An unprecedented lineup of law enforcement officers — including the Minneapolis police chief — took the stand at the murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, denouncing him for kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for more than nine minutes. As rare as it is for police-involved deaths to lead to a criminal trial
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Click here for updates on this story KENANSVILLE, Duplin County, North Carolina (WLOS) — In honor of National Unicorn Day, Duplin County Animal Services is asking for donations in honor of its famous pup, Sisu, and his purple unicorn. The dog attempted to steal a purple unicorn from an area Dollar General several times, and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — One person was arrested after investigators discovered several amounts of narcotics during a search warrant at a Henry County home. On Thursday, Henry County Police Department’s Narcotic Agents conducted a search warrant at a home on Asa Moseley Road in unincorporated Stockbridge. Authorities found approximately
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The St. Louis City is on track to beat last year’s record of homicides and Reverend Rodrick Burton says he’s tried of crime infesting the city. “It’s terrifying, and it shouldn’t be that way and it doesn’t have to be that way,” Burton said.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WEBSTER GROVES, Missouri (KMOV) — The owners of Balkan Treat Box in Webster Groves were preparing for what should have been their biggest week in over a year. They reopened indoor dining at their restaurant for the first time since March 2020 and expected it to be busy,
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Global interest in the British royal family has boomed recently, mostly due to Harry and Meghan’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey last month and the hit TV series “The Crown.” But after Prince Philip’s death on Friday, media saturation appears to have reached tipping point, in Britain at least. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) opened
Continue Reading Six people were injured Friday night when people in two vehicles shot at each other on a Fort Worth, Texas, freeway, police said. The two vehicles, which police say each had several occupants, were traveling eastbound on the Southwest Loop of the 820 freeway just after 10 p.m. local time, when people began shooting for
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Scientists are ramping up their efforts to track the nutrient-rich wastewater, contaminated by the Piney Point phosphogypsum stack, that’s dumping into Florida’s Tampa Bay, as concern remains high that it could supercharge potential toxic algae blooms, including red tide. Ultimately, it will take weeks and months for the effects of the wastewater to be fully
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Gun salutes took place across the United Kingdom and in Commonwealth countries on Saturday in tribute to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband for more than seven decades, who died on Friday at the age of 99. Tributes have flooded in from the UK and abroad for Philip — known officially as the Duke of
Continue Reading Coming soon: Watch out for the upcoming launch of Wonder Theory, the first-ever CNN space and science newsletter. Subscribe here and be among the first to receive the week’s most fascinating stories, delivered straight to your inbox every Saturday morning. Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. In a matter of days,
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Vaccinations are ramping up across the US. More than 175 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered, according to CNN’s vaccine tracker, a rate of about 53 doses per 100 people. But some developments have dampened the excitement: This week, a few vaccination sites across the US paused operations after some patients reported
Continue Reading A pilot project in a California town is paying homeless residents to tidy up their living areas, and it’s changing the culture of the city. The idea stemmed from a conversation with one of the city’s police sergeants, said Sarah Bontrager, the housing and public services manager for Elk Grove, a city of 174,000 people
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Walking up to Cup Foods, you pass the outline of a body drawn on the street. It shows where George Floyd took his last breath. Approaching it now, it’s impossible not to see again the horrified huddle of people captured on police body camera screaming at officers to get off the neck of George Floyd.
Continue Reading Before Clarissa Rankin goes out on a job, a few things need to be in order. First up, a morning meditation. (“Dealing in transportation, you have to be calm to be a great driver,” she says.) Then, she heads to the yard to hitch up Sparkle, her 2019 Freightliner Cascadia. Sparkle’s a big girl: With
Continue Reading As a master writer for Hallmark, Melvina Young is well-practiced in keeping a finger on the pulse of her community; making note of the emotions they may need to express, and later translating them into a card. “Our job really hinges on the power of empathy, that ability to get into someone else’s experience that
Continue Reading Many Britons and others around the world will wake Saturday to a sense of sadness at the death of Prince Philip, the patriarch of the UK royal family who spent more than 70 years by the side of Queen Elizabeth II. The news that Philip, also known by his official title of the Duke of
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The Food and Drug Administration will evaluate “as quickly as possible” Pfizer’s request to expand the emergency use authorization of the drug maker’s Covid-19 vaccine to include people ages 12-15 in the United States, FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock said. Pfizer on Friday asked the FDA for the amendment. “While the FDA cannot predict how
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri native DeAnna Price set the American hammer throw record at the Tom Botts Invitational on Friday night. You can watch the record-setting throw and hear from Price in the video player above. Her throw of 78.60 meters is the top mark of any woman in the world this year. It’s also
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 19 Mizzou softball team run-ruled No. 17 LSU 9-1 in five innings on Friday night. You can watch the highlights in the video player below. “That was awesome,” Head coach Larissa Anderson said after the big win. “That was so much fun to watch them.” https://youtu.be/KqIiPdYEI8E Mizzou and LSU are
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There was the Tokyo 2020 official who floated the idea of an “Olympig” creative campaign with plus-sized model Naomi Watanabe. An Olympic chief who resigned after making sexist remarks about women. And a Japanese governor who recommended men go grocery shopping during the pandemic because women take too long. Just last week, a Japanese city
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