An attorney representing the family of George Floyd told CNN on Sunday being in the courtroom for the trial of the former police officer accused of killing Floyd has been “heart-wrenching.” The highly anticipated trial of Derek Chauvin began Monday with video showing Floyd’s final moments. Chauvin, 45, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree unintentional
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Jordan’s government has accused former crown prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of the country’s ruler King Abdullah II, of plotting to “destabilize” the country. The move exposes a rift at the heart of the country’s royal family, and follows Hamzah’s announcement this weekend that he had been forced into isolation. The nation’s Deputy Prime
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A possible military explosive training device was discovered on the shore of a popular Florida beach early Sunday. The device, believed to be a sea mine, washed ashore in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, a small beachfront town just north of Fort Lauderdale, Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carey Codd said in a news release. Naval mines are explosive devices
Continue Reading We all know face masks can be troublesome to wear. They can irritate your skin, hurt your ears and fog up your glasses. That’s why the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched the $500,000 “Mask Innovation Challenge” to find new and effective masks people will find more comfortable to wear. Contest participants
Continue Reading After someone broke into an Augusta, Georgia, restaurant over the weekend, the owner of the business responded in an unusual way: He offered the suspect a job. “No police, no questions. Let’s sit down and talk about how we could help you and fix the road you’re on,” Carl Wallace wrote in a Facebook post,
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Rapper DMX remains hospitalized and on life support in White Plains, New York, his longtime attorney Murray Richman confirmed to CNN on Sunday. The rapper suffered a heart attack Friday around 11 p.m. at his home in White Plains and was taken via ambulance to a local hospital, where he remains on a ventilator, Richman
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Parents speaking with children about anti-Asian racism should teach them cultural pride, warn them about racism before it happens, and embolden them to call it out, experts recommend. The University of Toronto recently found reported anti-Asian racist incidents in Canada have more than tripled
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Response teams in Manatee County, Florida, are trying to prevent a “real catastrophic flood situation” in the Piney Point reservoir area, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday after taking an aerial tour of the area. The governor assured the public that the water being discharged to nearby Port Manatee, on the Gulf Coast, is not radioactive.
Continue Reading The number of shootings in Chicago in the month of March — and the number of shooting victims — are at their highest in four years, according to data from the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Police’s Monthly Crime Newsletter on city shootings and crime statistics reported the increases in both the number of shootings
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The Atlanta Braves altered their uniforms Saturday ahead of their game against the Philadelphia Phillies, with the All-Star Game patch the team sported on their jersey’s for opening day noticeably sewn over. The alteration came after Major League Baseball announced they were pulling the 2021 All-Star Game from Georgia — in response to the recently
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A toddler was grazed by a bullet in a triple shooting in south St. Louis City early Saturday evening. Officials with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said three people arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds. One of them was a 2-year-old
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 279 news cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total to 490,927 since the start of the pandemic. No new deaths were reported on sunday, keeping the number at 8,504 deaths throughout the Show Me State. The part of the state’s COVID-19 dashboard monitoring deaths has
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story STORRS, CT (WFSB) — University of Connecticut freshman and women’s basketball guard Paige Bueckers has been selected for two additional honors for 2021. Bueckers was selected as the 2021 Jersey Mike’s Nasmith Trophy winner and named to the WBCA NAAA Division I Coaches’ All-American team. Bueckers is the
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Ian Haydon helped test Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine last year. Now, he’s helping test the tweaked version of that vaccine designed to fight a new, more contagious variant. “A year ago I tried the Moderna vaccine to see if it was safe. (Spoiler: It is!) Now, on my #COVIDvaccine anniversary, I’m happy to share that I
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As the backlash to Georgia’s restrictive voting law intensified last week with big corporations like Delta and Coca-Cola criticizing the law and Major League Baseball announcing it was moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, the politics of threats and counter threats became so fierce that it was difficult to determine whether the corporate moves
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — As COVID-19 cases drop and vaccinations ramp up reports show people all across the country are beginning to return to their houses of worship. After more than a year of YouTube sermons, zoom meetings and outdoor prayer, members of All Saints Episcopal Church will
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Some health experts warn the United States may be on the cusp of another Covid-19 surge if Americans aren’t careful — just as the country races to vaccinate more people. There are two key things the US can do to prevent more infections, hospitalizations and deaths, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN. “A, you keep pushing
Continue Reading A suspect with his hands cuffed behind his back stole a Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) trooper’s car and led law enforcement units on a high-speed chase, KHP said in a news release. The suspect, a 23-year-old Florida native, was being taken Friday afternoon to the county jail “following a pursuit that involved a stolen vehicle,”
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A North Carolina man who won $5,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket said he was “extremely happy and surprised” to learn he’d won another $100,000 just two weeks later. Henry Harvey II, a store manager from Spring Lake, won the second prize after buying a $25 Extreme Cash ticket. He bought it from the same
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Michigan reported 8,413 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the state’s total pandemic case count to 692,206, according to the state’s health department. Saturday’s daily case count is the highest the state has reported since December 7, when the reported case count was 9,350, state statistics show. Just eight weeks ago, state data showed the
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