HOUSTON (AP) – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly has been suspended eight games by Major League Baseball for throwing a fastball near the head of Houston’s Alex Bregman and mockingly taunting Astros star Carlos Correa. Benches cleared after Kelly’s actions during Los Angeles’ 5-2 win at Minute Maid Park. The game marked the first
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A Nevada sheriff told a local library system not to bother calling 911 after it expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement. That message came from Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley this week, a day before the county’s public library system was set to discuss a proposed diversity statement that mentions they “support #BlackLivesMatter.”
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Bill Gates slammed coronavirus testing in the US in an interview with CNBC, saying that most tests are a “complete waste” because it takes too long for the results to come back. Gates, the former CEO and founder of Microsoft, believes that people need to get results back sooner so that they’re able to “change
Continue Reading The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is now reviewing hundreds of criminal cases that involved three Los Angeles police officers who were charged earlier this month with allegedly falsifying evidence. Officers Braxton Shaw, Michael Coblentz and Nicolas Martinez were charged in a 59-count complaint for allegedly falsely identifying people as gang members or associates.
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Click here for updates on this story DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WPMT) — Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station has received approval to downsize its local emergency response and end its siren testing as part of the plant’s ongoing decommissioning. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the granted request in a press release. You can read it
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health issued a report Tuesday that found the Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Beaver provided 205 patients with hydroxychloroquine without receiving prior DOH approval. The department said in its report that hydroxychloroquine is not an approved medication to prevent Covid-19 and noted its possible side effects, some of which are
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Notre Dame will play in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season as part of a plan to play 10 league games and start the week of Sept. 7. Those alterations were brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The ACC’s university presidents approved the plan for an 11-game schedule, including one nonconference
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Consider it the Challenge of 2020: It’s likely easier to put lipstick on a ferret than it is to get some kids to wear face coverings. The little humans pull and tug at the masks constantly. Kids don’t just stop there. They let the tops fall beneath their noses and sometimes even yank the things
Continue Reading Chris Marckres was coming in for a landing on his first-ever skydiving jump when he realized something was missing. Marckres, who lost both of his legs to complications from diabetes, told CNN that his right prosthetic slipped off on Saturday during the 10,000 foot drop from the plane to the landing zone in West Addison,
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All 50 states have now issued warnings about mysterious, unsolicited packages of seeds that people across the nation have received in the mail in recent weeks. The packages appear to be coming from China, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Photos shared by state agriculture departments show packages marked with labeling from China
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough on Wednesday released a statement regarding the death of John Neville. Neville died in custody in December due to prolonged restraint and the inability to breathe. Neville reportedly had asthma. Five former detention officers and a nurse face charges.
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British-Japanese singer Rina Sawayama has criticized two major British music awards, saying their eligibility rules mean she is unable to enter the Mercury Music Prize or the BRIT Awards. Despite living in the UK for 25 years and considering herself British, the 29-year-old musician said she is barred from submitting her music for the Mercury
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EL PASO, Texas – The $4.3 billion sale of El Paso Electric Company to an investment fund controlled by global financial giant JP Morgan officially closed Wednesday as the new ownership immediately named an incoming CEO for the utility firm. EPE’s acquisition by Infrastructure Investments Fund came a week after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted
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School closures that swept several US states from March to May might have led to a million fewer Covid-19 cases and saved more than 40,000 lives, a new study suggests. The states that closed schools earlier, when the cumulative incidence of Covid-19 cases was lowest, saw the greatest declines per week at the time, compared
Continue ReadingMLB-NEWS Another Marlins player and one Phillies employee test positive NEW YORK (AP) — Another player with the Miami Marlins has tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the team’s total to 16 players, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person tells The Associated Press that Miami underwent another round of tests Tuesday,
