They thought they were going to New Zealand to make better lives for their families. They were told they would leave Samoa — a small island nation in the South Pacific — for their larger neighbor, a country with about 25 times the population. Once there, they would work and send the money back home
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Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — You might have seen video circling social media showing a man pulling a driver from a burning car along I-70 in north St. Louis County. News 4 was there as the rescuer met the family of the man he saved. Despite explosions around him,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TEKAMAH, Neb. (Omaha World-Herald) — Rod Regalado wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary when he took his then-13-year-old son, Matt, to the doctor for a sports physical. Matt wanted to play basketball at Tekamah-Herman High School. The physical was routine. But after that September visit, the doctor’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, Ill. (Quad-City Times) — Back in May, Dominic Blasco was adamant. The 67th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts World Series of Drag Racing was going to happen on the weekend of Aug. 28-30. Whatever he had to do, whoever he had to call, whichever strings he
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It’s really on. Rapper Machine Gun Kelly has appeared to confirm his romance with Hollywood actress Megan Fox. Following weeks of speculation about their relationship, the 30-year-old musician — real name Colson Baker — posted a loved-up snap of himself and the “Transformers” star on Instagram. In the black-and-white mirror selfie, the pair stick their
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA, Mont. (Missoulian) — Alaska Airlines is making bold mid-COVID expansion plans and it’s putting western Montana smack dab in the middle of them. The Seattle-based carrier said Tuesday that, come March 11, it’ll launch nonstop daily flights out of Missoula International Airport to and from San Diego,
Continue Reading Global air travel won’t recover from the Covid-19 crisis until 2024, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced Tuesday. That’s a year later than the airline body’s previous projection. The body, which represents 290 airlines, blamed the sluggish recovery on a number of factors, including a lack of consumer confidence, the decline in business travel,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — More and more students in the Borderland are returning to classes each week, but one local district says it is still lacking vital information from families to prepare for the start of the new year. El Paso Independent School District says a significant number of families have still not notified
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Just when it seemed that Europe was getting to grips with the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 appears to be spreading again. Germany’s center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, said this week that a recent spike in cases was “very disturbing.” In France, new daily cases have crept back to the same level as when
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Students returning to school in the fall will likely teach the nation even more about the unknowns of Covid-19, the United States’ top infectious disease doctor said. With schools closed since March and April — as coronavirus cases soared to more than 4.3 million and deaths climbed to 149,258, according to data from Johns Hopkins
Continue Reading Three Georgia inmates are being praised by the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office after saving a deputy’s life. “We are deeply appreciative to these three inmates for the courage, determination and kindness they displayed,” the GCSO said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. The inmates noticed the deputy appeared “to be feeling poorly” while carrying out
Continue Reading Staying closer to home in recent months has made us all more loyal to our favorite television series. Nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Tuesday and it was a diverse mix. With old favorites like “Game of Thrones” and “Veep” out of contention, shows like “The Mandalorian,” “Insecure” and “Schitt’s Creek”
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Premier League star Wilfried Zaha admits he’s “scared” to open Instagram due to the number of racist messages he receives. Earlier this month, a 12-year-old boy was arrested in connection with racist threats made to the Crystal Palace forward via Instagram’s direct message service, including an accompanying image of the Ku Klux Klan. Zaha says
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Eighty years after repeatedly rejecting the membership of two Black doctors, the American Academy of Pediatrics is officially apologizing for its racist behavior against the two physicians, as well as against others over many decades. Doctors Alonzo deGrate Smith and Roland Boyd Scott first applied for membership in the AAP in 1939, nine years after
Continue Reading A Los Angeles garment manufacturer has reopened after the county’s public health department shut down the factory twice over coronavirus outbreaks. Los Angeles Apparel has been allowed to reopen after complying with all the requirements from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the department confirmed in a statement on Tuesday. “After working with
