Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — Zookeepers in Omaha are about to be busy baby-proofing the place. But they have about a year before Claire, a 12-year-old African elephant, welcomes a calf. Officials at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium announced Claire’s big news on Thursday. Claire will give
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Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — When Betty Diamond returned a book to the Queens Public Library recently after 63 years, she calculated what she might have owed. Diamond said the fine was 2 cents a day in 1957, when she was a 10-year-old in Whitestone, Queens. At
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — A fight for a Ferrari is brewing in federal court in Buffalo. And it’s not over some everyday, run-of-the-mill Ferrari that costs a couple hundred thousand dollars. The fair market value for this red 1996 Ferrari F50 – one of just
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Click here for updates on this story TIJUANA, Mexico (KABC) — Hundreds of families from Mexico, Central America and other nations are stuck in encampments at the border in Tijuana as they attempt to seek asylum in the United States. One such family spoke to Eyewitness News reporter Anabel Munoz, who visited the encampments with
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The video shot by undercover St. Louis Police Detective Luther Hall the night he said he was beaten by three St. Louis officers was released Thursday. The video starts with showing people running in downtown St. Louis while shouting is heard. When Hall stops
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — It’s a modern-day miracle. “I’m very blessed that God has put Royalty and her mother back together,” said Donnie Howell. “My window was down, no music was playing, I got about right there to the cone, and she was screaming.” After hours of separation, kidnapped
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The European Union’s medicines regulator has concluded that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe to use after several EU countries suspended their rollouts following reports that it could be linked to blood clots. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s executive director Emer Cooke said the agency had “come to a clear scientific conclusion: this is a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — It’s a modern-day miracle. “I’m very blessed that God has put Royalty and her mother back together,” said Donnie Howell. “My window was down, no music was playing, I got about right there to the cone, and she was screaming.” After hours of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Environmentalist icon unveils bridge repurposing project “Bison Bridge” (WQAD) — Environmentalist icon, Quad City native, and President of Living Lands and Waters Chad Pregracke unveiled a project to repurpose the I-80 bridge to bring new interest to the Quad Cities from the local and national level by turning
Continue Reading Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal has been charged with reckless homicide after a man died during a ceremony involving toad venom. Vidal, whose real name is Ignacio Jordà González, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in May following an 11-month investigation, according to a statement at the time from Spain’s law enforcement agency, the Guardia
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Jefferson City is set to hold a mass vaccination clinic at the Linc, giving Cole County school staff the first opportunity to register.
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The astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year — and now they’re going to relocate a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, will fly the Soyuz MS-17 capsule from its current port to another
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As investigators piece together the movements and the motive of the suspect in this week’s deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area spas, fierce debate is underway over whether he should face hate crime charges for the attacks that left eight people dead, including six Asian women. “It looked like a hate crime to me,” Atlanta Mayor
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HELENA, Montana (Missoulian) — A 58-year-old medical doctor from Missoula is accused of raping and sexually assaulting patients in Helena. James Haldeman Armstrong is charged with felony sexual intercourse without consent, felony sexual assault and misdemeanor sexual assault. On Dec. 10, a Helena Police Department officer spoke with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — A recently imposed $50,869 fine against a Buffalo nursing home where workers failed to follow measures aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19 represents the second-biggest federal penalty against a long-term care facility in the state. During a Covid-19-focused inspection last
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, South Carolina (WLOS) — Greenville Police were sent to check on a report of a possible breaking and entering off Mulberry Lane. Officials said the caller believed someone was pulling on her back door handle in an attempt to get into the house.. Officers arrived on the
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At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said. “This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference. “When
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TIGARD, Oregon (KPTV) — In this Senior Spotlight, FOX 12 went to Tigard High School to highlight a leader in the classroom and on the field who took the long path back to play. It’s been 867 days between Spencer Kuffel’s last game in week seven of sophomore
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KGO) — Early in the morning on March 10, Brandon Haase heard screaming as he was transferring trains at Diridon Station in San Jose. “I saw a woman on her back with a man crouching over her,” he said as he walked into the tunnel
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LEAGUE CITY, Texas (KTRK) — Police in League City are looking for a man they say stabbed a Jack in the Box manager after being asked to wear a face mask or leave the restaurant. It happened on Wednesday, March 17, around 8 p.m. at the Jack in
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