By SARA BURNETT, KATHLEEN FOODY and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press Participants like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies were in the holiday spirit as they stepped off for the Waukesha Christmas Parade. But as they reveled, a red SUV was also heading down Main Street behind them, moving at a pace far faster than the parade. Police
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By Aubry Killion Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — A sergeant in the U.S. Army National Guard is telling his story about losing his dad to COVID-19. Now, he’s urging everyone to get the shot before the holidays. Vaccine events are happening all across the city. People who got their
Continue Reading By Quanecia Fraser Click here for updates on this story BELLEVUE, Nebraska (KETV) — A customer at The Omaha Bakery in Bellevue ordered two turnovers, and in return put forth a huge tip. Mondays tend to be fairly quiet at The Omaha Bakery in Bellevue. However, last Friday was anything but that. “Everybody was freaking
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch coronavirus infection numbers have hit a new weekly record, climbing 39% while hospital and intensive care unit admissions also rose sharply. The latest evidence of a surge in COVID-19 cases came Tuesday, a day after the government introduced legislation to parliament that would clear the way to restrict access
Continue Reading By KENDALL KEYS, JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story MICHIGAN (WNEM) — The opioid epidemic is trending in the wrong direction as overdose deaths continue to rise jumping nearly 30 percent from last year across the country. “Before COVID hit, we had the first dip in over a long time. And then
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month. Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father, the first American in
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month. Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father, the first American in
Continue Reading By Matt Reed Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A health clinic in Massachusetts is getting national recognition when it comes to transgender care. Advocates said Transhealth Northampton could be a model for other communities to serve patients who often have to travel hours for basic care. “They have patients
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A prosecutor is arguing that the three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery have no right to claim self-defense because they were the ones who first approached the 25-year-old Black man while he was running in his neighborhood. In her final closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutor
Continue Reading By JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story https://www.wnem.com/news/three-homes-destroyed-after-explosion-in-flint/article_85225dbe-4c0c-11ec-b0f5-2f0388190851.html?block_id=994426 (WNEM) — First responders are on the scene of a house explosion in the city of Flint. At 9:37 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 22, Consumers Energy received a call about a home explosion in the 3900 block of Hogarth Avenue. Hogarth Avenue between Austin
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By Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The families of the “Groveland Four” got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, granted the State’s motion to posthumously dismiss the indictments of Ernest Thomas and Samuel
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By Stella Chan, CNN The crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others was an “horrific accident,” but the county did not cause it and Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit claiming photos taken at the crash scene were leaked should be dismissed, lawyers for Los Angeles County said in a court filing Monday. “County personnel
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By Devon M. Sayers, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Travis Caldwell, CNN The prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial sought Tuesday to simplify the events that led to Arbery’s death, taking the podium the day after defense teams spent much of their closing arguments trying to criminalize Arbery, alleging he brought his death on himself.
Continue Reading By Lauren Adams Click here for updates on this story PAOLI, Indiana (WLKY) — Nola is an answer to a prayer after Tessa and Keegan Higgs tried for years to start a family. They were already fostering a child named Jackson when they were notified by the Department of Children and Family Services that Nola
Continue Reading By NATHAN VICKERS Click here for updates on this story TOPEKA, Kansas (KCTV) — Both chambers of the KS legislature passed versions of a bill pushing back on federal vaccine requirements. The house bill requires employers to honor religious exemptions. It also outlines procedures for employees to file complaints with the Department of Labor over
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By Becky Anderson, Eoin McSweeney, Zeena Saifi and Noon Salih, CNN Sudan’s newly reinstated prime minister told CNN on Tuesday that he compromised in a deal with the country’s military in order to “avoid bloodshed” and a civil war. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other ministers were detained during a military coup last month that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters responded to a single-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on Interstate 70 in east Columbia. According to the Columbia Fire Department, the crash happened in the eastbound lanes near mile marker 130 around 7:20 a.m. Firefighters posted a photo to Twitter that showed a yellow car in the median of I-70. The car
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks are off to a mostly lower start on Wall Street Tuesday as drops in several big technology companies offset gains in other parts of the market. The S&P 500 index slipped 0.2% in the early going and the tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled back 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave back an
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks are off to a mostly lower start on Wall Street Tuesday as drops in several big technology companies offset gains in other parts of the market. The S&P 500 index slipped 0.2% in the early going and the tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled back 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave back an
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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — For the fifth decade in a row, a federal judge will decide on how to draw County Council lines in St. Louis County after Republicans and Democrats on the redistricting commission failed to reach agreement. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the last time the 14-member Bipartisan Reapportionment Commission successfully drew
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