Click here for updates on this story ALBEMARLE, N.C. (WGHP) — Ronnie Long, a man who has long maintained his innocence after a rape conviction in 1976, has been freed from prison. “They will never ever, never ever, ever lock me up again,” Long said. Long was a 20-year-old Black man living in Concord when
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FARMINGTON, AK (KFSM) — A man broke into Kids Unlimited Learning Academy in Farmington Thursday (Aug. 27) morning. The Farmington Police Department says he stole the van used by the academy to transport kids with special needs. If you see this van or have information that can help
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANDEVILLE, LA (WGNO) — Ben Collier commuted by kayak. That’s after Lake Pontchartrain poured onto his street. WGNO’s Bill Wood has the story of Ben and other residents of Mandeville, Louisiana who woke up to storm surge from Hurricane Laura. Lake Shore Drive here is a lake. People
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Harrisburg, PA (WPMT) — For the past several days, Anthony Williams has been forced to sit and wait. Confined to his house without a car, Williams is unable to walk more than a block on his own. But Wednesday, a gift changed his life. A wheelchair was given
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WASHINGTON, DC — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates began highlighting the scourge of police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. An estimated tens thousands gathered Friday near
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CA (KTLA) — Although 35-year-old Lancaster teacher Janet Udomratsak knew the upcoming school year would be challenging, she did not expect to be teaching her third grade students from a hospital bed. The expectant mother thought she’d be swapping her classroom for a virtual one from home, but
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida — The NBA playoffs will resume Saturday after the league and the National Basketball Players Association detailed the commitments that made players comfortable continuing. In a joint statement released Friday, the sides said they would immediately establish a social justice coalition, made up of players, coaches and owners, that would focus
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The whispers started three years ago. A mysterious bullet-shaped plane was spotted at the Southern California Logistics Airport near Victorville in April 2017. Its unusual design prompted immediate speculation, with military website The War Zone being the first to report that the aircraft was the work of California-based Otto Aviation — and that development was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER, CO (KDVR) — Friday marks the 57th anniversary of the first historic March on Washington in 1963 led by Martin Luther King Jr. While that tradition is carried on every year in Washington, Denver will host a pair of marches of its own at Civic Center Park
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAKE COUNTY, Il (WDJT) — Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters in Kenosha, had his first court hearing Friday, Aug. 28, in Lake County, Illinois. Rittenhouse will remain in custody in Illinois for now. Friday was supposed to be an extradition hearing, but Rittenhouse’s attorney
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MI (WNEM) — April 10 was a jarring day at TV5 when all of us learned that a potentially deadly infection had invaded our lives in a deeply personal way when a member of our team tested positive for COVID-19. Now, he’s still living with the consequences of
Continue Reading Marques Houston is a married man. The 39-year-old singer and “Sister, Sister” star wed Miya Dickey, 19. Houston shared the news on his verified Instagram account. “Still an unbelievable moment for me!,” he wrote in a caption on one of their wedding photos. “Marrying you is such a dream come true #TheHoustons.” People reports that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Meredith, MI (KMOV) — A 21-year-old South Carolina college student and her stepfather were shot and killed on the student’s front lawn Monday in an apparent road rage attack after a minor fender-bender. Laura Ashley Anderson, 21, and her stepfather Charles Nicholas Wall, 45, were killed outside Anderson’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAKE CHARLES, LA (WGNO) — A shelter-in-place order has been extended following the fire that erupted at a Lake Charles chemical plant. The fire broke out at BioLab, Inc. just north of I-10 while Hurricane Laura moved through the area on Thursday. BioLab, Inc. primarily functions as a
Continue Reading Dozens of Black baseball players will donate their salaries from Thursday and Friday to support racial justice initiatives, in honor of Jackie Robinson Day and in protest of Jacob Blake’s shooting by police. Participating Major League Baseball players will donate their salaries to the Players Alliance, a group of more than 100 Black former and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRAND JUNCTION, CO (KDVR) — The Pine Gulch Fire became Colorado’s largest single wildfire on Thursday, scorching more than 139,000 acres. Previously, the Hayman Fire was Colorado’s largest wildfire. For six weeks in 2002, that fire charred through 138,000 acres of forest land southwest of Denver, destroying 133
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MEMPHIS, TN (WREG) — Two children missing for nearly a year in Memphis have been found near Miami and now their mother is facing charges. Officers fear the children may have fallen victim to a human trafficking ring. One of them was admitted to a hospital while the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEAR HOOD RIVER, OR (KPTV) — Thursday marked a somber day of remembrance in the Columbia River Gorge as firefighters honored a pilot who lost his life while assisting in the White River Fire. Tom Duffy died in a crash on Monday while performing bucket water drops about
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MEMPHIS, TN (WREG) — The City of Memphis is making preparations for the potentially heavy rain and flooding Tropical Storm Laura may bring to the area. Deadly Tropical Storm Laura is hitting the Texas and Louisiana coasts, bringing buckets of rain and blasting communities with high winds. Over
Continue Reading Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards will be unlike the any of the event’s previous shows. Although the broadcast will go on despite the coronavirus pandemic, producers have made major adjustments for health precautions. The backdrop for this year’s show will be New York City, featuring performances set outside, with limited or no live audiences. Keke
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Stone Mountain, GA (Gwinnett Daily Post) — You can find lots of stuff online by visiting Amazon’s website — including information about jobs with the online retail giant. Amazon is hiring warehouse team members for its new fulfillment center near Stone Mountain in south Gwinnett, with salaries ranging
Continue Reading Chrissy Teigen says her eating habits are causing her some problems. The pregnant TV star/food maven/social media queen shared in a video on her Instagram stories Thursday that she is “eating so much sour candy that my tongue is falling off.” She offered up a warning for the squeamish, then showed the camera what looked
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Damon and Yashira Willis have always supported social justice causes, but at this moment in time, they decided they wanted to do more. And so, looking to their close-knit community to propel the conversation about racism and police violence against Black people, the Smyrna, Georgia, couple found inspiration in one of their neighborhood’s most beloved
Continue Reading When NBA teams elected to sit out Wednesday’s slate of playoff games in a player-led protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, it set off a chain reaction unlike anything ever seen in American sports. Within hours, several MLB and MLS teams, led by their players, decided to pause the night’s contests. The unprecedented
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JOHNSON COUNTY, KS (KCTV) — Residents in certain areas of Johnson County are up in arms because of people firing off guns near homes. On Thursday, KCTV5’s Greg Payne looked into the complications that have made enforcing such situations tough for law enforcement. “So, here is where the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — The U.S. Marshals Service says 26 of the children were rescued and the other 13 were located to make sure they were safe. The two week mission was led by the U.S Marshals Service Missing Child Unit, in conjunction with the agency’s Southeast Regional
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MI (WBND) — The Michigan Attorney General’s Office is investigation a robocall received by a Detroit resident that used racially charged stereotypes to deter voting by mail, according to AG Dana Nessel. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Nessel have debunked the claims in the voice mail from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, NV (KVVU) — Wynn Las Vegas on Thursday announced that it is offering a new program for its employees with school-aged children amid distance learning. According to a news release, Wynn Las Vegas has created a partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada
Continue Reading Amber Riley offered a moving tribute to her late friend and “Glee” costar Naya Rivera on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Riley gave a moving performance of the song “A Moment” in honor of Rivera, who died last month in a drowning accident while on a boat trip with her 4-year-old son. Rivera was 33. She
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, NV (KVVU) — Wynn Las Vegas on Thursday announced that it is offering a new program for its employees with school-aged children amid distance learning. According to a news release, Wynn Las Vegas has created a partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada
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