“The Golden Girls” is getting an all Black cast for a one night charitable performance. Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sanaa Lathan, and Regina King will star in the re-imagining of the hit 1980s comedy series Tuesday for a Zoom Where It Happened virtual watch party. “In an effort to further engage our community and
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Click here for updates on this story POTOSI, Mo. (KMOV) — The Potosi R-3 School District is mourning the loss of a beloved teacher. In a letter to the community Monday, Superintendent Alex McCaul announced that Ashlee DeMarinis, 34, had died. DeMarinis was a special education teacher at John Evans Middle School. “The kids absolutely
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — A Midstate pastor is helping with hurricane relief efforts in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Pastor Toby Swager from Connection Pointe Church in Goodlettsville has been there since last Sunday. “The extent, how far it went, how wide the debris path is. It’s like it didn’t matter
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WEST BEND, Wis. (WDJT) — Police officers are patrolling West Bend High Schools after a 16-year-old boy is accused of making a bomb threat. Police say students reported a suspicious Snapchat message Tuesday night, Sept. 8, that included a bomb emoji and said “don’t come to school tomorrow.”
Continue Reading Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy. Speaking to guest host Josh Gad on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Ridley said there were multiple changes along the way
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LOS ANGELES, California — After last year’s instant fandom, Barbie is back with a second Dia De Muertos collectibles doll to honor Mexican heritage. The release of the toy maker’s Signature Dia De Muertos 2020 Doll (GNC40) was announced on Wednesday, and it takes on a different look featuring a braided up-do, a captivating Calavera face design and a
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General Motors and Nikola are teaming up to work on the Nikola Badger, a fully electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric pickup truck. The partnership gives General Motors an 11% stake in the startup, receiving $2 billion in equity, the companies said in a news release. GM will also get the right to nominate one
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This will be a test drive like no other. An SUV-size rover will roll across a seemingly alien red landscape this week, climbing slopes and maneuvering over rocks and other obstacles for the sake of exploration. But it’s happening in Pasadena, California — on Earth, not Mars. The NASA Perseverance rover launched in July and
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Reckless behavior by a small portion of University of Tennessee students could lead to “drastic measures” as Covid-19 surges on the Knoxville campus. The university had 600 active Covid-19 cases as of Monday, Chancellor Donde Plowman said during a livestream Tuesday. Among them, 592 were students, and eight were employees. “We now have 2,112 people
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Jeremy Remington didn’t like his chances when he, his family and scores of other campers gathered on the edge of a California lake as the Creek Fire closed in. Fire was burning Saturday night in the trees and hills on all sides of the Mammoth Pool Reservoir. The roads were impassable, the air thick with
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Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lost an appeal against the restriction of testosterone in female athletes, it was announced Tuesday. Under World Athletics guidelines introduced last year, Semenya would have to take testosterone-reducing drugs in order to compete in races from 400m to a mile, which the 29-year-old has chosen not to do. Switzerland’s
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Mike Pence and top officials from President Donald Trump’s campaign are slated to attend a Montana fundraiser next week hosted by a couple who have expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an event invitation obtained by The Associated Press and a review of social media postings. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, PA (WPMT) — At Gus’s Keystone Family Restaurant in Mount Joy, you see a lot of familiar faces. The restaurant has been a community staple for 20 years and has garnered quite the following. A few months ago, one of their loyal customers, who wished to
Continue Reading The World Players Association (WPA) has called for the head of the Iranian judiciary to grant an immediate stay of execution to Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari, who faces the death penalty. Afkari has been sentenced to death in relation to the murder of the Iranian government’s water and sewage department’s security agent Hasan Turkman
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, PA (KPTM) — At Gus’s Keystone Family Restaurant in Mount Joy, you see a lot of familiar faces. The restaurant has been a community staple for 20 years and has garnered quite the following. A few months ago, one of their loyal customers, who wished to
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed U.S. coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus,” and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book “Rage.” “This is deadly
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Forrest Fenn, whose 10-year treasure hunt inspired thousands of people to explore out West, has died, police confirmed. He was 90. Fenn died of apparent natural causes at his home in New Mexico, Santa Fe Police Deputy Chief Ben Valdez said. Fenn was an art and antiquities collector and Southwestern
Continue Reading The end of an era draws close. After 14 years, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” will wrap up its run on E! in 2021, the Kardashian-Jenner clan announced on Tuesday. The reality TV juggernaut, which burst upon an unsuspecting world in 2007, has entertained millions while giving fans front row seats to the lives of
Continue Reading Going off to college is, for many young adults, their first real plunge into freedom and adulthood. It’s where they’re encouraged to take risks and find new connections in dining halls and laundry rooms. But those collegiate rites of passage aren’t possible if they’re largely confined to an extra-long twin bed in a stuffy dorm
Continue Reading Amy Schumer says she is undergoing treatment for Lyme disease. Schumer made the announcement on her Instagram, writing: “Anyone get LYME this summer? I got it and I’m on doxycycline. I have maybe had it for years. Any advice? Can you have a glass of wine or 2 on it? I know to stay out
Continue Reading LVMH says the threat of US tariffs on French products has forced it to scrap its planned acquisition of Tiffany, which would have been the biggest luxury goods deal in history. The French conglomerate announced Wednesday that as things stand, it would “not be able to complete” the $16.2 billion deal — which was announced
Continue Reading The Twitter account @ratemyskyperoom is the rare corner of social media that is 10 out of 10 entertaining. The idea for the lighthearted account, which awards a numeric rating to the settings that appear behind notable names during virtual appearances on cable news and other television programs, started off as a series of funny exchanges
Continue Reading In a matter of minutes Sunday, this year’s US Open men’s draw went from a closed book to a vast blank page. Novak Djokovic’s default against Pablo Carreno Busta at 5-6 in the first set ensured that men’s tennis would have a new grand slam winner for the first time since Marin Cilic in New
Continue Reading Uber plans to offer rides exclusively in electric vehicles by 2030 in US, Canadian and European cities, and be entirely free of emissions by 2040. Uber’s announcement related to the climate crisis came as it also released a report that acknowledged its vehicles are less climate efficient than the average vehicle. Uber said the carbon
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Drug giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had paused global trials of its coronavirus vaccine because of an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers. “As part of the ongoing randomized, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, our standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow review of safety data,” the company
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (KPHO/KTVK) — Scottsdale families skipped school for the day in protest of what they say is the district’s inability to decide on the return to in-person learning. The “log out” encouraged families to log off their Chromebooks to protest at area parks. This comes after last
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WAYNE COUNTY, Iowa (KCCI) — A Wayne County widow said she wants people to see her pain so that they know COVID-19 is real. Beloved in his Wayne County community, Mike Wolfe was as jolly in real life as the Santa he played at Christmas for 30 years.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WBAL) — New, bipartisan legislation would give an African American soldier who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day the recognition he deserves, members of Maryland’s congressional delegation announced. The legislation aims to award Waverly Woodson the Medal of Honor for his bravery on D-Day. Even when
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story POPE, Miss. (WAPT) — An escape was short-lived for a state inmate who was found hiding in a small room in a building about 75 miles away from the county jail, Mississippi prison officials said. Richard Willis, 34, escaped from the Union County Jail in New Albany late
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WXII) — Before July 11, 2019, Robert Lawson and Jeff Johnson had never met. And if they hadn’t been driving on Highway 52 in Winston-Salem at about the same time late that afternoon, it’s possible they would have remained strangers. However, their bravery, quick thinking and
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