Click here for updates on this story BETTENDORF, IA (WQAD ) — Keith Bonnstetter, a Spanish teacher at Bettendorf High School, passed away unexpectedly while on a run, Sunday morning. Attempts to revive him were reportedly unsuccessful. Today, the school offered counseling sessions for students and staff. “He was very, very well liked. He was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/KSMO) — In the aftermath of the shooting at 33rd and Benton, as neighbors grieved the loss of a child and police marked off dozens of shell casings, a man known only as Jose shared his story asking that we not show his face or
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WALCOTT, IA (WQAD ) — A black spot still on eastbound I-80 near the Walcott exit is a reminder of the surreal moment traffic stopped on one of America’s busiest interstates. It’s where a semi truck rear-ended another and burst into flames on August 30th. Sales rep Tom
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Grappling with a weakened economy and the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreak, Iran’s president delivered a defiant and fiery speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly as he insisted it would be the United States that surrenders to Iran’s resilience. Hassan Rouhani spoke in a prerecorded speech to the
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AUSTIN, Texas — A historically Black cemetery was vandalized with blue spray paint over the weekend in Austin. Fifteen headstones were defaced with graffiti at Evergreen Cemetery in East Austin, according to the Austin Parks and Recreation Department. Some of the graves were sprayed with the word “AIDS”, a sideways number eight and other graffiti
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KOAT) — Albuquerque police and family members of the hiker found dead in the Sandia Mountains over the weekend said he likely fell. Police said Gibran Hernandez-Avila’s death is being ruled accidental at this time. The last anyone heard of Hernandez-Avila was around 6 p.m. Sunday,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS (KMBC) — COVID-19 has put a lot of careers in jeopardy, especially entertainers who don’t know how soon they might get back to work. There is a new website that’s helping pay the bills and it’s like nothing you might expect. Mikey Needleman is a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAGERSTOWN, MD (WBAL) — A tiny log cabin located on the once-famous Jonathan Street in downtown Hagerstown is at the center of a major archaeology dig after historians and archaeologists figured out the cabin slated for demolition had major ties to the history of African Americans in western
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WASHINGTON, DC — A Canadian woman accused of mailing a package containing ricin to the White House included a threatening letter in which she told President Donald Trump to “give up and remove your application for this election,” according to court papers filed Tuesday. Pascale Ferrier, of Quebec, was arrested Sunday at the New York-Canada border and
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WASHINGTON, DC — What happened Tuesday seemed impossible to many Americans six months ago. When Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted in March that Covid-19 could kill 200,000 people in the U.S., skeptics lambasted him and accused him of fearmongering. But Fauci was right. And the U.S. reached that bleak milestone much earlier than some experts predicted.
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What happened today seemed impossible to many Americans six months ago. When Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted in March that Covid-19 could kill 200,000 people in the US, skeptics lambasted him and accused him of fearmongering. But Fauci was right. And the US reached that bleak milestone much earlier than some experts predicted. Since the first
Continue Reading and the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreak, Iran’s president delivered a defiant and fiery speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly as he insisted it would be the United States that surrenders to Iran’s resilience. Hassan Rouhani spoke in a prerecorded speech to the virtual summit just days after Iran’s currency plunged to its lowest
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CLARK COUNTY, WI (WDJT) — An 11-year-old hunter from Clark County is waiting to see if she is the owner of a new state record. Naiya Iraci was on her first bear hunt with her grandpa and bagged a 720-pound black bear. The family is now waiting to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Antelope, CA ( KCRA) — Authorities are investigating a double-fatal car crash that happened early Tuesday morning in the Antelope area. Elverta Road between Northam Drive and Aztec Way was closed while the California Highway Patrol investigated the crash, which was reported just before 1 a.m. The road
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The CIA assessed in August that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides “are aware of and probably directing Russia’s influence operations” aimed at undermining Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election, according to a new report in The Washington Post. “We assess that President Vladimir Putin and the senior most Russian
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITTLE ROCK, AR (KFSM ) — We are about one month into this unusual school year, so we checked in with local districts to find out what’s been their victories and their challenges. One issue across the board is the struggle to get virtual students to hit that
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso voters will soon head to the polls — from Oct. 13 to Oct. 30 for early voting and on Election Day, Nov. 3 — for the 2020 general election. Here’s an overview of everything El Pasoans need to know about casting a ballot in the election. The information below was
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus joked “the apocalypse is great” during CNN’s CITIZEN event on Tuesday. “It’s rough, it’s weird, it seems like it keeps getting worse,” she said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I don’t know, nose to the grindstone, man. We just got to keep powering through and hopefully there will be an end
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus joked “the apocalypse is great” during CNN’s CITIZEN event on Tuesday. “It’s rough, it’s weird, it seems like it keeps getting worse,” she said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I don’t know, nose to the grindstone, man. We just got to keep powering through and hopefully there will be an end
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITTLE ROCK, AR (KFSM ) — We are about one month into this unusual school year, so we checked in with local districts to find out what’s been their victories and their challenges. One issue across the board is the struggle to get virtual students to hit that
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On Monday night in Ohio, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was warming up the crowd for President Donald Trump — and trying to sell some campaign merchandise. “I’m trying to make masks in America great again and I’ve got President Trump’s masks,” Husted, a Republican, told the audience gathered in an airplane hangar in Vandalia. That’s
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Are you ready to make your mark on history? When you exercise your right to vote on November 3, you will have done something that no American has done for more than 50 years: voted during a deadly pandemic. The “Hong Kong flu” hit the United States in September 1968, and while it ultimately killed
Continue Reading Are you ready to make your mark on history? When you exercise your right to vote on November 3, you will have done something that no American has done for more than 50 years: voted during a deadly pandemic. The “Hong Kong flu” hit the United States in September 1968, and while it ultimately killed
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The Salt Lake City Police Department released body camera footage of an officer involved shooting that left a 13-year-old boy who has Asperger’s with multiple injuries. The teen, identified as Linden Cameron by his mother Golda Barton, remains hospitalized following the shooting nearly two weeks ago. An independent police investigation is being conducted, and Salt
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The Salt Lake City Police Department released body camera footage of an officer involved shooting that left a 13-year-old boy who has Asperger’s with multiple injuries. The teen, identified as Linden Cameron by his mother Golda Barton, remains hospitalized following the shooting nearly two weeks ago. An independent police investigation is being conducted, and Salt
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We won’t even know who President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court will be until late this week, but we know now for (almost) certain that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) has the votes to confirm the pick to the court. The last 72 hours have
Continue Reading Kelly Clarkson used the debut of the second season of her daytime talk show to go a bit more in depth about her pending divorce. “The Kelly Clarkson Show” returned Monday, and Clarkson addressed filing for divorce in June from her husband of almost seven years, Brandon Blackstock. She reiterated that 2020 has been a
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Adeline Fagan, a second year OBGYN resident living in Houston, died early Saturday after a couple months-long battle with Covid-19, her family announced in a post on a GoFundMe page established on her behalf. Fagan had just started her second year of residency in Houston when she got sick, the GoFundMe page said. While she
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — Adeline Fagan, a second year OBGYN resident living in Houston, died early Saturday after a couple months-long battle with Covid-19, her family announced in a post on a GoFundMe page established on her behalf. Fagan had just started her second year of residency in Houston when she got sick, the GoFundMe page
Continue Reading After a standoff that lasted more than six hours, authorities on Tuesday arrested a man who’d barricaded himself after firing shots in and around a suburban Atlanta home, Cobb County police said. No one was hurt, police said. Officers ordered residents of the Newcastle subdivision in East Cobb, about 20 miles north of downtown Atlanta,
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