Click here for updates on this story PASCO COUNTY, FL (WFTS) — A Tampa Bay area man will spend the next 10 days sleeping in cages at an animal shelter to raise awareness and donations. “Go get him! Go get him! Woop!” yelled Kris Rotonda, as he encouraged a rambunctious terrier mix named Rambo up
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DELTONA, FL (WESH) — A man is recovering after a firework exploded in a vehicle outside his home in Deltona, deputies said. Emergency officials said they received a call that stated someone’s hand was partially severed after a firework blew up on it. When authorities arrived, they said
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Members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s own Scientific Advisory Board are raising concerns about several of the Trump administration’s environmental priorities, including on auto emissions rules and clean water regulations. That’s surprising because the Trump administration has overhauled the panel of scientists, dismissing about half of its previous membership and raising alarms in the environmental
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ADA, OK (KOCO) — Fans are flocking to the town of Ada to see a mural of one of the internet’s biggest crazes — the popular character affectionately known as Baby Yoda. “Just with the recent ‘Mandalorian’ series that kicked off, it kind of revamped everything,” Chickasaw Nation
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KMBC) — Whitney Wells, the 10-year-old girl from St. Joseph who gave Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes a bracelet he wears every game, lost her battle with a brain tumor, according to a Facebook post from her family. “We are not yet at a place to
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A 12-year-old Texas boy saved the lives of his great-grandparents by wresting a knife away during a stabbing attack while driving Sunday. The boy’s half brother, Lucian Adrian Johnston, 20, allegedly stabbed his great-grandparents in the head and neck from the backseat after he was told he could no longer live with them as a
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A 16-year-old mountain climber is somehow recovering with just a broken leg after falling 500 feet on Oregon’s Mount Hood. Gurbaz Singh traveled from Canada to climb Oregon’s highest peak with a group of friends, marking his 90th mountain climb, according to CNN affiliate KATU. On Monday morning the teen lost his grip while making
Continue Reading The police chief of Portland, Oregon, Danielle Outlaw, has been announced as Philadelphia’s next commissioner of the police department, the first African American woman to hold the position. Outlaw has served as Portland’s chief of police since 2017 and is the first African American woman to have acted in that role, as well. Philadelphia Mayor
Continue Reading Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Monday that she is “open to witnesses” in an upcoming Senate impeachment trial, but said it is “premature to decide who” might be called. “I am open to witnesses. I think it’s premature to decide who should be called until we see the evidence that is presented and get the
Continue Reading The Trump Organization on Monday fired “at least seven” undocumented workers at its winery in Virginia, The Washington Post reported, a move two of the former employees claim was strategic. The Post said in its Tuesday report that the firings at the Trump Winery came nearly a year after the company “pledged to root out
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Perhaps puffins aren’t as bird-brained as previously believed. A team of animal experts observed two Atlantic puffins, more than 1,000 miles apart, spontaneously scratching themselves with sticks — the first time wild seabirds have been spotted using tools, according to new findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It’s exciting for
Continue Reading A sheriff’s deputy in East Texas is dead after being shot by someone he was trying to pull over early Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested later in the day in neighboring Louisiana, authorities said. The Panola County deputy, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was trying to stop the driver of a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV
Continue Reading As two families prepare to bury their loved ones killed in a Texas church shooting, the minister of that church is asking for continued prayers as well as forgiveness. Britt Farmer, senior minister of West Freeway Church of Christ, spoke to reporters Monday night to express his grief for those they have lost and gratitude
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US stocks finished off the year — and the decade — on a high note. 2019 was the second best year of the decade for stocks, thanks to favorable Federal Reserve policy and company valuations that kept on climbing. Even as the trade war with China and other US trade partners injected plenty of volatility
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BATTLE CREEK, MI (WXMI) — A Battle Creek girl has been dealing with a rare kidney disease for nearly half of her life. Charlie Buckley was 5 years old when she was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerlulosclerosis, which doesn’t allow her kidneys to process protein. For the next
