Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV ) — A crossing guard has died after he was struck by a vehicle Tuesday morning. It happened at about 8 a.m. near 54th Street and Leavenworth Road at Christ the King Parish School. The crossing guard was employed by Wyandotte County. 89-year-old Bob
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A couple from Japan tested positive for novel coronavirus shortly after visiting Hawaii this month, and Delta Airlines says it is notifying passengers who were on their flight home about the couple’s diagnosis. Hawaiian officials, meanwhile, say they’ve been looking into the couple’s activities in Hawaii, and are trying to find people who may have
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers voted Tuesday to put new regulations on pornography and remove some on polygamy in separate proposals moving quickly through the Legislature in the deeply conservative state. Senators voted unanimously to change state law to remove the threat of jail time for consenting adult polygamists, a step that supporters
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The Westerdam cruise ship was supposed to have been the lucky one. After being stuck at sea for days, when Japan, the Philippines and Thailand turned it away over concerns it had passengers who could have been infected with the novel coronavirus, on Friday, the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia finally allowed the Westerdam to
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A little cooler day expected for Wednesday with high clouds gradually leaving by Wednesday evening. Another cold front will arrive Thursday to cool us down even more while moisture arrives for Friday and Saturday. Saturday is expected to be mostly cloudy with a 30% rain then clearing skies for Sunday. For the latest weather and
Continue Reading Over the last two and a half months, more than 206 million gallons of toxic sewage has spilled into Fort Lauderdale waterways. That’s the equivalent of 312 Olympic-sized swimming pools. And now, the state of Florida is saying enough is enough. It has slapped Fort Lauderdale with a $1.8 million fine that the city is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURCHISON, TX (KOVR) — A bear who was found hairless and almost dead in Butte County has made a miracle recovery, hundreds of miles away from where she was originally discovered. When rescuers found “Eve” in a trash can two years ago, she looked so odd they couldn’t
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A federal district court judge in Kansas who was publicly admonished last fall for sexual misconduct and having an extramarital affair resigned on Tuesday. In a letter to President Donald Trump, US District Judge Carlos Murguia of the District of Kansas offered his resignation and expressed “profound apologies.” “In recent months, it has become clear
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SpaceX has signed a deal with a space tourism company to organize a trip orbiting the Earth for a handful of adventurous travelers. Space Adventures — which organized eight tourism trips to the International Space Station between 2001 and 2009 — plans to help organize a flight for four people aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg agreed with a voter here in Nevada on Tuesday who said he worries that “if the socialist Bernie Sanders wins the nomination, (President Donald) Trump will beat him.” “I share that concern,” Buttigieg bluntly told Michael Nash, a 65-year-old retiree from Las Vegas. Buttigieg also took a veiled swipe at Michael Bloomberg, labeling
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man is charged with firing shots at children who threw snowballs at his car, injuring two of them. William Carson, 24, was charged Sunday with two counts of first-degree reckless injury and five counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, all felonies. Prosecutors allege Carson in early January. A 13-year-old boy
Continue Reading Faye Marie Swetlik, a South Carolina 6-year-old who went missing from her home, was abducted and killed by a neighbor who died by suicide, authorities said Tuesday. The first-grader died of asphyxiation hours after she was abducted last week in Cayce, Lexington County Corner Margaret Fisher said, citing the results of a recent autopsy. The
Continue Reading ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman convicted in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme is among the 11 federal inmates around the nation on whose behalf President Donald Trump has taken clemency actions. Trump commuted 48-year-old Judith Negron’s sentence Tuesday. Her husband, Hector Negron, sat his two teenage sons next to him and told
Continue Reading Kickstarter employees voted to unionize on Tuesday, making the crowd-funding platform one of the first in the tech industry with a union. The workers voted to unionize by a margin of 46 to 37 in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board. The workers will be affiliated with a chapter of the Office
Continue Reading States with the highest rates of melanoma cases linked to ultraviolet radiation are spread across the United States on the East and West coasts, in Hawaii and in landlocked states, according to a study published Monday in the International Journal of Cancer. Melanoma is one of the most rapidly increasing cancers in the United States,
