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Click here for updates on this story     MEDFORD, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say one person was taken into custody after driving a pickup truck into a hospital building on Friday. At about 12:29 p.m. officers responded to Providence Hospital for a vehicle that drove into the building. When officers arrived on scene they discovered a

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Workers at The Blood Connection in Buncombe County say they’re seeing a historically low donor turnout — even lower than during the start of the pandemic last year. Local hospitals are consuming twice as much blood as the community has donated. The Blood

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A 15-year-old is under arrest in Tacoma, Washington, for an apparent attack on an Asian couple seen in a cell phone video that was circulated on social media. The Tacoma Police Department said the suspect is charged with second-degree assault. The video of the attack shows a person wearing a red top running up to

Conflicting reports have emerged in Nigeria over a video of a downed plane, after the country’s air force disputed claims from Boko Haram that its militants shot down a jet. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) strongly questioned the authenticity of the Boko Haram clip which purports to show fighters shooting at the military plane, eventually

US Sen. Chris Coons calls “deeply disturbing” reports and footage of executions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. “New reports and footage emerging from Tigray of extrajudicial killings, murders of civilians, sexual and gender-based violence, and forced displacement are deeply disturbing,” Coons, a Delaware Democrat, tweeted Saturday. His comments come after a CNN investigation found that men

A small boy strolled up to Pope Francis during his Good Friday service, in a surprising exchange at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The boy was followed by a few other children who hugged and chatted with the Pope. The children were part of a special Stations of the Cross ceremony and came from

The American Civil Liberties Union says plans to roll out a standardized vaccine passport must account for social inequalities and privacy rights. Anything short is a “nonstarter.” President Joe Biden’s administration is working to establish a set of standards for people to prove they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19, an administration official said last Sunday. The

The Seattle Police Department has announced plans to remove concrete barriers around the East Precinct, the center of the city’s Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) area last summer. The concrete barrier will be removed and temporarily replaced with a fence, according to a press release from Seattle Police. Broken windows are being replaced and will

Three people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting overnight in Wilmington, North Carolina, police said. Word of the shooting was received at around midnight Saturday and police learned there had been a house party at the location prior to the shooting, according to Lt. Irving, a Watch Commander with the Wilmington

A 15-year-old is under arrest in Tacoma, Washington, for an apparent attack on an Asian couple seen in a cell phone video that was circulated on social media. The Tacoma Police Department said the suspect is charged with second-degree assault. The video of the attack shows a person wearing a red top running up to

It started four years ago with a small donation. Darius Brown dropped off about 25 handmade bow ties at New York City’s ASPCA animal shelter. Hundreds of displaced dogs and cats made their way up north to this shelter following Hurricane Irma, hoping to get adopted and find a new forever home. Brown wanted to

Of the teams competing in the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four, just one of them — Arizona — was on this stage for the first time. The Wildcats were ready for the moment. Arizona, a No. 3 seed in this year’s tournament, stunned No. 1 seed Connecticut 69-59 on Friday night at the Alamodome in

A heart monitor beeps in the background when Andre answers his phone, his voice still slightly raspy. He is recovering from a first round of surgery after being shot as he and dozens of others fled a terrorist attack in the northern Mozambique town of Palma. Andre is in pain but knows how fortunate he