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Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Officers are investigating an overnight double murder shooting of two juveniles near 8th and Olive. Around 11:30 p.m., officers were called to 8th and Olive on sound of gunshots. When they arrived at the scene, two victims were located outside of their apartment.

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A string of shootings across St. Louis left one person dead and several others wounded within a six-hour span. The first shooting happened before 10:30 p.m. Friday in the 4300 block of Gibson where a man was shot in the arm. One hour later,

Click here for updates on this story     EAST ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A MetroBus driver is being honored for his heroic actions Wednesday. Bus driver Nick was driving along his route in East St. Louis when he spotted a toddler sitting in alone in a field near a gated subdivision. Feeling uneasy, he pumped the

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say a 15-month-old girl is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a vehicle in northeast Portland on Friday. At 3:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of an injury crash outside a home in the 2200 block of

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police are looking for a person caught in surveillance video firing a gun through a southeast Portland homeowner’s front door. The shooting happened Tuesday, but Michael Posson, the homeowner, says he didn’t notice the bullet hole until early Thursday morning. He says that’s when

Click here for updates on this story     MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) team said it rescued four climbers that became stuck early Friday morning in the Columbia River Gorge. The sheriff’s office said it received a call just after midnight on Friday of the climbers that

Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. Space missions provide us with an incredible gift beyond knowledge: perspective. More color photos taken by the Ingenuity helicopter this week revealed what it looks like to fly on Mars, with the Perseverance rover making a cameo. It’s astounding to think of a 4-pound rotorcraft

For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. Civil rights leaders and attorneys have converged on Elizabeth City demanding answers and justice after Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office deputies fatally shot Brown and the

The Rev. Calvin Skinner has given hundreds of sermons, but he says this past Sunday’s felt more urgent than ever. “The city of Knoxville has hit its boiling point,” he told CNN. “The case of Anthony Thompson Jr. really solidifies this feeling that enough is enough.” Thompson, 17, was fatally shot by police when officers

In the hills above Sarajevo, thousands of uniform white headstones line the slopes, marking the graves of just some of the victims of the Bosnian War. They’re a constant reminder of the bloody conflict in the early 1990s that claimed the lives of around 100,000 people. This city, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was

One of America’s most famous sporting events takes place Saturday in front of a reduced crowd, a sign that the country is returning to normal but the pandemic remains dangerous, The 147th running of the Kentucky Derby returns to its position as the first leg of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown at Churchill Downs, where

One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars’ worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate program of study, according to admission documents

When you think of Tang — if you think of Tang at all — you probably think of its association with the United States space program in the 1960s. After all, “Tang was chosen for the Gemini astronauts,” as a 1966 advertisement for the classic orange drink stated. Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight mission