Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, MO (KCTV/KSMO ) — Funeral services were held for Daisy Coleman this week in Albany, Missouri. Daisy recently died by suicide. She was 23 years old. Family and friends remembered her as a survivor and warrior who endured too much in her life. “She took those situations
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA ) — More than one in 10 Mobile County residents called to jury duty for next week have sought and received permission to be excused, according to court officials. Mobile County Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Youngpeter told FOX10 News that that is a higher-than-usual rate,
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Nelly Korda is closing on her first major golf title as a five-under 67 saw the young American take a two-shot halfway lead at the ANA Inspiration in California. The 22-year-old, the daughter of Czech tennis legend Petr Korda, the 1998 Australian Open champion, has shown remarkable consistency for the 36 holes at the sun-baked
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AUSTIN, Texas — David Flores, a University of Texas at Austin alumnus who’s had Longhorn football season tickets for the past six years, said he couldn’t find anyone to take his tickets for the Saturday season opener against The University of Texas at El Paso. None of his friends wanted them. Like him, they didn’t
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Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira has broken her own world record for the largest wave surfed by a woman. The 33-year-old rode a 73.5-foot wave in Praia do Norte, Portugal, on February 11, beating her previous record by 5.5 feet. She made history in 2018 after surfing a 68-foot-high wave in the same waters. “I never
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After a postal worker in Chicago was shot and critically injured, the US Postal Inspection Service offered a $50,000 reward for information. The 24-year-old female letter carrier was “shot multiple times while working” Thursday on the South Side around noon, the Chicago Police Department said in an incident release. It seems she was not targeted,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENWOOD, AR (KFSM) — According to the school district’s Facebook page, one student at Greenwood Jr High has tested positive for COVID-19. The student was a member of the seventh-grade football team, resulting in the entire team and one coach having to go into quartine. Probable close contacts
Continue Reading “Welcome to Freedom!” exclaims real estate agent Ashley Scott as she surveys the nearly 97 acres of land that she and a group of 19 Black families purchased in August. “I’m hoping that it will be a thriving safe haven for people of color, for Black families in particular,” Scott says. The land sits just
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County’s coronavirus death toll reached 462 on Saturday morning with one additional death reported, a man in his 80s with underlying conditions. Meantime, public health officials announced dozens of new virus cases along with yet more weeks-old “delayed” positive test results that were equivalent to 25% of the daily
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KINGTON, PA (WPMT ) — A man from Danville is accused of indecent sexual assault of a minor, even though that minor was an undercover cop. Kingston police say 39-year-old Robert Gair was talking only with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He repeatedly told the “teen”
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The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial, halted last week after an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers, will resume, the University of Oxford announced Saturday. The university, which is developing the vaccine with AstraZeneca, did not say when the trial would resume. AstraZeneca said the trial will only resume in the United Kingdom, adding that
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The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial, halted last week after an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers, will resume, the University of Oxford announced Saturday. The university, which is developing the vaccine with AstraZeneca, did not say when the trial would resume. AstraZeneca said the trial will only resume in the United Kingdom, adding that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BREVARD, NC (WLOS ) — Sept. 11 is a day Americans honor and remember those who lost their lives during the attacks on our country in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon in 2001. The Blue Ridge Chapter of the Quilts of Valor Foundation held a remembrance ceremony
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EL PASO, Texas – Long-time El Paso community activist, leader and philanthropist Myrna Deckert has died, according to one of the numerous nonprofit organizations she used to lead. The Paso Del Norte Health Foundation announced her death Saturday morning with a statement on its Web site and in a statement sent out to the media.
