An avalanche at a Utah canyon injured two people on Sunday, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office. Four people were involved in the avalanche near Pfeifferhorn Peak at Little Cottonwood Canyon, about 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet. No one was buried, but two
Continue Reading Fashion designer Jessica McClintock has died at age 90, according to an obituary published Sunday by the San Francisco Chronicle. McClintock “died peacefully in her sleep at home” on February 16, the obituary says. McClintock was best known for her dresses, particularly bridal and prom designs “based on the ideal of romance and beauty,” wrote
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Megan Thee Stallion partnered with apparel retail company Fashion Nova to donate $100,000 to the Breonna Taylor Foundation on the first anniversary of her death. The rapper showcased her initiative on Instagram, saying the core mission of the foundation is to support economic, social and racial justice through police reform. “A year ago today Breonna
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Millions of television viewers around the world are in a state of frenzied anticipation on Sunday, as they await the broadcast of Oprah Winfrey’s set-piece interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The primetime event, which will be shown on Sunday evening in the United States, has been relentlessly promoted by network CBS
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When Kezia Fitzgerald’s 1-year-old daughter Saoirse was fighting a stage four neuroblastoma tumor, Kezia knew she wanted to do everything in her power to make Saoirse’s treatment as comfortable as possible. So when Saoirse’s catheters and vascular access lines started getting in the way while she played, Kezia put her sewing hobby to the test.
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In Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview Sunday with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, one takeaway was that help for mental health is still hard to get — even if you’re part of the British royal family. In Meghan’s first public comments since she and her husband, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, stepped down as senior
Continue Reading Three small earthquakes shook the Wichita, Kansas, area early Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The USGS measured a 3.4 magnitude quake at 7:29 a.m. ET, with a 3.5 magnitude quake following at 7:31 a.m. A third quake measured at 3.0 was reported at 8:02 a.m., according to USGS.
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Vaccine distribution continues in the Show-Me state, with the total number of people completed vaccination hitting 631,832.
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Duke University officials issued a stay-in-place order for all undergraduate students through next Sunday as the school tries to combat a rapidly escalating number of Covid-19 cases. In a letter sent to students on Saturday, officials at the Durham, North Carolina, university said that more than 180 students have tested positive for Covid-19 and are
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The day before the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker III filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the officers involved in last year’s fatal raid that seeks damages for violations of his constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday and obtained by CNN. The lawsuit
Continue Reading Elvis Presley fans will have a chance to claim a bit of musical history when a guitar used during an iconic performance by the king of rock ‘n’ roll goes up for grabs later this month. Kruse GWS Auctions is putting Presley’s flaming red Hagstrom Viking II guitar on the block. The instrument was used
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A 14-year-old suspect was arrested after a 6-year-old girl was found deceased Friday night in Indiana. The girl was reported missing from the area of Chapman St. in New Carlisle, Indiana, around 6:30 p.m. and was found deceased about two hours later, according to a press release from St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit Assistant
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Disturbing video clips show students kidnapped from a college in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state being held at gunpoint and beaten with a whip by their abductors emerged on Saturday. In the footage, which has been widely shared on Facebook, some of the students appeared visibly distressed. In one video, an abducted student calls on the
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ISIS militants were behind Thursday’s brutal killings north of Baghdad where they shot dead eight people in three separate attacks, including six family members, according to an Iraqi military statement released Friday. The attack took place in Albu-Dour’s predominantly Sunni village in Salah al-Din province, about 84 miles north of the Iraqi capital. The area
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What was nice about the Before Times was that, for most people, social interactions and outings could be carefree. We miss them, and that’s a big reason why we long for the pandemic to end. But when life stabilizes in the new, new normal, how will we really feel about resuming activities we used to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — Men with vital exhaustion are more likely to suffer a heart attack, according to a new European study. Vital exhaustion refers to excessive fatigue, feelings of demoralization and increased irritability. “It is thought to be a response to intractable problems in people’s lives,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV) — Honolulu Fire Department officials say a house fire Saturday in Nanakuli was intentionally set. Investigators found two points of origin: a fire started in the rear bedroom and one started in the front living room. HFD responded to the two-alarm fire at 89-1137 Naniahiahi
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OGEMAW COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — A local community is supporting a family after a fire claimed the lives of two young children. The parents remain hospitalized with injuries along with their surviving children. “There was an accident, a house fire. I think they lost everything,” Levi Accord said.
Continue Reading Two people were killed and 13 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a party on Chicago’s South Side early Sunday morning, police said. Several of those injured in the shooting are still in surgery, said Police Superintendent David Brown. He said four guns were seized at the building, a makeshift setup converted for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A group of 100 demonstrators took a short march through Portland’s Pearl District Friday night. The Portland Police Bureau said some people in that group were violent, carried a number of weapons, and smashed windows in the Pearl District before all of them were
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