Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Mike Ditka didn’t mince words when he was asked about athletes who kneel during the national anthem. “If it was up to me, I’d say no,” Ditka responded when asked about kneeling. “If you can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the way
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Click here for updates on this story HARRISON, Ark. (KHOG) — “Since I wore a face mask before quarantine, I was feeling alone but now I ain’t,” 8-year-old Chance Blankenship said to his mother, Valerie. “You don’t feel alone anymore?” she asked. “No!” Chance Blankenship has Common Variable Immuno Deficiencies, and has had to wear
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WISN) — Bars and restaurants are expanding their outdoor spaces to allow for better social distancing. Café Benelux in Milwaukee’s Third Ward worked out a deal with the city to move tables into an adjacent parking lot. They’re calling it the “Socially Distant Terrace.” The new spaces
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENSBORO, N.C. (WXII) — A Greensboro woman is focusing her energy on helping people and making new friends to overcome her anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic. Beverly Ramsey said she is the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of North Carolina Gov. Motley Morehead, and like her ancestor, she is serving the people
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 at Noon sat down with audiologist Dr. Haley Owen to discuss how to better communicate with those suffering from hearing loss while wearing a mask and standing at a distance.
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Students who enroll at California State University (CSU) in the coming years will be required to take course in ethnic studies or social justice to graduate. The university system’s board of trustees voted last week to approve the new general education requirement, which goes into effect at the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year. It’s
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El PASO, Texas — El Paso homeowners struggling finacially during the pandemic can rest assured their property taxes will not go up. El Paso City Council during a special session on Monday approved unanimously next year’s tax rate, and it will remain unchanged. City staff recommended the tax rate stay at .907 for every $100
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WASHINGTON, DC — Robert O’Brien, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has tested positive for Covid-19, making him the highest profile Trump official to contract the novel virus, the White House confirmed. “National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien tested positive for COVID-19. He has mild symptoms and has been self-isolating and working from a secure location
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Things were quiet Sunday at the Putt Putt Fun Center off Summer Avenue, but it was anything but quiet Saturday evening, when things quickly turned chaotic. “You are supposed to be with family and friends, so it’s supposed to be a fun place, but
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DICKSON CITY, Pa. (WNEP) — Will schools reopen this fall? Is it safe to send your kids if they do? How do you handle online education if you’re a working parent? Those are just some of the things parents have to think about as the school year creeps
Continue Reading Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League hopes suffered a major blow Monday as the club confirmed star forward Kylian Mbappe will be out for three weeks with an ankle injury. The 21-year-old limped out of Friday’s French Cup final win against Saint-Étienne following a late tackle from Loic Perrin, who was shown a red card for the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (WPMT) — A 27-year-old Lancaster County woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, and other offenses after an alleged domestic incident earlier this month, according to Manor Township Police. Rhiannon Enck-Polaski, of Millersville, is accused of striking her mother with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Students at UNCG spent their day hauling boxes inside of their new homes on campus. Students had to drop off their belongings in stages in order to have a COVID-free campus. The UNCG move-in is organized in two stages: In Stage 1, students will
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Trois Mec, which earned a Michelin Star in 2019, is the latest Los Angeles restaurant to throw in the white napkin after the pandemic destroyed its profits. “The reality is we are facing an incredible period of economic depression,” Krissy Lefebvre, who co-owns the restaurant with husband and chef Ludo Lefebvre, said in an email
Continue Reading The arrival of warm summer days and an end to multiple travel bans had lots of us hoping that our much-anticipated vacations could be back on the cards after months of lockdown. Families and friends who have been stuck indoors as the coronavirus pandemic raged around the world began booking flights and hotels to snatch
Continue Reading NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back an amazing photo showing summertime on Saturn. Hubble captured the image on July 4, when the giant planet was 839 million miles from Earth, according to a statement from NASA released Thursday. It shows what summertime is like in Saturn’s northern hemisphere, which is pointed toward Earth, and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — CENTEGIX, an Atlanta-based tech company, has entered the fight against COVID-19 with a system to help schools trace potential exposure to the virus. It’s called ContactAlert. It uses the same technology as the company’s CrisisAlert system – an emergency notification system which alerts school officials
Continue Reading Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young have both flipped and are now ready to ride off into the sunset together. In a match made in real estate heaven, El Moussa, the star of the hit HGTV series “Flip or Flop” is engaged to Young, one of the stars of the Netflix reality series “Selling
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — San Diego’s world-famous Comic-Con took place entirely online this weekend, but that didn’t stop a small group of cosplayers from donning their costumes downtown on Sunday. The view outside of the San Diego Convention Center, which annually plays host to more than 100,000 convention
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two major league games scheduled for Monday night have been postponed as the Miami Marlins deal with a coronavirus outbreak that stranded them in Philadelphia. The Marlins’ home opener against Baltimore was called off, as was the New York Yankees’ game at Philadelphia. The Yankees would have been in the same clubhouse the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — Opening Day for the San Diego Padres was a historically empty affair with only cardboard cutouts of fans in the seats to take in the team’s 7-2 victory over the Diamondbacks. But there was little difference for Chip Messenger, perched high above Petco Park’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Conn. (Hartford Business Journal) — Long-term care insurers, which provide coverage for future stays in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, as well as at-home care, have asked Connecticut regulators for major rate hikes in recent months, putting further pressure on policyholders who have consistently shouldered escalating costs
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Okla. (Tulsa World) — Shelly Brady’s apartment in Paris was not all that big to begin with. But earlier this year, when the city was on full lockdown due to COVID-19, it came to feel smaller than ever. “We could only go out for an hour a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA, Mont. (Missoulian) — The pandemic has affected industries around Montana, with unique challenges in documentary filmmaking. One team had to decide whether COVID-19 should become an unavoidable part of an unfolding story. Another had to ask whether they could safely continue a project without endangering themselves and
Continue Reading A rare blue lobster has received a reprieve after a restaurant sent it to an Ohio zoo for conservation instead of consumption. An Akron Zoo Facebook post on Sunday said a Red Lobster employee who found a blue lobster in a delivery to the Cuyahoga Falls eatery recognized just how rare the creatures are. About
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (WDAF) — Her mother has been gone more than a year without a trace. Now, Angela Green’s daughter wants to know where her mother is, and she hopes someone will help break the case. While Green hasn’t been seen since June of 2019, she was
Continue Reading The US ambassador to South Korea has shaved off his controversial mustache, saying it was too uncomfortable when wearing a mask as part of coronavirus measures. Harry Harris asked a barber in Seoul to remove his bushy facial hair after suffering during the hot and humid summer in the South Korean capital, and the embassy
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The first Phase 3 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States began Monday. The investigational vaccine was developed by the biotechnology company Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The trial is to be conducted at nearly 100 US research sites, according
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/KSMO) — Police say a teen has drowned along 103rd and State Line Road in Indian Creek. Police were called about 7:30 p.m. Sunday to the area of the creek underneath 103rd Street to meet firefighters on a possible drowning. When they arrived, officers learned
Continue Reading NASA plans to send an enormous balloon to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere in search of secrets about how stars and planets form. The space agency’s ASTHROS mission will depart from Antarctica in December 2023 and spend three weeks in the stratosphere, the section of the atmosphere where the ozone layer sits. Its components include
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