Click here for updates on this story JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (WABC) — More than 200 residents were displaced by a massive eight-alarm fire that tore through an apartment building in Queens Tuesday, and the FDNY is pointing to a pair of missteps that it says allowed the blaze to spread. The fierce flames injured more
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — More than 2,000 people in Oregon have died from COVID-19 over the last year. “It’s, it’s been a lot,” said Shannon Speicher. Since day one of the pandemic, Speicher and her staff at Finley-Sunset Mortuary & Sunset Hills Memorial Park have been working hard
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Click here for updates on this story NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (WABC) — April has long been recognized as Autism Awareness Month, but this year, experts and advocates are calling for a shift to Autism Acceptance Month to foster change and inclusivity. Tommy Marcketta, 13, has autism. He was diagnosed just before his 8th birthday
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Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A train has blocked the entrance to the Alabama Cruise Terminal for quite some time. It is finally beginning to move. Because of this delay, the MCHD COVID-19 Response Team will work beyond the previously announced closing time. They will provide the second-dose Moderna
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As he approached a curve in the road, Tiger Woods apparently meant to hit the brakes but instead slammed on the gas — causing a high-speed rollover crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday. Six weeks after the golf legend suffered serious leg injuries, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the main causes of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CARTHAGE, Texas (KTBS) — An East Texas man held on federal charges related to participating in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot has asked for pretrial release and claims he “did not act out of criminal intent but out of sense of duty,” according to court documents. Alex
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Tears were heard Tuesday night from the sister of this 16-year-old boy shot and killed by Honolulu Police Monday. The family identified the victim in the officer-involved shooting as 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap. Monday night, shots were fired at the end of a police chase that
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The state anticipates getting roughly 157,040 doses in total next week — a decline of about 351,460 doses from last week’s projection for the same time period.
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A group of more than 70 congressional Democrats has sent President Joe Biden a letter pushing the White House to encourage Saudi Arabia to end a blockade of Yemen that has led to food and fuel shortages in the country that have hampered the delivery of desperately needed food aid. The letter comes after a
Continue Reading Two massage therapists who have accused Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of misconduct during massages identified themselves during a news conference Tuesday held by Tony Buzbee, an attorney for more than 20 women who have filed civil lawsuits against Watson. Watson denies any wrongdoing. Immediately following the news conference, Deshaun Watson’s attorney Rusty Hardin released
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Health care professionals are urging people to get their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine at the same place as their first dose to avoid vaccine waste.
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With America joining the renewed talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear agreement shunned by Donald Trump, the United States has taken a giant step back into the global community of nations. Sadly, we are now reduced to playing a sharply weakened hand. It will take some deft management and out-of-the-box thinking on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RAPID CITY, South Dakota (Rapid City Journal) — Michelle Rice had about 15 minutes to pack before she and her family were forced out of their house on Westberry Court for the third time in 33 years Monday. Her daughter grabbed her bags and put the baby in
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A 45-year-old Warsaw man is dead after crashing his car and being thrown from the vehicle.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story WEST UNION, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — A former Westgate man has been sentenced to prison for killing an infant in 2018. Judge Joel Dalrymple sentenced Dean Alan Hettinger, 24, to life in prison without parole during a Monday hearing in Fayette County District Court in West Union. He
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — St. Ambrose University students in Davenport are in the process of launching a bike rental program on campus, thanks to a donation from the Hilltop Campus Village and Scott County Sheriff’s Department. Students in Jason Senjem’s 318 Social Entrepreneurship Class at St. Ambrose
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MISSOULA, Montana (Missoulian) — The Missoula County District Court reached a settlement for more than $5,000 last month in a civil lawsuit for the death of a Missoula family’s dog in 2019 after it was caught in an illegal animal trap. Plaintiffs Bryan Dalpes and Rachel Luger were
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NEWARK, New Jersey (WFSB) — A Connecticut man tried to bring a loaded handgun through Newark-Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. The Transportation Security Administration identified the man as 58-year-old Keith Fredlund of Sherman, CT. The incident happened on Tuesday. The TSA said Fredlund had a 9mm handgun
Continue Reading Kenya has sounded the alarm over a potential coronavirus “vaccine apartheid” playing out between countries, as it accused the United Kingdom of instituting a “discriminatory policy” after London issued a travel ban on the east African nation. “Kenya continues to see, with deep regret, that vaccine producing countries around the world have begun practicing a
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The coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom is now the most common strain of coronavirus in the United States, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday. “Based on our most recent estimates from CDC surveillance, the B.1.1.7 variant is now the most common lineage circulating in the
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