After months of uncertainty, the Tony Awards will go on, show organizers say. The Tonys, originally scheduled for June, will take place this fall completely digitally, a Friday statement reads. “Though unprecedented events cut the 2019-2020 Broadway season short, it was a year full of extraordinary work that deserves to be recognized,” Charlotte St. Martin,
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An “incredibly reckless” gathering has brought the suspensions of 23 Syracuse University students, school officials say in a letter. The gathering was Wednesday night about 10 p.m., wrote the dean of students, Marianne Thomson, and the head of public safety, chief Bobby Maldonado, on Thursday. The two called the gathering “incredibly reckless behavior.” Syracuse University
Continue Reading Minnesota police say 18-year-old Raina Lynn Neeland drowned after carrying several children to safety who were near a dam. Police responded to a call about a drowning on Monday evening, according to the Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office. Clearwater County is about 250 miles northwest of Minneapolis. Witnesses told officers several children had been swimming in
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The coronavirus pandemic might have a silver lining. With fewer in-person medical appointments and more virtual ones, patients are monitoring their health at home and catching potentially deadly signs and symptoms earlier, spurring a movement to get more monitoring devices into patients’ hands. “Covid has lit a fire under us,” said Dr. Michael Maniaci, who
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Click here for updates on this story HIGH POINT, NC (WGHP ) — For a lot of local churchgoers, the physical connection they have with church is important, but the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the connection from physical to virtual for many congregations. It’s not all bad, though. Virtual church is becoming a positive for
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Erik Moses, a former XFL team president, is the first Black person to be named president at a NASCAR track. Moses was named president of Nashville Superspeedway, Dover Motorsports announced Friday in a statement. “I am excited to join the team at Dover Motorsports to lead the reopening of the Nashville Superspeedway and bring the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL ) — A massive fire destroyed an apartment complex in Buckhead early Wednesday afternoon leaving more than 100 residents homeless. Yolanda Forbes told CBS46 News she’s still in shock, trying to comprehend Wednesday’s tragedy. What started as a Grandmother’s dream vacation to celebrate her granddaughter’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, MI (WNEM ) — The Carmen Park neighborhood in Saginaw is home to people like Al Kolka and Sandy Rosinski. And neighborhood cats like Blaze, Ada and Dottie. It is a quiet peaceful neighborhood. But every year around this time, the neighborhood cats start to turn up
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KEITHVILLE, LA (KTBS ) — It was moving day for Ann Fisher Wednesday. The previous week, Fisher, 84, showed 3 Investigates a pink letter from the owner of the trailer park on Old Mansfield Road, saying the water system did not meet state standards and the park was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV ) — A husband and wife were able to get out of their home on Calumet Trace after a fire in their garage quickly spread. Murfreesboro officials say crews arrived on scene and saw smoke and flames coming from the home. Firefighters began attacking the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS ) — Appalachian Mountain Community Health Center is teaming up with Western Carolina Rescue Ministries to offer free COVID-19 testing to the community. Testing began about two weeks ago, and organizers said they’ve already tested more than 75 individuals. The primary goal is to offer
Continue Reading The body of off-duty firefighter Sgt. Sivad Johnson has been recovered by Detroit police and fire divers, according to a tweet from the Michigan State Police for the Metro Detroit region. Units are clearing the scene and the state police will not be providing any further updates, the state police said. Johnson went missing Friday
Continue Reading Celebrities across Hollywood are coming to Megan Thee Stallion’s defense after she shed more light this week on her July shooting. During an Instagram Live stream on Thursday, “WAP” rapper Stallion publicly accused Canadian rapper Tory Lanez of shooting her in the feet — adding more details to her original account of the July incident.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (WOWT) — “This Rose of Sharon has survived two floods and it blooms every year like that,” said Janice Chaney. She and her husband spent months working to repair their home after last year’s flood; their flowering tree was a big part of the motivation. “I
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico– With businesses slowly being opened across the country, one community will be under a microcope until their numbers reach a level local health officals feel safe exposing them to the rest of the population. Senior citizenes in New Mexico have been quarantined within their assisted living homes since the beginning of
