Click here for updates on this story STURBRIDGE, MA (WSHM) — Holly Piirainen’s life was taken from her at just ten years old, 27 years ago. Her murderer still has never been found, and her case remains unsolved, but investigators are still actively searching for answers. Recent revelations have been made after a body was
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(CNN) — La Casa Blanca dio su aprobación formal para que el presidente electo Biden reciba el informe diario presidencial, según un funcionario de la Casa Blanca. La coordinación sobre cuándo recibirá su primero está en marcha en este momento. Luego de la verificación de la elección por parte de la Administración de Servicios Generales,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — New guidance from the Dept. of Public Health on Tuesday said families should not be taking loved ones out of nursing homes for Thanksgiving Day gatherings. This is just one of the steps the state is taking steps to try and limit outbreaks in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Butte, MT (The Montana Standard) — A former Butte-Silver Bow police detective says she was harassed, singled out and verbally abused on the job because of her gender and was fired in retaliation for filing discrimination complaints. Rhonda Staton filed a federal lawsuit against county officials last week
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story La Crosse, WI (La Crosse Tribune) — Residents in the city of La Crosse could see an increase in flood insurance rates next year if a series of non-compliance issues with the Federal Emergency Management Agency aren’t sorted out. The city was told by FEMA in September that
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About an hour after the news that BuzzFeed is acquiring HuffPost first broke, BuzzFeed chief Jonah Peretti held an all-hands for HuffPost staffers over Google Meet. Peretti appeared enthusiastic and optimistic, according to two HuffPost staffers who were on the call, and those feelings were shared by some members of the staff at HuffPost, but
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — Law enforcement officers take a risk every time they put on the uniform, but now a new risk has led to an increase in officer deaths this year. According to the Officers Down Memorial Page, 206 law enforcement officers died in the line of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha, NE (WOWT) — An update on a 6 News investigation last week. Dozens of residents in a northwest Omaha mobile home park are threatened with evictions if they don’t repair their homes. It’s not holiday decorations but new paint and skirting Janey Rapier has been told she
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SACRAMENTO, California — A California prosecutor says someone has filed an unemployment claim in the name of convicted murderer Scott Peterson. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said it is one of at least 35,000 unemployment claims made on behalf of prison inmates between March and August. Schubert said the state has paid out
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, AR (KFSM) — Jenée Torng Dill was only 22 years old when her life was cut tragically short in an automobile collision. At the time of her passing, she was a senior pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in the School of Human Environmental Sciences at the
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced top members of his national security and foreign policy team. Biden’s nominees and appointees spoke for the first time since being announced on Monday by the transition team, and many offered implicit rebukes of President Donald Trump and his isolationist and “America First” worldview. “The team meets this moment,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — A Powder Springs elementary school teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 is fighting for his life. Patrick Key, 53, teaches art at Hendrix Elementary School. Two weeks ago, Key and his wife Priscella, who’s a teacher at a different Cobb County elementary school, both tested positive
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden has appointed John Kerry as his special presidential envoy for climate, underscoring his commitment to tackling the global crisis and offering a symbolic rebuke to President Donald Trump’s lack of leadership on the issue. Kerry, who was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, will be a Cabinet-level official in Biden’s administration and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Albany, GA (Albany Herald ) — After a yearlong joint investigation, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested eight people in Albany on charges of child sex trafficking and violation of the gang statute. This investigation was a coordinated effort involving the GBI’S Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes
Continue Reading Dow 30,000 is a milestone nearly 125 years in the making. The average began tracking the most powerful corporate stocks in 1896, and it has served as a broad measure of the market’s health through 22 presidents, 24 recessions, a Great Depression and two global pandemics. Along the way, it also weathered at least two
