EL PASO, Texas — As fears continue to grow around the world, health officials in the Borderland are continuing to monitor the coronavirus and say they expect to receive new test kits for it from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in the very near future. “We have issued medical advisories to medical facilities and
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Pedestrian deaths in the United States last year hit a 30-year high, according to data released Thursday. And the reason? SUVs, drug and alcohol use, warm weather and cellphones. That’s according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, a non-profit that works to improve roadway safety. The association released its annual report this month, detailing state
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The US Department of Education is demanding “sweeping changes” at the University of Southern California after an investigation found the school failed for years to protect students after reports alleged sexual abuse by former gynecologist George Tyndall. The department’s Office for Civil Rights’ investigation into the handling of allegations against Tyndall found USC “systemically failed”
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Hillary Clinton is getting a podcast. The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic nominee will begin hosting an audio show to be released in late spring, a Clinton spokesman tells CNN. The medium will give her a public platform around the end of the Democratic nomination fight and general election against President Donald Trump.
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(CNN) – Cuanto más descubren los científicos sobre el exoplaneta K2-18b, más intrigante resulta. Y ahora podría ampliar los tipos de exoplanetas que los astrónomos observan para buscar vida más allá de la Tierra. El año pasado, los astrónomos miraron de cerca la atmósfera del exoplaneta —que está fuera de nuestro sistema solar— y encontraron
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Domestic violence perpetrators and those with orders of protection against them in St. Louis County, Missouri, will be banned from carrying concealed weapons come March, following a County Council vote. St. Louis County Council members voted Tuesday along party and gender lines to adopt Bill No. 29. The council’s four women, all Democrats, voted in
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Click here for updates on this story Saginaw (WNEM) — A woman who organized an anti-violence march was sentenced to probation after allegedly bringing a gun to a Saginaw salon and threatening a worker. In July of 2019, Saginaw Police were called to a hair salon at 19 S. Jefferson St. in Saginaw for a
Continue Reading A man in Oregon was arrested after he allegedly used counterfeit money to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies outside of a Walmart, Salem police said. A mother alerted police February 16 saying her daughter, who had been selling Girl Scout cookies, was given a fake $20 bill to buy a $5 box of
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Some high clouds Friday but still a pretty decent day with temps in the mid and upper 60’s. Winds will be light. The weekend will see some additional high clouds along with some winds. Gusts Saturday will hit near 30 mph and around 40 mph for Sunday. Winds will be out of the SW. Weekend
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta (WGCL) — A “Zombie-like apocalypse” is how DaVina Jackson described her month-long battle to leave China during the Coronavirus outbreak. She moved to Nanjing last year with her daughter JeNaii, 13, and son JeKaii, 9, to teach English at a local school. Jackson says when the virus
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A gunman shattered a regular workday at the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee on Wednesday, killing five co-workers before he turned the gun on himself. Here’s what we know: The victims Authorities have identified the five people killed on Wednesday’s shooting as: – Jesus Valle Jr, 33 – Gennady Levshetz, 61 – Trevor Wetselaar, 33
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A candlelight vigil was taking place Thursday evening as family and friends remembered a teenage girl who was murdered 15 years ago. (You can watch the entire vigil in the video player above.) Ashley Wax, who was just 15 at the time, was shot and killed by her then-16-year-old boyfriend
Continue Reading Illness was never accepted as a valid reason to miss services at the Shincheonji religious group, says former member Duhyen Kim. This is an organization that took roll call, he says, and everyone had to physically swipe in and out of services with a special card. Any absence was noted and followed up on. “The
Continue Reading The highest-ranking officer in the US Marine Corps has ordered Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from all Marine installations. The order from Commandant Gen. David Berger was one of several initiatives he prioritized for “immediate execution” in a memo sent to senior leadership last week, Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Joseph Butterfield told CNN. Some of
