The worst violence in years between Israelis and Palestinians showed no signs of letting up Wednesday, as continued Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket fire prompted the United Nations to warn the conflict could mushroom into “full-scale war.” Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza has now killed at least 65 people, including 16 children, and injured more
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Click here for updates on this story TALLAHASSEE, Florida (WALA) — The Florida Lottery announced that Calvin Holmes, 47, of Foley, Alabama, claimed a $1 million top prize from the 50X THE CASH Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $890,000.00. Holmes
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — You’ve heard about firefighters rescuing cats who are stuck in trees, but what about a kitten trapped in a dashboard? That’s what firefighters at the Asheville Fire Department had to deal with Tuesday. Fire officials said, after some mechanic work, they were able
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A Shreveport trauma surgeon will spend 21 months in prison and pay more than $200,000 in restitution following his sentencing Wednesday in U.S. District Court, acting U.S. Attorney Alexander Van Hook said in a news release. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote also ordered
Continue Reading There are no injuries after a midair collision involving two small planes outside of Denver, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. “Two on board walked away with no injuries. Second plane able to land safe no injuries,” the sheriff’s office said in a tweet. Initial reports are that the two planes collided in midair,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A 40-year-old St. Louis man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday, after pleading guilty to carjacking a postal vehicle in April of last year. According to court documents, on April 8, 2020, Bryant Willingham approached a postal employee while they were delivering
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has voted to limit when police can use chokeholds. The bill’s 31-2 bipartisan passage Wednesday in the GOP-led Senate represents a rare step by state lawmakers to take action in response to police violence. Little has been done by Missouri’s Republican Legislature since a white Ferguson police
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FRANKLIN, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Franklin, TN, couple was arrested on Tuesday on charges they attempted defraud an elderly widow of $1.7 million, Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee announced. Karl Hampton, 63, and his wife Deborah, 59, were arrested at their
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — The family of a woman shot while pregnant is sharing their grief after she died on Tuesday from her injuries. Her child remains in extremely critical condition. Metro police said Laquisha Terrell’s ex-boyfriend, Brian Mitchell, shot her at an apartment complex in Antioch last month.
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The Molly Bowden Neighborhood Policing Center in north Columbia includes community meeting space in addition to serving as a northern precinct for CPD, according to a news release. The nearly $10 million project is being paid for with voter-approved capital improvement sales tax revenue.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Jon Nelson and J Nelson Farms checks off all the boxes for your typical farm: dog, chickens, and cows. “Always enjoyed the farming, really loved being outdoors, producing things, the manual labor,” Jon Nelson said. That much was obvious when he a tour of
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisers voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend giving Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to kids as young as 12.
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisers voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend giving Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to kids as young as 12. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices agreed the benefits of vaccinating children and teens outweigh any risks from the vaccine. The US Food and Drug Administration extended its emergency use authorization
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Kansas City police say they have been made aware of posts in Northland Facebook groups claiming there have been a series of attempted kidnappings from big box stores. In a Facebook post, the police department says most of the claims happened along the
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The benefits of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine outweigh any harms, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told the agency’s vaccine advisers Wednesday. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is holding a public meeting to discuss whether to recommend Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in youth as young as 12. The US Food
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Prosecutors have charged a Columbia man with three felonies including murder in a 2017 killing in an upscale subdivision that investigators have tied to a drug-trafficking ring.
Continue Reading The Rev. Megan Rohrer made history when they became the first transgender pastor in the Lutheran church. This month, they again broke new ground — this time, as the church’s first transgender bishop. Rohrer was elected the Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America earlier this month. Throughout their
Continue Reading An investigation that began in March 2020 into Dr. Robert Anderson, a former University of Michigan physician, details decades’ worth of allegations that Anderson sexually assaulted and abused at least several hundred patients and that the university failed to act on reports it received about his conduct. The investigation, completed by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KILLINGLY, Connecticut (WFSB) — The Frito-Lay company in Killingly will expand its operations, the town announced on Wednesday. Gov. Ned Lamont said the company is investing $235 million for the expansion, which is expected to create 120 new jobs. “As we emerge from this [COVID-19] pandemic, we are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A 26-year-old Menasha man is facing charges after investigators say he left a gun on a kitchen table and a 3-year-old boy got ahold of it, and fatally shot himself. The incident happened Saturday, May 8, near 31st and Michigan. According to a criminal complaint,
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