Mass unemployment. Mounting bankruptcies. And fears of negative interest rates. It’s a nightmarish time for America’s banks. The mood is so dire that there’s even buzz about a blockbuster merger that would marry the “vampire squid” of Wall Street with the king of banking scandals. But don’t hold your breath for a tie-up between Goldman
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Click here for updates on this story Asheville, NC (WLOS) — Officials have made an arrest in a rape case dating back several years. On May 15, the Asheville Police Department (APD) reported they have charged and arrested Jacob Allison Hoots, 35, of East Flat Rock, with second degree rape for an incident that occurred
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A top adviser and lawyer for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has a history of pushing anti-gay positions, including linking the legalization of same-sex marriage to bestiality and pedophilia. Jenna Ellis, an attorney who previously served as the director of public policy at the socially conservative James Dobson Family Institute, has also repeatedly attacked the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Papillion, NE (WOWT) — The driver who struck two children in a crosswalk in Papillion last summer, resulting in the death of 10-year-old Abby Whitford, was sentenced Friday morning in Sarpy County court to 24 months probation. The sentence will also include some jail time. After pleading guilty
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More than 40 years after serving his country in the Vietnam War, John Rowan and many of his fellow veterans are facing a new terrifying reality at home: surviving the coronavirus pandemic. Like thousands of Vietnam-era veterans, Rowan is entering his mid-70’s and suffers from preexisting conditions, meaning he faces a significantly higher risk of
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If you were planning on an early summer vacation in Hawaii this year, the state’s governor hopes you think twice. Hawaii Gov. David Ige said in an online question-and-answer session that the mandatory quarantine for any travelers visiting Hawaii will continue through at least the end of June. The state has cracked down on visitors
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EL PASO, Texas — A Horizon City man and a Socorro woman each charged over the past week with making separate online threats to shoot up local Walmart stores are friends and their threats appear to have been connected, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office disclosed on Friday. At a detention hearing, a federal judge
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A TikTok prankster is facing a backlash after staging a messy stunt that splashed milk and cereal all over a crowded New York subway car. The Metropolitan Transit Authority posted a tweet saying that the stunt created a huge mess that its workers had to clean up when they’re straining to keep subways clean and
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Five individuals have been added to the White House coronavirus task force, the Office of the Vice President announced Friday, a little over a week after the Trump administration reversed course on the group’s future, saying it would continue “indefinitely.” The new members include Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Labor Secretary Gene Scalia, National Institutes of
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They won’t have typical graduation ceremonies but the high school class of 2020 now has a T-shirt, thanks to LeBron James and Travis Scott. The basketball superstar and Grammy-nominated rapper teamed up this week to design a T-shirt specifically for those students whose graduation plans were interrupted by coronavirus. Scott designed the shirts, which feature
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NEW YORK, New York — NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associated Press, he stressed that the clubs must be “in compliance with any additional public health
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EL PASO, Texas — No dream is unattainable, if you’re willing to put in the work to achieve it. Jesus Olivares, a senior at Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts, is headed to Stanford University on a full ride scholarship. Olivares is a recipient of the Gates Scholarship, a scholarship that is awarded
Continue Reading An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.5 hit a remote area of Nevada on Friday morning, about 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas and near the California border, the US Geological Survey says. The quake, which was 4.7 miles deep, occurred at 4:03 a.m. local time, the USGS says. The revised ranking makes the
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Enforcing social distancing isn’t easy, even when you’re simply trying to serve people ice cream. That’s what Cape Cod’s Mark Lawrence learned when he reopened his Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour on May 8. Customers frustrated with wait times and social distancing requirements harassed employees. A 17-year-old worker quit, and Lawrence decided to shutter the
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Rick Bright will start his new job in a role inside the federal government’s coronavirus response next week, his attorneys said Thursday. While a Department of Health and Human Services source initially told CNN that Bright has been offered the job of second-in-command of the Accelerating Covid-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines partnership, a National Institutes
