Fewer undergraduates will be living on campus at Harvard than expected. About 20% of Harvard’s incoming freshmen have deferred their enrollment, the university said in an email this week. Staff were anticipating a larger number of on-campus residents. Harvard said it plans to have 1,168 first-year students in residence or the Fall 2020 semester, compared
Continue Reading At least 98 individuals under the age of 18 have been shot in Philadelphia since the start of the year, according to data compiled by the Philadelphia Police Department. The data includes at least 11 children under the age of 10. The youngest, a seven-month-old baby boy, died after being shot in the abdomen in
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting President Donald Trump’s reelection bid. That’s according to a rare public statement Friday from the country’s counterintelligence chief, William
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Dozens of people have been barred from flying on Delta airplanes for refusing to comply with the airline industry’s mask policies, Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNN’s Julia Chatterley on Friday. “We’ve had well over 100 people that have refused to keep their mask on during the flight,” he added. A spokesperson confirmed to CNN
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Click here for updates on this story ROSEVILLE, CA (KTXL) — A Roseville restaurant is offering a reward to have its stolen lights returned. The Brickyard Kitchen & Bar in Roseville also warned other restaurants to be careful with what they leave outside during the pandemic. “It was a little depressing to come in Monday
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After a pair of Jeffrey Epstein docuseries aired in May, Lifetime seemingly weighs in late with “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein.” But this two-part production — which borrows its title from the network’s R. Kelly documentaries — takes on a new dimension with the July arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, the late financier’s alleged accomplice in his sex-trafficking
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EL PASO, Texas — After recently reopening its theater in far east El Paso with a lineup of “comeback classics” films, Cinemark says it will now to the same at its west El Paso location on Aug. 14. Cinemark West and XD in west El Paso at 7440 Remcon Circle will not only reopen next
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Doctors may have been right to be concerned that people with heart problems were avoiding the ER due to Covid-19, according to a new study published Friday. It provides evidence that people have stayed away from the emergency room even with acute heart attack symptoms. And some may have died as a result. Researchers from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — In an apparent disagreement within the Caddo Parish Juvenile Justice System, a teen suspect was detained, released, detained again, released a second time and detained once more after she allegedly attacked a United States Postal Worker. According to Shreveport police, the attack happened July
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ABBEVILLE, LA (KTBS) — Today Derek Harris was re-sentenced from life without parole to 9 years. Harris was originally convicted of selling $30 worth of marijuana (.69 grams), yet he was sentenced to life without parole under Louisiana’s Habitual Offender Law. Although Harris did have prior convictions, he
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HARKER HEIGHTS, TEXAS — A central Texas man has been charged with murder in the slaying of a Fort Hood soldier whose body was found beside a road four miles from where his burned sport utility vehicle was found. Brandon Michael Olivares, 28, of Killeen, was already booked into the Bell County Jail in Belton on an
Continue Reading Dozens of people have been evacuated from a valley in northern Italy amid fears that a section of ice the size of a football field could collapse from a Mount Blanc glacier. About 75 people, including 60 tourists, have left the Ferret Valley in the Alpine region of Valle d’Aosta. Stefano Miserocchi, the mayor of
Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s push for a payroll tax holiday could leave Social Security and Medicare on even shakier ground. The entitlement programs’ finances have long been troubled. And the crush of coronavirus-induced layoffs has only deepened the problem by slashing the amount of payroll tax revenue going into their trust funds. This isn’t a far-off
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHLAND CITY, TN (WSMV) — The attorney for a Dickson County couple accused of murdering their 5-year-old son is admitting he was wrong after pictures were released that dispute claims by his new witness. Defense attorney Jake Lockert said a convenience store employee who claims she saw Baby
Continue Reading A beer brand in Canada and a leather shop in New Zealand have apologized after they came under fire for unwittingly taking their name from the Māori word for pubic hair. The companies had understood the word “huruhuru” to mean “feather” or “fur,” said Te Hamua Nikora, a Māori from Wellington in New Zealand, who
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Portland, OR (KPTV) — For months clashes between police and protesters have played out in the streets of downtown Portland, and now we’re hearing from some of the officers who have been on the front lines for the Portland Police Bureau. The continuing protests have put Portland on
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All school districts across the state of New York are cleared to open, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news conference by phone Friday morning. Schools in New York and around the country closed in the spring because of the coronavirus pandemic. The state become a global epicenter early on, but has since lowered infection
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SEDALIA, MO (KCTV) — A Sedalia man has been charged after investigators say he followed and threatened an off-duty deputy who was driving with his young son. According to the Pettis County Sheriff, social media users wrongly claimed that deputy was the Pettis County deputy who shot and
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar held a virtual town hall meeting Friday morning that she described as an effort to honor to victims and survivors of last year’s Aug. 3 mass shooting. The event entitled “El Paso Strong: Combating hate with action” discussed what Congress is doing to end gun violence
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPANISH FORT, AL (WALA) — Nearly a year after Spanish Fort Mayor Mike McMillan was arrested accused of slapping a now-fired city employee, we are getting a look at the video at the center of the investigation. The video was leaked and then posted on a public Baldwin
Continue Reading NEW DELHI, India — An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India. Police said at least 14 people were killed and 123 others injured. Abdul Karim, a senior Kerala state police officer, said the dead included
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PINE BLUFF, AR (KFSM) — aracen Casino Resort said Thursday it will hire approximately 800 new workers in the next few weeks as it prepares for an upcoming grand opening in early October. “The heart and soul of the resort property will be its team members, about 1,200
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BACK MOUNTAIN, PA (WNEP) — Many people display yard signs to share messages or show support for causes they believe in. This is the case with these “Back the Blue” signs created by Your Dash 365, a nonprofit benefiting first responders and AMP Global Strategies, a communications company,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CUT OFF, LA (WGNO) — Along LA 3235 in Lafourche Parish, you will find the crowned jewel of Cut-Off. 11 acres of history and home to the Veterans Memorial District of Ward 10 “2005 was the first board meeting here and it has been progressing ever since. We
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New Orleans, LA (WGNO) — United States Attorney Peter Strasser announced the latest guilty plea in an alleged scheme that used staged accidents to defraud insurance companies. Thursday Strasser announced a guilty plea from 48-year-old Damian Labeaud of Metairie. According to federal prosecutors, Labeaud and six co-conspirators staged
Continue Reading Covid-19 patients not showing symptoms may have similar amounts of the novel coronavirus in their bodies as those who do show symptoms, according to a new study from South Korea. This would suggest that they could still spread the virus to others. The study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Thursday, included data
Continue Reading As a grieving Beirut rebuilds its homes, businesses and lives, some Good Samaritans are making sure that one group of vulnerable residents are not forgotten. More than 190 volunteers have been scouring the streets of the blast-damaged city for lost pets. They search for animals trapped in the rubble, tend to the injured and care
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Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., isn’t yet three years old, but already her future looks bright — her parents are making it so. Her parents hope that by the time she turns 18, the world will be a fairer and more equitable place, a world in which women — and Black women, like her — won’t
Continue Reading California could become one of the first states to extend compensation to victims of police violence and their families. If Assembly Bill 767 is passed, the state’s victim compensation board would explicitly list excessive use of force by police among crimes eligible for compensation, said bill co-author Assemblymember Tim Grayson. In California, victims of violent
Continue Reading Since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, religion in the US has seemed a helter-skelter mix of legal disputes and defiant pastors, altered rites and sanctuaries as sites of contagion. But that picture hides a broad consensus about what congregations should be and are doing during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey by
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