Click here for updates on this story HARWICH PORT, MA (WBZ) — A crew on a fishing expedition off the Cape got the surprise of a lifetime when they spotted a whale shark near the water line. The stunning moment was caught on camera. “I never expected to see a whale shark off Cape Cod
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Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent a letter to Barcelona informing the club that he wants to leave the team, a source close to the footballer confirmed to CNN. Following the Catalan side’s humiliating 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told Barca TV: “Messi has
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — A man who drove his car through the front of a Walmart Supercenter in Truth or Consequences allegedly planned to burn it down, authorities said. Police said that after 35-year-old Devon Schinagel of Elephant Butte was taken in custody over the weekend, they learned he had poured lighter fluid
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP football team has added its final game to its 2020 schedule with a road contest on Sept. 26 at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, the Athletics Department announced Tuesday. Kickoff will be at 6 p.m. Mountain Time. It will be the first game in a two-game series with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Watsonville, CA (KPIX) — The recent heat wave and wildfire smoke have made for especially tough times for farm workers who were already struggling with COVID-19. Farm workers continue to stay out in the fields, but now some of them are starting to speak out about the difficult
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RUIDOSO, New Mexico — A McDonald’s location in Ruidoso is the scene of the largest restaurant outbreak of coronavirus in New Mexico, according to state data. Since earlier this month, the state Environment Department indicated at least 13 employees tested positive at the McDonald’s at 140 Sudderth in Ruidoso. In addition to being the largest outbreak
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Capitola, CA (KPIX) — Investigators released new surveillance photos Monday evening in hopes they will help identify the suspect who stole a fire commander’s wallet while he was fighting the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. The suspect was caught on camera using one of the firefighter’s stolen credit cards
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HENDERSONVILLE, TN (WSMV) — A mother has an urgent message for parents after she said her young daughter was grabbed by a man in the checkout line at the Hendersonville Walmart over the weekend. Police said the suspect was arrested on Monday. The incident happened at the Walmart
Continue Reading LeBron James and the Green Bay Packers are among those in professional sports who responded on social media Monday to the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff game Monday, James called for justice in a Twitter post linked to the video showing the Sunday incident in which Blake,
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For decades, ExxonMobil was an unstoppable machine. It made gobs of money, spent that cash wisely and rewarded shareholders lavishly. As recently as 2013, Exxon was the the most valuable company on the planet. Its market value topped out at $446 billion in mid-2014, the last time crude prices traded above $100 a barrel. But
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When Shyamala Gopalan first came to the United States, there were only around 12,000 Indian immigrants living here. It was 1958, seven years before a new law would transform the US immigration system and fundamentally change the face of the nation. By 2018, there were nearly 2.7 million Indian immigrants living in the US. And
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Two female gentoo penguins are new moms at an aquarium in Spain and are raising the baby chick they adopted as an egg. Officials at Oceanogràfic València say that Electra and Violet built a nest together out of stones and “began to have the usual attitude and actions prior to reproduction,” according to a news
Continue Reading Usain Bolt has tested positive for the coronavirus as Jamaica’s Prime Minister says there will no special treatment if anyone has been found to break the rules stemming from a party held for the former sprinter’s recent 34th birthday. Ricky Simms, Bolt’s agent, confirmed the Olympic great’s positive test to CNN. “The Covid test was
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GALVESTON, Texas — In the largest U.S. evacuation of the pandemic, more than half a million people were ordered to flee the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam Texas and Louisiana with ferocious winds, heavy flooding and the power to push seawater miles inland. More than
Continue Reading In powerful social media pleas, some people are asking others to stop sharing videos of police brutality against Black men. The requests come after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was shot seven times in the back as he attempted to enter the driver’s side door of
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Happy birthday, Sean Connery! The first James Bond turned 90 on Tuesday, as difficult as that is to believe. It’s true: Connery was born August 25, 1930, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The beloved actor, who starred as Agent 007 in the first Bond film “Dr. No” in 1962, hasn’t been on the Hollywood radar for years,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Georgia State University saw its largest enrollment and largest freshman class in history when classes started. The school said overall enrollment topped 54,000 with more than 5,200 incoming freshmen starting at the Atlanta campus. An additional 2,500 freshmen were starting at GSU’s Perimeter College
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — The governors of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey adjusted the joint travel advisory, taking Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, and Montana off the list. Implemented on June 24 at 11:59 p.m., people traveling into those states from states with a high spread of COVID-19
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Upper Dauphin, PA (WPMT) — For most students waking up Monday morning marked notable changes to everything from riding the bus to passing friends in the hallways to sitting inside classrooms. For districts, it marked a milestone in a marathon of discussions, debate, school board meetings, and changing
Continue Reading At universities around the world, graduation ceremonies provide an opportunity to mark an educational achievement with family and friends, but the coronavirus pandemic has robbed students of the chance to do so in the traditional way. Embracing this new normal, one university has come up with a unique way of awarding students their degrees —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SELINSGROVE, PA (WNEP) — There was a feeling of excitement at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove as students started their first day of classes. “All of us seniors are just very happy to be back. We’re still complying with the guidelines and everything and still enjoying our last year
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Metro Schools will be in a virtual learning model until at least Labor Day, but today Director of Schools Dr. Adrienne Battle is expected to announce what’s to come next. “I don’t foresee her announcement that we’re going back, period,” said Amanda Kail, President
Continue Reading Western Carolina University is condemning racist videos posted on social media by students. One video shared multiple times online shows two White females saying, “If I am a cracker, you’re allowed to be called the (“N” word) … with the A … not the ER.” In another video two White males are seen giving the
Continue Reading Even before classes began Tuesday, The Ohio State University temporarily suspended 228 students who officials said broke guidelines around social gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The suspension comes as K-12 schools, colleges and universities across the country contend with how to start and safely continue the academic year during a worldwide pandemic. Ohio State, located
Continue Reading The death toll from a five-story apartment building collapse in the Indian state of Maharashtra has risen to 12, as rescue operations to locate the missing were suspended overnight. Four people remain missing and are presumed still trapped, Anupam Srivastava, head of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Maharashtra unit said on Tuesday. A four-year-old
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — There are hundreds of wildfires burning over one million acres in several parts of California. To help battle the blaze, Levi Gomez, a firefighter for the U.S. National Forest Service for 15 seasons, left Las Cruces and headed to the Dolan fire in Big Sur. “The terrain is very difficult
Continue Reading Australia’s record-breaking 2019-20 bushfires were likely made worse by climate change, an inquiry has found, warning that such devastating wildfires are likely to happen again. Next time, the fires could even be “potentially worse,” according to the report, which was released Tuesday. The New South Wales (NSW) Bushfire Inquiry was formed in January and examined
Continue Reading Add “The West Wing” to the list of TV reunions in the age of coronavirus, but this time, they’re coming together for a specific cause: To benefit Michelle Obama’s voter-participation organization When We All Vote by staging an episode for the streaming service HBO Max. The service announced that series creator Aaron Sorkin and the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Mobile County, AL (WALA) — A report about COVID-19 tests results in the National Football League is attracting attention here in Mobile. The NFL first reported 77 false positive test results of players over the weekend. It said they were actually zero positive cases. NFL.com reports testing irregularities
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hawaii, USA (KITV) — It was back to class for students at all ten University of Hawaii campuses on Monday. Most of the classes are being taught online, but KITV4’s cameras caught a handful of students making their way to in-person courses like science labs. “I’m just
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