A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was felt in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday morning, according to officials. The quake was centered less than 10 miles outside of downtown Anchorage, near Point MacKenzie. “That was quite a shaker,” the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities tweeted. The department said it had no reports of damage, but it
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A third vaccine is poised to join the fight against Covid-19, with 3.9 million doses expected to be available right away, a health official said Friday. That amount could increase vaccinations for states by 25% and would be delivered in as little as one or two days in the first week, said Lori Tremmel Freeman,
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Americans are taking another look at Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and its data after the vaccine received emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday. And what they see might initially give them pause. For several months, public health experts have praised the approximately 95% efficacy seen in vaccines by
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The US Food and Drug Administration authorized Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine Saturday. It is the first single dose Covid-19 vaccine available in the US, and is one that “checks nearly all the boxes.” With more than 28.5 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and over 511,000 reported deaths in the US since the start of the
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The Department of Health and Senior Services reported 478 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, bringing the total up 477,950.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An MU Police cruiser was damaged in a crash in Columbia Saturday morning. It happened in the intersection of Stadium Blvd. and Providence Rd. around 3 a.m. Two cars were involved in the crash. MU Police said there were no injuries. Our crews saw police conducting a field sobriety test on the
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A police officer in northern Virginia was shot to death Friday afternoon during a traffic stop, and responding law enforcement fatally shot his killer, authorities said. Officer Dominic “Nick” Winum, 48, had been with the Town of Stanley Police Department since 2016, according to Police Chief Ryan Dean. Prior to that, Winum served as a
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The reconstructed wreckage of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, which exploded minutes after taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996, will be decommissioned and destroyed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. All 230 people on board the Paris-bound flight were killed. The Boeing 747 was destroyed, and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta (WGCL) — Police have issued an arrest warrant charging a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate with murdering a Yale University college student. Police believe the suspect, Qinxuan Pan, 29, may be in the metro Atlanta area. New Haven, Connecticut police issued the warrant on Saturday after police
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For the thousands of people who work on a spacecraft that journeys to Mars, the result of their efforts often remains unseen once it leaves Earth. That all changed this week when NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Martian atmosphere and safe landing on the red planet. The footage
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Hendersonville, North Carolina (WLOS) — The volume of food at Interfaith Alliance Ministry speaks to the need and an outpouring of generosity. Meanwhile, the devotion of volunteers speaks volumes about the need to give back. Sometimes, that happens later in life. Tuesday mornings include some fun-loving and hardworking
Continue ReadingThree people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a ravine shortly after takeoff in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna-182, crashed about two miles northeast of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville shortly after takeoff, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Emma Duncan in a statement to CNN. Hall County
Continue Reading A giant iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Friday, not far from a British scientific outpost. The 490 square miles (1270 square kilometers) chunk of ice is bigger than New York City and broke free in a process called calving, according to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new medical papyrus dating back 3,500 years has provided enough new details for Egyptologists to reconstruct the 70-day ancient Egyptian mummifying process. The art of embalming was viewed as sacred and only a select few were trained in completing the process, and
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — A deputy from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men Friday morning. Michael Aponte from New York and Rawy Correa Perez from Wisconsin was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and failure to affix a tax stamp. A Toyota 4Runner was stopped
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Davenport, Iowa (WQAD) — The Harper family recently had to hear some of the worst news a parent could hear, and afterwards, people in their community sprang up to support them. Justin Harper, assistant basketball coach at Davenport North, and his wife, Elizabeth, took their 2-year-old son, Wesley,
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The windows blew open. The building shook. At 1:30 a.m. local time Friday, a resident of al-Bukamal, a city near the Syrian-Iraqi border, was jarred from his sleep. Speaking under the condition of anonymity for security reasons, he told CNN the explosions were unlike anything he had heard before. What he likely heard was the
Continue Reading Former NBA star Jeremy Lin will not be naming the person who called him “coronavirus” while he was playing basketball. Lin, who plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors, the G League, or minor league, affiliate of the Golden State Warriors, tweeted Saturday that he will not be “naming or shaming anyone” after sharing the racism
Continue Reading A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer — who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and White supremacist, according to the Justice Department — pleaded guilty last October to federal hate crime and explosive charges
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new study says that blood tests may be the key for doctors to get an idea of what to expect when treating COVID-19 patients. Often, when a COVID-19 patient is admitted to the hospital, there’s no clear indicator of how severe their
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