Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS ) — A local couple is asking for your help to give the gift of life. Terry Jamerson’s massive heart attack in February led to kidney failure. He is now at home in Mitchell County on dialysis three days a week. Though Jamerson is on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story STONINGTON, CT (WFSB ) — Connecticut politicians and community activists against racism are joining forces at a rally today. It’s in support of a Connecticut woman who was a victim of an alleged racially-motivated attacked. The peace and justice rally starts at noon. It’s part of a series
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PARIS, France — Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104. Havilland, the sister of fellow Oscar
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL ) — Afternoon storms left downed trees across Atlanta Saturday afternoon. Atlanta’s Lawton Street was hit particularly hard, where residents found several trees had been ripped down. Along Northside Drive, one tree damaged a home. Neighbors in the area described the storm as quick, but loud.
Continue Reading Octavia Spencer is urging Hollywood to make casting people with disabilities a priority. The actress is part of a new PSA that calls for increased inclusion of those with disabilities in entertainment. The campaign coincides with Sunday’s 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The video shows Spencer discussing the importance of everyone
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Today, we know Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first men to land on the moon, 51 years ago. But, if not for a turn of events, history may have also known another name: Eugene Shoemaker. Thirty years after that one small step for mankind, Eugene would make his own, extraordinary journey to the
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s coronavirus cases topped 13,000 on Sunday as the number of deaths grew by three more following the county’s deadliest reported week of the pandemic, health officials said. The latest fatalities included a woman and a man who were each in their 80s along with another woman in her 90s;
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Much of what we know about the horrors of slavery in the Americas comes from historical records. But new research shows that evidence of the slave trade’s atrocities can also be found in the DNA of African Americans. A study conducted by the consumer genetics company 23andMe, published Thursday in the American Journal of Human
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The first official tennis tournament to be staged during the coronavirus pandemic lost its top attraction when Simona Halep pulled out Sunday in a move that frustrated organizers. The reigning Wimbledon champion — one of tennis’ most popular players — tweeted that she would be skipping the Palermo Ladies Open in Italy that starts August
Continue Reading British tourists have been left disappointed by a UK government decision that requires all people returning from Spain to self-isolate for 14 days. In a surprise announcement made by the British government on Saturday, the previous travel corridor between the UK and Spain ended with immediate effect. The abrupt reversal followed a rise in the
Continue ReadingEl Paso, Texas- We’ve still got plenty of monsoon moisture in place across the Borderland for today. This will mean another day with afternoon and evening showers and storms. Temperatures will probably fall just short of the daily average as moisture and clouds slow the heating. A steady southeast wind will keep the Gulf moisture
Continue Reading Seattle protesters threw large rocks, bottles, fireworks and other explosives at officers Saturday, police said. Others set fire to a portable trailer and a construction site, police said in a series of tweets. At least 45 people have been arrested on charges of assaulting officers, obstruction and failure to disperse, police said. Twenty-one officers have
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WASHINGTON, DC – With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any point in Donald Trump’s presidency. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll also shows Trump’s approval for his handling of the
Continue Reading A 9-year-old girl with no known underlying health conditions is the youngest person to die from coronavirus complications in Florida, officials said. Kimora “Kimmie” Lynum died on July 18 in Putnam County, according to Florida Department of Health records. It confirmed her identity and said she’s the state’s youngest coronavirus fatality. She had no pre-existing
Continue Reading Students at Robert E. Lee High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, got in really “good trouble” after pushing to rename their high school in honor of late US Rep. John R. Lewis. They felt that the school’s name did not appropriately reflect its mission, nor the diversity of its current student body. And after a
Continue Reading Even films about impending apocalypses and world crises cannot get us through the very real world crisis we’re living through, at least not this summer. Studios are holding movies that would’ve offered viewers an air-conditioned reprieve, all in the hopes that coronavirus cases will slow and theaters can later reopen. That probably shouldn’t happen, according
Continue Reading Ryan Dorsey, the ex-husband of 33-year-old Naya Rivera, posted a heartbreaking tribute to the actress on Instagram after investigators announced her death earlier this month. “This is so unfair…there’s not enough words to express the hole left in everyone’s hearts. I can’t believe this is life now. I don’t know if I’ll ever believe it.
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EL PASO, Texas– When she’s not showing off her Jiu-Jitsu or ballet skills, 11-year-old Sophia Gonzales is busy at work with her Relentless Beauty sugar scrub business. “So, the way I got started was one day my mom came home with a product and I asked what it was and she was like, it’s a
Continue Reading Two women lay in bed in a tight embrace, one is stroking the other’s hair and whispers that she is in love with her. These intimate scenes wouldn’t be out of place in a Hollywood movie, but in Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, they are near taboo. But Nigerian filmmaker Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim says she is tackling
Continue Reading An Olympic 10,000-meter runner turned marathoner by day, actor, director, screenwriter and author in all other spare hours she can salvage, Alexi Pappas rarely pauses for breath. In marathon running — a different beast compared to competing on the track — she has a relatively new event to train for, and away from the roads
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Today it would be unthinkable to nickname a summer getaway for children with disabilities “Crip Camp.” Yet that was the nickname given to Camp Jened, a summer camp for children, teens and adults with disabilities that operated in the Catskill Mountains of New York from 1951 to 1977. The camp is the subject of a
Continue Reading When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in the United States, the California Historical Society received call after call asking for its archive on the 1918 flu. Researchers and journalists were looking for clues into how Americans coped in the thick of a pandemic — and what we could learn in 2020 from 1918. But the
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EL PASO, Texas — Triathlons held prior to March of this year generally required athletes to be within close proximity of each other. But now in the pandemic era, social distancing has competitors looking for new ways to display their hard work. The Mighty Mujer Triathlon, which normally steps off in April, was postponed until this
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MESILLA, New Mexico — Because not everyone in the Borderland lives in the city or has access to transportation, the New Mexico Department of Health is bringing virus testing to various neighborhoods in southern New Mexico. “We’re focused on making sure we decrease barriers to testing,” said John Kutinac with the New Mexico Department of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Special Olympics athletes in southern New Mexico had their chance to shine on Saturday, even in the middle of a pandemic. “We are trying to make sure we have all these different events engaging them in some sort of activity, so they know we aren’t forgetting them,” explained Ronda Norfleet,
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso great-grandmother celebrated her centennial birthday with a parade her family will never forget. “Every year since she (turned) 90, we’ve made a big birthday dinner for her,” explained her granddaughter Vanessa Zepeda. “Unfortunately, with the pandemic, we weren’t able to, (but) you can’t turn 100 and not have
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EL PASO, Texas– The risk for flooding will continue through the weekend as another round of scattered showers and thunderstorms add to recent raintotals. In the past 24-hours, El Paso got over an inch of rain so areas that received most of the rain last night could see flooding as slow moving storms enter our
Continue Reading There’s nothing quite like a summer baseball game — except a baseball game in the summer of 2020. In the age of a pandemic, ballparks are opening to players on the field but not to spectators. Gone are the thousands of sweaty fans, the hot dogs, the beer, the crowd-pleasing bits between innings. Instead, cardboard
Continue Reading Below the mountains that overlook Hong Kong’s financial district, drainage engineer Alex Lau is ankle-deep in water flowing into a giant tunnel almost twice the height of a double-decker bus. Part of a ground-breaking, $3.8 billion (30 billion Hong Kong dollar) drainage network, this tunnel runs nearly the length of Hong Kong Island and has
Continue Reading Legendary broadcaster Regis Philbin has died, according to a statement shared by his family on Saturday. He was 88 years old. “We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday,” said the statement sent to CNN Saturday. “His family
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