Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — On Friday a Marion County grand jury found that the police shooting of a suspect in April was a lawful and justified use of deadly force. Police and fire crews say they responded to the 400 block of Ewald Avenue Southeast on April
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Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A local community helped a young boy who had all his snacks stolen from his lemonade stand. 10-year-old Hunter Weaver has been running a lemonade stand in front of Valley Baptist Church in Cherry Grove to save up for some backyard playground equipment
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Women, hopeful families, and health professionals across the country are working to spread awareness during National Infertility Awareness Week. For so many families, the struggle haunts them for years, and in some cases, even a lifetime. Some medical experts believe half of all women
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One year later, 2020 graduates are being given the opportunity to walk across the stage Saturday at Mizzou Arena.
Continue Reading Louis Goffinet never imagined that raising tens of thousands of dollars to help his community through the Covid-19 pandemic could cost him financially. The 27-year-old middle school teacher from Mansfield Center, Connecticut, started making grocery runs last April for elderly neighbors who didn’t feel safe doing so themselves. Soon, he got a similar request from
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An assault that left a 61-year-old Asian man in critical but stable condition Friday night is being investigated by New York police as a possible hate crime. The man was approached from behind on an East Harlem corner about 8:20 p.m., struck in the back and, after falling to the ground, kicked in the head
Continue Reading Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon’s surface in 1969, it became a defining moment for the space age. For the first time, humans truly explored beyond their home — and it won’t be the last. We were witnesses to history once again as two
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is dropping the age of eligibility it is recommending for those who can receive the AstraZeneca vaccine to anyone 30 years of age and older, but it remains up to the provinces and territories to determine
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A Canadian-made COVID-19 antibody treatment is sitting on hospital and pharmacy shelves amid the country’s third wave of the pandemic because doctors say a plan on how to administer the drug was never made. “It’s actually very frustrating that we have a therapy
Continue Reading Three students kidnapped by armed bandits from Greenfield University in northern Nigeria on Tuesday have been killed, a local official said in a statement on Friday. “The armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students,” said Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Kaduna State Ministry of Internal Security and
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The UM System Board of Curators heard information about the proposed tuition increase during a meeting Thursday. A vote is expected when curators meet in May.
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Spring rainfall has come in at 33% higher than normal this year, causing flooding and saturating the ground. The excess water has led to increased demand for the work ServiceMaster does, a company representative said Friday.
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When my husband and I realized that we weren’t going to get pregnant the old-fashioned way, we initially talked to my obstetrician and later on, our fertility specialists. While we were on this roller coaster of emotions, we didn’t even know what IVF (in vitro fertilization) or IUI (intrauterine insemination) stood for. We certainly didn’t
Continue Reading Five people were injured early Saturday in a shooting on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street, and no arrests had been made as of a few hours after the incident, police said. The shooting was reported to police at 1:16 a.m. CT on the street popular with tourists near an address on the edge of the
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If you have unwanted prescription drugs sitting in your medicine cabinet, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be happy to help out. The federal drug agency wants your unused or expired prescriptions for its 20th National Prescription Take Back Day on Saturday — to help ensure homes are safe from drug abuse. When walk-in clinics and
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As the pace of daily vaccinations slides in the US, the Biden administration is directing fresh urgency to one of the biggest political challenges it faces in stopping the spread of the coronavirus: tackling vaccine hesitancy, particularly among conservative and rural voters in the Southeast and Mountain West. The nation’s vaccine supply got a boost
Continue Reading Debris believed to be from the missing Indonesian navy submarine has been found, Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Yudo Margono told a news conference Saturday. Six pieces of debris believed to be from the submarine, which was lost in the Bali Sea on Wednesday, were presented to journalists. The latest update came as hopes faded
Continue Reading Following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, his family has received death threats, an attorney for the mother of his child said Friday. “There have been some threats to the family, which is disturbing,” attorney Thomas Bowers said during a press conference Friday. Bowers said he has received racist calls
Continue Reading In the moments following the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., first responders can be heard on dispatch audio saying a man has been hit and has gunshot wounds to the back. Audio of the call, posted to the archives of the website Broadcastify, includes a dispatcher saying crews are responding to a call of “shots
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By mid-May, the US will likely be coming up against a significant obstacle in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic — more doses of the vaccines than people who are willing to receive them, according to data that is worrying experts. “Facebook runs a survey every day — and we look at that data on
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