Continue Reading A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from diverting millions of dollars in funding from a project at a base in the state to border wall construction, delivering a partial blow to President Donald Trump. The lawsuit relates to Trump’s national emergency declaration, which allowed the administration to dip into
Continue Reading On a cloudy winter afternoon, a few dozen people stand outside the courthouse in Hardin, Montana, holding banners and signs bearing the photos of young Native American women. In below-freezing temperatures and against an abrasive wind, they read out the names of 24 women and girls they say have gone missing or been killed. They
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EL PASO, Texas — The coronavirus, although not physically present along the U.S.-Mexico border, is starting to affect the intricate chain that manufacturing supplies follow from China to North America according to stakeholders at the Sister Cities Summit in El Paso on Thursday. “It’s starting to show an effect on “Right on Time” deliveries, which seems
Continue Reading Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer said Thursday that President Donald Trump “has already blown” the US response to the global spread of the novel coronavirus. “The President has already blown this. He is very, very late,” the businessman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.” “The first announcement of this publicly was at the
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March into the new month with a bevy of streaming content. There’s plenty of new TV shows, movies, documentaries and stand up specials on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Now and Acorn TV coming in the next few weeks. Click through the gallery above to see some of what’s being offered.
Continue Reading The captain of the celebrated 1980 Olympic men’s ice hockey team told CNN on Thursday that “it’s unfortunate” the players from the legendary team have faced so much online backlash after their appearance at President Donald Trump’s rally. “This is getting crazy,” said Mike Eruzione in a phone interview. “I shake my head at it,
Continue Reading The Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs is reviewing claims that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie attempted to discredit a House committee staffer who reported she was sexually assaulted at a VA facility in Washington, CNN has confirmed. A letter from Inspector General Michael Missal to House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano calls
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As the deadly coronavirus sweeps the globe and slams businesses across multiple industries, one company could dodge the selloff. Best known as the maker of Scotch tape and Post-It notes, 3M also happens to be one of the largest producers of N95 respirators, the type of mask that more efficiently protects people against the virus
Continue Reading A doctor at the University of Michigan sexually abused students and athletes, including an Olympic wrestler, for decades, three former wrestlers and their attorneys said in a news conference Thursday. University doctor Robert E. Anderson, who worked at Michigan from 1968 to 2003, allegedly molested them during unnecessary medical examinations, the wrestlers said. Anderson died
Continue Reading The Trump administration’s efforts and ambitions to reduce the size of government could hamper agencies integral to responding to the coronavirus. Reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Security Council, two key groups needed to coordinate and respond, could make it more difficult for the federal government to combat the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANSFORD, PA (WNEP) — A man and woman who lived in this house on East Ridge Street in Lansford are now behind bars. Police say Shawn Murphy and Geri Lynn Survis locked Survis’ 13-year-old child and an 18-year-old woman in a bedroom for more than 10 hours. “It’s
Continue Reading US stocks again sold off sharply on Thursday as worries about coronavirus mounted. The S&P 500 posted its worst day since August 18, 2011, and the three main indexes fell into correction territory. Stocks are on track for their worst week since the financial crisis. The Dow dropped 1,191 points, or 4.4% in its worst
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The employee who stormed the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee and his five co-workers who were killed when he opened fire have been identified. The victims were Jesus Valle, 33; Gennady Levshetz, 51; Trevor Wetselaar, 33; Dana Walk, 58; and Dale Hudson, 50, Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales told reporters. They were
Continue Reading If you’ve had the urge to hear from Rod Blagojevich directly after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, you’re in luck — but it will cost you. Blagojevich has joined Cameo, a website that allows users to pay for personalized video messages from celebrities, sports figures or musical artists. For $100, you can hear from
Continue Reading There’s another wall President Trump is building — without spending a single cent on concrete or steel. And a big piece of it just became official. A new measure known as the public charge rule went into effect this past Monday. It’s a major change that could impact hundreds of thousands of people — or
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