Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Shardae Edmonson says it’s been two years since she’s returned to the location of where her younger sister was killed in 2019. “Standing on this is kind of sad, because it’s like it’s bringing back memories of what happened,” Edmonson said. Her sister, 8-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A 19-year-old pleaded guilty to a 2019 carjacking resulting in the death of a 61-year-old nurse in Pine Lawn. According to investigators, Lashawn Clayburn shot Naomi Miller on January 5, 2019 and stole her car outside of her Pine Lawn home as she was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORSYTH COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Two women are behind bars in connection to allegedly kidnapping and stealing thousands of dollars from an elderly woman. The reported incident happened on May 17 around 2 p.m. According to the Forsyth County sheriff’s office, a 77-year-old woman was walking to her
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Elizabeth Skipper, a freelance copywriter in Cincinnati, has done something that might make a lot of people jealous. She’s gone to bed with Idris Elba dozens of times. No, not in the flesh. Skipper drifts off to sleep at night listening to Elba’s deep baritone narrating a story via the Calm app on her phone.
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Many of us start our days the same way: with a cup of coffee or tea. Caffeine is as much a part of our routine as brushing our teeth or getting dressed for the day. Maybe your habit extends to a cup of coffee in the afternoon, or you have a soda with your dinner.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Two Atlanta men and others were sentenced to federal prison for buying millions of dollars’ worth of cigarettes with stolen credit cards. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Mamadou Sow, Demarcus Myree, Boubacar Tivalo, and Jacob James were sentenced for using fraudulent credit cards at
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Here’s some background information about sarin, a man-made nerve agent developed for chemical warfare. Facts Sarin is a liquid that is clear, colorless, tasteless and odorless. Sarin is an extremely volatile nerve agent because of its ability to change from liquid to gas. If it evaporates into a gas, it can spread into the environment.
Continue Reading Here is a look at the life of actor, author and advocate Michael J. Fox. Personal Birth date: June 9, 1961 Birth place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Birth name: Michael Andrew Fox Father: Bill Fox, a military officer (Canadian Armed Forces) Mother: Phyllis (Piper) Fox Marriage: Tracy Pollan (July 16, 1988-present) Children: Esme, 2001; Schuyler and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story POLK COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — The Cedartown community rallied behind a local mom for about one year, after they learned she had cancer. The church, small businesses, and neighbors donated to all her causes. But Polk County Police said that the diagnosis was all a scam. The betrayal
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — As Canada contemplates the use of vaccine passports or certificates, the country’s privacy commissioners are warning that in light of privacy risks, certain conditions must be met before anything is implemented. In a statement issued Wednesday, the commissioners state that governments and those
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new Canada-wide study will look at the effect of using different COVID-19 vaccine doses in Canadian adults to determine if mix-and-matching vaccines yields a strong immune response and how long the response lasts. The study, announced Thursday, will investigate the use of
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Rasha Abu Askar tested positive for Covid-19 less than two weeks ago. So too did her husband, Musa Abu Askar, leaving the couple unable to look after their four young children, a situation that many parents around the world have dreaded during the pandemic. But this couple live in Gaza and their problems are bigger
Continue Reading For over four decades, a doctor from Florida avidly collected baseball cards and sports memorabilia with some items dating back to the 1880s. Now, his collection, which is valued at $20 million, is going up for auction. Dr. Thomas Newman, a neurologist, died following complications from Covid-19 in January, according to his wife, Nancy. He
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The 2017 death of an Asian American teenager in her Colorado home is now being investigated as a hate crime, according to the FBI. Maggie Long’s body was found after officials responded to a house fire in Bailey, Colorado, the FBI said. According to 911 calls, there reportedly were people inside the residence causing damage,
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The US is reporting some of the lowest Covid-19 metrics in nearly a year and officials say we’re finally turning the corner. But vaccination rates have slowed nationwide and are uneven across American communities. For parts of the US, it will be an uphill battle to get more shots into arms. But experts say that
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A United States Navy warship sailed near disputed Beijing-controlled islands in the South China Sea on Thursday — just hours after US President Joe Biden said the US must protect open access to the waterway. The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur performed what the US Navy calls a “freedom of navigation” operation near the Paracel
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There is no such thing as a “safe” level of drinking, with increased consumption of alcohol associated with poorer brain health, according to a new study. In an observational study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers from the University of Oxford studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol intake of some 25,000 people in
Continue Reading Penn State University’s Faculty Senate has approved a proposition to remove gendered language including “freshmen” and “upperclassmen” from course and program descriptions, the university told CNN. The Faculty Senate, which has legislative authority on educational matters at the university, voted on April 27 to pass the changes in proposition ‘AD84 — Preferred Name and Gender
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Several Indian states are facing shortages of a drug used to treat black fungus, a rare and potentially fatal infection that is increasingly being detected in Covid-19 patients, health authorities in the country have warned. The infection, known by doctors as mucormycosis, had been seen in India before the pandemic, but cases are mounting rapidly
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The world’s largest iceberg has calved from Antarctica over the past few days, a giant floating piece of ice close to 80 times the size of Manhattan. The iceberg broke off the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Wednesday. The iceberg is shaped like
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