There is a split scenario unfolding as the world battles the pandemic. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, jubilant, newly-vaccinated people hug their loved ones after a long period of separation. In India, distraught families count their dead. Sick people are being turned away from hospitals that have run out of
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Click here for updates on this story ANTIOCH, California (KGO) — Antioch Police said a man was shot to death on his front lawn in an apparent landlord dispute on Wednesday morning. Police arrived just before 11 a.m. at a home on the 3500 block of Garrow Drive. They found a 52-year-old man with gunshot
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Last week, our country breathed a sigh of relief as a guilty verdict was handed down against former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Soon after, though, news broke of a police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl in Columbus, Ohio. The day after, Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A North Nashville family continues to relive a day in February when three men, who claimed to be bounty hunters, intruded their home and held the father and son at gunpoint. One of those men is Kahlil Abdullah, who was arrested and put in
Continue Reading [Breaking news update, published at 10:39 a.m. ET] Five people, including two sheriff’s deputies, are dead after a 13-hour standoff Wednesday in Boone, North Carolina, authorities said. [Original story, published at 4:02 a.m. ET] One Watauga County sheriff’s deputy has been killed and another wounded in an armed standoff near Boone, North Carolina, officials said
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — In the same way a sculptor looks at a block of marble and sees a statue, Alex Mixter looks at an old, beat-up house and sees a restored community space. “It really does come down to a matter of what your perspective is, in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — A dog was rescued from an island and is now safe in the hands of staff at a mid-Michigan animal shelter. A contestant in the Freeland Walleye Festival spotted the dog Sunday on Green Point Island where the Saginaw River branches off at
Continue Reading The Ingenuity helicopter has risen to every challenge it has faced on Mars so far. Now, it’s ready to fly even further, faster and longer than before. The 4-pound chopper will attempt its fourth flight on the red planet on Thursday at 10:12 a.m. ET, or 12:30 p.m. local Mars time. Data will begin streaming
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Mobile Area Water & Sewer System (MAWSS) responded to a Sanitary Sewer Overflow on April 25 at 4519 Cypress Business Park Drive. Approximately 552,000 gallons of sewer overflowed into Halls Mill Creek as a result of a corroded ductile iron sewer mainline that is
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — A Gresham family is devastated after two brothers and a cousin were shot in two separate but connected shootings, just a day apart, at the same location. One of the brothers didn’t survive. Alejandro Barajas, 22, was shot and killed Sunday night outside a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Candles and flowers remain at Lents Park in the grass and tucked along the fence line, commemorating the place Robert Delgado lost his life almost two weeks ago. A Portland police officer shot Delgado the morning of April 16, following reports that he had
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — The driver of a van that lost control and crashed on a major interstate Saturday killing six people and injuring several others has been charged with reckless driving and vehicular homicide. Gwinnett County police arrested Monica Manire Wednesday, charging her with six counts
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story WINDSOR, Connecticut (WFSB) — Windsor police are investigating after a hangman’s noose was found at a construction site on Tuesday afternoon. Officers were called to the Amazon distribution center on Kennedy Road following the report that the noose was found hanging from a steel beam on the second
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story IRWINDALE, California (KABC) — Just days after meeting her siblings for the first time, a Moreno Valley woman who was abandoned as an infant finally met with the man who rescued her. Jessica Hicks was able to thank the good Samaritan who found her 30 years ago. Isaac
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RAYTOWN, Missouri (KCTV) — A woman pleaded guilty to property damage for slashing tires on Raytown police vehicles preventing those patrol cars from being used to respond to emergencies until they could be repaired. In 2019, Fisher was charged with property damage for slashing a total of 18
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — John and Carol Hemkens met 45 years ago at DePaul Hospital. She was a nurse and he was a respiratory therapist. “We met in a dark room on the night shift at the hospital,” said Carol Hemkens. They were married just a few years
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Highway Patrol Troop B arrested a man on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and being a minor in possession of alcohol after crash reports say he veered off a road and hit a tree.
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The Missouri Senate met Wednesday and voted 20-14 against Medicaid expansion.
Continue Reading Germany’s intelligence service is putting some anti-lockdown activists under surveillance because of concerns they are attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the federal state. The country’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced on Wednesday that the new surveillance would focus on some members of the ‘Querdenker’ group. The movement has been
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of loss for nearly everyone in the world, whether losing a loved one, a job, or a sense of normalcy, there’s a collective grieving across the globe. In Canada, as of April 28, more than 24,000
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