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El Paso, Texas- We kicked off our morning with thick smoke in the skies for the Borderland. All the smoke from the wildfires out west has traveled to the desert creating an ominous look. Temperatures will climb to the mid to upper 80s this afternoon with calm east winds all across town. Slight storm chances
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CORBETT, OR (KPTV ) — Deputies found fireworks on a Multnomah County property after neighbors put out a small brush fire in the area on Friday, according to the sheriff’s office. Neighbors told deputies they heard pops and saw 6-foot flames in the forest in the 1700 block
Continue Reading The statue of a Confederate soldier, flanked by a cannon and ammunition, has stood at the county courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1909, more than 40 years after the Civil War. It was christened “At Ready,” and the statue’s installation during Jim Crow sent a signal to many that resounded for decades — in a
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British designer and businessman Terence Conran has died at the age of 88. Conran, who founded the Design Museum in London in 1989, “passed away peacefully” at home on Saturday, according to a family statement. “He was a visionary who enjoyed an extraordinary life and career that revolutionised the way we live in Britain,” the
Continue Reading BTS, they’re just like us — except with millions of fans and number one hits. Members of the international K-pop sensation that is BTS were supposed to be on tour right now. But due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they’ve had to press pause. Aside from releasing their latest hit single, “Dynamite,” the group told CNN
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Growing up with “Sesame Street” in the early 1980s, I found pieces of myself in Cookie Monster’s sweet tooth, Big Bird’s gentleness and in Grover, who was outgoing and always willing to help others, even though he made a lot of hilarious mistakes. There was even a lady named Maria who was Puerto Rican, just
Continue Reading Vaccine clinical trials are notoriously difficult to conduct. They involve thousands, or even tens of thousands, of participants, and typically go on for years. The chances that one or more of these study volunteers will develop a health issue is quite high. Most of the time, that health problem is not related to the vaccine
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Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari has been executed in Iran on Saturday, according to Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA, despite a high-profile international campaign calling for the sentence not to be carried out. The 27-year-old was executed at a prison in Shiraz, according to IRNA. He had been sentenced to death in relation to the
Continue Reading A colorful Mediterranean parrotfish “smiles” at the camera, a raccoon’s hind legs and tail poke out of a tree and a young seal appears to be having a great time while resting on some wood. These are three of the 44 hilarious photos from around the globe that have been announced as the finalists in
Continue Reading It wasn’t a classic five-setter, but Alexander Zverev might not mind. Zverev came from two sets down to beat Pablo Carreño Busta 3-6 2-6 6-3 6-4 6-3 at the US Open and reach his first Grand Slam final. “I looked at the scoreboard after two sets,” Zverev told reporters. “I thought to myself, ‘Look, I’m
Continue Reading Zookeepers at the Saint Louis Zoo were surprised to see their oldest snake coiled around a clutch of freshly laid eggs because she hadn’t been near a male in more than 15 years. The ball python, which has been at the zoo since 1961, laid seven eggs on July 23, Mark Wanner, the Zoological Manager
Continue Reading Firefighters in Oregon are racing to slow down two wildfires from merging into a single inferno Friday after blazes in three West Coast states have killed at least 26 people since last month. Some Oregon communities burned to the ground this week and about 500,000 people have been either ordered to evacuate or warned to
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Florida shores may soon become a bit safer thanks to the ingenuity of 13-year-old Kaial Hajik in Panama City Beach. After hearing of several drownings in the Gulf of Mexico over the past few years, Kaial, a Boy Scout and aspiring Air Force Academy cadet, worked with his father to devise a emergency kit prototype
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 is learning more about how UTEP came to the decision to move graduation ceremonies online, instead of holding it in-person. Graduations were just one of several events affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The spring commencement ceremony that typically takes place in May had to be postponed. The plan was then
Continue Reading Primary school students in China experienced more depressive symptoms and made more suicide attempts after schools closed for the pandemic, a new study found. When Covid-19 hit China in January, the Ministry of Education postponed the start of spring semester to late April. That closure separated children from their friends and their broader community network,
Continue Reading Former “Top Chef” contestant Aaron Grissom has died after a traffic accident, authorities said Friday night. He was 34. Grissom suffered multiple blunt force injuries and died Tuesday, the Pierce County Medical-Examiner’s Office in Tacoma, Washington, told CNN. He was a resident of University Place, Washington. “Bravo and the Top Chef family are saddened to
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