Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Neb. (Lincoln Journal Star) — A 36-year-old Lincoln woman who blew up her former landlord’s front window in December, upset she wouldn’t return the woman’s father’s ashes over back rent, was sentenced to prison for it Tuesday. The blast sent glass and debris across the street and
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Here’s a look at the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing that killed four African-American girls during church services in 1963. September 15, 2013, marked the 50th anniversary of the bombing. Facts September 15, 1963 – A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least
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Congratulations are in order for Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli. The Bollywood actress and her cricket captain husband made their announcement Thursday on social media. Sharma posted a photo showing her and Kohli being all smiles as she sports her baby bump. “And then, we were three! Arriving Jan 2021,” the caption reads along with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Neb. (Lincoln Journal Star) — On the other end of the phone, Brian Solomon’s sister was telling him about a shooting that occurred several blocks north of where he lived. Then something moved outside Solomon’s kitchen window. “It was this little head,” said Solomon, who has lived
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — The Davenport Fire Department on Wednesday recognized two citizens and 10 Davenport police officers for providing life-saving assistance during a July 3 house fire at 500 E. Locust St. Local roofing contractors Anthony Buckley and Anthony English pulled ladders off their truck and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Standing up to draw awareness to “systemic racism” and standing beside other players and teams making a statement about “larger issues” in our country, Cardinals outfielder Dexter Fowler and pitcher Jack Flaherty stepped aside from Wednesday’s game and declined to play in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported 11 new coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday morning. That brought the death toll in El Paso County to 410. The health department identified the fatalities as: 1 man in his 50s1 man in his 60s1 man in his 70s1 woman in her 70s4
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Okla. (Tulsa World) — Tulsa couple Mark and Mona Whitmire delivered a rare gift during this pandemic: forgiving qualified medical debt for the entire county. That is about $28 million in debt wiped out for 28,321 families. The families are receiving notifications this week that their old
Continue Reading Katy Perry has given birth to a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom. The pop superstar and her partner, actor Orlando Bloom, got UNICEF to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both Perry and Bloom are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children. UNICEF posted a black and white photograph of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — New owners are pouring time and money into restoring part of Omaha’s history. But there may be unexpected costs they claim is the city’s responsibility. It happened at Florence Boulevard and Browne Street, a home along what some historians have called Omaha’s most beautiful
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It’s sport in the year 2020. Or more precisely, the first tennis grand slam of a global pandemic. This year’s US Open — which starts on Monday — will take place in New York City albeit with no fans in attendance. It’s an unprecedented first for the players there too. Germany’s Alexander Zverev is among
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Amazon has tried to make its services and products an indispensable part of people’s day, from putting its Alexa voice assistant everywhere to selling virtually everything on Amazon.com. In the process, it’s collected mountains of data. Now, it wants to creep into even more sensitive areas of its customers’ lives. On Thursday, the tech giant
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The pandemic put a pause on most theatrical performances worldwide at a time when many people might have needed them the most. The Covid-19 pandemic presented UTEP’s Department of Theatre and Dance with a seemingly impossible task: performing together while staying apart. Actors often say ‘the show must go on,’
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MINSK, Belarus (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his Belarusian counterpart has asked him to provide security assistance to help stabilize the situation in the country if needed, adding that there is no such need yet. Belarus’ authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, is facing weeks of protests against his reelection in the Aug. 9
Continue Reading When Snoop Dogg (Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.) exploded on the scene in the early ’90s, one of the young rapper’s first major hits was an ode to gin and juice, among other things. But as the rapper nears his 50th birthday, the multiplatinum artist has developed a more subdued drinking habit. These days, Snoop’s passing
Continue Reading JUSTIN, Texas — Yaser Abdel Said, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, has been “taken into custody without incident today in Justin, TX,” according to a news release from the FBI Dallas Field Office. Said was placed on the list in December 2014 for the 2008 homicide of his daughters Amina and Sarah.
Continue Reading A hurricane, nationwide demonstrations, a major political event … there’s a lot going on, so let’s jump right in. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1.
Continue Reading Remember that fuzzy little feeling called happiness? In case you need a reminder: It was this word we used to use back in 2019 to describe a state of pure pleasure and contentment. Happiness seems to have faded from our vocabulary amid the global pandemic, economic turmoil and, well, collective sense of doom and depression
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Louisiana officials are warning those who didn’t evacuate from mandatory zones before Hurricane Laura hit that rescue efforts won’t start until the surge has passed. “Those choosing to stay and face this very dangerous storm must understand that rescue efforts cannot and will not begin until after storm and surge has passed and it is
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As the global pandemic drags on, many of us are more stressed out than usual. And that often means scoring a lot less sleep at night. “Trying to get good sleep while you’re stressed out is like trying to make a half-court shot while blindfolded,” said Michael Breus, a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles. Breus
Continue Reading The United States government has imposed sanctions on dozens of Chinese companies for helping Beijing advance its territorial claims in the South China Sea — the first punitive action of its kind over the disputed waters, and one that is almost certain to escalate tensions between the countries. In a statement Wednesday, the US Commerce
Continue Reading Days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and large protests erupted, authorities are revealing more information about the shooting. The investigation was quickly turned over to the Wisconsin Department of Justice and a federal civil rights investigation was launched, but so far neither Blake nor his family have heard from the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Historical Museum of Lawmen sat for over a decade just to the right of the front lobby at the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department on Motel Boulevard. The county had called it “the region’s only museum dedicated solely to law enforcement.” Now, however, the museum has been permanently closed
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HONG KONG — TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned amid U.S. pressure for its Chinese owner to sell the popular video app, which the White House says is a security risk. In a letter to employees seen Thursday, Mayer said that his decision to leave comes after the “political environment has sharply changed.” His resignation
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EL PASO, Texas — Hurricane Laura is expected to hit parts of Texas and Louisiana Thursday as a category 4 hurricane with the possibility of it upgrading to a category 5. Hundreds of Red Cross volunteers were headed that way to help on Wednesday night, including one El Paso man. RELATED CONTENT: LIVE coverage –
Continue Reading An artificial pancreas system is safe and helped children as young as six with type 1 diabetes better control blood sugar levels, according to a new study from researchers at four pediatric diabetes centers in the United States. The study was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers studied 101 children
Continue Reading A far-right terrorist who killed 51 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting in modern history will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in the country’s courts. Brenton Tarrant, 29, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty earlier
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso preschool plans to opens its doors right after Labor Day. Every Little Blessing Preschool takes children from one year of age to six and specialize in children with with special needs. After closing during the pandemic, their doors will now re-open before most of the school districts in
Continue Reading Would you travel halfway across the world by bus? Expedition company Adventures Overland is hoping you’ll say yes to its new organized bus trip, which will ferry travelers from the Indian metropolis of Delhi to the UK capital of London — no airplanes involved. Described as the “first-ever hop-on/hop-off bus service” between the two destinations,
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Four overnight camps in Maine successfully identified and isolated three Covid-19 positive people with no symptoms, preventing transmission to more than 1,000 other campers and staff this summer, says a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For many kids, summer camp looked and felt a little different this year. There
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