EL PASO, Texas — Calling all Borderland soccer players. For the second year in a row, El Paso Locomotive FC will hold open tryouts. Those interested can now register on the El Paso Locomotive FC website. Tryouts will be held Nov. 23 and 24. Each player will have to pay $95 to register, and all
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Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Here’s a happy birthday that surprises most of us who hear about it. Atlanta’s first African American park is one hundred years old. A celebration by the Washington Park Conservancy is sharing the park’s history with the generations who have loved it. A successful
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A county council in the UK has caused a stir by announcing a 41-mile detour for motorists next week — as a result of just 165 feet of roadworks. For five days, traffic will be diverted from the Dorset village of Godmanstone into the neighboring county of Somerset in order to avoid the works on
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On the southeastern fringes of Europe, Bulgaria is only just gaining a reputation tourist destination with huge potential. But while it’s already pulling in visitors to its Black Sea beaches, its competitively priced ski resorts and its historic city of Plovdiv, the country still has many treasures waiting to be discovered. One of them is
Continue Reading An ancient church dedicated to a mysterious “glorious martyr” was uncovered near Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday, revealing a major pilgrimage site as early Christianity spread across the region and beyond. The 1,500-year-old church, expanded into the classic layout of a basilica, was decorated with opulent mosaics depicting fruit, birds, and trees, while
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Spain’s La Liga has confirmed it will take legal action over the decision to hold the postponed El Clásico match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid on December 18. The game was originally due to be played at Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium on October 26 but was pushed back by the country’s football federation (RFER)
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The Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblower protection office has “significant deficiencies” and “floundered in its mission to protect whistleblowers” according to an inspector general report made public on Thursday. The office was created by an executive order President Donald Trump signed in his first 100 days in office, and then included in a whistleblower protection
Continue Reading Major League Baseball is dodging another curveball this week after an umpire tweeted about buying an assault rifle over the impeachment inquiry. Umpire Rob Drake tweeted late Tuesday that he planned to buy an AR-15 rifle “because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!! #MAGA2020,” according to a copy
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The US-China trade war is rocking America’s manufacturing industry. It’s denting profits for major companies like Hasbro and Caterpillar. And farmers are hurting badly. Yet Peter Navarro, trade adviser to President Donald Trump, downplayed the pain from the trade war and stressed the need to stay unified against China. “We are dealing with a strategic
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is going after vaping company Eonsmoke LLC with a warning letter seeking to remove roughly 100 flavored vaping products from the market, saying the company “has ignored the law by marketing dozens of unauthorized e-cigarette products,” according to a statement by Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Ned
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — A Midstate woman is relieved Metro police made an arrest in her case. Police said 17-year-old Reginald Williams Jr. was involved in a violent crime spree targeting Lyft drivers. The mom who was shot during that spree spoke with News4 on Wednesday and the
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EL PASO, Texas — A man was arrested after he allegedly tried to sell a stolen ATV and landscaping equipment to the person he stole it from, El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said Thursday. Deputies said 33-year-old Justin Troy Anderson was booked into the El Paso County jail on Tuesday on theft charges. He was
Continue Reading In the final weeks of Mario Draghi’s tenure as president of the European Central Bank, the challenges awaiting his successor, Christine Lagarde, have become increasingly clear. The ECB, which held the final policy meeting led by Draghi on Thursday, is sharply divided over its move to reopen the stimulus taps last month. European governments look
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) — The Tallahassee Police Department and investigators have arrested the suspect in the attempted murder at Taco Wednesday night. The suspect, who TPD has identified as Mia Williams, was taken into custody around 5 a.m. Thursday morning in the area of Pensacola Street and White
Continue Reading Mark Zuckerberg last week invoked Black Lives Matter in explaining why he believes it’s so important to allow free expression on Facebook. But real black activists remember how Facebook allowed its platforms to be used to take advantage of BLM and African Americans, standing by as Russian trolls created fake pages and events and allowing