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Las Cruces Public School district had teachers, parents and staff participate in a conversation Friday afternoon about the future of the district’s budget as the state battles Covid-19. “We know that we have to build in a lot of room into the budget anticipating that cuts will happen at
Continue Reading Seemingly a difficult concept in the best of times, “Snowpiercer” becomes more problematic in the midst of a pandemic, focusing as it does on humanity’s warring remnants in a post-apocalyptic world. Even adopting a charitable view of that bleak outlook, the show suffers from soapy silliness, stilted situations and a lack of narrative momentum, preventing
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Shelley (EastIdahoNews.com) — Two people and 14 dogs were killed after a Friday morning crash on I-15 west of Shelley. Christopher Kracht, 40, was transporting 48 dogs to Calgary, Alberta with Ann Watson, 38, in a rented Ford Econoline box truck. Around 6 a.m., Kracht drove off the
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Mobile apps, QR codes, facial recognition. Everyone is looking to technology for help in this pandemic, but some experts worry that this could infringe on individual privacy, even once the pandemic has passed. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta asks public health and privacy experts what should be the role of technology in our
Continue Reading First, a confession: There are those of us who have never really been fans of Scooby-Doo, or for that matter, those meddling kids. Still, the animated dog and his crime-solving crew have been around for 50 years, which explains why there’s a movie called “Scoob!,” one so inconsequential and flat it doesn’t lose much by
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Attorneys for Gregory McMichael, one of the men charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, said Friday that “a very different narrative” will be revealed when all the facts come out. “The truth will reveal that this is not another act of violent racism,” Frank Hogue said at a news conference. “Greg McMichael did
Continue Reading Seeing Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in conversation might not be possible anymore. But you can see their daughters, in their first ever public discussion. Dr. Bernice A. King and Ilyasah Shabazz will be coming together Friday evening for the first time, meeting in conversation over their families’ legacies and sharing lessons learned
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — After being closed for almost two months because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Kansas City Zoo will reopen for visitors on Saturday. Of course, the reopening comes with changes in place for the safety of zoo animals, guests, and staff. One of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, CT (WFSB) — Milford Police have arrested a caregiver after an elderly woman was found dead inside a home in 2017. On May 16, 2017, Milford police were requested to do a welfare check for an elderly woman. When officers arrived at the home, they found the
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The number of new coronavirus cases reported each day is going down in more than half of US states, according to an analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. In all, 28 states have seen a downward trend, including several that took steps toward reopening relatively early, like Georgia, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Colorado. A
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The public health system by which Covid-19 deaths are reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is “antiquated” and “not timely,” often lagging by up to three weeks, causing senior leaders at the agency to believe the current death count in the US could be significantly higher, two federal health officials tell
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Cases of coronavirus are still “too high” in New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said during a Friday afternoon news conference. (You can watch it in the video player above.) The governor confirmed a total of 253 deaths and 5,662 infections statewide on Friday, while health officials estimated that current infections
Continue Reading A high school senior and her half-sister were found dead under a bridge along a highway in Georgia on Wednesday morning. The two women, Vanita Richardson, 19, and Truvenia Clarece Campbell, 31, were found under Etowah Bridge in Rome by workers with the Georgia Department of Transportation, a spokesperson for the Rome Police Department told
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says a coronavirus outbreak at El Paso’s Rogelio Sanchez State Jail has now grown to infecting 32 inmates and 11 employees. That’s a total of 43 cases there, up ten from the 33 cases reported a week ago. With that announcement, the Borderland region’s largest
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Lots of sun and warm temperatures for the weekend – temps in the mid 90’s. Winds will not be much of an issue. Rain chance will arrive early next week – perhaps Tuesday looks like the best opportunity but still not great chances. For the latest forecast and Doppler radar: http://www.kvia.com/weather To catch Doppler Dave
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