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Nigeria’s airforce has said its plane, which crashed shortly after take-off from Abuja airport on Sunday morning — killing everyone on board — was on a mission to rescue the schoolchildren kidnapped last week. A spokesman told CNN the aircraft was on surveillance operations in Niger State as part of efforts to rescue at least 42

Click here for updates on this story     MISHAWAKA, IN (WBND) — Made in Michiana is back again to introduce a home grown- international book company! Better World Books taking their story telling to a whole new level. “Not too many people know about Better World Books despite having served 100 million customers, we ship to

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — While high school football games are back on in Washington and soon in Oregon, not all schools have the same opportunity to return to play. “For all of the trouble that we went through, for it to just fall apart at the end? It’s

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — 17-year old Maggie Pennington jumped at the chance nearly two years ago when the Boy Scouts program was re-branded as Scouts BSA and young women were invited to join for the first time. “I’m very grateful for all the opportunities Scouts BSA has

Click here for updates on this story     ORANGEBURG, SC (WLOS) — Family members are asking the public for help locating 37-year-old Christina Eckler of Sumter, after she went missing in Orangeburg earlier this month. Officials at the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety (ODPS) say Eckler was last seen at the Motel 6 on US 301

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV/KSMO) — As districts start the process of returning to in-person learning, more teachers are asking for the COVID vaccine. Starting Monday, elementary students who have major connectivity issues, and those at-risk of not completing the grade level will be learning from the classrooms. It

Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) — The family of a beloved 84-year-old grandmother who froze to death during the horrific winter storm is speaking out on the conditions of her death and hope to find who ransacked her apartment shortly after. Mary Gee’s granddaughter Nicale Spencer said police discovered Gee’s

Click here for updates on this story     Houston, TX (KTRK) — One person was killed and two others were seriously injured during what investigators called an illicit underground car meet Sunday night in northwest Harris County. It happened around 9:35 p.m. along the Highway 290 feeder road near W. Little York. One driver in a

The last 12 months have been tolling for Linda Harris, who lives in a small Southwest Georgia city hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m tired of losing grandparents, grandmamas, granddaddys and some of our small children, too.” Back-to-back funerals and a marathon proved to be deadly, as the virus quickly spread throughout Albany, Georgia.

Rights groups are calling for the release of jailed Yemeni journalist Adel al-Hasani after news of his more than five-month detention broke earlier this month. Hasani, who has worked with several prominent media outlets including CNN, was detained at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Aden last September. At the time of his arrest, Hasani

She played a major role in three of the biggest groups of the civil rights movement, but Ella Baker somehow still remains largely unknown outside activist circles. Baker grew up in North Carolina, where her grandmother’s stories about life under slavery inspired her passion for social justice. As an adult, she became an organizer within

Israel is facing one of its most severe ecological disasters ever after a suspected oil spill washed up blobs of sticky tar along its coast. But experts still don’t know the source. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You