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Your name up in the sky and among the stars. Sounds like something out of a glamorous Hollywood movie, but it’s a reality for 27 space explorers. The new names honor African American, Hispanic and Native American astronauts, and one cosmonaut to inspire the next generation. Marc W. Buie, an astronomer who discovered the 27

Click here for updates on this story     CAMPBELL, Alabama (WALA) — We are getting video of the aftermath of a reported tornado in Clarke County. One home was destroyed and several others were damaged when the reported tornado tore through around 4:30 Wednesday afternoon on Campbell Landing Road. “This area is a disaster,” said Ramond

State and federal investigators are scrambling to learn more about Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in a string of deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, and his alleged motive. Not much information has surfaced about the 21-year-old from Woodstock, about a half-hour drive north of Atlanta. He is being held without bond in Cherokee

Click here for updates on this story     COWLITZ COUNTY, Washington (KPTV) — A 41-year-old Kelso man, who was wanted for a road rage incident over the weekend, was arrested after a standoff with deputies late Wednesday night, according to the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said John Threlfall was the suspect in a

At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said. “This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference. “When

Click here for updates on this story     DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — DeKalb County police have found a stolen SUV that was taken early Thursday morning with a child inside, but police say the child is still missing. Police issued an Amber Alert for 1-year-old Royalty Grisby, who was in the backseat of the vehicle

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — A family was torn apart Wednesday after their loved one was shot and killed in one of the massage parlor shooting massacres in metro Atlanta. CBS46’s Tori Cooper spoke to the victim’s family who described what took place inside the massage parlor. Margaret Rushing said

Through hushed tones, a woman called 911 from an Atlanta spa Tuesday to say that she believed a man with a gun was going to rob them. “I’m hiding right now,” the woman said. “Please come.” What would unfold was not a robbery, but one of three deadly shootings at Atlanta-area spas — one in

A man suspected of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area spas was headed to Florida “perhaps to carry out additional shootings” when he was arrested Tuesday night, Atlanta’s mayor said Wednesday, citing investigators. His family had helped police search for him, authorities said, perhaps averting further harm that the mayor said “could have been significantly

Former NBA star Jeremy Lin says violence towards Asian Americans is “hitting differently” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Lin was speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper following the killing of eight people at three Atlanta-area spas earlier this week, six of whom were Asian. Lin, who spent nine years in the NBA and currently plays for the

In one sense, it’s immaterial whether the accused killer in the Atlanta spa shootings admits to a racist motivation. Asian Americans, already traumatized by a rising tide of hate, violence and rhetoric, have been living in fear for months. The murders of eight people, including six Asian women, among them four South Koreans, further disoriented