Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) — State lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow for college athletes in Mississippi to profit from their name, image and likeness. House members have said that the bill would apply to student-athletes at all four-year colleges and universities in the State. The bill
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The New York State Department of Health undercounted Covid-19 deaths among nursing home residents by approximately 50%, according to a report released Thursday by the state attorney general’s office. The report preliminarily concludes that deaths were underreported based on a survey of 62 nursing homes, a roughly 10% sample of total facilities across the state.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — Last November, 61% of Florida voters approved an amendment to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour beginning this September, with a one dollar per year raise to $15 in 2026. Republican state senator Jeff Brandes has filed a measure to put a
Continue Reading Spanning 1,400 acres and eight venues, Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary is the biggest cemetery in North America. But the number of Covid-19-related deaths since the holidays have so challenged its capacity that grieving families are having to wait a month for funeral services — and the cemetery has had to order refrigeration units
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A man remains in the hospital as he recovers from injuries he sustained when he crashed into a tree at Prospect Park last week. Family members are praying for David Love’s swift recovery, but bills are adding up. “He was on his way
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — An Omaha boy is out of the hospital after being on life support for eight days while battling multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a rare, life-threatening condition some kids develop after getting COVID-19. Seven-year-old Aydien Weil describes what he remembers during his time at Omaha
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A new Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax was found to be 89.3% effective in a clinical trial conducted in the UK and appears to offer protection against some variants of the coronavirus, the American biotech firm has announced. The vaccine is the first to show it is effective against new variants during trials, with high levels
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/KSMO) — An 80-year-old woman who wandered away from her home during Kansas City’s last heavy snowfall is reunited with her family. Thankfully a watchful, quick thinking 11-year-old came to the rescue. Kansas City police and the woman’s husband were frantically searching that snowy morning
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALINAS, California (KGO) — Video captures the dramatic rescues of a horse and pony that were caught in the mud after a big mudslide in Monterey County. Crews came the aid of the animals Thursday, after they’d been stuck for as long as 18 hours. It happened on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MARSHALL COUNTY, IN (WBND) — An inmate who was in the hospital climbed into the ceiling in an attempt to escape custody, according to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office. Inmate Jeffrey Campbell was taken to the hospital on Wednesday around 9:30 a.m. While in the hospital he was
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The United Kingdom is preparing to welcome potentially tens of thousands of migrants from Hong Kong, with the opening of a new visa for residents of the former British colony this Sunday. Last year, China imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong that critics say has stripped the city of its autonomy and
Continue Reading Strangers are just friends you haven’t met — unless you’re a naked mole rat. Arguably nature’s least beautiful animals, naked mole rats speak in dialects local to their own colonies and are hostile to outsiders, according to a study published Friday. Naked mole rats are “really highly unusual in that they’re the most social rodent
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, IN (WBND) — An officer who stopped a suspicious vehicle seized .75 pounds of methamphetamine, cash and a meth pipe made from baby bottles, according to the St. Joseph County Police Department. A sergeant who was on patrol noticed a suspicious vehicle driving through a
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Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram nearly seven years ago have finally escaped from their captors, a father of one of the girls told CNN. Halima Ali Maiyanga, one of more than 100 young women still missing, called her father to say she and others had managed to flee Boko Haram militants
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The anti-science movement has set up the United States and the world up for a worse Covid-19 pandemic than otherwise would have been, infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez argued Thursday. “An anti-science disinformation campaign of unprecedented magnitude and led by both multinational corporations and some governments, especially the Russian and US Governments, fuels the
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A 16-year-old boy was the victim of an early morning shooting Friday in central Columbia.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, CA (KABC) — Baby on the move! We’re all making do with working from home, but sometimes there are certain things we can’t control. ABC7’s Leslie Lopez had a surprise visitor during her morning weather forecast, making for one adorable news blooper. In the video, you
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The Missouri Department of Corrections says eight prison officers were hurt in an attack at a prison in the southeastern part of the state.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Ashlee Johnson felt a rush of panic early Thursday morning when she awoke to a crashing sound and saw drywall falling from her bedroom ceiling. Her first instinct was to check on her kids. Her four-year-old son Amias was fine, but she couldn’t
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — The unions representing the Nashville fire department and metro police employees have filed grievances with the city, claiming more than 140 employees have been unfairly denied COVID-19 hazard pay. The unions claim the employees were deemed essential and were required to come to work during
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