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Dow 30,000 is a milestone nearly 125 years in the making. The average began tracking the most powerful corporate stocks in 1896, and it has served as a broad measure of the market’s health through 22 presidents, 24 recessions, a Great Depression and two global pandemics. Along the way, it also weathered at least two
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — Several unions, including Connecticut’s largest teachers union, called on the governor to either make classrooms safer or shut down all public schools. The Connecticut Education Association joined other the school-related unions in recommending that all Connecticut schools shut down and transition to remote learning
Continue Reading (CNN) — Pensilvania y Nevada certificaron este martes sus resultados de las elecciones generales de 2020. Los dos estados clave le otorgaron formalmente la victoria electoral al presidente electo Joe Biden. CNN ya había proyectado a Biden como el ganador tanto en Pensilvania, donde lideraba con más de 81.000 votos, como en Nevada, donde Biden
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Missoula, MT (Missoulian) — If it felt like state parks such as Milltown, Placid Lake and Frenchtown Pond were unusually crowded this summer, you weren’t imagining things. The 10 state parks in the Missoula-headquartered Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 2 saw a combined 421,000 visitors through September
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The New Mexico Legislature has approved a $330 million coronavirus economic relief package that will send checks directly to out-of-work residents next month, provide grants to small businesses and increase funding for food banks and Covid-19 testing. Passage came by a wide margin Tuesday night as lawmakers rushed to wrap
Continue Reading The White House coronavirus task force continues to sound the alarm on the spread of the pandemic across the country in weekly reports to states, focusing this week on mitigation efforts and calling for “significant behavior change of all Americans.” “There is aggressive, rapid, and expanding community spread across the country, reaching over 2,000 counties,”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Racine, WI (The Journal Times ) — As in Dane County, the City of Racine has announced stricter COVID-19 restrictions ahead of the holiday season. Citing the “seemingly uncontrolled spread” of the coronavirus throughout Racine, and a fear of massive spikes during the holiday season, Public Health Administrator
Continue Reading Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state, has worked with the former vice president for so long that one former State Department official said that “it’s difficult to know where one person’s policy vision ends and the other’s begins.” In Blinken, Biden is tapping someone with a commitment to international cooperation, refugee
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NEWARK, New Jersey — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has pleaded guilty to criminal charges and formally admitted its role in the opioid crisis. Tuesday’s plea before a judge in Newark is part of a larger settlement with the U.S Department of Justice that also includes resolving civil claims. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company is to pay
Continue Reading A few weeks before the election I went to a meeting of QAnon fanatics in Scottsdale, Arizona. The groupthink there: President Trump was not only going to win the election — he was going to win it in a landslide. Anything other than that result would be evidence of mass election fraud. That, of course,
Continue Reading Pennsylvania and Nevada on Tuesday certified their 2020 general election results, formally awarding a combined 26 electoral votes from two key battleground states to President-elect Joe Biden. North Carolina’s election board also certified the state’s presidential vote totals on Tuesday, awarding the state’s 15 electoral votes to President Donald Trump. CNN had already projected Biden
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Las mujeres y las niñas se han llevado la peor parte de las consecuencias de la pandemia de coronavirus, pues como dice ONU Mujeres, «los impactos de las crisis nunca son neutrales» en cuanto a género se refiere. Y la crisis por el covid-19 no es la excepción. La pandemia de coronavirus
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, PA (WPMT) — A Lancaster County man charged over the summer with felony drug-dealing was caught twice – while on bail – with fentanyl for sale, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. Investigators looking into Justin Michael Jenkins’ suspected drug-dealing activity also discovered child
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Milly Quezada es conocida como «La Reina del Merengue». Durante las décadas de los 70 y 80 fue parte de la agrupación «Milly Jocelyn & Los Vecinos» y tuvo éxitos como «La Guacherna», «Volvió Juanita», «Tengo» y muchas más. Quezada es ganadora de múltiples reconocimientos como los Latin Grammy, Premios Billboard, Premios
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Davenport, IA (Quad-City Times ) — The Davenport Community School District is planning to ask for another waiver from the state to continue fully online learning as COVID-19 numbers continue to climb. The district, like many others in the Quad-Cities, recently switched to a fully remote learning model
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