Police officers will soon no longer work in Denver’s public schools. The Denver school board voted unanimously on Thursday to end its contract with the city’s police department, which provided school resource officers to work in the district’s schools. Four police officers will be phased out by the end of the year, while the remaining
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Click here for updates on this story San Clemente, CA (KTLA) — The son of legendary NBA and Lakers player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been arrested after allegedly stabbing a neighbor in San Clemente, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Friday. Adam Abdul-Jabbar, 28, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was
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For many of us, it’s been months since we started sheltering in place. And it’s exhausting. Now, as states begin to reopen and social distancing rules are relaxed, how do we decide what is safe to do and what isn’t? And what about those of us who haven’t had the luxury of staying at home?
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EL PASO, Texas — Protests over police brutality and calling for the equal treatment for people of color continued for a third straight night in El Paso. A pair of state lawmakers attended Friday evening’s peaceful protest at Memorial Park calling for police reform. Samuel Licon Kligman, the founder of El Paso March for Criminal
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EL PASO, Texas — A teacher’s aide in the Socorro Independent School District has been arrested on child sex charges, sheriff’s office and school officials said Friday. 61-year-old David Quintanar is charged with child indecency, child sexual contact and having an improper educator/student relationship. He was being held Friday on $75,000 bond at the downtown
Continue Reading New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed what he called the “most aggressive” police reform legislative package in the nation in a move that makes officers more accountable and criminalizes chokeholds and other controversial restraints. The bills — vehemently opposed by a coalition of law enforcement unions — ffollows weeks of protests nationwide. Legislative
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A woman was caught on video harassing a Filipino American woman as she exercised this week at a Southern California park, the latest in a string of racist incidents captured on video and widely shared on social media. “Get the f*** out of this world, get the f*** out of this state and go back
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The Covid-19 pandemic continues to sweep through the city of Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, which has resulted in the Mexican government placing the region on “high alert.” Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral Jurado said the federal government’s designation would take effect beginning Monday, and he anticipated it being in effect
Continue Reading The National Basketball Association has laid out plans for coronavirus testing as 22 teams prepare to restart the 2019-20 season in July. To begin play, teams will be required to test for Covid-19 from June 23-30, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that players from outside the United States will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — The music industry went from rocking to non-existent on March 16. Jimmy Wooten is a local musician who tours nationally with Neal McCoy and fronts his own band, Lions May Cry. “I’ve got a wife and two boys. Just music full-time, and that’s how
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Honolulu, HI (KITV) — The leader of a self-claimed religious cult is among 20 people who were arrested for allegedly violating the state’s mandatory 14-day travel quarantine. Angela Keen, administrator of Hawaii Quarantine Kapu Breakers, a volunteer group that helps track and catch quarantine violators says they received
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Nashville, TN (WSMV) — A truck driver met the family, who helped save from a crash last year. Harold Hyde is a truck driver who saved a four-year-old boy with autism who wandered onto McCrory Lane in Davdison County last October. This wasn’t the only time Hyde had
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — After New Mexico’s governor ordered the closure of schools to prevent the spread of Covid-19, less than half of the state’s students regularly participated in online learning, according to a new report by the state’s Legislative Finance Committee. “School closures will exacerbate learning loss over the summer,leaving students three months
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Sanilac County, MI (WNEM) — Two people were saved from a sinking boat by a Sanilac County Sheriff’s Deputy. Around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Marine Deputy Tate Bongard was at Port Sanilac Harbor when he noticed a sinking ship off shore. Bongard reported the ship to central dispatch and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — The Oregon Health Authority changed guidelines more than a month ago, urging more COVID-19 testing for certain groups, but one couple says those guidelines aren’t as straightforward as they seem. The couple is Latino and said they thought under new OHA guidelines that testing
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LEXINGTON, MO (KCTV) — For more than 80 years, hemp hasn’t been allowed to be grown in the state of Missouri. That all changed in 2018 after President Donald Trump signed a bill legalizing industrial hemp. Many Missourians are taking advantage of that opportunity this year with their
Continue Reading The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution declaring it will create a “transformative new model” of policing in the city — a move spurred by last month’s death of George Floyd in police custody. “We acknowledge that the current system is not reformable — that we would like to end the current
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EL PASO, Texas — The Socorro Independent School District has released plans to bring students back for the 2020-2021 school year while adhering to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Texas Education Agency guidelines. The first day of the school year is set for July 27. In a statement released by the district, Superintendent
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE COUNTY, WI (WDJT) — A 64-year-old woman accused of spitting on a teen during a rally in Shorewood, has been officially charged. Stephanie Rapkin — a Mequon-based tax and estate attorney — was charged with the following: According to a criminal complaint, protesters demanded Rapkin move her
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, AR (KFSM) — According to Walmart representatives, the store on Joyce Boulevard in Fayetteville is being used as a test site to launch all self-checkout counters. This store no longer has cashiers and has self-checkouts only. However, there will be self-checkout hosts at the front of the
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What caused the lake to turn pink? That was the question on people’s minds across India after Lonar Lake in the state of Maharashtra suddenly changed hues in recent days. Experts believe that the change is likely due to either increased salinity in the water, the presence of algae or a combination of both —
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man is jailed on animal cruelty charges after allegedly shooting one dog and brutally beating another that was just a puppy, authorities said Friday. 38–year-old Justin Free Millender was being held in the El Paso County Detention Facility on bonds totaling $7,500. Millender allegedly “brutalized the animals after
Continue Reading The estate of Pop Smoke has released a new song. “Make It Rain” dropped Friday. The rapper was killed during a home invasion at a Hollywood Hills, California, residence in February. Universal Music executive Steven Victor posted about the song on his verified Instagram account. “Music is the tool of revolution,” he wrote. “We have
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINSTON-SALEM, NC (WGHP) — Armed robbers ran away after a gun was fired at a Winston-Salem jewelry store, according to Winston-Salem police. At 8:33 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to the robbery at M&M Ltd Jewelry at 127 Oakwood Drive. Store personnel told police that two men forced their
Continue Reading Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she was shocked by video showing 13 police officers lounging in a congressman’s office during protests and looting. “It’s one of the most disgraceful, disrespectful things that I’ve ever seen, and we are absolutely not going to tolerate it,” Lightfoot told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday night. “We can be
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As the world works to produce an effective Covid-19 vaccine, some experts suggest an existing vaccine that almost everyone already gets might help. There is plenty of evidence that existing vaccines such as polio vaccines protect children against a wide range of infections and it’s worth trying them out against the new coronavirus, a team
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Starbucks is reversing its position that had prohibited employees from wearing paraphernalia, such as T-shirts or pins, supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Although the company publicly supports “Black Lives Matter” on its social media channels and in a press release, an internal memo to employees obtained by BuzzFeed News earlier this week explains that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New Orleans, LA (WGNO) — In the middle of an an ambulance. In the middle of a storm more powerful for New Orleans than Tropical Storm Cristobal. A Louisiana mom-to-be, a 30-year-old beautician is ready now to have her new baby. WGNO’s Bill Wood gets the scoop from
Continue Reading Kennedy Mitchum wasn’t expecting much when she emailed Merriam-Webster last month, but she wanted to let the dictionary publisher know that she thought its definition of the word racism was inadequate. So she was surprised when an editor responded and even more surprised that the company agreed to update the entry. Mitchum has gotten into
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Shippensburg, PA (WPMT) — A Shippensburg man is facing charges after he bit a four year-old in the face and hit with child with multiple objects according to Chambersburg Police. Francky Leriche, 32, is charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child and Simple Assault after the incident
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