Click here for updates on this story FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida (WALA) — Okaloosa County investigators said a man arrested for trafficking drugs tried to tell them that his heroin was actually chocolate laxatives. Deputies said they stopped Steven Coplen, 29, when they noticed his plate that expired in 2020 had been altered to make
Continue Reading On her 100th birthday, Mildred Grassman got flowers, candy, money — and her second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. “It means everything to me,” Grassman said just after getting the last shot at Ascension St. Vincent Evansville in Indiana. “At my age, I didn’t want to get the disease.” It also means that eventually, Grassman
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR, Connecticut (WTIC/WCCT) — Video from a nearby car shows a man as he was struck Sunday in the parking lot of the Price Chopper in Windsor. Police said they were called to a report of a pedestrian struck by a car in the parking lot of Price
Continue Reading New York officials acknowledged Monday there’s a clear racial disparity among the people who have received vaccine doses to date and the city needs to redouble its efforts to address inequitable access. “We got a lot of work to do, because it’s a combination of, we need a hell of a lot more supply, and
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (KFSM) — A Fayetteville man has been arrested for trafficking minors for sex. According to court documents, beginning in May of 2020 through October of 2020 Lexus Hobbs, 23, knowingly recruited, enticed, solicited, isolated, harbored, transported, provided, maintained and obtained multiple minors for commercial sexual activity.
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Here’s a look at the life of John Reed, former Citigroup CEO. Personal Birth date: February 7, 1939 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: John Shepard Reed Father: name not known publicly – plant manager for Armour & Company Mother: name not known publicly Marriage: Cynthia “Cindy” (McCarthy) Reed (September 1994-present); Sally (Foreman) Reed (divorced)
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story OAKLAND, California (KPIX ) — A large homeless encampment next to the East Oakland Home Depot that was cleared out a year ago is now packed once again with makeshift dwellings. Neighbors are complaining of the uptick in crime and businesses are trying to move out. A police
Continue Reading The pandemic has affected nearly every facet of daily life and the Super Bowl is no exception. The yearly game to settle who is the champion of the NFL is this Sunday. The game, along with its accompanying hype and parties, comes just as health officials are begging Americans to hunker down to help stop
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KPIX ) — A homeless man was arrested Saturday in San Jose for allegedly destroying property and stabbing a pet tortoise at a preschool. San Jose police responded around 11:30 a.m. Saturday to the Play ‘n’ Learn preschool at 505 Massar Ave following a report
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT PIERCE, Florida (WPBF) — Officials in St. Lucie County are investigating after a fire broke out at a home located at the Colony Club Mobile Home Park along US-1 on Monday at 2:42 a.m. When firefighters arrived, the home was fully engulfed in flames. “There were residents
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story YOLO COUNTY, California (KOVR) — A man moving from Portland to Los Angeles had all of his belongings stolen during a rest stop in Yolo County. Eric Leitschuck says he stopped at America’s Best Value Inn in Dunnigan around midnight Thursday. He was on his way to Los
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With multiple new coronavirus strains spreading across the country, the US is in an “absolute race” to vaccinate Americans before those variants overwhelm the country, health experts say. “What concerns me most is that we already know that they’re more transmissible, which means it’s much easier for them to infect people,” said emergency physician Dr.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WISCASSET, Maine (WMTW) — A Wiscasset woman has been arrested after crashing her car through the front door of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and then fleeing the scene on foot At about a quarter to midnight on Saturday, police say 35-year-old Kristen Crowley ran her Hyundai Sonata
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WLWT) — After nearly two months, there is still no sign of missing 3-year-old Nylo Lattimore. But police have not given up hope following the boy’s mysterious disappearance. Nylo Lattimore was last seen around noon on Dec. 4. His whereabouts came into question after his mother was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A dispute between a local school district and its bus company has left families to figure out how to get their kids to class. Sun Coach Lines claims South Allegheny School District owes them tens of thousands of dollars. Just a few days ago the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says lawmakers disrespected him when House leaders told him he couldn’t give his State of the State address in that chamber because of coronavirus concerns. The Republican wrote a letter Friday accusing GOP lawmakers of a “disgusting scheme” to embarrass him. The governor traditionally delivers an annual
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has proposed transforming a shuttered northwest Missouri prison into a training ground for incoming correctional officers. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Parson’s recently unveiled budget plan includes $671,714 to convert the idled Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron into an academy where would-be prison guards can get
Continue Reading A glass ceiling shattered in the NFL in July 2015, when Bruce Arians — then the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals — hired Jen Welter to the team’s coaching staff as an intern, making her the first woman to hold a coaching position of any kind in the league. Now at age 68, in
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The Biden administration announced on Monday that the US Department of Defense and US Department of Health and Human Services are working with Australian company Ellume to provide more of its fully at-home Covid-19 tests to the United States. “Ellume has been ramping up manufacturing and will ship 100,000 test kits per month to the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story New York, NY (WCBS) — A hundred dogs landed at JFK Airport on Friday morning to meet their forever families. Many were rescued from illegal traffickers in China’s dog meat trade, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported. Special cargo of furry survivors were loaded off planes after traveling thousands of
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