Angela Kearney’s living room is filled with Christmas decorations. The lights on her tree illuminate her most prized ornaments. The room looks festive, but the mood is filled with dread. Kearney has been furloughed from her job as a paralegal since March and her pandemic unemployment benefits run out in January, like they will for
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Maria never imagined she wouldn’t have a job. And she never imagined she’d be afraid to look for another one. But this year, so many things she never expected have happened. First there was the letter she got in March, telling her she was an “essential worker.” Then came the Covid-19 test results she got
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Click here for updates on this story WALLINGFORD, Conn. (WFSB) — A surprise delivery for a Wallingford family. Their baby boy wasn’t waiting for doctors and nurses. Instead, he was ready while mom and dad were at home. Paramedics arrived to help make it as smooth as possible. Randy Gonzalez III is one happy baby
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(CNN) — Más estadounidenses que ni siquiera tienen coronavirus están sufriendo debido al aumento de las hospitalizaciones en UCI por covid-19. Datos recientemente publicados del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. (HHS por sus siglas en inglés) muestran que al menos 200 hospitales estaban a plena capacidad la semana pasada. Y en un
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Nearly a third of the nurses who’ve died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide. A recent report from the largest nurses’ union in the country revealed the disproportionate number of deaths. It’s a jarring statistic researchers are working to understand and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Catherine Hendrix was just 80 when she died alone at Grady Hospital from COVID-19. She was also one of dozens of residents of Arbor Terrace Cascade assisted living facility who doctors say tested positive for the coronavirus before they died. CBS46’s Karyn Greer spoke with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The historic Ebenezer Baptist Church is feeling the wrath from the Senate runoff with hate coming for the church from all platforms. The church in a statement says, “individuals holding hate in their hearts for our Church are coming into our digital spaces and leaving
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso are hosting a holiday drive-through light show to offer a safe celebration for the Borderland. The ‘Cookies, Cocoa and Holiday Cheer’ event will take place between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Friday, December 11
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Conn. (Hartford Business Journal) — Theaters and other entertainment venues are vital to the eventual recovery of the state’s economy and need more help to survive the pandemic, industry advocates said Wednesday. About 40 entertainment executives from across the state met virtually with Sen. Richard Blumenthal on
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The 116th Congress is entering a make-or-break moment: It can either collapse in a colossal failure or it can all come together quickly to give struggling Americans some desperately needed relief. And now there’s a possibility this Congress can end how it began: in a government shutdown. While there are some signs of progress on
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Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys have a song that will certainly get you moving and grooving this holiday season. Spears dropped the new song, “Matches,” early Friday morning, writing on Twitter, “‘Matches’ featuring my friends @backstreetboys is out now !!!! I’m so excited to hear what you think about our song together.” The boy band
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BISMARK, Mo. (Daily Journal) — If only dogs could talk. An autumn miracle occurred Nov. 4 when a woman was finally reunited with her Leadwood-impounded dog, Duke, who had gone missing from her 80-acre farm about three miles west of Bismarck on November 22, 2019. Patty Delashmit said
Continue Reading John Ayers’ face filled with pride as he listed everything he used to be able to afford as an insurance agent — $2,000 monthly rent, hundreds of dollars in prescriptions for his severe arthritis and diabetes, and even a regular Uber driver, known as Fast Ice, to take him grocery shopping in a black Mercedes-Benz
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John Ayers’ face filled with pride as he listed everything he used to be able to afford as an insurance agent — $2,000 monthly rent, hundreds of dollars in prescriptions for his severe arthritis and diabetes, and even a regular Uber driver, known as Fast Ice, to take him grocery shopping in a black Mercedes-Benz
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOLINE, Ill. (Quad-City Times) — People stuck at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic and looking for interesting things to do have, in many cases, turned to jigsaw puzzles, both nationally and in the Quad-Cities. “Year-to-date, we’ve sold five-and-a-half times more puzzles than in the last several years,”
