When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto five years ago this week, it captured detailed views of the mysterious icy dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system. Since then, data gathered about Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, have been used to gain insight about these planetary bodies 4 billion miles away
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Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND, MI (WNEM) — The City of Midland cancelled its annual Touch a Truck event due to the coronavirus pandemic, but don’t worry, the event has been restructured as the Don’t Touch a Truck event. The event will take place on July 23 at 10 a.m. at Plymouth
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You may have purchased an air filter to put in your car or even an air purifier for your home. But what about something to put in your body to protect from air pollution? You can skip the hardware store and head straight to the grocery store for that, new research has suggested. Eating more
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AUSTIN, Texas — Local public health officials will be able to keep Texas schools closed for in-person instruction this fall without risking state education funding, a Texas Education Agency spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. Last week, the state’s education agency released an order requiring schools to open their buildings to in-person instruction five days a week for
Continue Reading Even though the heat of mid-summer is still upon us and the coronvirus pandemic continues, back-to-school season is right around the corner. With the possible exception of mask-wearing, no topic is generating as much debate as the reopening of schools. Everyone — leaders at all levels of government, public health experts, child welfare advocates, pediatricians,
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — Military flights resumed Wednesday at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico following an F-16C jet fighter crash two days ago, officials said. In the Monday evening crash at the base, the pilot of the single-engine aircraft successfully ejected and suffered minor injuries. Officials said the flight was part of
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The view from your window may have lost its luster since the start of the pandemic, especially if you’ve looked out at the same scenery since March. So why not peer out of someone else’s window? The website Window Swap opens up other people’s windows and lets the internet peek the view. It’s becoming a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER, CO (KCNC) — Gov. Jared Polis says he’s concerned about COVID-19 numbers creeping back up, but isn’t willing to commit to a statewide mask mandate. The governor spent weeks urging people to wear masks, but hasn’t resorted to an order or mandate. “The key to greater economic
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EL PASO, Texas — The Ysleta Independent School District announced Wednesday that it will now delay the start of the new school year until Aug. 17, at which time it will begin with at least three weeks of online only classes. The decision to push back the start of fall classes was the result of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Miami, FL (WFOR) — On Tuesday, the University of Miami announced its plans to move forward with re-opening campus for in-person classes this fall. Fall 2020 classes will begin on August 17 and on campus instruction will conclude on Friday, November 20. Final exams will be conducted online
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A Michigan man is lucky, even by lottery winner standards, after a gas station clerk gave him a $2 million winning scratch-off ticket by mistake. The winner, who chose not to be identified, stopped at the station in the Detroit suburb of Eastpointe because he needed change to put air in the tires of his
Continue Reading Scientists have developed a tiny wireless camera that can ride on the back of an insect, giving users a bug’s-eye view of the world. Researchers at the University of Washington in the US developed the technology to test the potential of miniature cameras. Their device weighs about 250 milligrams — around one-tenth the weight of
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More than 1 million people in the UK are estimated to have quit smoking over the past four months during the coronavirus pandemic, with younger people kicking the habit at a higher rate than older smokers, a new analysis shows. A further 440,000 people in the country have also used the pandemic as an opportunity
Continue Reading A warrant has been issued in the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl over Fourth of July weekend, the Atlanta Police Department said. The warrant issued Tuesday charges Julian Conley, 19, with aggravated assault and felony murder, according to department spokesman Anthony W. Grant. Detectives are working to bring Conley into custody, Grant added. Secoriea
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER, CO (KCNC) — While the city of Denver has seen an increase in violent crime with regard to youth, police say so far, the rate of crime related to gun violence has remained mostly level. From Jan. 1 to July 4 of this year, there were a
Continue Reading The Philadelphia Independent School District plans to reopen with a hybrid of in-person and online learning, with most students physically attending school two days per week. Under this plan, schools in Philadelphia would resume on September 2. Each of the more than 200 schools within the district will create its own individual plan, while abiding
Continue Reading A Pennsylvania couple didn’t know they had house guests until lines of fresh honey started dripping down the walls of their home’s mudroom. Andrea Isabell and her husband Justin have lived in their 100-year-old home in Perkasie for five years and told CNN they haven’t had any major issues with it, apart from run-of-the-mill repairs
Continue Reading Christian Cooper, the Black man who filmed a White woman calling the police on him while he was birdwatching in New York’s Central Park in May, says he’s not cooperating in her prosecution — which “lets white people off the hook” and “their own prejudices unexamined.” “I think it’s a mistake to focus on this
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New police body camera video viewed by CNN offers critical new context in the moments leading up to George Floyd’s death. Floyd sobbed as officers initially began pulling him from the vehicle he was in, and at one point officer Derek Chauvin appears to use his knee to lean into pressure applied to Floyd’s neck.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SUTTER, CA (KOVR) — Sutter Union High School is going high-tech. As parents prepare to send their children back into the classroom, the high school is buying a dozen artificial intelligence devices with thermal sensors and facial identification technology for their buses and campus. The devices can read
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — George Floyd’s killing had an immediate impact on recruitment at police departments, at a time when hiring new officers in Minnesota was already near a 25-year low. Within a week of Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, the Shakopee Police Department lost two of its top
Continue Reading Director and screenwriter James Gunn says he “tried” to make bespectacled detective Velma “explicitly gay” in his script for the live-action ‘Scooby-Doo’ movie. A Twitter account for a film podcast implored Gunn to make future onscreen iterations of Velma gay, to which Gunn replied, “I tried!” “In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial
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Among the many types of inequality in the United States laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic is the digital divide between those who can access the internet at home and those who can’t. Especially in rural areas of the country, many lack access to broadband internet — and thus have struggled to participate in the
Continue Reading A 15-year-old boy has died from bubonic plague in western Mongolia, according to government health officials. The teenager caught the plague after hunting and eating marmot, according to Dorj Narangerel, spokesperson for Mongolia’s Ministry of Health. He died on Sunday. Marmots are large ground squirrels, a type of rodent, that have historically been linked to
Continue Reading A Colorado man knew something was wrong when he heard a commotion early Friday morning in the Aspen house where he’s staying with his kids. “I laid in bed thinking, ‘I really hope this isn’t a bear,’” Dave Chernosky told CNN. “I figured it probably was, but I was sure hoping for something else once
Continue Reading A private island off the coast of Ireland boasting three beaches, seven houses and natural wildlife has been sold for more than $6.3 million — with the anonymous buyer not even visiting the location in person before going through with the purchase. Horse Island, a 157-acre spot of land to the southwest of the Irish
Continue Reading A private island off the coast of Ireland boasting three beaches, seven houses and natural wildlife has been sold for more than $6.3 million — with the anonymous buyer not even visiting the location in person before going through with the purchase. Horse Island, a 157-acre spot of land to the southwest of the Irish
Continue Reading A “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star and an NFL wide receiver were among 87 protesters arrested outside a home owned by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Porsha Williams, who has been on ‘Real Housewives’ since 2012, and Kenny Stills, a wide receiver for the NFL’s Houston Texans, joined protesters on Tuesday as they occupied the
Continue Reading We’ve seen Shaquille O’Neal make countless assists on the basketball court, but this week he made one on the highway, helping out a Florida driver who blew out a tire. The NBA legend, who lives in the Orlando area, was driving down I-75 near Gainesville on Monday when he pulled over to help a driver
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Midland County, MI (WNEM) — The Midland County Sheriff’s Office has said it will not issue any type of citation based on people not wearing masks. The response comes following Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order requiring masks to be worn indoor in public places. In a post on
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