Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — New COVID-19 tracing technology is being implemented at Gervais schools is getting some pushback from parents. When middle and high school students go back to campus, they’ll have the option to wear a lanyard that keeps track of social distancing, alerting students when
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Emerging coronavirus variants are able to spread faster than the original virus thanks to a studier spike protein, according to a new study. Bing Chen, a professor of pediatrics at the Boston Children’s Hospital and his colleagues there analyzed changes to the spike
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A local war hero who survived two battles in World War II and the coronavirus turns 100 years old this weekend. Max Deweese was part of the first wave of Marines to hit the beach at the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (KCTV) — The mother of an Overland Park teenager shot and killed by a police officer during a wellness check calls a newly released separation agreement nothing more than a backroom deal to protect the officer and the city of Overland Park. The truth is
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Police in North Carolina found a real gun disguised as a Nerf toy while conducting a drug raid in Catawba County, north of Charlotte, this week. The Glock 19 pistol, along with a 50-round drum magazine, had been painted blue and orange and labeled with the Nerf logo to look like a toy, the Catawba
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Last march, one BJC doctor on the front lines made the decision to distance herself from her family so she didn’t bring COVID-19 home. “I had the same concerns every health care provider had which was one, am I gonna infect myself? But more
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife have tested positive for Covid-19, according to government officials. Khan is “self-isolating at home,” the country’s health minister, Faisal Sultan, said on Saturday. The 68-year-old former international cricketer received his first dose of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. The Sinopharm shot is the only Covid-19 vaccine
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In generations past, the arrival of spring meant not just warming days, chirping birds and frolicking baby animals, but also an energy-intensive project for homemakers: spring cleaning. After a winter cooped up in a small home heated by wood or coal—the standard heating system until the central HVAC boom of the 1960s—increasingly warmer weather meant
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After the state activated Phase 1B Tier 3 on Monday, 225,016 Missourians got vaccinated through Friday.
Continue Reading A Michigan pizzeria owner was taken into custody early Friday morning after she “continued to willfully violate the state’s food laws, public health orders and a court-ordered Temporary Restraining Order” related to Covid-19 measures, according to the state’s attorney general. Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, 55, the owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria in Holland, was arrested without
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One of the four victims of the Atlanta spa shootings who were of Korean ethnicity was a South Korean citizen and permanent resident of the US, an official said. The other three are believed to be Americans of Korean ethnicity, Kwangsuk Lee, the Deputy Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Atlanta, told CNN
Continue Reading A 7.0 preliminary magnitude earthquake has struck Japan off the coast of Ishinomaki, a city located just 65 miles (104 km) from Fukushima, the site of a devastating 9.0 magnitude quake 10 years ago. Latest information from USGS shows the earthquake has a depth of 54 kilometers (34 miles). CNN teams in Tokyo felt the
Continue Reading As the end of the pandemic tunnel gets brighter and brighter, has a season ever better aligned with where most people are in the world right now? Spring is the season of hope — that things will get better after they were worse. The river will “flow again after it was frozen,” Ernest Hemingway wrote
Continue Reading A tsunami warning has been issued following an earthquake off the east coast of Japan, the US National Tsunami Warning Center reported on Saturday. According to the National Tsunami Warning Center, the tsunami warning is for Hachinohe, Japan and Niigata, Japan. Latest information from USGS show the earthquake has been revised to a 7.0 preliminary
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Iceland has reported a volcanic eruption on the southwest Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest of the capital ReykjavÃk,the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) tweeted Friday. “A volcanic eruption started this evening at 20:45 near Fagradalsfjall in Geldingadalur,” IMO said in a tweet. “The eruption is considered small at this stage and the eruptive fissure is app. 500 m
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has withdrawn his country from an international treaty to protect women through a presidential decree issued in the early hours of Saturday. The move has sent shockwaves through a country that has been reeling from high-profile domestic violence cases and femicides. Turkey was the first country to sign the Council
Continue Reading A month after winter storms blanketed the Lone Star state with snow, leaving millions of people in the dark and without water, food banks are concerned there won’t be enough produce for Texans in need. The economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant rise in hunger across the US. In Texas,
Continue Reading Community college students in the Phoenix area are getting an extra week of Spring Break after a suspected cyberattack crippled their schools’ computer networks. A network outage has impacted the information technology systems of the Maricopa County Community College District, Interim Chancellor Steven Gonzales announced in a message to students Friday evening. “Out of an
Continue Reading In Lebanon, fistfights break out in supermarkets on a nearly daily basis. Long lines snake out of the few gas stations that remain open. Pharmacies have threatened to shutter. Gunfights inexplicably erupt in various parts of the capital. Angry demonstrators have blocked roads around the country, tightening an already stifling economic stranglehold. The infernal scenes
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Surveillance video recorded by a business next to Youngs Asian Spa, where a spate of shootings started that left eight people dead this week, appears to show the suspect parking his vehicle in front of the spa. The video, provided to CNN by Gabby’s Boutique, shows a Hyundai pull into a parking spot. The vehicle,
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