Click here for updates on this story RACINE COUNTY, WI (WDJT) — A Florida man was found guilty in a decades old murder case from Racine County. Juanita Zdroik was shot and killed 21 years ago. A tip, from a witness, helped bring her family some peace. The victim’s son, and county sheriff, spoke publicly
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — More than a dozen animatronic dinosaurs made their way into Hartford on Monday. The Connecticut Science Center welcomed parts of their new exhibit called “Dinosaurs Around the World.” Some of the dinosaurs needed a giant crane parked outside so the staff could then use
Continue Reading Father John Ubel has been collecting baseball cards for 50 years. Now, he is stepping up to the plate and auctioning off his most valuable cards to raise money for grade school scholarships in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ubel, a lifelong Minnesota Twins fan and the rector at St. Paul’s Cathedral, began collecting baseball cards in
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has struck a deal with Iran that will give its inspectors continued access to verify and monitor nuclear activity in the country for the next three months, potentially laying the ground work for Washington and Tehran to kick-start nuclear talks. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said Sunday that the two
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Israeli authorities are trying to locate the source of a suspected oil spill that has been described as one of the most severe ecological disasters to hit the country, threatening wildlife, forcing beaches to close and prompting a mass cleanup. Blobs of sticky tar started washing up on the country’s Mediterranean shores last week. Images
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Thousands of Oregonians are still in the dark, and for many, they’ve been without power for more than a week. Those affected are demanding answers from Portland General Electric. There are still about 38,000 customers without power because of that historic winter storm. PGE’s
Continue Reading Ten people became stranded on floating sheets of ice in Lake Erie on Sunday, requiring rescue from the local Coast Guard. The group became stuck on two ice floes near a waterfront park in Cleveland, Ohio, the Coast Guard’s Great Lakes unit said. Six of the people stranded were rescued with the Coast Guard’s ice
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The United States will within hours record its unfathomable 500,000th death from Covid-19 paradoxically at a moment of rare hope in the pandemic. Yet the tragic landmark will occur with the White House loath to predict when the crisis may ease as it balances critical political and epidemiological risks. A warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci
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With new coronavirus cases on the decline in the Columbia Public Schools boundaries, district leaders are discussing putting students in classrooms five days each week.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Killer Mike, a popular Atlanta rapper, songwriter, actor, and activist is pleading for an end to gun violence after someone shot up a barbershop he owns. Killer Mike, whose real name is Mike Render, posted to his Instagram page the shooting happened over the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV/KSMO) — As districts start the process of returning to in-person learning, more teachers are asking for the COVID vaccine. Starting Monday, elementary students who have major connectivity issues, and those at-risk of not completing the grade level will be learning from the classrooms. It
Continue Reading A spacecraft named for the famed NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson has arrived at the International Space Station with about 8,000 pounds of cargo in tow. The S.S. Katherine Johnson, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, launched on Saturday from a NASA facility in Virginia and made it to the space station early Monday morning. It
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — The tragedy in the Happy Hills community is also impacting victims Tony and Leila Lewis’ neighbors. That horrific fire Wednesday night — spread to the house next door, which is also a total loss. Pearlie Howard, known to most as “Miss Pearl,” and her
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A MoDOT news release said about 300 pothole patching crews were out Monday working to fix roads statewide.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 24 Mizzou basketball team will play Ole Miss for the second time this season on Tuesday at 8 p.m. The Tigers are hoping for a different result after losing to the Rebels 80-59 in Oxford, Miss. on Feb. 10. “It was a tough game,” said Mizzou basketball assistant coach Marco
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CLINTON, IA (WQAD) — From the outside looking in, it’s hard to see what’s really going on. For the Clinton River Queens, that’s true. The Queens went through the ups and downs of the season without their star point guard, Elle Davis. “She’s got a really nice shot,”
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — For decades, Tony and Leila Lewis were fixtures in their community, touching so many people who showed their love outside of the couples home Saturday afternoon, leaving candles at their steps which now lead to an unrecognizable pile of ashes and memories. The husband
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHARLESTON, Arkansas (KFSM) — According to Franklin County Emergency Management (FCEM), the Arkansas National Guard will deliver a water hippo to Charleston sometime after 8:30 a.m. on Monday (Feb. 22) to help Mill Town/Washburn Public Water Authority (MTWPWA) customers who are in need of drinking water. The water
Continue Reading The dramatic engine failure on a United Airlines flight flung debris across neighborhoods outside Denver and caused the airline to ground more than 20 planes out of caution. It’s the second time in three years that the right engine failed during a United Airlines flight. In 2018, a Boeing 777 bound for Honolulu lost the
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New data shows that the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine “provides high levels of protection against infection and symptomatic disease,” Public Health England (PHE) said in a press release on Monday. PHE’s Siren Study, which was carried out on healthcare workers aged under the age of 65, found that one dose of the
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