Click here for updates on this story Kansas City, MO (KCTV) — College graduates are facing staggering unemployment numbers as they search for jobs. National unemployment is at 14.7%, but when you look at the 20-25 age group that number jumps to 25.7%. University of Arkansas graduate Tommye Koontz says she’s looking for a marketing
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Shreveport, LA (KTBS) — Police are searching for a shooter who is believed to have caused a woman to crash into a utility pole and slam into a house in Shreveport late Thursday. It happened at West 68th and Wallace Avenue in the city’s Hollywood neighborhood near Linwood
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George Floyd’s death has raised new questions about a potentially dangerous method of restraint: the knee-to-neck maneuver. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was held down with a knee as he protested that he couldn’t breathe. The FBI is investigating the incident, which drew widespread condemnation of the officers, who were fired this week, after a
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More than 500 schools closed again Friday to students after briefly reopening, as South Korea moves to stamp out a resurgence of the coronavirus in the capital, Seoul, and its surrounding metropolitan area. Parks, art galleries, museums and theaters operated by the government in the Seoul metropolitan area — home to about half the country’s
Continue Reading It started with a routine police call reporting someone used a counterfeit bill at a store in Minneapolis. What followed was a series of events that ended with George Floyd, 46, dead after a white police officer used his knee to pin him down in an incident captured on video. Floyd, who is black, died
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On most days I am loyal to my locally owned coffee shop. I spent years working as a barista myself, pulling shots of espresso and pouring silky steamed milk into ceramic mugs — a wiggle of the wrist to finish it off with a snow-white pattern in caramel-colored foam. My fellow third-wave coffee crafters and
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Twitter says President Donald Trump has violated its rule against glorifying violence and has affixed a warning label to one of his tweets — the first time such action has been taken against the president’s account. The social media platform is using what it calls a “public interest notice” to flag the president’s incendiary post
Continue Reading The Dalai Lama has deplored the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and blamed discrimination and racism for it. The exiled Tibetan leader gave a virtual teaching about compassion to his followers during a webcast Friday morning from his home in India’s Dharamsala. “We see in the news channels, the media about discrimination on the
Continue Reading There is a new brand of diplomacy taking hold in Beijing and its chief architects have a suitably fierce nickname to match their aggressive style — they are the wolf warriors. It’s a phrase that is now used widely in Chinese state-run media as well as Western publications, and it was made clear last weekend
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EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso has set up more than a dozen Covid-19 testing sites throughout the community, and while it could take as little as 10 minutes to get your test taken – it may also take more than 10 days to get you the results. “One of the issues
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EL PASO, Texas – A year ago around this time Americas High School grad Darrell Hernaiz was signing his professional baseball contract with the Baltimore Orioles. Fast forward to today, Hernaiz is turning heads not only around El Paso, but on the national radar as a top prospect. “I wasn’t really proved coming out of
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UPDATE: Authorities on Friday said that 61-year-old Manuel Balderrama has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and 24-year-old Blanco Balderrama has been charged with tampering with evidence. ORIGINAL REPORT: ORGAN, New Mexico — Two people were shot and wounded in a rural area of Dona Ana County just outside
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EL PASO, Texas — About 2,900 El Paso Electric customers were without power Thursday afternoon and evening for a few hours due to an outage in 90-degree weather. The electrical outage was first reported around 4 p.m. in far East El Paso and utility officials said at the time that crews were working quickly to
Continue Reading Prosecutors looking at the death of George Floyd on Thursday asked the people of Minneapolis for patience while they investigate the case that has riled the city and the nation. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after pleading for help as a police officer used his knee on Floyd’s neck to pin him — unarmed
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DALLAS, Texas — A woman managed to go into labor and give birth alone in a Texas jail cell without any corrections officers noticing until after she had delivered the child, a sheriff’s official said Thursday. The woman had the baby in a Fort Worth jail cell on May 17, according to Tarrant County Sheriff’s
Continue Reading MIDLAND, Texas — When police stopped a Texas man for an alleged traffic violation, the confrontation turned tense, videos of the incident show. Midland police officers stopped Tye Anders, 21, on May 16 for running a stop sign, the department said in a statement. What happened next left a family shaken, a young man on
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EL PASO, Texas — While bars in El Paso are being given the green light to reopen Friday as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s restart of the Texas economy, Aceitunas Beer Garden at 5200 Doniphan Drive will not be among those that do. “We are afraid that they are going to let all of the
Continue Reading A cell phone belonging to one of the men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s death called 911 on February 23, shortly before Arbery died, according to Glynn County Police call logs. Although the Glynn County Police Department redacted the names in both the audio and dispatch call log from the February 23 calls to 911, CNN
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EL PASO, Texas — Bars across El Paso are able to reopen Friday at 25% capacity after months of being closed due to coronavirus concerns. The re-opening comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the decision to delay it in El Paso and Amarillo for a week behind the rest of the state after both
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No one wants to see another horrific milestone like the one reached this week. The US death toll from coronavirus topped 100,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That means an average of almost 900 Americans died each day since the first known coronavirus-related death nearly four months ago. While the number of new
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As the coronavirus’ death toll in the U.S. surpasses 100,000 victims, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a moment to reflect on this tragic milestone and commemorate those we’ve lost. You can listen on your favorite podcast app or read the transcript below. Amith Mooliya, son of Ananda Mooliya: My dad was a
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — In a forest clearing outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Sasha Krause was found cold and stiff, with a bullet wound to the back of her head. She was face down beneath brush, wearing a gray dress, white coat and hiking shoes. Her hair was pinned in a bun and her hands bound by
Continue Reading For years in the Gilgo Beach, New York multiple victim investigation, she was “Jane Doe #6.” On Thursday, New York’s Suffolk County Police Department confirmed the remains of Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old Philadelphia mother who went missing two decades ago. Mack’s partial remains were first discovered near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2000, with additional
Continue Reading Researchers are learning more about the risks cancer patients face if they become sick with Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has swept through the world. Patients whose cancer was getting worse or spreading were more than five times more likely to die in the space of a month if they caught
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS ) — Avain Smith is working on being a Division I kicker, but has been familiar with the Army his entire life thanks to his dad. “He was in the miliary for 30 years. Way before I was born.” After spending his early years on
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A few showers and isolated storms tonight then clearing. A cold front passing late tonight will cool us down a bit tomorrow along with some gusty winds for the west side of mountains. Gusts from the east at around 35 mph. Winds will settle a bit for tomorrow. Weekend looks good with low to mid
Continue Reading For many children in foster care in the United States — there are more than 400,000 — life is often difficult enough. During a pandemic, it only gets more challenging. Some don’t have access to technology needed to continue distance learning. Those who’ve aged out of the system often don’t have a support network to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story POWDER SPRINGS, GA (WGCL) — An elderly woman is in critical condition after police say she was beaten with an edged meat cleaver. Powder Springs Police were dispatched to a home on Pine Valley Drive to perform a wellness check. Family of the elderly woman said they became
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Ga. (WGCL) — Thousands of Georgians have emailed Better Call Harry for help in receiving their unemployment benefits during the pandemic. But one of them never realized how quickly Harry would get him results. Marcus Sumlin is outside the Georgia Department of Labor’s College Park office. Though
Continue Reading If there were any more fun facts to learn about cannabis, its ritualistic use at a biblical site in Israel can now be added to the list. In 1963, two limestone altars were found at the entrance to the “Holy of Holies” of a Judahite shrine at Beersheba Valley, in Israel’s Tel Arad, an archaeological
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