In the hours leading up to Daniel Prude‘s fatal encounter with police in Rochester, New York, the 41-year-old was making suicidal statements and threw himself down a flight of stairs, his brother said. Joe Prude is seen in police body camera footage telling a police officer about Daniel’s erratic behavior after his brother arrived in
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EL PASO, Texas – The city of El Paso’s Parks and Recreation Department is opening up eight Wi-Fi centers starting Tuesday to provide free internet access to students and others who need it. The centers will serve students and parents who lack internet access at home while providing a safe environment during the Covid-19 pandemic,
Continue Reading A third man has been found floating in a life raft in the waters off Japan after a cargo ship with 43 people and almost 6,000 cows aboard went missing during Typhoon Maysak, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The man, a 30-year-old Filipino named Jay-Nel Rosals was found on Friday afternoon two kilometers (1.2
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EL PASO, Texas – The Socorro Independent School District, the first Borderland school district to announce plans to return to campus, has revised its reopening plans. Teachers will now have the option to work from home or campus through Oct. 2, according to the announcement late Friday afternoon. Socorro Superintendent Jose Espinoza said they revised
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EL PASO, Texas — Football is back in the Borderland. The UTEP Miners kick off their home opener against Stephen F. Austin on Saturday at 7 p.m. amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Only 8,600 fans will be allowed inside the Sun Bowl Stadium, which seats up to 50,000. Fans will be asked to follow Centers for
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso woman is a fighter. Staff at The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus lined the hallway as 63-year-old Josefina Cortez was finally discharged. She spent 109 days in the hospital fighting Covid-19. As Cortez made her departure from the hospital, her team of doctors, nurses and therapists gave her
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Jessica Krug, the professor at George Washington University who revealed she had been lying about being Black for years, will no longer teach classes this semester. “While the university reviews this situation, Dr. Krug will not be teaching her classes this semester. We are working on developing a number of options for students in those
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police on Friday said they were seeking new leads in the murder of a 20-year-old up-and-coming music artist who was shot and killed in a northeast El Paso neighborhood a year and a half ago. On Jan. 26, 2019, 20-year-old Terrance Lamont Kinard Jr., also known as “T.K.” or
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Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Loren Jones and Danielle Taylor got engaged last November and set their wedding date for May. Then COVID-19 hit, they postponed their wedding, and Jones lost her job at a cosmetics company. “I’ve been doing well with making good with my business,” said Jones.
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It will be hot over the weekend with temps in the upper 90’s – near 100. Lots of sunshine with just some clouds here and there. The nice weather will last through Labor Day and most of Tuesday. A cold front arrives late Tuesday from the N/NE ushering the coldest air of the season along
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARRISBURG, PA (WPMT) — A Harrisburg man convicted in June of being the leader of a human trafficking operation was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, U.S. Attorney David J. Freed announced Friday. Miguel Scott Arnold, 33, was found
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Labor Day weekend is one of the biggest social gathering holidays in the US, which poses added risk to most celebrations when they coincide with a pandemic. But that doesn’t mean you have to stay indoors, either. In fact, getting outdoors, taking a hike or long bike ride, finding an uncrowded swimming hole or even
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Marathon will have live racing in February. Organizers made the announcement Friday afternoon. The event’s three races — the Michelob Ultra El Paso Marathon, the TFCU Half Marathon and the El Paso 5K — will be held on three consecutive days on Feb. 12-14. The races will adhere
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SANTA FE, N.M. (KOAT) — “There’s nothing like twirling in your fiesta dress,” Sylvia Montoya Chavez says. “Oh, when I wear my fiesta dress, I feel pretty,” Beth Wojahn reflects. Advertisement Fiesta dresses: a tradition for this Santa Fe family dating back more than 70 years. “The dresses
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FORT HOOD, Texas — A soldier from New Mexico died this week after collapsing during a training exercise at Fort Hood in Texas, U.S. Army officials said Friday. According to data obtained by the Associated Press from Fort Hood officials, this is the 28th soldier at the central Texas Army base to die this year.
