An artist who used his talent to cope with the coronavirus pandemic is now documenting history with his art for a new series he’s called the “Covid mask subway drawings.” Everyday for almost a month, Devon Rodriguez has spent hours taking random trips on the subway in search of the perfect muse. When he finds
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Click here for updates on this story HARRISBURG, PA (WPMT) — Some people who are receiving Pennsylvania unemployment benefits could see an extra $300 a week by the end of September. Those will be retroactive payments for the first three weeks of August. It’s federal money from the lost wages assistance program. Since it’s a
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“Afro-Latinx.” “Deadname.” “Janky.” These are just some of the many terms now on Dictionary.com. The dictionary website announced an update of more than 15,000 entries, refining and adding terms specifically related to race, identity, sexual orientation, and mental health. “The work of a dictionary is more than just adding new words. It’s an ongoing effort
Continue Reading Hurricane Katrina rampaged New Orleans on August 29, 2005, when dozens of levees failed, leaving vast swaths of the city swamped, homes damaged and lives uprooted. Fifteen years later, the Crescent City’s most vulnerable still struggle. But for the past decade and a half, the national non-profit Rebuilding Together has helped families recover, making critical
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A 67-year-old man is dead after a driver crashed his vehicle into him and a home on Milwaukee’s west side Sunday night, Aug. 30. The crash happened around 6 p.m. near 86th and Adler. A witness told CBS 58 a driver hit another vehicle and
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Colorful street murals have adorned an intersection in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood for years. One depicts an ethereal vision of Martin Luther King Jr. floating on his side, the other of former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick plucking arrows from his football jersey. In June, the two men’s faces took on a
Continue Reading It was a weekend filled with love for Loretta Lynn and Kid Rock, but not in the way many believed. The country legend got people talking over the weekend after she posted some photos from her son Ernie’s vow renewal ceremony on her official Instagram account. “It was beautiful and everything it should be,” the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced two new coronavirus-related deaths Tuesday morning. The death toll now stands at 421 in El Paso County. The health department said the two victims were men: one in his 80s and the other in his 90s. Both had underlying health conditions. Health
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/KSMO) — Two high school football teams just outside of the metro area are under quarantine and have halted football activities after a coach tested positive for COVID-19 and players started having symptoms. Lathrop High School and Richmond High School both announced Tuesday morning that
Continue Reading It’s that time of year when the air gets a little cooler, pumpkin decor pops up across stores, and the Corn Moon fills the sky. The Corn Moon gets its name from the Native Americans, according to the Farmers Almanac. This moon was an indicator that it was time to harvest the corn. This moon
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Rolls-Royce unveiled its all new Ghost Tuesday, and it looks strikingly different from any Rolls-Royce that has ever come before. The Ghost is the ultra-luxury automaker’s slightly smaller and somewhat less expensive sedan, and the new version is far more understated than its predecessor. In preparing to develop the new Ghost, Rolls-Royce learned that customers
Continue Reading The US airline industry needs to shrink its labor costs by as much as 50% to survive — and even then it’s possible some carriers don’t make it through the crisis, United Airlines Executive Chairman Oscar Munoz told CNN Business. “The stark reality of what we’re facing is dire,” Munoz said in an exclusive interview.
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It will go down as one of golf’s ultimate Cinderella stories. Against all the odds, Germany’s Sophia Popov is now a major champion. She’s also irrefutable proof as to why you should never, ever, give up on your dreams. It was late last month at Royal Troon in Scotland that she produced a victory for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BILLINGS, Mont. (Billings Gazette) — At Standard Auto Sales, about 40 to 50 cars usually crowd the lot, but recently, about 25 were available. After the economic shutdown earlier this year in response to COVID-19, car sales have boomed in Billings through July and August. But as those
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLUMBUS, Wisc. (Wisconsin State Journal) — The passion was gone in an instant for Darvin Frey. For years he has been all-in on his massive, eclectic collection. There’s a vintage printing press that includes hundreds of metal Hamilton plates. Farm toys and beer and brewery memorabilia fill shelves.