Continue Reading The United Kingdom once hoped that fracking would unlock its shale energy reserves, enhancing the country’s energy security and creating jobs and new tax revenues in the process. That now looks unlikely to ever happen. Only three wells have been fracked in the country to date, according to a report this week from the National
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORFOLK, VA (WTKR) — Detectives in Norfolk have arrested a man after the Medical Examiner ruled an undetermined death as a homicide. Around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, first responders received a call to the 6500 block of N. Military Highway for a cardiac arrest. Medics arrived to find 47-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BRAYMER, MO (WDAF) — Court documents released from Caldwell County prosecutors on Wednesday are shedding some light on what Missouri investigators say happened on July 21, the day two Wisconsin brothers disappeared north of Kansas City. The Caldwell County prosecutor charged 25-year-old Garland Joseph Nelson with two counts
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LIBERTY, MO (WDAF) — A Liberty man is the proud father of twin baby girls. And not only is he also a twin, but his daughters were also born on his birthday. Kody Johnson and his twin sister Kierstin were born Oct. 16, 1993. Kody married his wife
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Twitter’s once-hot stock is cratering in premarket trading after the company added plenty of new users but struggled to sell advertising to market to them. Shares of Twitter fell by nearly 21% on Thursday, set to erase roughly half of the stock’s gains this year. Revenue for the third quarter rose only 9% to $824
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Young people who first try a flavored tobacco product are at higher risk of using tobacco later on, according to a new study. The study, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, analyzed data from nearly 12,000 youth and more than 26,000 adults in the United States. Data was collected from 2013 to
Continue Reading President Donald Trump has been trying to avert impeachment, tweeting furiously to influence public opinion and predicting that any legal battle could go all the way up to the US Supreme Court. But when it comes to the last word on an actual House impeachment and Senate trial, the justices have previously said it will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Manheim Township, PA (WPMT) — Megan Tomlinson says she can’t stop thinking about every bite she takes, after she bit into pieces of metal in her Burger King chicken fries. “I have an issue with food now,” Tomlinson said. On September 24th, Megan stopped by the Burger King
Continue Reading Seven snorkeling grandmothers have helped scientists to uncover a large population of venomous sea snakes in a New Caledonia bay popular with residents and cruise passengers. “The Fantastic Grandmothers,” as they call themselves, have worked with scientists from the University of New Caledonia and Macquarie University, Australia, since June 2017. All in their 60s and
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Científicos enseñaron a las ratas a conducir pequeños autos de su tamaño, algo que podría ayudar al avance del tratamiento de la salud mental humana. Además: Google afirma que ha diseñado una máquina que solo necesita 200 segundos para resolver un problema que a la supercomputadora más rápida actualmente en el mundo le tomaría 10.000
Continue Reading Sometimes being first isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Google raced past China this week in the quest for “quantum supremacy” with its claim that a machine developed by the company can solve a problem in 200 seconds that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years. But just as the Soviet Union was
Continue Reading If you see T-Pain, buy him a drank. The rapper/producer posted a video on his official Instagram account on Tuesday announcing he was canceling his “1UP DLC Tour” because of low ticket sales. He took full responsibility for it. “Some things got cut, some corners got cut, production went missing, and you know, I wasn’t
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Kelly RIpa is defending a joke she made about her son on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” She appeared on the late night talk show Tuesday and talked about about how her son, Michael Consuelos, is living on his own in Brooklyn. The 22-year-old, who attends New York University, is learning how to live on his own
Continue Reading China has added new cities to its list of places that many foreign tourists can visit with easier-to-obtain short term visas. The cities of Xi’an, Ningbo, Chengdu and Chongqing will now be accessible via a 144-hour (six-day) transit visa, also known as a G visa, as of December 1, 2019, according to a report from
Continue Reading (CNN) — La policía británica dijo que las 39 personas que fueron encontradas muertas dentro de un camión en un parque industrial del Reino Unido el miércoles eran ciudadanos chinos. “Desde entonces hemos confirmado que ocho de los fallecidos son mujeres y 31 son hombres y todos se cree que son ciudadanos chinos”, escribió la
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