Continue Reading One of the survivors of the New York Hanukkah celebration stabbings was hit in the side of the head by the suspect’s machete and doctors had to use three staples to close his wounds, Rabbi Shmuel Gancz told CNN. Shloime Rottenberg, the son of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, had just finished the ceremony of lighting the
Continue Reading Every year, thousands flock to cities around the world for grand New Year’s Eve celebrations. But a North Carolina community’s interesting version of the ball drop featured a living, breathing opossum. The people of Clay County, North Carolina, had been lowering a live opossum instead of a regular ball since 1990. But now, the Possum
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OGDEN, UT (KSTU) — An Ogden family is using their fence to create change in their community — helping those in need one jacket, blanket, or even toy, at a time. On a cold, dark winter night, you can find dozens of people experiencing homelessness wandering the streets
Continue Reading US population growth slowed this decade, partially due to fewer births, more deaths and a decline in international migration to the US. Newly released population estimates from the US Census Bureau show that the US population grew just 0.48% since July 2018. Growth has slowed every year since 2015. The US population increased by 19.5
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Microsoft has been granted a court order to take over 50 websites it alleges were used by a North Korean hacking group to steal “highly sensitive information” from computers in the United States. Microsoft filed a lawsuit in federal court on December 18 against two unnamed people involved in the group, known as Thallium, which
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(CNN España) — No ha sido un fin de año tranquilo en la diplomacia de Bolivia. Mes y medio después de la renuncia del presidente Evo Morales a su cargo, la crisis política que comenzó en Bolivia se trasladó a México y terminó involucrando a España, en una serie de acusaciones cruzadas entre los tres gobiernos,
Continue Reading Before we fully free ourselves from the last decade, let us not forget all of the fleeting obsessions, challenges, crazes and movements that, for better or for worse, defined an era. Of course, trends are a fleeting thing, and love and hate are subjective emotions. So to all of you minion lovers and doggo-speak haters,
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A defining feature of the Donald Trump presidency is the bombardment of lies — Trump’s unceasing campaign to convince people of things that aren’t true. Trump made more than 2,700 false claims this year. (We’re still calculating the final total.) Some of them were innocent slips, some of them little exaggerations. But a large number
Continue Reading The alliance between three automakers created by Carlos Ghosn, the former auto industry bigwig who just fled Japan in advance of a scheduled trial, had a rough year after his arrest at the end of 2018. Whether that’s because of his absence, or because of bigger problems in the industry, is much tougher to say.
Continue Reading Newly released government population estimates suggest the presidential battlegrounds of Florida and North Carolina could make gains in the Electoral College when congressional seats are reapportioned based on the 2020 Census, a demographer’s analysis finds. The projections from Brookings Institution demographer and senior fellow William Frey show how reapportioning the nation’s 435 congressional seats among
Continue Reading NASA confirms one of the greatest modern art mysteries is still going strong in Australia. A pilot discovered the mysterious 2.6-mile-long geoglyph of an aboriginal hunter in 1998, etched into the earth, and to this day no one knows how it got there. The Marree Man gained new life in 2016 when a group from
Continue Reading Carlos Ghosn was once feted in Japan as a titan of the auto industry, the charismatic boss of emblematic automakers Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors. If he wasn’t one of the country’s most recognizable faces then, he certainly became one when he was spectacularly fired after being arrested in November 2018 on suspicion of financial misconduct.
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Michelle Williams is engaged to “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, and the two are expecting a baby, a source close to the actress confirms to CNN. The four-time Oscar nominee and the Tony Award-winning director worked together on the dance drama “Fosse/Verdon,” for which Williams won the Emmy Award for lead actress. Kail directed the show.
Continue Reading The 2010’s brought us a lot: From “YOLO” to Baby Yoda, Unicorn Frappuccinos to Bitcoin, and, thanks in part to social media’s proliferation, the rise of memes. You’ve definitely seen a meme before (the current President tweets them frequently), but let’s also define it: A meme is a “an amusing or interesting item (such as
Continue Reading 2019 was a heck of a year for US stocks, but can the market keep soaring in 2020? Stocks face several obstacles to growth in the new year: The Federal Reserve has stopped cutting interest rates. The economic jolt from tax cuts has run out. Despite some progress, the United States still doesn’t have a
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