China could soon join the United States as the second country to land and operate a rover on Mars. Beijing’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe is expected to land on the red planet in the coming days, as early as Saturday morning (Friday night Eastern time), according to China’s space agency. The landing window extends until Wednesday.
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Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland police are investigating a shooting that injured one person in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood early Friday morning. Just after 4 a.m., officers responded to shots fired in the 4400 block of Northeast Shaver Street. Officers arrived to the scene and found a man with
Continue Reading An MIT graduate student wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Yale University student in February has been arrested, authorities said Friday. The US Marshals Service did not provide details of the arrest other than to say that “Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Middle District of
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Taylor Stout, 26, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor of animal abuse in a Boone County courtroom, the Audrain County prosecutor’s office said in a news release.
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Click here for updates on this story REGO PARK, Queens, New York (WABC) — It is a racial slur that would set off any Asian American. “One of them said ‘Ch*** ch****,” said Leting Cai. 15-year-old Cai was in a playground in Rego Park, Queens with two friends on May 1, when two other teens
Continue ReadingCarole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue and star of the Netflix series “Tiger King,” is offering a $5,000 reward in connection with the tiger that has been missing in Houston since Sunday, according to a video posted on her verified Instagram account. Baskin is offering the money to whoever has the big cat, provided
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) — Three people were slashed and a fourth punched in separate incidents within 12 minutes on a subway train as it moved through Lower Manhattan early Friday, and an additional incident may be linked. Police say the spree began at 4:25 a.m., when
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The Family Access Center of Excellence (FACE), will highlight the plan to enhance mental health support for about 24,000 school-aged children and their families in Boone County schools during a news conference Friday at the Boone County Government Center.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLETCHER, North Carolina (WLOS) — A local longtime educator received a surprise sendoff Thursday. Co-workers and friends gathered at Fletcher Park to show their appreciation for Avery’s Creek Elementary School principal Denise Montgomery, who is preparing to retire. Montgomery has spent 30 years as an educator in Henderson
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BAY CITY, Michigan (WNEM) — A community came together to rescue some ducklings that fell through a sewer grate and reunite them with their mother. The Bay City Public Safety Department was called to help scoop the four ducklings out while the Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy found the
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The US Coast Guard said Friday that transit on the Mississippi River waterway under Interstate 40 bridge in Memphis has reopened after a crack forced the closure of the vital highway bridge. Earlier Friday, the Coast Guard said more than 60 vessels with over 1,000 barges had been held up on the river. The first
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Police said Dacota Pierson, 22, of Fulton, and Clayton Duniphan, 17, of Columbia, have both been arrested for second-degree burglary and receiving stolen property.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OGEMAW COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — An Ogemaw County man has to pay nearly $775,000 in restitution for alleged insurance fraud. Darrell Lee Hardenburgh, of West Branch, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years of probation for receiving and concealing stolen property in excess of $20,000.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BALDWIN COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — Many Baldwin County business owners have had challenges getting people to work. Most blame expanded unemployment benefits. Some of those same business owners are now facing another problem. People they’ve never heard of are filing unemployment claims against them. Jeremiah Matthews, owner of
Continue Reading Of the duo that created 3M’s now-ubiquitous Post-it Notes, Spencer Silver was, quite literally, the glue. Silver, a chemist from Texas, created the adhesive that gives Post-it Notes their stickiness. It took years for his colleague Art Fry to realize the specific genius of Silver’s invention. If it weren’t for Silver sticking by his adhesive,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama (WALA) — A big fight in Bayou La Batre left several people injured and criminal charges are expected soon. Investigators are not able to release many details right now because the case is still under investigation and witnesses are still being interviewed. But the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story DICKSON COUNTY, Tennessee (WSMV) — A toddler is safe this morning after they were pulled from a sinking truck in Dickson County Thursday afternoon. The Tennessee City Fire Department says the truck went into a pond on the 400 block of Highway 70 West. The two-year-old child was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A former massage therapist arrested for a second time on Thursday afternoon following several investigations by News4. Tarek Mentouri, the massage therapist at the center of a year-long News4 investigation and accused by more than 15 women of sexually touching them or himself during
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Growing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus variant first identified in India may force the United Kingdom to tweak its Covid-19 vaccination program to prioritize people in the most affected areas, a top health official said Friday. Data released by Public Health England (PHE) on Thursday showed the number of confirmed cases of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CLAYTON County, Georgia (WGCL) — An off-duty Clayton County deputy helped rescue a woman who was being held against her will. The incident happened on Tuesday at the QT on Tara Boulevard near Highway 54. According to Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill, while on his way to work,
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