Kathie Lee Gifford’s son Cody Gifford has married actress Erika Brown. The former morning show host posted about the Labor Day weekend festivities on her Instagram account, writing a sweet caption beside a picture of the newlyweds. “God gave us a glorious day to celebrate this glorious couple. So grateful,” she wrote. The couple look
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Click here for updates on this story LITTLE ROCK, AR (KFSM) — Since the start of the pandemic, it’s our mission at THV11 to show you faces behind the coronavirus numbers presented every day. The death Shanta Batchelor is an especially heartbreaking reminder that the virus does not discriminate and doesn’t care how old you
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Great Lakes, MI (WNEM) — “It’s been a burden to try to refurbish my home,” said Aaron Rogers, a veteran. Like most Sanford residents, the impact from this year’s floods is still being felt by Rogers is no exception. “It was about shoulder level, water inside the house,”
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The nephew of a man who died during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in New Jersey is suing the nursing home where his uncle was a resident, alleging that the facility failed to provide the legally required level of care while fraudulently claiming to do so. The nursing home, Andover Subacute Rehabilitation Center II
Continue Reading It’s a truly humbling moment when your child asks you to help diagram a sentence or solve a grade-level math problem and you, a functioning adult with a diploma and years of experience, draw a complete blank. Anyone with school-aged children can probably relate. And as many schools start the year with virtual learning, parents
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — After deciding to share COVID-19 data from schools in our state, the Tennessee Department of Education will launch a database to track the case information. The department says the final two school districts in the state will start the school year next week, so
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Local educators drove through downtown Nashville yesterday in a call for the state to provide more ways to protect school employees and students. The Nashville Teachers Union is asking for the state to keep all schools online until COVID-19 case numbers improve. They are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — For 100 consecutive nights, there have been protests in neighborhoods across Portland. Saturday night, Portland police declared a riot in southeast Portland and arrested 59 people with charges ranging from interfering with a peace officer to unlawful use of a weapon. After a riot
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OVERLAND, MO (KMOV) — Dozens of local union workers gathered Monday to demand a fair collective bargaining agreement, they argue that Veteran Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie is refusing to come to the negotiating table. The group gathered outside the Veteran Benefits Administration Building in Overland and chanted
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Atlanta City Council wants the Georgia General Assembly to ban the use of no-knock warrants. Residents like Monteria Robinson agree with the decision. “Police officers battle rammed the door open. Then they immediately open fired at my son. Over 90 rounds were fired at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FAIRWAY, KS (KCTV) — KCTV5 News has been tracking numbers inside hospitals over the last several months, and as far as hospitalizations go, August looked a lot like July with the numbers of patients needing to be hospitalized increasing. But there is something else developing that doctors say
Continue Reading Sam Cornelius knew that something was amiss when his job performance review unexpectedly took a huge hit one year. It was 2013, and Cornelius had been working as a software engineer in the US for an Indian-headquartered information technology company for five years. Up until then, he said he had been given no indication that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WNEP) — Newswatch 16 found students heading out with their families to get typical school supplies for the start of school this week. “I’m going to need a glue stick and more pencils and a personal sharpener,” said Northwest third grader Jackson Simko of Benton.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OREGON CITY, OR (KPTV) — Four structures were damaged by a three-alarm fire in Oregon City Monday evening. Clackamas Fire said the fire first started at a building off of South Agnes Avenue then spread to the nearby wildland. The high winds were spreading fire embers about an
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW MILFORD, CT (WFSB) — A group of seniors in New Milford are creating special face masks, specifically for children who are heading back to school. The group isn’t selling them, but they’re just hoping people help out for a good cause. It all started out as a
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A strong cold front moves into the area tonight bringing a taste of fall-like weather. The cold front will also bring strong wind gusts up to 45 mph on the west side of town. The cold front will increase thunderstorms coverage tonight and Wednesday morning. The colder air will arrive Wednesday with high temps in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced three new coronavirus-related deaths Tuesday morning. The death toll now stands at 448 in El Paso County. Health officials identified the victims as two men in their 70s and a woman in her 80s. They all had underlying health conditions. The health
Continue Reading As Demetria Hester walked to a bank of microphones — wearing a red “Know Your Rights” t-shirt, a fist raised high over head — a crowd broke into applause. The Portland activist had spent the night in jail after her arrest during protests against police brutality and racial injustice in the Oregon city and supporters
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A group funded by the National Institutes of Health has released a series of emotional television ads asking Black people and Latinos to roll up their sleeves and become study participants in clinical trials for coronavirus vaccines. “When everything looks bleak, we know that someone somewhere is full of hope and strength and wants to
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – The U.N. refugee agency has confirmed two coronavirus cases in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. The camp is home to more than 36,000 people who have fled their country’s civil war. The two cases are the first infections to be detected among Syrians living in refugee camps in
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s state TV says British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces a new charge. The Tuesday report cites an unnamed official and did not elaborate. Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been released from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic after serving nearly all of her five-year sentence. She was arrested during a holiday with her
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Dustin Johnson will be waking up on Tuesday $15 million richer. Not bad for a weekend’s work. The world No. 1 clinched the season-ending Tour Championship with a three-shot victory to win the FedEx Cup and equal the biggest single payout in PGA Tour history, matching the $15 million earned by Rory McIlroy for winning
Continue Reading Teyana Taylor and husband Iman Shumpert have welcomed a second child born in their bathroom without the assistance of a hospital. The singer and the basketball player made headlines in 2015 when their first daughter, Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr., who is called “Junie,” made a surprise entrance into the world in the couple’s home bathroom
Continue Reading A small town in eastern Washington is in ruins after a fast-moving wildfire swept through Monday, and teams are still working to account for all residents, county officials said. About 80% of the homes and buildings in Malden, about 35 miles south of Spokane, have been completely destroyed, including the fire station, post office, city
Continue Reading Two footballers for England’s men’s national team have had to leave the squad after breaching Covid-19 protocols in Iceland, manager Gareth Southgate announced Monday. Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood will not travel to Denmark for the upcoming UEFA Nations League game and will instead return to the UK. Icelandic media outlet DV reported the two
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Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has announced he will have a team competing in the inaugural all-electric off-road racing Extreme E series next year. Extreme E is a series founded by the same team behind Formula E, with races hosted across the globe to promote electrification, sustainability and equality. Its maiden season will be
Continue Reading ILE D’OLERON, France (AP) — The 166 remaining Tour de France riders have been cleared to continue racing ahead of Tuesday’s Stage 10 after undergoing COVID-19 tests. Organizers however announced that race director Christian Prudhomme tested positive, without providing further details. Organizers of the Tour performed some 650 tests over the past two days on
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In 2017, a team of experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security published a scenario as part of a training exercise that they believed could happen in the not-so-distant future. The SPARS Pandemic Scenario The year is 2025. A few American travelers returning from Asia die of an unknown, influenza-like illness. The Centers
Continue Reading World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty will not be in Paris to defend her French Open tennis title. The Australian said she would not be traveling to Europe in part because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as factoring in her lack of preparedness to play at Roland Garros. “It has been a difficult decision to
Continue Reading China and India have accused each other’s troops of firing warning shots during a confrontation Monday on their disputed border in the Himalayas, a marked escalation in tensions between the two nuclear powers. The incident is reportedly the first time shots have been fired along the Sino-Indian border in more than four decades, but both
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