Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Gov. Gavin Newsom grabbed a scrub brush Tuesday and joined volunteers to help clean up a memorial on the Capitol grounds. One of the people out with the governor was Stevante Clark. His brother, Stephon Clark, was killed by Sacramento police in 2018. When
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — A Phoenix man says he was pepper-sprayed, threatened with bean bag rounds and arrested for rioting downtown, but he says he was only walking home from a friend’s house to his apartment downtown. Jonathan Hursh says he recorded cellphone footage of the encounter early Sunday
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (KPHO/KTVK) — Some people forced to evacuate their homes and businesses because of the Ocotillo Fire in Cave Creek are returning to destruction and heartbreak. The fire destroyed 20 buildings, eight of them homes. The fire also tore through an iconic business, Johnny Ringo’s Carefree
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Like many people, I developed an obsession with Italy relatively early in life. Unlike many people, mine was probably inspired by a cartoon dream sequence in which Yogi Bear and his girlfriend Cindy sailed through Venice on a gondola. I quickly moved on to classier inspiration — “Light in the Piazza” starring Olivia de Havilland
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A retired police captain fatally shot during looting in St. Louis was passionate about helping young people and would have forgiven those behind the violence on the city’s streets, his son says. David Dorn, 77, was killed while responding to an alarm at a pawnshop overnight Monday, St. Louis Police Department announced in a news
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KDVR/KWGN) — The Denver Police Department said Tuesday that the officer who published a controversial Instagram post earlier this week has been terminated. On Monday, DPD said it launched an Internal Affairs investigation after then-Officer Thomas McClay posted a picture of himself and two other officers in
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The United States should have 100 million doses of one candidate coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Tuesday. “Then, by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — Rev. Vinnetta Golphin-Wilkerson, pastor of the Granger Community Christian Church in West Valley City, didn’t intend to speak on Tuesday when multiple faiths congregated in front of First United Methodist Church for a rally over the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Maria Arakaki, 97, used a walker to get to Aloha Stadium to stand in line for food on Tuesday. She was one of the thousands of people in line for the largest “Show Aloha Challenge” food drive to date. “Two months ago I couldn’t even
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David “Yaya” McAtee and his BBQ joint were fixtures on the Louisville corner where he was fatally shot as police and the Kentucky National Guard dispersed a large crowd early Monday. McAtee, 53, called the spot “one of the busiest locations in West Louisville,” where he had built a steady clientele over the years that
Continue Reading The mother of George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter is calling for justice over his death. “I want justice for him because he was good, no matter what anybody thinks,” Roxie Washington told reporters at a press conference in Minneapolis on Tuesday. “He was good and this is the proof that he was a good man,” she
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) — What do you do when you lose your job to the coronavirus, but still have to pay the bills? One well-respected Nashville musician turned to his oven. The coronavirus has taken away gigs from James Haggerty like many other musicians in Music City. So
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Atlanta police arrested a man who allegedly opened fire inside the lobby of a downtown Atlanta hotel. The shooting happened Wednesday just after 2 a.m. at the Hilton located on Courtland Street. An employee at the hotel told CBS46 a guest was checked into the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WALA) — A City of Spanish Fort employee who accused the city’s mayor of slapping her last year has been fired, according to her attorney. Ed Smith, Lyndsey Cooper’s attorney, said she was terminated on Monday for insubordination. Smith said Cooper was asked to take
Continue Reading The cast of the television show “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” has made a 100,000 donation to the National Bail Fund Network. Dan Goor, co-creator of the show, took to Twitter to make the announcement and to “condemn” the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. “The cast and showrunner of
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He’s one of his country’s brightest prospects on the tennis tour, but US star Frances Tiafoe says a lack of diversity in the sport makes him feels like an “outsider.” The current world No. 81 reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 2019 but says his success has always felt “different.” As one of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Stress and anxiety during a pandemic is now being compounded as many deal with the emotional toll of racial injustices. Through it all, counselors say there’s a very important set of eyes watching how you handle things. “I think as adults, we recognize children
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It’s easy for white folks to recoil from Amy Cooper once we’ve had a front row seat to her rage-filled voice turning trembly and fragile when the 911 operator picks up. It might even be easy to recognize the death-dealing potential of her calculated weaponization of racism when the same 24-hour news cycle brings footage
Continue Reading Lea Michele has issued an apology after “Glee” costar Samantha Marie Ware accused her of creating a bad work environment on the set of the show. The exchange began after Michele posted a message on social media Friday, “George Floyd did not deserve this. This was not an isolated incident and it must end,” she
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENTON, N.C. (WGHP) — A reserve Denton police officer has resigned after he was accused of posting a racist image to Facebook, according to Denton police. On Wednesday, Town Manager Kenneth Gamble said the police department had finished its investigation after Reserve Police Officer Edwin Brian Grubb posted
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ENOLA, Pa. (WPMT) — Cars line up two at a time, almost 120 of them, stretched back around the side of East Pennsboro Middle School towards the front entrance. At the front of the line is Leanne Kalb, an employee in the East Pennsboro School District, and the
Continue Reading Keke Palmer was on the frontlines of a peaceful demonstration in Hollywood Tuesday. The actress spoke passionately to several members of the National Guard who were at the scene, asking them to march alongside protesters and telling them to “be the change” in the fight against racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd. “We
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lansing (WNEM) — They may not be the cuddliest animal at the zoo, but that doesn’t stop a Michigan boy from wanting to pet a rattlesnake. The Potter Park Zoo in Lansing posted a letter written to the zoo’s rattlesnake by 3-year-old Wayne (who is almost 4). In
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Five more people have died of Covid-19 in El Paso County, according to new numbers released by the Department of Public Health Wednesday morning. Health officials identified the victims as two men in their 50s, one man in his 70s, a man in his 90s, and a woman in her
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Denver Broncos head coach Vic Fangio told reporters Tuesday he doesn’t believe racism and discrimination are issues in the NFL. “I think our problems in the NFL along those lines are minimal,” Fangio said. “We’re a league of meritocracy, you earn what you get, you get what you earn.” “I don’t see racism at all
Continue Reading Global Running Day has joined the list of virtual-only events in 2020. Although running has seen a boom recently because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual event celebrating the popular exercise will now nix its normally scheduled physical group outdoor activities. The event, which takes place on the first Wednesday of every June, is typically
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High pressure will allow temperatures to heat up into the triple digits through the weekend. Thursday and Friday will be the hottest days withseveral locations hitting 105 degrees. Keep in mind that prolonged exposure to hot temperatures can cause heat exhaustion. The symptoms can include heavy sweating, rapid pulse or heart rate, nausea, fatigue, or
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Retired Police Chief David Dorn spent the majority of his life protecting his community and he continued to do so until his very last breath. “The fact that he was protecting and serving, this is the way, I feel in my heart of hearts
Continue Reading In a powerful video posted to Instagram on Monday, Wanda Sykes called on white people to “step up” and take on systematic racism. Captioning it “#blacklivesmatter I’ve been drinking…but that’s when the truth comes,” Sykes addressed her feelings in a nearly 14-minute video about the nationwide demonstrations against police brutality, following the arrest and death
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The nationwide protests following the death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police officers has once again shone a spotlight on the long-standing racial divide in the US. This, along with the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately killed black Americans, has drawn renewed attention to the persistent inequities in wealth,
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