Continue Reading Ever since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered clubs, bars and concert halls around the world, music fans have been dreaming of the day they can once again visit a busy, sweaty venue to enjoy a gig with friends. With infection rates rising in many European countries, this dream could be far off for now. But some
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story REYNOLDS, IL (WQAD) — The Reynolds Ball Diamond concession stand is a complete mess after vandals damaged and graffitied both the concessions stand and the bathrooms. Little league coach and field caretaker Ethan Tate says it’s the second time this year that this has happened. “It was horrible
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, OR (KPTV ) — Gresham Firefighters are hailing the actions of two camp counselors from the YMCA Camp Collins in Gresham as heroic. Around 2:00 p.m. a call came in of a possible drowning by a camper in Sandy River. Firefighters said that a 14-year-old girl was
Continue Reading A civil rights group is calling for an investigation into a South Carolina councilman who posted a photo of himself dressed in traditional Arab and Islamic attire to portray a terrorist in a tactical training exercise. Tommy Newell, a councilman for District 4 in Berkeley County, which is in the Charleston metropolitan area, posted the
Continue Reading Cracks and sinkholes are appearing alongside the waterways of Amsterdam. Bicycles are tumbling into the swirling water as the canalsides vanish beneath their wheels. Quay walls are collapsing against houseboats. Bridges are in trouble. While the recent Covid-19 restrictions have relieved the Dutch capital from the more superficial blight of overtourism, it seems the city
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico – White Sands National Park is proposing fee increases for some of its enhanced visitor services. These include the full moon and Luke Lucero ranger-guided hikes, backcountry tent camping and group use area reservations. The proposed changes would take effect on Jan. 1, 2021. Under an annual review, park officials said that
Continue Reading It took just one week into the fall semester for multiple Covid-19 clusters to emerge at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — prompting the school to send students packing and make classes remote. UNC-Chapel Hill is not alone. Across the nation, many colleges and universities that have reopened amid a global pandemic
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic has upended American life, from the way we work and learn to the way we travel, shop and socialize — even to the way we protest. But with so much sweeping change, it can become hard to grasp what this kind of massive upheaval looks like on a personal level. To get
Continue Reading Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time. Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. On the day before the presidential vote, no less. Yep. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2, according to
Continue Reading Some call it the Rolls Royce of chalk, the Steinway of writing utensils. Some say it’s unbreakable, others say it leaves no dust behind. And it turned the world’s brightest minds into hoarders, going to great lengths just for a few sticks of the stuff. “I would reach into my cupboard in my office and
Continue ReadingEl Paso, Texas- We will see another day with near record high temperatures on Saturday. El Paso: High 102 (record to beat is 101 set in 1994) Las Cruces: High 101 (record to beat 104 set in 2007) Our skies will start off mostly clear but we may see some clouds by the afternoon. There
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Correction: U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small was not one of the organizers of this event as originally reported. LAS CRUCES, New Mexico– The most vulnerable population to the coronavirus are the ones who need the most care. Seniors across the country have been cut off from the love and affection their families have wanted to
Continue Reading A New York couple that has been battling the state government in court for the right to hold a wedding with 175 guests — more people than allowed by state rules designed to curb the coronavirus — has decided to postpone the event, their attorney told CNN. The Pamella Giglia-Joseph Durolek nuptials were scheduled for
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Not enough Blacks and Latinos are participating in US vaccine trials to fight Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. CNN en Español Medical Correspondent Dr. Elmer Huerta hopes to change their minds. More than 50% of cases of Covid-19 in the United States are African Americans or Latinos, yet they make up only
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EL PASO, Texas — Saturday morning’s news release from the El Paso Department of Public Health started the same way these announcements have every day for well over a month now: “Unfortunately, today we’re reporting (insert number of) deaths…” The number was four on Saturday as El Paso County’s death toll from the coronavirus approached
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