Click here for updates on this story WAUWATOSA, Wis. (WDJT) — A Wauwatosa teenager who is battling a life-threatening illness is making sure he helps others. Sixteen-year-old Kyle Hansen is living with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Make-A-Wish Wisconsin granted him a wish, and Kyle’s was to get his dog, a poodle named Copper, trained as a therapy
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WASHINGTON, DC — Nearly half of Americans whose families experienced a layoff during the coronavirus pandemic now believe those jobs are lost forever, a new poll shows, a sign of increasing pessimism that would translate into roughly 10 million workers needing to find a new employer, if not a new occupation. It’s a sharp change after
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Ark. (KFSM) — A wedding involving Mr. Wright, and no, we are actually not referring to the groom, but the father of the bride — Jennifer Wright’s father. An Arkansas father diagnosed with ALS, meaning he’s paralyzed from the neck down, composed music for his daughter’s wedding
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Right now teachers aren’t hearing school bells ringing, they are hearing alarms. With anxiety and fear building up about returning to the classroom, some teachers are drafting wills just incase. “This presents an additional layer with those concerns that are teachers you know might
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One knock-on effect of the hype surrounding “The Last Dance” documentary appears to be a boom in Michael Jordan memorabilia, with one pair of the former Chicago Bulls star’s sneakers expected to fetch over $500,000 at auction. The online “Original Air” auction of 11 items — browsing opens on July 23 and bidding takes place
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Home-made cloth face masks likely need a minimum of two layers, and preferably three, to prevent the dispersal of viral droplets from the nose and mouth that are associated with the spread of COVID-19, indicates a video case study published online in the journal Thorax. Viral droplets are generated during coughing, sneezing, or speaking. And
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Two young brothers from Houston said goodbye to their mother at the beginning of July, not knowing their father would also die 15 days later and for the same reason. Their mother Noehmi Esquivel, 39, and their father Carlos Garcia, 44, both died after fighting the coronavirus, the family confirmed to CNN. Esquivel was taken
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A sophomore at Loyola University invented “The Safety Pouch” to ease any possible tension between civilians and police officers during traffic stops. This was invented in order to help keep both drivers and police officers safe. 18-year old David Price decided to invent a
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In 2008, Karen Schultz-Tarnopol’s life was a “10 out of 10.” She was a wholesale account manager at Washington Mutual, she had a mortgage on a house in Michigan, and two kids who played hockey. She traveled. She felt like she could afford anything she needed. “I was doing great,” Schultz-Tarnopol said. Then she was
Continue Reading The first chicken to ever cross the road was likely in Southeast Asia, new research has revealed. Despite the prevalence of chickens — they outnumber all other birds on the planet with approximately 23 billion cluckers worldwide — centuries of scientists have struggled to determine exactly where they originated and how they were domesticated. Previous
Continue Reading A former assistant coach for Wake Forest University’s men’s basketball team has been sentenced to probation and community service in New York over an incident in 2018 when he punched a man who later died. Jamill Jones, 37, was convicted of third-degree assault in February in connection with the death of Sandor Szabo of Boca
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Continue Reading Eleven tennis tournaments set to be played in China this year have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Both the WTA and ATP have had to scrap all their remaining meetings in the country after China’s General Administration of Sport announced it would not hold any international sporting events until 2021. The canceled events
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The noise inside the Camp Nou on November 23, 2002, was unlike any other experienced in Barcelona’s soup bowl of a stadium. There is the sort of sound that makes a person wince, furrow the brow, stick fingers in both ears, and then there is the screeching and baying of over 100,000 football fans. A
Continue Reading A statue of Christopher Columbus in Chicago’s Grant Park was taken down early Friday morning hours after mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered its removal. Video from the scene shows crews securing the covered statue with tie down straps before a crane was used to remove it from the base. The controversial statue was the scene of
Continue Reading China has ordered the closure of the United States consulate in Chengdu, days after Washington forced the Chinese consulate in Houston to cease operations. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said US diplomats in China had been notified Friday morning that Beijing was revoking the license for the Chengdu consulate in China’s southwest,
Continue Reading An award-winning Kurdish-Iranian journalist who was detained for six years in an offshore Australian immigration center has been formally granted refugee status in New Zealand. Behrouz Boochani was sent to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) after arriving in Australian waters in 2013, under a government policy of detaining asylum seekers who arrived by
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EL PASO, Texas — At least one person was transported to the hospital following a four-vehicle collision that happened Thursday night at a busy west El Paso intersection. The crash at Resler Drive and North Mesa Street happened about 9:30 p.m., although it was approaching midnight before all the cars were finally towed away from
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EL PASO, Texas — A 24-year-old woman who took two weeks to recover from Covid-19 reached out to ABC-7 to share her experience and to urge her fellow young people to do their part to slow the spread of the potentially deadly virus. Dominique Vasquez first tested negative after her father urged her to get
Continue Reading Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James joined the growing number of NBA players using their media availability to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed during a police raid of her Kentucky apartment in March. “I want to continue to shed light on justice for Breonna Taylor and to her family and everything
Continue Reading Dr. Anthony Fauci is many things, most notably the country’s top infectious disease expert and a highly trusted figure during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As of Thursday, he can add pitcher to his lengthy curriculum vitae. Fauci threw the ceremonial first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season before the first game between the
Continue Reading Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians will consult with Native American leaders as the franchise continues looking into the path forward for the team’s name. “We will engage Native American leaders to better understand their perspectives,” team owner Paul Dolan said in a statement. Dolan said he had met with players and team manager Terry Francona
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas State Attorney General Jim Paxton has said that “protections granted by the First Amendment and Texas law… allows religious private schools to determine for themselves when to reopen free from any government mandate or interference.” This opinion from Paxton says private schools may decide for themselves whether to utilize virtual
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BEIJING, China — China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades. The move was a response to the Trump administration’s order this week for Beijing to close its
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EL PASO, Texas — Many El Paso residents and business owners seem to be on the same page when it comes to releasing cluster data concerning businesses infected with Covid-19. “You need to inform your customers even if you are going to lose, or if it is going to affect your business. These are peoples
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Community Foundation’s 13th annual Plaza Classic Film Festival is going on tour and online. Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Plaza Classic will be a hybrid festival, with 11 consecutive nights of pop-up drive-in movies at various locations around metro El Paso, and 5 days of digitally streamed films on plazaclassic.com. The
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered people excising outdoors to wear masks back on July 13. The order is a raging debate among many especially cyclists. The governor called it “a tough pill to swallow for many New Mexicans” as she rolled back the state re-opening due to the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Here’s the Q&A for Thursday, July
Continue Reading America’s pastime is sending a loud message as it begins its condensed season: Black lives matter. For decades, fans have claimed baseball often mirrors society and in 2020, that rings true — and loudly. Opening Day should bring fans, awakening from winter hibernation, to ballpark grandstands adorned with American flag bunting. Covid-19 means those major
Continue Reading Boxing legend Mike Tyson, 54, announced on Thursday that he will be climbing back into the ring for an exhibition bout against another all-time great boxer Roy Jones Jr. The two are set to duke it out in an eight-round exhibition match on September 12 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The former
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