EL PASO, Texas — During a time when they normally would be selling cookies, El Paso Girl Scouts showed their gratitude to first-responders. The girls from Troop #61228 held a parade that drove by El Paso Children’s Hospital and University Medical Center on Saturday. The doctors and nurses waved from the sidewalks and through the
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EL PASO, Texas — The Word of Life Church wanted to thank healthcare workers, firefighters and police officers with a parade on Saturday. “Our church wanted to tell them how much we appreciate them risking their lives and being willing to put their life on the line for our safety,” said Bishop Tom Brown. The church also
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SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korean troops exchanged gunfire along their tense border on Sunday, the South’s military said, the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to lower front-line animosities in late 2018. Violent confrontations have occasionally occurred along the border, the world’s most heavily fortified. While Sunday’s incident is
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DALLAS, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are shoring up the quarterback ranks behind franchise-tagged starter Dak Prescott. On Saturday, the Cowboys announced on their website the signing of former Cincinnati Bengals long-time starter Andy Dalton to a one-year deal as Precott’s backup, which ESPN reported could be worth up to $7 million. The Bengals released
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President Donald Trump appeared to confirm Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “alive and well.” Trump retweeted North Korean state media photos of Kim attending a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory. “I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!” Trump wrote. This was Kim’s
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Scores of people descended upon the National Mall on Saturday as the US Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds performed a flyover to honor first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation’s capital is under a stay-at-home order to slow down the spread of the virus but that didn’t
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Public Health Department reported 25 new coronavirus cases on Saturday evening, bringing the county’s cumulative number just shy of the thousand case milestone to 986. After several days of additional deaths being tallied, the number of fatalities held at 22. But health leaders said there were 61 El Pasoans hospitalized, with 39
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In the battle between government stay-at-home orders and warm spring weather, the weather won this weekend. In New York City and Washington, DC, people who’d been cooped up for weeks flocked to parks and open spaces on Saturday — and many of them appeared to be observing social distancing rules to combat Covid-19. Though they
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Your ridiculous derby hat may not go to waste this spring. With the 146th Kentucky Derby being postponed until September 5 because of the coronavirus pandemic, horse racing fans are being treated to a virtual horse race featuring the past 13 Triple Crown winners. NBC will broadcast the 2015 Kentucky Derby, which was the start
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texans looking to be tested for the novel coronavirus can find sites on a statewide interactive map that is being overseen by the Texas Division of Emergency Management and Texas Department of State Health Services. Users can search below for sites based on their location, and the map displays both public, private and
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — A Doña Ana County man in his 60s was among eight new coronavirus deaths reported in New Mexico on Saturday, according to state health leaders, bringing the number of fatalities statewide to 139. Officials said the Doña Ana County victim was hospitalized and had underlying medical conditions at the time
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Jennifer Garner read a popular children’s book to kids in her home state of West Virginia Saturday during the 24-hour “The Call To Unite,” organized to raise relief funds for families impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Via the internet, she read “Chicks Run Wild” from her kitchen in Los Angeles to a number of students
Continue Reading Lea Michele is pregnant. The former “Glee” star made the announcement Saturday on Instagram — posing barefoot in a floral blue maxi dress and gazing down at her small baby bump. “So grateful,” she wrote, along with a heart emoji. Other celebrities responded positively to the news. Emma Roberts wrote “Crying! Screaming!!! Love you !”
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EL PASO, Texas — As the East Coast of the U.S. got soaked with rain and floods from a major weather system, a record heat wave took place in Texas and across the Borderland this weekend. El Paso broke a high temperature record for a third-straight day on Sunday. The official high at El Paso
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The White House is blocking Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the administration’s coronavirus task force, from testifying before the Democratic-led House next week, according to a spokesman from a key House committee. “The Appropriations Committee sought Dr. Anthony Fauci as a witness at next week’s Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 response. We have
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The death toll from the coronavirus rose by three on Saturday for a total of 78 in what’s been the deadliest week of the pandemic thus far in Juarez. In all, 33 of the 78 total deaths from the virus occurred in Juarez this week. The total number of Juarez virus
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police described what was reported as a shooting Saturday afternoon in a neighborhood on El Paso’s far east side to be an “aggravated assault,” but didn’t elaborate. The incident happened about 1:30 p.m. in the 14300 block of Angel D. Garcia Court and William Caples Street. Police crime scene
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Click here for updates on this story Greensboro (WGHP) — Les Nichols made a career change a few years ago, which unexpectedly landed him in the classroom with his daughter Sara at UNCG. “I was like, ‘You’re going to do so well,’” Sara Nichols. “The health field is an extremely demanding field. “To see her
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AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into links between the University of Texas System and a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan that has been scrutinized as a potential source of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The Journal said the probe is part of a broader
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One man got to see his mother one last time before she passed away from coronavirus, thanks to the efforts of this nurse. Christina Pascarelli is a front line nurse in New Jersey who has been critical in fighting the coronavirus. She appeared on “New Day” on Saturday morning to speak about her experiences, and
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have named their newborn son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, it was announced on Saturday. The baby was born Wednesday, and was given the middle name Nicholas in honor of two doctors who treated Boris Johnson while he suffered from coronavirus last month. “Wilfred after Boris’
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas hit a third-straight day of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases Saturday as the state charged into its first weekend of re-opening the economy with residents allowed to go back to malls, restaurants, movie theaters and retail stores in limited numbers. State health officials reported 1,293 new cases, the second-highest single-day
Continue Reading Los Angeles-based photographer Erin Sullivan has found an unconventional way to satiate her penchant for exploration while under a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic. Sullivan let her creativity go wild in her latest photo series, “Our Great Indoors.” In it, she constructs fantastical landscapes from common household objects found in her apartment, such
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SOCORRO, Texas — The Socorro Police Department were searching for a missing elderly woman and put out a public call for help in locating her on Saturday. Martha Gandara Arrieta, 88, suffers from dementia. Arrieta was last seen Friday wearing a red jacket, black pants and brown sandals, walking along North Loop, between the streets
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After a league leading and rookie record 53 home runs in his first season, Mets slugger Pete Alonso was greatly looking forward to his sophomore season. But like all sports, it was put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. “This is a very unique and rare time,” Alonso told me. “Basically just been trying to
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One man got to see his mother one last time before she passed away from coronavirus, thanks to the efforts of this nurse. Christina Pascarelli is a front line nurse in New Jersey who has been critical in fighting the coronavirus. She appeared on “New Day” on Saturday morning to speak about her experiences, and
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A moving truck came to Rebecca Stevens-Walter’s New York apartment this week. But she wasn’t there to help pack boxes or supervise the crew. In mid-March, the 39-year-old pastor flew to New Mexico with her husband and two kids. They left so suddenly they barely had time to prepare for the trip. “We fled,” she
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While there have been a lot of stories this week about working conditions for meat processors and a genuine threat to the food supply chain, you can still find plenty of meat in the grocery stores, although that may change now that grocery stores have started to ration how much people can buy. Not so
Continue Reading Bill Beaumont was re-elected as World Rugby chairman on Saturday, beating a fellow former playing captain who served under him in the boardroom. The 68-year-old Englishman achieved a majority by defeating his lone challenger, Argentina’s Agustin Pichot, by a 28 to 23 vote. French Rugby president Bernard Laporte, running unopposed, moved into Pichot’s vacated vice-chairman
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