Continue Reading Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has made it official: Juneteenth is now recognized as a state holiday. Baker, a Republican, signed the measure on Friday as part of a supplemental coronavirus spending bill. He said making June 19 an annual state holiday would help “recognize the continued need to ensure racial freedom and equality.” While Juneteenth
Continue Reading Two of America’s favorite game shows are set to start filming new episodes. “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune,” like much of Hollywood, had paused production because of the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday a spokeswoman for Sony Pictures Television confirmed to CNN that the shows will resume production. “Wheel of Fortune and JEOPARDY! are returning to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ARKANSAS, USA (KFSM) — Jeanette Kennedy Hale lost her grandson in a tragic accident last month and was touched by the kindness Arkansas State Police (ASP) showed her and her family as they grieved. Hale expressed gratitude to ASP in a Facebook post explaining how much their actions
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If two large planes crashed every day in the US, killing everyone on board, the nation would be despondent. If the US suffered a loss of life on the scale of the 9/11 attacks — 50 times over — the tragedy would be incomprehensible. But that’s how many lives coronavirus has claimed in the US
Continue Reading Anyone who has had gum disease is probably familiar with the discomfort and embarrassment of poor oral health, such as bad breath, bleeding, discolored teeth and even tooth loss. But gum disease, especially the more advanced type known as periodontal disease, can affect far more than our mouths. Periodontal disease is associated with a wide
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WASHINGTON, DC — The CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google all were hit with tough questions and documents that raised concerns about their competitive tactics during a Congressional committee hearing Wednesday investigating the power of major technology companies. Of the tech titans, which included the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, some fared
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges in the case of a former sheriff’s deputy who was charged in the shooting death of a fellow deputy in Las Cruces during what authorities described as an alcohol-fueled dispute. Judge Conrad Perea’s decision to dismiss the case against Tai Chan brings an
Continue Reading Eighty-year-old New Yorker Judith Hunt went to the hospital on January 31 after falling and breaking a femur and hip. She left Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in early July — after battling an aneurysm, sepsis, abdominal and heart surgeries and Covid-19, she and her doctors told CNN. “It was hysterically funny, in a way,”
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On the eve of the restart of the NBA season, the league and players’ union announced on Wednesday that none of the 344 players tested since July 20 tested positive for the coronavirus. Since the NBA’s Disney World Resort bubble opened, only two players have tested positive, and that happened between July 7 and July
Continue Reading Colorado’s health department has launched an investigation into the use of ketamine in connection with the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in police custody. The 23-year-old Black man died after paramedics administered the powerful anesthetic during a confrontation with police. The Department of Public Health and Environment, which certifies emergency medical responders, said in a
Continue Reading If it seems like Mars is a popular destination right now, that’s for a reason: The chance to fly there only comes around every 26 months. Four missions were planned to launch to Mars this summer, including three rovers, from multiple space agencies. Two, including China’s Tianwen-1 (which is carrying a rover) and United Arab
Continue Reading Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. said during a Q&A session on Snapchat Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic “is being used for population control” after a user asked him if the virus was being overblown to scare people into being controlled. “Personally I think the coronavirus is being used obviously for a bigger agenda,” the
Continue Reading TV host Andy Cohen said he’s disappointed that — even though he’s tested positive for “robust” Covid-19 antibodies — he isn’t allowed to potentially help coronavirus patients by donating plasma because he’s a gay man. Cohen told “The View” on Tuesday that the roadblock is what he calls “antiquated and discriminatory guidelines by the FDA
Continue Reading The Perseverance rover is finally ready to launch on its journey to Mars on Thursday. The Mars 2020 mission will launch after nearly a decade of hard work and planning by thousands of engineers, scientists and specialists at NASA centers across the country and their commercial partners. The rover is scheduled to launch on Thursday,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Leiper’s Fork Distillery is saying a labeling error landed their hand sanitizer on a recall and warning list. Like many distilleries, Leiper’s Fork switched to making sanitizing products when the pandemic hit Tennessee. This week, the FDA expanded a methanol warning for 90 sanitizers,
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