Click here for updates on this story TURBOTVILLE, PA (WNEP) — The mother of a toddler who drowned earlier this month has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. State police said Britney Bridges of Turbotville told them she was sleeping when her 3-year-old son walked out of the home and fell in a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Three new coronavirus-related deaths were announced Tuesday morning by the Department of Public Health. The death toll has now reached 397 in El Paso County, just three shy of 400. The victims were identified as two men in their 80s and a woman in their 90s. The health department said
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Drier air has worked its way into the region dropping rain chances Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures will be a few degrees cooler today but we will see triple digits return by Thursday. I’m also keeping an eye on the tropics as Hurricane Laura is forecast to move northwest over the next several days and looks to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) — An impromptu party and the fatal shooting that followed has neighbors in one Mid-Michigan community demanding action towards what they consider a reoccurring pattern of violence. Police were called to Rube’s Bar and Grill in Flint after a large crowd gathering and gunshots rang
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AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico — Viridiana Álvarez Chávez was 28 when she first started exercising. She was 36 when she broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest ascent of the top three highest mountains with supplementary oxygen (female) in only one year and 364 days. Chávez completed the trifecta of climbs in 2019 and submitted her
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For hundreds of thousands of students in the US, the first day of school means more hours in front of a device, but for some, it means meeting in-person for their newly minted “pandemic pods.” These small groups of students are springing up as schools stay closed against coronavirus and offer online learning instead. Families
Continue Reading Videos released Monday show Fotis Dulos disposing of evidence the day his estranged wife disappeared, an attorney for Dulos’ ex-girlfriend says. The videos were released as part of a bail modification memorandum in the case against Michelle Troconis. The videos include part of a police interrogation of Troconis from last August and surveillance videos that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/KSMO) — In 2013, Ryan Stokes was shot and killed in the Power and Light District by Kansas City police. “We learned that if there had been a camera, a video of any sort then we would have been in a better position to provide
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV) — St. Louis County opened a temporary morgue in Earth City in April designed to be a dignity transfer center to accommodate those who had passed away around the region from the coronavirus. The temporary morgue is now closing. The facility was built
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As more reports emerge about possible treatments for Covid-19, a local emergency medicine physician is urging the public to heed caution when it comes to self-medicating. Nationwide, medical professionals have warned Americans to avoid using prescription drugs without a prescription. “’What I would hate for people to start doing is
Continue Reading Boarding in the Italian port of Genoa for a seven-day Mediterranean cruise on August 16, travel agent Valeria Belardi prepared herself for a voyage like no other. Belardi was one of some 3,000 pioneering cruisers on board MSC Grandiosa, the first cruise liner to return to the Mediterranean following the global shut down of the
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Justin Blake says watching the video of his nephew getting shot several times in the back by Wisconsin police “literally took my breath away.” “You’re looking at somebody you know, love, trust and respect and are proud of, but you can’t help them,” Blake told CNN’s Sara Sidner. “You sort of have to remove yourself
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — In a year that’s been tough on restaurants, a Benson bar-b-que spot is dealing with the damage from a car that crashed right into it. Now a fellow small business owner on the other side of town is chipping in to help cover the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MARTINSVILLE, Va. (Martinsville Bulletin ) — Nurse Tova Yellock says that even though she has COVID-19, she still doesn’t regret her role on the front line of health care. “I’m a health care worker, so I sign up for this,” she said. “I signed up to be on
Continue Reading Before a fateful trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Alana Mitchell said she didn’t feel like she was Black enough to own African American history as her own. But she found her place in history within its walls, along with a handful of her classmates from Dr. Martin
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Neb. (Lincoln Journal Star) — On July 16, an inmate serving four years on felony charges of forgery, resisting arrest and possessing methamphetamines, got into a vehicle following an evening support group and didn’t return to the Community Corrections Center-Omaha. A month later, 39-year-old Matthew Layman still
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It seems that just as states start getting coronavirus cases under control in one geographic area, they start rising in another. Sun Belt states hit hard by the coronavirus in summer — including Florida, Texas, Arizona — have finally started to see their numbers go down, only to have cases insidiously creep up across parts
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — On Aug. 24, 1951, owner Bill Veeck decided to let fans hold up “Yes” and “No” signs to make all the managerial decisions during a St. Louis Browns game. This is how the Post-Dispatch covered the game. The only mistake the 1,100
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA, Mont. (The Missoulian) — Discord last month in Missoula’s post offices over state and local face mask rules in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic had intensified to the point of anti-mask employees sarcastically coughing in other staff members’ faces, according to complaints filed with the local
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Alphonso Davies’ road to Champions League glory was more treacherous than most. The 19-year-old’s story began in a Ghanaian refugee camp, where he was born to Liberian parents who were fleeing their country’s civil war. On Sunday, Davies became the first Canadian to win the European Cup as his Bayern Munich side beat Paris Saint-Germain
Continue Reading Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong is effectively running one of the most important political bodies in North Korea, officials in Seoul believe, according to South Korea’s defense minister. The development, if true, likely further cements her status as the secretive country’s second-most powerful figure. Speaking to lawmakers in the National Assembly on Tuesday,
Continue Reading Marco is petering out, but Tropical Storm Laura is churning into a major hurricane as it heads toward the US Gulf Coast. 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
Continue Reading LeBron James said his “emotions are all over the place” after the shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake, an unarmed Black man, was shot multiple times in the back by police as he entered an SUV in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His three children aged three, five and eight were in the car, according to a family attorney.
Continue Reading Rachel Adams-Kaplan knew the detailed schedule of summer camp long before she attended. Her father started going to Camp Green Lane in southeast Pennsylvania when he was just five years old. When her brother started at age 11, her parents thought she, at age 7, was still too young. But her father talked about camp
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Continue Reading A pair of spectacles thought to belong to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi sold at auction for £260,000 ($340,000) — more than 17 times the initial estimate. The impressive sum, which does not include buyer’s premium or sales tax, was achieved at a British auction house on Friday, less than two months after the glasses
Continue Reading Embattled evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. agreed to resign as Liberty University’s president Monday but withdrew his resignation when media reports about the decision emerged, the university said in a statement Monday night. The Christian school founded by Falwell Jr.’s late father was in discussions with him about his resignation earlier Monday, a school spokesman
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Chapel Hill, NC (WRAL) — As coronavirus affects everything — school, work and free time — all second grader John Wortman wants to do is keep people informed and tell interesting stories. The 7-year-old attends Ephesus Elementary in Chapel Hill but has spent his first week of school
Continue Reading Up to 60 people are believed to be trapped and some 18 injured following a building collapse in India’s western Maharashtra state. The figures are based on initial reports, according to Anupam Srivastava, head of the state unit for the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Three teams from the NDRF are en route from the
Continue Reading US Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George has filed subpoenas to serve Leon Black and his private equity firm Apollo Global Management, demanding financial documents and communications for the company and several other entities tied to Black in the civil case against Jeffrey Epstein‘s estate. The attorney general’s lawsuit filed against Epstein’s estate in January
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