The Black Lives Matter street mural outside Trump Tower was vandalized with red paint, police confirmed to CNN on Monday. An unnamed suspect walked up to the mural, dumped red paint over the letter V in “Lives,” and ran away as passing traffic further splattered the paint across the sign, New York Police Department officials
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EL PASO, Texas — Around 4,000 El Paso Electric customers found themselves without power at one point late Monday afternoon as an ongoing heatwave – the worst in a quarter century – continued to take its toll on the Borderland. The utility company reported a few main outages, including one involving roughly 1,100 customers impacted
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Amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases across the United States, public health officials are asking everyday Americans to do their part. Their message? A face mask is more than a piece of cloth. It’s a sign of respect. “Wearing a mask, ladies and gentlemen, is respect,” Dr. Padmini Murthy, professor and global health director at
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Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — At least 64 people had been shot in Chicago this weekend as of 5 a.m. Monday, and 11 of those people died. Chicago detectives are investigating several shootings, including one in the Avalon Park neighborhood, just south of Grand Crossing. Three women were shot,
Continue Reading Every dollar invested in a sustainable ocean economy can yield at least five times the return in benefits, according to a new report commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. As many countries roll out bailout packages to counter the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the report says investment in these
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico reported 264 more Covid-19 cases on Monday, with Doña Ana County having the most new cases of any county in the state. The New Mexico Department of Health said 82 of the additional cases were in Doña Ana County, the state’s second largest county which
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, TX (KTVT) — A West Texas sheriff has died due to complications from COVID-19, according to a law enforcement association. The Texas Chief Deputies Association said Lynn County Sheriff Abraham Vega died on July 11 during his battle with the novel coronavirus. According to the association, Vega
Continue Reading The Atlanta Braves will not be changing their name. The “Tomahawk Chop” chant however, may be on the chopping block. In a statement from the organization, the team said it “honors, respects and values the Native American community,” adding that “as an organization, we have always drawn strength from our diversity and respect for everyone.
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The CEO of a San Francisco-based technology company who was seen in a viral video making racist remarks against an Asian-American family has resigned from his company. In the video, which was posted last week by Jordan Chan on Instagram, Lofthouse calls the group “Asian pieces of sh–,” among other vulgarities, at the Lucia Restaurant
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — On Friday, more than 1,300 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed. On Thursday, the state topped the 1,000 mark for the first time in a month. Each of those numbers represents a real human being. And on Friday, there was good news for a person
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — At least 64 people had been shot in Chicago this weekend as of 5 a.m. Monday, and 11 of those people died. Chicago detectives are investigating several shootings, including one in the Avalon Park neighborhood, just south of Grand Crossing. Three women were shot,
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EL PASO, Texas — After a weekend that saw hospital diversions for the first time in the Borderland due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, El Paso’s top emergency management official said Monday the capacity issue is a lack of staffing – not hospital beds. Deputy Fire Chief Jorge Rodriquez, who also serves as El
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ANNAPOLIS, MD (WJZ) — An Annapolis man is planning to attempt an ambitious 240-mile paddleboard journey down the Chesapeake Bay to raise money for planting oysters in the Bay. With each paddle, Chris Hopkinson is hoping to bring more awareness about the dwindling population of a sea creature
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story REVERE, MA (WBZ) — A woman allegedly kicked and tossed her dog into the water, leaving the dog to die, at Revere Beach Sunday. She is now facing animal cruelty charges, sources told WBZ-TV. Witnesses said the incident happened in broad daylight at the crowded beach. Revere City
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EL PASO, Texas — Lawyers for the man charged with shooting scores of people in a racist attack at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart say their client has diagnosed mental disabilities that should be a “red flag” for federal prosecutors considering whether to seek the death penalty. Patrick Crusius “has been diagnosed with severe, lifelong
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Businesses have had to embrace social distancing during the pandemic, and perhaps none more so than an English pub which installed an electric fence to keep thirsty customers at bay. Jonny McFadden, who runs the Star Inn in St Just, Cornwall, told CNN that he installed the electric fence in front of the pub’s bar
Continue Reading Jimmy Micioni, a New Jersey man affectionately known as Uncle Jimmy to everyone who knew him, died in March at the age of 97. However, little did anyone else know that stashed in his attic was a meticulously collected and cataloged sports card collection valued at more than $1 million. While Micioni’s nieces and nephews
Continue Reading What used to be the country’s epicenter of Covid-19 has now reached a promising milestone. “For the first time in months, we have a 24-hour period where no one in this city died from the coronavirus,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. “Let’s have many more days like that.” The test positivity rate in New
Continue Reading Disney+ continues to send in the clones, announcing a new animated series, “Star Wars: The Bad Batch,” spun out from the successful “Clone Wars” franchise that recently concluded its run. Scheduled for 2021, the latest show focuses on the experimental clones known as the Bad Batch, which were introduced in “The Clone Wars.” The story
Continue Reading What should be a booming tourist destination this time of year is now riddled with coronavirus, dwarfing other states and even entire countries in some metrics. Here’s what the situation in Florida looks like: Florida had more new cases in 1 day than the entire US did in about 2 months Florida reported its highest
Continue Reading One in three young adults is at risk of severe Covid-19, and smoking plays a big part in that risk, according to new research published Monday in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, looked at more than 8,000 participants ages 18 to 25 who had participated in the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Restaurant owners and members of the service industry across Las Cruces on Monday afternoon protested the New Mexico governor’s decision to close dining rooms. “We are standing for restaurants’ rights to keep their employees employed and their right to do business,” said Marci Dickerson, who organized the protest at the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Grayson County, KY (WLKY) — Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins announced on Facebook Sunday that he and his family have tested positive for COVID-19. In the post, Chaffins described his symptoms as more severe than the rest of the family. He said the family likely contracted the virus
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Louisville, KY (WLKY) — On Sunday, Mayor Greg Fischer denied a request from Metro Council asking him to turn over all documents related to the Breonna Taylor case. In a letter sent to council members, Fischer detailed his reasoning for the denial. “While I take your requests in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Oklahoma City, OK (KOCO) — A Native American sit-in to change or remove the Centennial Land Run monument Saturday morning in Bricktown led to another group arming themselves to “keep an eye on the statues.” The two opposing groups, however, do agree on this: Adding the Native’s side
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He was South Korea’s second-most powerful official and a potential presidential contender. Now, the death of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon has left the country divided. On the surface, Park certainly had an impressive resume. The 64-year-old former human rights lawyer had represented the victim in the first sexual assault case in South Korean history, before
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Manchester, NH (WMUR) — An emotional moment for a New Hampshire woman was caught on video at Logan Airport when she met her sister for the first time after connecting through ancestry DNA. The sisters, Monica Thames and Christine Fiore, spent nearly 50 years without knowing the other
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors urged a judge to reject a home confinement request by Ghislaine Maxwell, the confidant of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, saying she is skilled at hiding and had wrapped a cell phone in foil to attempt to evade detection by authorities. “There will be no trial for the victims if the defendant is
Continue Reading The Boston Police Department is conducting an arson investigation after a statue of the Virgin Mary was set on fire at a church in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood. Saturday night, the Boston Fire Department arrived at Saint Peter Parish Church to see that someone had set fire to the plastic flowers that were in the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lawrenceville, GA (Gwinnett Daily Post) — The calls to remove the Confederate memorial that is located on the Lawrenceville Square came from all sides on Sunday. Both District Attorney Danny Porter, a Republican, and his Democratic Party opponent in this year’s election, Patsy Austin-Gatson, called for the monument
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