Continue Reading This time last year, it appeared that Colorado’s industry was plateauing. Now it’s surging. Colorado cannabis shops notched sales of nearly $1.75 billion during 2019, setting a new annual sales record for the state home to the nation’s longest-established recreational cannabis industry, according to Colorado Department of Revenue data first reported by the Denver Westword.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, IA (KCCI ) — A Des Moines community of students and parents is asking for the return of a high school theater director after he lost his job. Des Moines Public Schools said it’s not eliminating the role completely but it is going to be half
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The 2020 BRIT Awards were presented Tuesday at the O2 Arena in London. British comedian Jack Whitehall hosted as performers like Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Lizzo took the stage. Below are the winners of the night. MALE SOLO ARTIST Dave Harry Styles Lewis Capaldi Michael Kiwanuka Stormzy – WINNER FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
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How hard can this whole democracy thing be? Less than a month after issues with a vote tabulation app spoiled the Iowa caucuses, fallout from Nevada’s decision to abandon an app made by the same company has raised legitimate fears that the caucuses there will be spoiled as well. It’s not helping that campaigns are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WISN ) — Detectives matched a gun found in a chase suspect’s car to a scene where two children were shot after throwing snowballs at passing cars, court records show. William Carson is charged in the Jan. 4 shooting on Birch Avenue in Milwaukee. According to
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President Donald Trump has pardoned former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik, he announced at Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday. Kerik, who once served three years in federal prison for charges including tax fraud and lying to officials, was nominated as homeland security secretary by President George W. Bush but withdrew from consideration due to
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VADO, New Mexico — Two teens were found dead late Tuesday morning after their motorcycle crashed into a fence in front of a home in Vado. The crash wreckage was discovered about 11 a.m. in a yard near the intersection of Plaza Avenue and Cristo Avenue. Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputies identified one of the
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DAYTONA, Florida — NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is awake and speaking with family and doctors, a day after a fiery crash near the finish line of Daytona 500. Newman’s racing team, Roush Fenway Racing, offered up the update Tuesday and said it will continue to provide details as they become available. “Ryan Newman remains under
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (KOCO) — The goal of a rally Monday at the Oklahoma Capitol was to help solve cold cases of missing Native American women by pushing bills, including Ida’s Law. Activists said one of the big problems of solving cases of Native American women who have
Continue Reading Authorities in Georgia have escalated the search for a missing Fort Valley State University student who was last seen on Valentine’s Day. The search began Saturday when the family of 23-year-old Anitra Gunn reached out to police and said they had not heard from her for an “unusual amount of time,” the Fort Valley Police
Continue Reading The Trump administration on Tuesday announced sanctions against a Russian oil firm accused of supporting the Maduro regime — the latest in a string of actions aimed at forcing the embattled Venezuelan leader from power. A senior administration official said that the designation of Rosneft Trading S.A., a subsidiary of the Russia’s Rosneft Oil Company,
Continue Reading JACKSON, Mississippi — Historic flooding in Mississippi should begin to recede this week, but not before a flash flood warning could bring more rain for thousands of residents. The Pearl River in Jackson crested on Monday at 36.67 feet — the third highest crest on record — leaving roads covered in water and hundreds of
Continue Reading The Justice Department has assigned the top prosecutor in Brooklyn to coordinate Ukraine-related investigations, according to a memo released Tuesday to Congress, bringing a new layer of Washington supervision to an area of interest that has become a political minefield. The move potentially gives Attorney General William Barr a way to keep a tighter rein
Continue Reading Jury deliberations have begun in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York, but the verdict will not come today. The jury, made up of seven men and five women, deliberated for about five hours Tuesday without reaching a verdict and will return Wednesday morning. Weinstein, 67, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual act, two counts
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A crossing guard who died after being hit by a vehicle in Kansas City, Kansas, saved the lives of two children before the impact, a school principal said. The guard was struck early Tuesday near Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City, Kansas, and died later at a hospital.
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