phase of the bloc’s mass vaccination program to begin later this week. In a closed-door meeting in Amsterdam on Monday, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine a conditional marketing authorization, green lighting

Click here for updates on this story     OREGON, USA (KPTV) — Thousands of people who live in the Columbia River Gorge may face disrupted gas service Monday morning, NW Natural reported. According to NW Natural, a vehicle crashed into a district regulator station around 11:50 p.m. Sunday. Due to the crash, natural gas customers in

Weeks after Dr. Carlos Araujo Preza was treated for Covid-19 in the same Houston-area hospital where he cared for patients during the pandemic, a coworker remembered him as she received the new vaccine that could have saved his life. “A nurse practitioner wrote on a little piece of paper that she got the vaccine for

Click here for updates on this story     WASHINGTON COUNTY, OR (KPTV) — An Aloha man was arrested and charged with a hate crime after he threatened a FedEx delivery driver on Sunday, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. The suspect, 68-year-old Rodney Bryant, was arrested and charged with a first-degree bias crime, unlawful use of

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/KSMO) — Monday marks the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. For 173 families in Kansas City, their longest night was when they found out their loved one had been killed in a homicide. For the past decade, Wornall Baptist

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/KSMO) — Students at Oakwood Manor Elementary created thank you cards and hand-painted kindness rocks with messages to encourage Kansas City firefighters. The service project is in honor of fallen firefighter Bobby Rocha who recently died from COVID-19. North Kansas City Schools teacher Rebecca Dollins

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, AL (WALA) — This weekend 9-year-old Josh Cox’ Christmas vision came to life, giving to children in need. “Some families are less fortunate and we just wanted to help out.” The Mobile boy used his very own money to buy 20 brand new bikes for 10 boys

Deborah Hightower cried and her body shook with emotion as she looked through her windshield at more than 100 cars waiting in line for free food in the mall parking lot. Most of the people had arrived in the pre-dawn hours to receive the offerings from a local food bank. Some of the drivers and

Click here for updates on this story     YORK COUNTY, PA (WPMT) — York County has been the only county in the mid-state without its own morgue. Next year, that will change as construction on the county’s new morgue moves along. Work on the new county morgue is expected to wrap up by mid-February, with the