Click here for updates on this story BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (WTIC/WCCT) — Governor Ned Lamont announced on Thursday that the state has issued a $10,000 fine against owners of the property at 456 Connecticut Avenue in Bridgeport, the location of the Mango Z Sports Bar, for violating the state’s COVID-19 gathering size restrictions. The fine is
Continue Reading More than 2,500 partygoers attended an illegal New Year’s rave in the region of Brittany in France, despite the government’s strict coronavirus restrictions and a national night-time curfew. “In the early evening of December 31, several hundred vehicles began to converge on an industrial area in the town of Lieuron to set up a rave
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WTIC/WCCT) — The internal investigation into a “dead pool” wager inside the Hartford Police Department has been completed. Three Major Crimes Division supervisors who were under investigation will face discipline, according to Police Chief Jason Thody. The investigation focused on a group text message sent by
Continue Reading
Check back for updates on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue Reading
As the world ushered in 2021, the US set a Covid-19 hospitalization record for the fourth straight day and left behind its deadliest month of the pandemic. The high counts are a grim reminder that even with 2020 behind us, the pandemic continues to ravage parts of the country. And some local leaders warn the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV ) — Local non-profit groups are gearing up to give more help to survivors of the Nashville bombing. Their goal, to bring in the new year with new hope. On Friday at 1PM, the Community Resource Center will start offering hygiene kits as well as
Continue Reading
FRIDAY LATE MORNING UPDATE: The worst of the conditions will be in our western counties. That’s in the process of changing over to snow if it hasn’t already and will start to pull east. Most locations east of HWY 65 have replaced freezing rain with near freezing drizzle. Temperatures will play an important role-if we
Continue Reading
An ABC 17 News crew said an ambulance was seen partially off the roadway near the Silvey Street intersection.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLLINSVILLE, Illinois (KMOV ) — A man was killed while warning oncoming drivers of a previous crash on an icy Interstate 255 in the Metro East early New Year’s Day. The 38-year-old man was involved in a crash on the interstate near Black Lane around 1 a.m. Police
Continue Reading
It’s been a deadly year, and that’s not just due to Covid-19. Despite less activity outside with the closing of businesses and schools, 2020 saw a dramatic increase in homicides. Between January and October, there was a 29% increase in homicides compared to the same timeframe in 2019, according to a November report from the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SYLVA, NC (WLOS) — The only man in more than 200 years to be bestowed as Beloved Man by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will have a highway in Swain and Jackson counties dedicated in his honor. The Tribal Council bestowed Dr. Jerry Wolfe the honorable title
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — Many mountain distilleries stepped up to fill a pandemic need, now they’re facing hefty fees for the work. The FDA has reached out to many, charging them a $14,000 fee — a fee typically charged to drug manufacturer facilities — for production of hand
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — Douglas County set aside $10 million in CARES Act funds for rent assistance this summer, and there’s still roughly $2 million to be spent. That’s along with whatever amount comes down the pike from the COVID relief bill that was passed last week. Douglas
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — Ten thousand gallons and not one drop more. That’s how much liquor Nebraska distilleries can produce per year by law. Zac Triemert, president and master brewer at Brickway in the Old Market, said they reached their limit earlier this month and had to stop.
Continue Reading
Missouri state troopers say an early New Year’s Day DWI crash closed Highway 50 just outside of Jefferson City.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GENESEO, Illinois (WQAD) — A Geneseo woman is warning others to lock their cars, after catching two people on Ring camera video she says were trying to take hers. Nicole Rubitsky caught the video on her home security system at about 3:30 Thursday morning. The video shows two
Continue Reading
The UK’s chief medical officers have defended a decision to delay second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in order to prioritize first doses, saying it will protect as many vulnerable people as possible while the coronavirus is running rampant. The new strategy, announced Wednesday by the head of the UK’s medicines regulator MHRA, means that
Continue Reading
While former President Jimmy Carter is often remembered as a strait-laced figure, he embodied countercultural cool in 1976, when he was the Democratic presidential nominee. “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President,” an engaging documentary that airs on CNN on January 3, takes us back to when this largely unknown governor from Georgia — mocked as
Continue Reading
Bringing the Covid-19 pandemic to an end will require the active participation of religious Americans, who should view vaccines as an answered prayer rather than a threat to their faith. 2020 was a humbling year. Nobody’s life was left untouched by a virus that took the lives of more than 344,000 Americans and 1.8 million
Continue Reading
As the US ushered in 2021, more than 125,300 Covid-19 patients remained hospitalized — another record for the fourth day in a row. The high count is a grim reminder that even with 2020 behind us, the pandemic continues to ravage parts of the country. And some local leaders warn the worst is still ahead.
Continue Reading