Three people were pronounced dead at the scene of an active shooting incident in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, according to tweets from Austin-Travis County EMS. There are no reports of other patients, the agency added. Police said on Twitter they are on scene at the incident at Great Hills Trail and Rain Creek Parkway. Austin
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Two people have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting at a Nebraska mall, Omaha police said. The shooting took place Saturday at the Westroads Mall in Omaha. Trequez Swift, 21, was killed. Ja’Keya Veland, 22, was injured and is expected to survive, police said. A 16-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree
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Authorities are looking for whoever opened fire at a tavern in southeast Wisconsin overnight, killing three people and seriously wounding two others, the Kenosha County sheriff said. Gunfire broke out both inside and outside the The Somers House tavern around 12:40 a.m. Sunday, Sheriff David G. Beth said. “It sounds like one person got removed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Tennessee artist’s work has been featured in The Washington Post and The New York Times. His latest piece takes on a huge ambition, summing up life in the time of the pandemic. In one studio, art’s not just made from paint and brushes.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A romantic getaway for a young couple took a violent, almost deadly turn in broad daylight Friday. “I was sleeping it was so early I just heard like 5 shots and that’s what woke me that was my alarm clock,” said Leshon Jones a tenant
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — A partnership of organizations is cleaning parks in Genesee County for youth sports. Quincy Murphy has spent years maintaining Flint’s Dewey Park. “This park here, Dewey Park, is an example you can take one park one project at a time and make a difference,”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday that he expects a decision to be made about the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine by Friday, predicting the vaccine would come back on the market with restrictions or warnings. “I don’t want to get ahead of the CDC and
Continue Reading At least 97 people were injured when a train went off the tracks near the city of Toukh, north of Cairo on Sunday, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. More than 50 ambulances were dispatched by the Ministry of Health to rescue the injured from the train crash. The Egyptian Railways Authority said it was
Continue Reading While her kindergarten classmates spend their free time playing with blocks and running around outside, Paige Tobin has been busy dropping into 12-foot high skateboard ramps, amassing a burgeoning online fanbase, and challenging gender stereotypes. Paige, 6, of Lake Macquarie, Australia, nabbed the world’s attention last week after an Instagram video of her skating in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new case study describes a rare case of severe heart failure in a 21-year-old man after he drank multiple energy drinks daily for two years — revealing the potential dangers of excessive consumption of these beverages. The case study, published in BMJ
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — For Wayne Smith, pain is forged in iron and steel, but also in words. What started as an outlet to channel his grief over the death of stepson Corrie Ellison is now a 680 kilogram sculpture that stands three-and-a-half metres tall and sits
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Samaria Blackwell dreamed of being a police officer. John Weisert would have celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary in the fall. Amarjit Sekhon and Jasvinder Kaur were the backbones of their families and members of Indianapolis’ close-knit Sikh community. Instead of coming home from a normal shift at a FedEx shipping facility in Indianapolis, they and
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What used to be a mysterious new variant first detected in the UK is now the most dominant coronavirus strain in the US. And unlike the original strain of the novel coronavirus, the more contagious B.1.1.7 strain is hitting young people particularly hard. “(Covid-19) cases and emergency room visits are up,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky,
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Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services has partnered with the Missouri National Guard and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to host a vaccine clinic at the Columbia Mall.
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The suspects of the 2018 novichok nerve agent poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, have been linked to a 2014 blast in the Czech Republic that killed two people. Czech police said Saturday that they were searching for two men in connection with a serious crime. Czech police released images matching those
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For days now, as the Covid-19 case count mounted and hospital admissions surged, Canadians seemed dismayed and asked: How could this happen here, where most people dutifully followed public health guidelines? But many of Canada’s health care workers had warned that some provincial governments reopened too quickly after a difficult post-Christmas surge. “So we’re stuck
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When eight people died in a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility Thursday night, the news was compounded by a string of similar incidents that preceded it. Starting on March 16, when eight people were killed at three Atlanta-area spas, the US has had at least 45 mass shootings, according to CNN reporting and
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Nearly a dozen Russian politicians have published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin, saying that he was personally responsible for the life of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who has been on a hunger strike in a penal colony in the Russian city of Pokrov. “The state of health of political prisoner Alexey Navalny threatens
Continue Reading Here is a look at the Scott Peterson trial. In November 2004, Peterson was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, in 2002. Prosecutors alleged that Peterson’s motive for the murders was to escape married life and upcoming fatherhood. Peterson is on death row at San Quentin State Prison near San
Continue Reading Here’s a look at May Day, referred to as International Workers Day in many countries. Facts Celebrated on the first day of May each year. In Gaelic traditions, it is known as Beltaine (or the Anglicized “Beltane”). May Day has shared a date with International Workers’ Day since the 1880s. At the time, labor movements
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