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A Chinese national working in the Beijing bureau of Bloomberg News has been detained on suspicion of endangering national security. Haze Fan was last in contact with one of her editors just before noon on Monday, and was seen being escorted from her apartment building by “plain clothes security officials” a little while later, Bloomberg
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wis. (The Journal Times) — “I think I’m allergic to sun. I am much more awake at night,” Gary Homeier joked as he walked out of Ascension All Saints Thursday morning, clearly smiling underneath his face mask. Homeier, an award-winning registered nurse, is one of the night-shifters
Continue Reading Lloyds Bank has become the first UK lender to disclose the pay gap of its Black employees, shining a light on the dearth of Black people in senior positions as it promised to tackle racial inequality in British business. In a report published on Friday, Britain’s biggest retail banking group revealed that the median pay
Continue Reading Chris Evans is Buzz Lightyear. The “Captain America” star will voice “the original Buzz Lightyear” in a new Pixar film, “Lightyear,” the studio announced on Twitter. The new film will explore the life of the “Toy Story” character, voiced by Tim Allen in the four “Toy Story” movies. Evans explained the role in a tweet,
Continue Reading Chinese state-owned companies are starting to default on their debts. It’s a problem that could ripple through the country’s financial system, threatening to slam the brakes on the nation’s economy and hobble the global recovery from the pandemic. State firms defaulted on a record 40 billion yuan ($6.1 billion) worth of bonds between January and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/KSMO) — For the second time this year, police arrested the same woman who is accused of intentionally starting multiple fires in Kansas City. On Monday Dec. 7th, firefighters responded to several reports of fires at vacant buildings. While driving by a business near Truman
Continue Reading The imminent authorization of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the United States is a momentous occasion for science, the economy and humanity. The milestone is also a major moneymaker for the companies that developed the vaccines. Wall Street analysts are projecting Pfizer and Moderna will generate $32 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue — next year alone.
Continue Reading The imminent authorization of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the United States is a momentous occasion for science, the economy and humanity. The milestone is also a major moneymaker for the companies that developed the vaccines. Wall Street analysts are projecting Pfizer and Moderna will generate $32 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue — next year alone.
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Temperatures will be warmer today and Saturday but will cool down Sunday. Expect gusts between 30 to 35 mph through Friday and then again on Sunday. Temperatures will run around 5 to 10 degrees cooler behind a cold front Sunday and the start of the week.
Continue Reading Anyone who has watched a lot of sports movies can practically read the formations, with football serving as its own overpopulated subgenre. “Safety” doesn’t deviate from that game plan, but this fact-based Disney+ movie presents a story that’s stirring enough to predictably eke across the goal line as an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser, even if it’s playing
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Casey Goodson Jr and his family were treated as suspects and law enforcement in Columbus, Ohio, quickly assumed a shooting that left the 23-year-old dead was justified, the family’s attorneys said. “Casey was treated as a criminal. Not only Casey but his family were treated as suspects. They were treated as criminals,” family attorney Sarah
Continue Reading Knowing the songs isn’t knowing the whole story with “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” the HBO documentary you probably didn’t know you needed. That’s because this infectious film goes beyond mere nostalgia in chronicling the roller-coaster ups and downs of the brothers Gibb, which should make anyone even mildly familiar
Continue Reading Although billed as a “hilarious” comedy, “The Stand In” turns out to be a whole lot darker than that, offering a rather pointed rumination on the price of fame. This dual-role showcase for Drew Barrymore thus becomes an uneven but interesting showbiz-centric movie — as if “The Player” got mashed up with “Dave.” Barrymore’s Candy
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Between the global pandemic, the fight for racial equality and polarizing politics, 2020 has put a strain on many people’s mental health. For Black women, that strain is often constant, but rarely talked about, until now. A St. Louis filmmaker is sharing stories of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Family members of Daron Whitt say St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department got it wrong. Whitt was one of two people killed in a fatal accident on Wednesday night. The crash happened in the area of Page Boulevard and Whittier Street in the Vandeventer Neighborhood
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