Police in Italy have identified a 50-year-old Austrian man who broke three toes off a statue at a museum as he posed for a photo with the artwork. The 200-year-old plaster cast model of Antonio Canova’s statue of Paolina Bonaparte was damaged in the incident on July 31 at the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, northern
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Buckling up is second nature for most Americans. It took us over 60 years to get to that point, though. The US doesn’t have 60-plus years to get Americans on board with the latest novel safety feature — masks. Both are touted as essential safety measures to prevent people from dying. Both are minor accessories
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Covid-19 rates are significantly higher among minority children and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, according to a new study. The study of 1,000 patients tested at a Children’s National Covid-19 testing site in Washington D.C. found that just 7.3% of White children tested positive for coronavirus, in contrast to 30% of Black children and 46.4%
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Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Okla. (Tulsa World) — The city will remove the “Black Lives Matter” street mural in the Greenwood District. That much was determined Monday. But the story is far from over. And a complicated story it is. Mayor G.T. Bynum told the Tulsa World late Monday that the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, Ga. (Albany Herald) — The wife of a man mauled by two dogs in August 2019 recounted that morning on Tuesday as a court hearing to decide the rottweilers’ fate has been set for next week. Nadine Harris, who spoke by telephone during an Albany City Commission
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The Franklin Room announced it’s closing its doors indefinitely as of July 28, and with it leaving couples without thousands of dollars in deposits. Maura Weber and Matt Reid said they booked their wedding reception there for March 27, 2021. They received an email
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) — A 5-year-old Mid-Michigan child is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Saginaw Police were called to the Birch Park apartment complex at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4. Officers arrived after a call to 911 that a 5-year-old boy had been shot. Officers rushed
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced two new coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday morning. El Paso County’s death toll now stands at 280. Health officials identified the two victims: one was a woman in her 40s, and the other a man in his 90s. Both had underlying health conditions. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WEST ALLIS, Wis. (WDJT) — A married couple has been charged in connection to a stabbing that left a man dead in West Allis. Investigators say it all started when the victim, 33-year-old Ryan Sorensen of Onalaska made a comment to the suspects who were riding bikes as
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Moisture will begin to build across southwest New Mexico today, this will lead to increased thunderstorms. Afternoon storm chances will remain in the forecast through Saturday. Temperatures will run above average for the next several days, we’ll see near-record high temperatures Wednesday afternoon. For more weather updates follow: https://twitter.com/NicholeEGomez https://kvia.com/weather/ https://www.facebook.com/nichole.gomezABC
Continue Reading We are waiting on you, Judith Light. Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano have confirmed that a reboot of “Who’s the Boss?” is in the works. The original series, which ran on ABC from 1984 to 1992, starred Danza as single father Tony Micelli, who transitions from being a professional baseball player to a live-in housekeeper
Continue Reading A rare event this week kept residents in northern Tasmania, Australia, up all night: snowflakes falling. Kiani Chippendale, 26, told CNN she’d never seen snow in the city of Launceston. “We stayed up all night, too excited to sleep!” she said. “Very rare. It’s never snowed here in the city that I know of …
Continue Reading Ancient tales of trolls and magic live on in Iceland, an island nation of volcanoes, lava fields, glaciers and ice caves. To fully explore every corner of the dynamic landscape, unravel local folklore and battle the natural elements, one must take to the skies. Enter Jón Kjartan Björnsson, the pilot with a mission to show
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Seraphina Harrell, a little girl who received national attention because the surrogate who gave birth to her had refused to have an abortion, has died. Seraphina passed away July 15, a few weeks after her eighth birthday. In 2012, when Crystal Kelley, Seraphina’s surrogate mother, was halfway through her pregnancy, an ultrasound showed she had
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A Georgia second grader tested positive for Covid-19 after attending the first day of school, the school district told CNN. Sixes Elementary in the Cherokee County School district began in-person classes on Monday. But by Tuesday, a classroom was temporarily closed for deep cleaning and the teacher and 20 other students had been asked to
Continue Reading “I didn’t look at our drive as a vacation or a trip,” says Christy Frank, who drove 10 hours with her three children from Copake, New York, to her hometown of Tiffin, Ohio. “We were just trying to get across the state to do exactly what we were doing at home, but at my parents’
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Google is chiming into the Covid-19 discourse using a “Google Doodle” to emphasize the importance of wearing a mask. Their homepage is featuring a Google logo that shows each letter doing its part and following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. In the short doodle scene, the letters are brandishing colorful masks. They
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Continue Reading Yes, members of Congress are still trying to see eye to eye on a new stimulus agreement. They’re hoping to reach a decision by next week, but at this point, no time line is guaranteed. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get
Continue Reading TikTok is up for grabs. But while the popular short-form video app likely won’t lack for suitors, President Donald Trump says the US government needs to get a “substantial amount of money” as part of any deal. It’s a demand that experts say is far outside the norm at best, and if it were to
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Megan Rapinoe has always been about goals, both the scoring and achieving of them. On the football field, the 35-year-old forward has plundered them for fun, notching 52 for her country over the best part of 15 years — not to mention the 68 assists during 168 appearances. On her watch, the co-captain has helped
Continue Reading Trinh met her murderer through a matchmaker. She was 29 years old and her future husband was in his 50s, court documents show. She only spoke Vietnamese, he spoke Korean. Despite the communication barrier, the union went ahead. On November 4, 2018 — a day after they met — they were married in front of
Continue Reading “He loves working out; He’s a gym rat; He hits the ball a mile,” are some of the ways Brooks Koepka has been characterized by a number of golf writers and commentators. “I’m not that big,” quips Koepka in a interview with CNN Sport’s Coy Wire earlier this year. “It’s old … I hang around
Continue Reading Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid a foundation stone for the construction of a Hindu temple at a holy site that’s been at the center of the country’s most politically and culturally divisive land dispute. On Wednesday Modi laid a 40 kilogram (88 pound) silver brick in a ceremony attended by 175 dignitaries including
Continue Reading Asked if he could win the PGA Championship, golf’s first major of the calendar year amid a disrupted season, a smiling Tiger Woods had a simple answer for reporters. “Of course,” Woods said. With no supporters in attendance at San Francisco’s Harding Park, there will be no roaring atmosphere that Woods usually feeds off at
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Citing the “complicated” nature of the world under the pandemic, Rafael Nadal has opted not to defend his US Open title later this month in Flushing Meadows, New York. In a tweet posted Tuesday, Nadal said: “I have decided not to play this year’s US Open. The situation is very complicated worldwide, the COVID-19 cases
Continue Reading Satellite imaging has revealed that there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought. However, while the discovery has been welcomed, the previously undiscovered animals will act as “canaries in the coalmine” when it comes to studying the impact of global warming, experts have said. Scientists discovered 11 new colonies, meaning
Continue Reading United States Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar will lead a delegation to Taiwan, his office announced Tuesday, in a high-level trip that is almost certain to anger Beijing, which claims the self-governing island as part of its territory. The trip, scheduled “in the coming days,” will be the highest level visit by any
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UPDATE, Sept. 16, 2021: One of a half-dozen teens arrested last year in a deadly Las Cruces shooting tied to drugs was publicly identified on Thursday as he turned 18 and was transferred from juvenile custody to the Dona Ana County Jail’s adult population. According to jail records, Adrian Chacon is charged with first-degree murder
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Dona Ana County Sheriff’s cruiser overturned after a crash at an intersection late Tuesday night, injuring a deputy. A sheriff’s spokesperson on Wednesday morning said the injured deputy was taken to a local hospital, but his injuries were not severe. The deputy’s identity was not released. The collision happened
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