Continue Reading Porn star Ron Jeremy is facing an additional 20 counts of forcible rape, sexual battery, sodomy and more, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. Jeremy, whose legal last name is Hyatt, was initially charged in June with several counts of sexual assault, including three counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty to those
Continue Reading There were no bricks and mortar, no fencing or cement, no cross-border diplomatic skirmish, just two government orders. And that was enough to essentially shut down the world’s longest international border for visitors. When the US and Canada mutually agreed in March to shut down the border to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, no
Continue Reading Corporate America was much more positive about the economic recovery before summer arrived. What’s happening: A survey conducted by Accenture in July found that nearly half of executives in North America think a “U”-shaped recovery is more likely than the rapid bounce back characterized by a sharp “V.” That’s up from 36% in May. Jimmy
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Okla. (Tulsa World) — For Bud Totten and his beloved F-104 Starfighter, there was only one proper way to say goodbye: Achieving Mach 2 together one more time. “The day before retirement, I had a test flight. I knew it was my last chance to do it,”
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This past April, as life in the city that never sleeps came to a halt and only ambulance sirens were heard outside, a Black 9-year-old named Rahsaan Humphrey developed a fever. His mom, Ronda Lamb, was alarmed: Not only was a fever unusual for her son — Rahsaan is not one to get sick —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SUGAR HILL, Ga. (Gwinnett Daily Post) — An adult football league has been barred by Sugar Hill officials from using Gary Pirkle Park for its games following a shootout that occurred at a game on Saturday night. City officials said the league rented a field at the park
Continue Reading The House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus published eight weeks’ worth of state reports compiled by the White House Coronavirus Task Force yesterday. It makes for grim reading. The data shows clearly that while the White House was assuring Americans that cases were on the decrease, the task force was issuing warning after warning about the
Continue Reading Elijah McKnight admits he was drunk. The 25-year-old says he’d had a fifth of Jim Beam with a buddy before passing out on his way home on a sidewalk just outside Aurora, Colorado. That is where sheriff’s deputies found him. They nudged him awake and the conversation was calm for the first several minutes. Deputies
Continue Reading A man in Brisbane, Australia, returned home to find two huge snakes had fallen through his kitchen ceiling on Monday. The carpet pythons measured around 2.9 meters (9.5 feet) and 2.5 meters (8.2 feet), according to snake catcher Steven Brown, of Brisbane North Snake Catchers and Relocation, who removed them from the property. “Both these
Continue Reading It’s hard to remember a time when quarantine wasn’t a regular part of our vocabulary, yet, for most of us, it was only six months ago that we’d rarely heard the word used or spoken it aloud — outside of describing a scene from an historical novel or a Hulu show. Thanks to the pandemic,
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Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie has criticized the US government’s handling of the issues of systemic racism in the country and the coronavirus pandemic, labeling them a “tragic embarrassment.” Protests have broken out across the country over the past few months, particularly after the police killing of George Floyd and the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Continue Reading This dog can sing … or at least it can yodel. The New Guinea singing dog, an extremely rare breed, is best known for its unique barks and howls — it’s able to make harmonic sounds that have been compared to the calls of a humpback whale. Only around 200 captive singing dogs live in
Continue Reading Giving money or resources to your children or aging parents is likely to increase their life span, according to a new paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. There is a linear relationship between the amount and frequency of wealth transfers and the lengths of individuals’ lives, the study results
Continue Reading Chadwick Boseman was referred to as “the next Denzel Washington” and the first one has remembered Boseman as a “gentle soul.” Washington’s rep released a statement to CNN paying tribute to Boseman who died last week at the age of 43 following a four-year battle with colon cancer. “He was a gentle soul and a
Continue Reading An enormous saltwater crocodile measuring 14.4 feet (4.4 meters) has been caught at a remote tourist hotspot in Australia’s Northern Territory. The crocodile, estimated to weigh 771 pounds (350 kilograms), was captured by wildlife rangers last Friday at a trap in the Flora River Nature Park, a popular tourist destination southwest of the outback town
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