Two grand slam titles and a rapid rise to the top of world tennis was a head-spinning ascent for Naomi Osaka. But in this moment of pause, a period of lockdown with no tennis and no expectations, the 22-year-old is looking to confront an opponent from within: her crippling shyness. “For me, I have a
Continue Reading Life under lockdown can be challenging for elite sports stars, but not many world champions have to share a confined space with a fellow world champion, teammate and brother all rolled into one. Marc Marquez, who has six MotoGP titles among the eight world championships to his name, has been quarantined at his parents’ house
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The Black Eyed Peas are back after a decade with a new album, but one member is missing. Singer Fergie is not on this latest project, and the group is explaining why. Fergie is “focusing on being a mom,” Will.i.am told Billboard. “That’s a hard job, and that’s what she really wants to do and
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Click here for updates on this story UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (KMOV) — A group led by the Green Party of St. Louis and the Universal African Peoples Organization is seeking to rename Delmar Boulevard, which stretches from downtown St. Louis into University City. The group wants it to be renamed the “George Floyd Divide,” in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Stella Parton, the sister of country music icon Dolly Parton, is calling for police reform after she says police used excessive force on her—including a choke hold—when they responded to a silent alarm at her then-home in Oak Hills in 2015. An internal police
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Stella Parton, the sister of country music icon Dolly Parton, is calling for police reform after she says police used excessive force on her—including a choke hold—when they responded to a silent alarm at her then-home in Oak Hills in 2015. An internal police
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Ga. (WGCL) — Hundreds showed up to Ebenezer Baptist church for a public viewing for 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks. Many lined up for hours in the rain to pay their respects. “We are all here to support the family and the injustice of him,” said local Tamisha Perkins.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Ga. (WGCL) — Parts of the afternoon and evening made for wet commute across the metro Monday as storms left their mark. With roads still wet and travelling at a high rate of speed, the Georgia State Patrol says Rapper Lil Yachty was involved in a single-vehicle
Continue Reading BTS and Big Hit Entertainment have teamed up to donate $1 million to help concert crews hurting because of the coronavirus pandemic. The donation by the Korean pop superstars and their management company was made to Live Nation’s charity campaign, Crew Nation, which helps live show staffers who are out of work due to canceled
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Protesters took to the streets of Portland again Monday evening for racial justice and police reform. Hundreds of people met at Jefferson High School and then marched from there. Organizers say they’re focused on sharing stories of injustices to the Black community in Oregon
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PARKVILLE, MO (KCTV) — The City of Parkville has removed two historical markers they say are offensive to some people due to mentions of slavery. The plaques are currently in storage. One was placed by the Missouri Civil War Heritage Foundation and sponsored by a group called the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — FOX 12 has learned businesses have faced $4,808,099 in property damages since last month’s riots, according to a survey provided by the Portland Business Alliance, then passed on to the city Monday morning. Add onto that any loss of merchandise, plus not being able
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Markus Braun, the Austrian tech entrepreneur who built Wirecard into one of Germany’s biggest companies, has been arrested after a $2.1 billion hole exploded in its accounts. Munich prosecutors confirmed Tuesday that Braun, Wirecard’s former CEO, was arrested on suspicion of having inflated the digital payment company’s balance sheet and sales through fake transactions in
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It’s an unprecedented effort: the US government is investing more than $3 billion to come up with a vaccine against the coronavirus. That’s a lot of money. It’s more than half the annual budget for the state of Vermont. It’s about what Louisiana spends on its Medicaid patients in one year. But a vaccine is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARRISBURG, PA (WPMT) — Some Pennsylvania hospitals may be facing a new threat: a severe shortage of blood supplies. In Central Pennsylvania, more than 600 blood drives have been canceled resulting in a loss of over 11,000 blood donations since March, according to the Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The coronavirus death toll in El Paso County now stands at 122. The Department of Public Health announced two new deaths and 124 new cases on Tuesday morning. The latest victims were identified as a man and a woman, both in their 70s with underlying health conditions. There have now
Continue Reading People of color are dying from Covid-19 in America in shocking numbers, victims to a disease that attacks those in poor health the hardest. This disparity is part of the systemic racism that has driven many protestors to the streets over the last few weeks, flaming with anger over the injustices of police brutality and
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One of the Atlanta police officers charged in the death of Rayshard Brooks would not have done anything differently that night, he said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan also called Brooks’ death a “tragedy,” according to his interview published by the newspaper Tuesday, just hours before the 27-year-old
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While many questions persist about George Floyd’s killing — namely why a Minneapolis policeman used lethal force while arresting Floyd — three videos help stitch together the last minutes of the 46-year-old’s life. Details surrounding Floyd’s death continued to emerge Sunday as demonstrations erupted across the United States. Protesters have chanted, “I can’t breathe” —
Continue Reading During a live public briefing on Facebook last month, “someone very casually suggested” the Los Angeles County’s public health director should be shot, the director said. “I didn’t immediately see the message, but my husband did, my children did, and so did my colleagues,” Dr. Barbara Ferrer said Monday in a statement. It’s just one
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Borderland residents will wake up to a few clouds and patchy smoke from the wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico.The smoke will drift with the arrival of a backdoor cold front, west slopes prepare for occasional wind gusts this morning.The cold front will bring increased moisture along with potential thunderstorms mainly east.Expect much of the
Continue Reading The autopsy for a man shot and killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy last week has been placed on a “security hold” by the department, according to a statement from the coroner’s office. News of the hold came the same day the city of Compton issued a statement demanding answers over the death
Continue Reading Tennis star Bianca Andreescu says she hopes to one day surpass the greatest players of all-time as she prepares to defend her title at this year’s US Open. The 20-year-old became Canada’s first-ever grand slam singles champion when she defeated Serena Williams in straight sets at Flushing Meadows last year but the youngster is far
Continue Reading Eight corrections officers at the Ramsey County, Minnesota, jail where former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is being held say they were briefly barred from the floor where he was held the day he was booked into the jail because of the color of their skin, according to discrimination charges filed with the Minnesota Department
Continue Reading Burnley has strongly condemned a “White Lives Matter Burnley” banner that was flown by a small plane over the Etihad Stadium ahead of their English Premier League match against Manchester City on Monday. Since the English Premier League’s resumption last week, all players of the 20 top-flight clubs have replaced their names with the message
Continue Reading A new study suggests that as many as 8.7 million Americans came down with coronavirus in March, but more than 80% of them were never diagnosed. A team of researchers looked at the number of people who went to doctors or clinics with influenza-like illnesses that were never diagnosed as coronavirus, influenza or any of
Continue Reading Two men accused of killing seven people in Alabama are in custody in Oregon and face capital murder charges, police say. John Michael Legg, 19, and Frederic Allen Rogers, 22, were part of a club called Seven Deadly Sins — and killed the victims earlier this month near Huntsville following a dispute within that club,
Continue Reading The family and friends of Rayshard Brooks will honor his life in a private funeral service on Tuesday, a day after hundreds of people lined up to pay their respects at a public viewing. A four-hour public viewing concluded Monday evening at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Continue Reading Green-carpeted hills roll away from Maryland Farm in Somerset, England, where a man named Daniel Barber began making farmstead cheese in 1833. Nearly 200 years later, his family’s Barber’s Farmhouse business is still going strong, now the oldest cheddar-maker in the world. “The valley we’re in here is one of the most fertile and densely
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