Continue Reading The rugby world is paying tribute to Andy Haden, the former All Blacks captain who passed away on Wednesday aged 69. Haden played 117 games for New Zealand between 1972 and 1985, including 41 test matches. He captained the All Blacks on eight occasions. “Andy’s stature and influence as a player was huge,” New Zealand
Continue Reading A record 212 land and environmental defenders were killed last year, equivalent to an average of more than four per week, according to a new report from NGO Global Witness. The figure makes 2019 the deadliest year on record for activists defending land and water resources from mining, agribusiness and fossil fuel interests, said Global
Continue Reading A transgender female prisoner received her gender confirmation surgery after three years of legal battles, her attorney Lori Rifkin confirmed to CNN Tuesday. Adree Edmo has been in custody of the Idaho Department of Correction since 2012 and petitioned for her gender confirmation surgery in 2017. She was convicted of sexual assault of a 15-year-old
Continue Reading Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “SNL” dream has become Brad Pitt’s nomination reality. The actor on Tuesday scored an Emmy nomination in the outstanding guest actor in a comedy series category for playing Fauci on “Saturday Night Live,” a role that came to fruition after Fauci made a public casting suggestion. Pitt is nominated alongside Luke Kirby
Continue Reading You may have heard friends or colleagues complain of feeling burnt out from the pandemic. So many of us are working from home, cooped up in the house with restless kids instead of them staying busy at camp or school. Maybe you’ve even wondered if you yourself are on the brink of burnout, too. The
Continue Reading Tempers flared during the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers game Tuesday night, the first time the teams have met since the Astros were handed a punishment by the league in January. While the game in Houston started out on a good foot, tensions began to run high at the bottom of the sixth inning
Continue Reading California’s only county without a previously reported coronavirus case said Tuesday it is investigating its first two infections. Both of the new confirmed cases are from the same household, Modoc County health officials said in a news release, adding they’re now trying to track anyone who may have been in contact with the two people.
Continue Reading California officials say there’s at least eight new pups added to the state’s lone wolf pack, the Lassen Pack. The pups were spotted with the help of field observations and trail cameras, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) said in its latest wolf update. Four of the pups are male and two female,
Continue Reading During a hospital shift, Hilal Ibrahim noticed that a patient’s blood got on her uniform. The hospital stocked extra scrubs for her to change into, but because her hijab was also soiled, she had no choice but to go home. This is just one incident in Ibrahim’s more than 10 years of volunteering and working
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DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — Southern New Mexico has received a fair amount of rain recently. And with that comes some beautiful sights and sounds over at Dripping Springs in the Organ Mountains.With New Mexico’s quarantine restrictions on out-of-state visitors, many of us aren’t able to take in Mother nature ourselves – but ABC-7’s cameras
Continue Reading Japanese fighter pilot Lt. Col. Takamichi Shirota says his country is under increasing pressure from the air. Analysts say it’s a pressure faced by few other nations. More than twice a day, Japanese fighter pilots hear a siren blare, bolt up from their ready-room seats, run to their jets, and scream aloft, ready to intercept
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY – A new warning about potentially dangerous hand sanitizers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded its list of potentially deadly hand sanitizer products. Target and Walmart issued recalls Tuesday for two potentially toxic hand sanitizers that were sold in stores and online. Target’s “Born Basic” and Walmart’s “Scent Theory” bring the expanded list of recalled sanitizers
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As of Tuesday, Ciudad Juarez accounts for 4,288 of Chihuahua state’s 7,707 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 648 of its 885 deaths. “We insist that the measures must be redoubled, because we are in a new reality that will not end soon,” proclaimed Leticia Ruiz, the deputy director of Chihuahua’s Ministry
Continue Reading The United States was slow in recognizing the coronavirus threat from Europe, Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, admitted for the first time Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. “The introduction from Europe happened before we realized what was happening,” Redfield said. “By the time we
Continue Reading In another example of the explosion of gun violence that has gripped New York City, a man was shot and wounded Monday while attending a vigil for two teens killed a day earlier in a drive-by shooting, a law enforcement official said. The 22-year-old man was shot in the shoulder at the vigil and is
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