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SANTE FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico reported 96 new confirmed Covid-19 cases and three additional deaths on Friday. The latest numbers from the New Mexico Department of Health increase the state’s totals to 25,902 cases and 794 deaths. Officials said 13 of the new cases – or nearly 20% of the state’s count –
Continue Reading About 93% of racial justice protests in the US since the death of George Floyd have been peaceful and nondestructive, according to a new report. The findings, released Thursday, contradict assumptions and claims by some that protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are spawning violence and destruction of property. The report was produced
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — The company MPE Inc. in Milwaukee will manufacture and sell a coronavirus testing strip. You put a sample of your blood on it and in ten minutes it will tell you if you are positive or negative for antibodies. If you’re positive, it means
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SANTA FE, NM (KOAT) — “There’s nothing like twirling in your fiesta dress,” Sylvia Montoya Chavez says. “Oh, when I wear my fiesta dress, I feel pretty,” Beth Wojahn reflects. Advertisement Fiesta dresses: a tradition for this Santa Fe family dating back more than 70 years. “The dresses
Continue Reading On Thursday, presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that a Black man had invented the light bulb, not “a White guy named Edison.” Biden was at a community meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the site of the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake. He was addressing the ways in which Black Americans are stripped from American history
Continue Reading A judge in Canada sided with a mother who wants her son to attend school in person this year, despite the father’s concerns about Covid-19. It’s the first time that an Ontario court has ruled in a dispute like this since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrea Himel issued the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BATON ROUGE, LA (KTBS) — A little more than week after Hurricane Laura ripped through Louisiana, twisting trees and downing timber, large-scale assessments of the damage the storm caused to the timber industry are just beginning. Early reports indicate that losses will be extensive. “I don’t have the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HI (KITV) — The Hawaii United Okinawa Association announced on Thursday that it will bring all the excitement of an in-person Okinawan Festival from the comfort of your home. For the first time in 38 years, the association is offering the public a virtual front-row seat to all
Continue Reading It took less than five minutes from a 911 call being placed reporting a domestic disturbance to a White officer firing seven times into Jacob Blake’s back in front of the 29-year-old Black man’s three young sons. Those five minutes on August 23 set off chaos in Kenosha, Wisconsin: Protests and looting spread through the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO (KMOV) — Six loaded guns were discovered by TSA agents at security checkpoints at Lambert Airport in August, the TSA said. Federal authorities say the guns were discovered inside passenger carry-on bags before local police were called and the guns and passenger in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, KY (WSMV) — Officials with Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby made the decision to continue to run the Derby despite everyone not agreeing with the deicision. Every year for the past 145 years, it has been a great American tradition that has survived depressions, wars, pandemics,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MI (WNEM) — On the big screen above the Red Wings ice or on the floor with the Piston’s players, DJ Chachi serves up all the exciting sounds at the Little Caeser’s Arena driving fans into a frenzy. “Very blessed to have a really fun, exciting cool job,”
Continue Reading Silentó, a rapper known for his hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” is facing two felony assault charges after allegedly threatening two people with a hatchet, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. On August 29, the 22-year-old reportedly walked into a stranger’s unlocked home in Los Angeles and attempted to hit two people
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story https://www.wfsb.com/news/website-launched-in-an-effort-to-promote-support-black-owned-businesses/article_bec2af12-eedc-11ea-a387-677e10ffd919.html (WFSB) — A new website was created in an effort to promote and encourage black-owned businesses in Connecticut. The website ShopblackCT.com was created by Sarah Thompson. She said she was inspired after participating in the protests following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. “After those
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The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a submission from Phoenix Biotechnology Inc. to market oleandrin as a dietary supplement ingredient, citing “significant concerns” about the safety evidence the company presented. Last month, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who recently joined the board of Phoenix Biotechnology and has a financial stake in the company, said
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