Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate the discharge of a weapon in response to an Asheville Police Department call. On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at around 7:40 p.m. police responded to a call for a reported
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say an out-of-compliance sex offender was arrested after being found with a missing teen in southeast Portland on Thursday. Just after 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the 14600 block of Southeast Harrison Street. Officers saw
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RIDGEFIELD, Washington (KPTV) — Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue, along with TLC Towing, helped rescue a cow that had been stuck in mud for several hours Thursday afternoon. CCFR says a family milking cow slid down a 20-foot embankment and got stuck in mud up to its belly. The owners
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A 31-year-old woman died and three other people were injured early Saturday morning, after a pickup crossed over the median and struck her vehicle head-on, according to the Kansas City Police Department. A Dodge pickup was driving northbound on Broadway Boulevard near 29th
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A house with a backyard coop found out the true meaning of the phrase, “Madder than a wet hen.” Lucky Perez has been raising chickens for a few years in her KC home, selling the eggs to neighbors through her side business, Hoops
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A woman’s terrifying story is a snapshot of what people in St. Louis City say is a rise in gunfire. Sarah Gilland stayed crouched behind a trash can for nearly three minutes, to dodge gunfire at her bus stop near North Market and Florissant.
Continue Reading Tennessee State University announced it is exploring adding men’s and women’s ice hockey teams, a development that would make TSU the first of the historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, to do so. TSU, in partnership with the National Hockey League, the Nashville Predators and College Hockey Inc., is conducting a feasibility study on
Continue Reading A Black teenager in Fairfield, Connecticut, was the target of a racist Snapchat post allegedly made by a classmate earlier this month, according to the teen’s mother and the Fairfield Police Department. Sixteen-year-old Jamar Medor was sitting in his Fairfield Warde High School homeroom on May 7 when a classmate, who is White, allegedly took
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Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, police said. Seven of the victims were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries and one man was in critical condition, according to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). A verbal confrontation likely led to the shooting, police said.
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For all the people who are clamoring to get back out in the world post-vaccine, there are plenty who are saying, “nope, we aren’t ready.” Even with science of the vaccine on their side — and liberating new CDC guidance on masks issued last week — it’s about what people are comfortable doing. Getting on
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In a CNN interview that was supposed to focus on the United Nations finding a solution to the violence between Israel and Hamas, Pakistan’s top diplomat Shah Mahmood Qureshi instead made an anti-Semitic remark. “The pressure of public opinion is mounting, and ceasefire is inevitable. Israel is losing out. They’re losing the media war despite
Continue Reading Astronomer Carl Sagan famously once said that “we’re made of star stuff.” It’s a beautiful thought that the material dispersed throughout the universe when stars explode came together to form something else: life. But our own lives are too brief to watch star birth unfold. This incredible process can take tens of millions of years.
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Ledell Lee maintained his innocence until the end. Before he was executed by the state of Arkansas in April 2017, Lee gave some of his last words to the BBC, telling the broadcaster, “My dying words will always be, as it has been: I am an innocent man.” Now, four years after Lee was put
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America’s rural ambulance services, often sustained by volunteers, are fighting for their survival — a crisis hastened by the impact of Covid-19. More than one-third of all rural EMS are in danger of closing, according to Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association. “The pandemic has further stretched the resources of our nation’s
Continue Reading Randa Aweis, 58, waited nine years for the organ donation that would change her life. An Arab Christian, born in the Old City of Jerusalem, she was relying on regular dialysis sessions as her kidneys failed. Then the call came: A donor kidney was available. Aweis had surgery Monday at Jerusalem’s famed Hadassah University Hospital
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hawaii (KITV) — Man’s best friend could be another tool in the fight against COVID-19 in Hawaii. Right now there’s four dogs in the state that can detect COVID-19, not in humans yet but in human samples like sweat-swabs. They’re being trained by Maui based non-profit Assistance Dogs
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR, CT (WFSB) — Security has been beefed up at Amazon’s construction site in Windsor. In the past month, seven ropes tied like nooses have been discovered at the company’s new warehouse. Construction workers found them, and police are treating it as a hate crime. The construction company
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HARRISBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, 33-year-old Ian Gallup, of Columbia, was driving without a seat belt when he lost control of the vehicle, went off the right side of the road and flipped the car. Gallup and Ayla Cain, 31, also of Columbia, suffered serious injuries in
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They had the artsy, rustic venue, the tailored dress and a guest list including about 150 of their closest friends and family. But the pandemic had other plans, forcing Carly Chalmers and Mitchell Gauvin to make a difficult decision about their wedding — twice. “Everything was changing,” said Chalmers, a Toronto-based marketing manager whose nuptials
Continue Reading When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its new mask guidance last week, it didn’t include guidance to vaccinated parents who have unvaccinated children, leaving many parents confused about what to do. The new guidance says people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 may go without masks in most circumstances and don’t
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