Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone who hiked the Horsetail Falls or the Rock of the Ages Ridge trail in the Columbia Gorge on Saturday to report if they saw a 71-year-old man who is lost in the area. Joseph (Joe) Edward Dean,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Nearly one year after Gregory Sledge was killed, the pain for his mother weighs heavy on her heart, intensified by the fact that his murder is still unsolved. “I miss my son everyday. It’s not a day that go by that I don’t think
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story KIRKWOOD, Missouri (KMOV) — Hours after a bear was spotted several times in Brentwood on Sunday, he was tranquilized in a tree and captured Sunday evening, firefighters told News 4. The bear was found in a tree near the intersection of Clayton and Linden in Richmond Heights. It
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FAIRFIELD, California (KGO) — Police in Fairfield ended up taking an unexpected detour Sunday, saving Mother’s Day for several local families. Fairfield PD tweeted that they responded to a collision involving a flower delivery driver. Officers ended up arresting that driver for DUI, but there were still plenty
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The death toll in a bomb attack that targeted schoolgirls in Kabul on Saturday has risen to 85, Afghan officials told CNN on Monday. Another 147 people were wounded in the attack in front of the Sayed Al-Shuhada school, said Danish Hedayat, head of media for the second vice president of Afghanistan. A car bomb
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A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after crashing his bicycle into a pickup truck Saturday afternoon.
Continue Reading Irish musician and mental health advocate Niall Breslin was standing alone in a coffee shop in March when he was approached by an elderly man. After some brief small talk, the man made a surprisingly intimate admission to Breslin. He was deeply lonely. His wife had passed away a few years before, and the pandemic
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Lupus is unpredictable, triggering different symptoms in different patients. A chronic illness, it can even attack many different parts of the body. The condition is an autoimmune disease, which means that a person’s immune system—the body system that usually fights infections—attacks healthy tissue instead. It can cause inflammation and pain anywhere in a patient’s body.
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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — Khadija Khreiss has the equivalent of 35 cents in her wallet today. Tomorrow, she may have nothing. Four streets away, Ahmad Chibly is penniless. Behind him a Ferris wheel, its once gaudy paint now faded, stands tall against Beirut’s Mediterranean coastline. It is a hot, spring day during Ramadan, when practicing
Continue Reading Five days a week, Charlene Brown sends her 11-year-old daughter Nevaeh Bailey to a brick-and-mortar school to learn, in person, in the classroom. As well as being reassured that Nevaeh is getting educated and socializing with her peers, it means that Brown is able to go to work herself. “I work as a physician office
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Public Schools Board of Education will discuss revisions to Policy KKB during it’s meeting Monday night. Policy KKB currently prohibits visual or audio recording on district property unless authorized. Last year, the board discussed the policy, but did not make any changes. Many parents and students had come forward to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s Legislative Session ends Friday at 6 p.m, creating a deadline for bills to become laws in the state. This includes Senate Bill 262, which is set for a third reading Monday. The Missouri transportation investment bill, or Senate Bill 262, would be the first funding increase for Missouri since the 1990’s,
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Interest in the field of public health has risen since the pandemic started. Many hope this means our global tragedy has moved students to work toward a better future. 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
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says federal guidance on wearing face coverings indoors may change soon. Sunday on ABC News, Fauci was asked whether it’s time to start relaxing indoor masks requirements. Fauci replied, “I think so, and I think you’re going to probably be seeing that as we go along, and as more people get vaccinated.”
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Having cardiovascular risk factors from childhood to adulthood is linked to poor cognitive performance in a person’s 30s, 40s and 50s, according to new research that followed children over three decades. Researchers said the study was the first to highlight the impact of lifelong cardiovascular risk factors on the brain at midlife. The more cardiovascular
Continue Reading A joint US Navy and Coast Guard team seized thousands of illicit weapons last week after stopping a small ship in the North Arabian Sea, the Navy said in a statement. The cruiser USS Monterey stopped the stateless dhow on May 6 during a routine operation to verify its registry, the Navy said. A US
Continue Reading As the coronavirus crisis in India spirals out of control and its health care system crumbles, the Indian diaspora in the US is pitching in to help. Sitting thousands of miles away, unable to be there physically to help and feeling the grief and desperation of their loved ones back home, Indian American doctors provided
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The former chief physician of the Siberian hospital where jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was treated immediately after his poisoning last summer has gone missing, Russian state media TASS reported on Sunday. Alexander Murakhovsky is the current regional Health Minister of the Omsk region – promoted in November last year to the position – after
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Six people were killed in a shooting early Sunday morning during a birthday party at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, mobile home, according to police. The suspected shooter — believed to be a boyfriend of one of the victims — is also dead, police said. Colorado Springs police received a call about a shooting just before
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Two wildfires in Arizona have prompted evacuations and scorched more than 6,000 acres amid hot, dry and windy conditions. A brush fire that broke out Friday east of Phoenix, Arizona, has grown to 2,650 acres, according to the state Department of Forestry and Fire Management. The Copper Canyon Fire was about 35% contained as of
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