Click here for updates on this story WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Taking the dining experience into Winston-Salem’s downtown streets is an idea one local business owner is trying to make come to life. The owner of Camino Bakery has started an online petition seeking signatures from people who want to experience in-street dining on the
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WNBA star Natasha Cloud says people should not be satisfied with “crumbs” in their fight for social reform. The 28-year-old recently announced she wouldn’t participate in the upcoming WNBA season, wanting to instead focus her energy on helping the Black Lives Matter movement enact true change in the US. “Do not be distracted by the
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Inside a Houston hospital partly transformed into a coronavirus specialty unit, one doctor says he expects to reach capacity in the next 14 days. “In the last three weeks, I have seen more admissions and sicker patients than on the previous 10 weeks,” says Dr. Joseph Varon, the chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical
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Cooper Wallweber set up his lemonade stand on a warm Thursday afternoon near St Louis. The 5-year-old had no marketing plan; just a goal to help a first responder in need. By the end of business, the young entrepreneur had raised more than $3,000 for a wounded volunteer firefighter. “Skateboarders stopped by!” the proud proprietor
Continue Reading Former Formula One mogul Bernie Ecclestone, 89, and wife Fabiana Flosi, 44, have announced the birth of their son. The baby boy was born on Wednesday and is named Ace, a spokesperson for Ecclestone confirmed to CNN. The new arrival will be the billionaire’s first son, and his first child with Flosi, joining daughters Tamara,
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. employers added a substantial 4.8 million jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%, as the job market improved for a second straight month yet remained far short of regaining the colossal losses it suffered this spring. The nation has now recovered roughly one-third of the 22 million jobs
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Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible eachafternoon and evening, with gusty outflow winds for some locations. Temperatures will remain in the 90s through the weekend.
Continue Reading The world may have changed drastically over the last few months due to the pandemic, but the laws of combustion have not. While hand sanitizer has become an integral part of the daily routine for countless people around the globe, it could make for a painful combination this Fourth of July when fireworks come into
Continue Reading If Beijing thought a new national security law would guarantee a quiet birthday for Hong Kong, it was mistaken. As the city marked 23 years of Chinese rule Wednesday, and less than 24 hours under the new reality of the national security law — which criminalizes secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces —
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EL PASO, Texas — As business reopen throughout the Borderland and the the country, the world looks more like it used to. For some, going back to work can feel like a dream come true. For others, it can feel like a nightmare, as they begin to reacclimate towards being close to others and risking
Continue Reading Six months into the pandemic, the situation is only getting worse. The World Health Organization said yesterday that the number of new infections has exceeded 160,000 every single day in the past week — double the level seen at the height of the European outbreak in March and April. In the Americas, the situation is
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As a coordinator and communicator with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Heather Pagano has worked in Liberia helping communities fight Ebola; with refugees in Nigeria fleeing conflict; and in South Sudan, where violence has forced millions of people out of their homes. She never expected to be working in Detroit. But now Pagano is
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Alyssa Milano is rejecting an accusation she wore blackface. The actress posted Tuesday in response to an article alleging she was “facing backlash” over a purported “blackface scandal.” Milano tweeted a photo of the headline from the conservative site LifeZette along with her response. “Hey, a**holes,” she tweeted. “The below picture is me parodying Jersey
Continue Reading FBI firearm background checks set another record in June — almost 4 million in total. Looks like toilet paper and masks weren’t the only things people were buying. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today”
Continue Reading As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve
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EL PASO, Texas — If you haven’t paid rent since the coronavirus pandemic began, you may now be susceptible to losing your home. Zack Karam, a landlord and property manager with Jaxon Texas, told ABC-7 that evictions have begun again in the Borderland after a brief moratorium. Karam said he was notified by an El
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Rescue Patrol is playing things by ear this year as Independence Day weekend rolls around amid an global pandemic. “We have never had these orders in place, so we are just going to plan for the worst and hope for the best,” Chief Jamil Moutran told ABC-7. Moutran said
Continue Reading Four-time WNBA champion Maya Moore sat out for an entire season to help overturn the conviction of Jonathan Irons, who she said was wrongfully serving a 50-year- prison sentence. On Wednesday, Irons walked out a free man — and Moore was one of the first to embrace him. “Thank God it’s over,” Moore said in
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Four Indian police officers were arrested Wednesday for allegedly murdering a father and son who were in custody after being accused of breaking coronavirus restrictions. A fifth police officer is set to be arrested today, said K Shankar, a senior police officer of the Criminal Investigation Department in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where
Continue Reading A soldier suspected in the disappearance of Fort Hood Pfc. Vanessa Guillen killed himself after police confronted him in Killeen, Texas, authorities said Wednesday. Texas Rangers arrested another civilian suspect in connection with Guillen’s disappearance, according to US Army Criminal Investigation Command, which calls itself CID. The suspect, who has not been identified, is the
Continue Reading Police in a Massachusetts town have opened a criminal investigation into a report that a Black woman was followed by a man and allegedly accused of suspicious behavior. Julia Santos told police that she had seen an ad on a Groveland community Facebook page on Monday afternoon, where someone was giving away excess dog food.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Las Cruces Public Schools district now has a better idea of what things will be looking like when they re-convene for classes next months. LCPS administrators were relieved to receive official guidelines from the state education department last week. They were even happier to discover that they were already
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol abruptly changed its policy on pursuits along a crash-prone stretch of Paisano Avenue through downtown El Paso in wake of last week’s wreck that killed seven and injured three. That’s according to a copy of an internal Border Patrol memo obtained Wednesday by El Paso Matters. The
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CANUTILLO, Texas — A fireworks stand near Canutillo exploded and went up in flames on Wednesday night. The fire triggered by fireworks happened at 7310 Doniphan Drive. Viewer video provided to ABC-7 shows what the scene looked like as the incident unfolded. (You can view it in the video player at the top of this
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Covid-19 was the last thing on his mind when he went to a crowded bar in Scottsdale, Arizona, Jimmy Flores said. “We were on the verge of reopening, and we didn’t really care about Covid, to be honest with you,” Flores said. Two days later, he awoke with a fever of 103 and body sores,
Continue Reading Three people accused in the death of Cornelius Fredericks, a 16-year-old boy who was restrained at a residential facility in Michigan, have been released on bond, court records show. Michael Mosley, 47, and Zachary Solis, 28, and Heather McLogan, 48, were arraigned this week after being charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse charges. They
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AUSTIN, Texas — After setting three straight single-day records last week, Texas has hit another grim milestone in Covid-19 cases. On Wednesday, the state reported 8,076 new cases, the highest one-day total in Texas since the start of the pandemic – and more than doubling new case counts from two weeks ago. The state also
Continue Reading Hong Kong was facing up to a new reality on Wednesday, after China’s central government imposed a sweeping national security law late the night before that critics say stripped the city of its autonomy and precious civil and social freedoms, and cements Beijing’s authoritarian rule over the territory. Hundreds turned out to protest the legislation
Continue Reading Six FC Dallas players have tested positive for Covid-19 since arriving in Florida ahead of the upcoming “MLS is Back Tournament,” the league says. Two of the players tested positive for Covid-19 after the team was tested Saturday when they arrived in Orlando, Florida. Four others tested positive in the past two days, MLS said
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