The Army announced Tuesday that 14 senior officers will be punished following a probe that was initiated after the murder of a soldier and several other deaths at the Army’s Fort Hood base in Texas this year. The issues at Fort Hood are “directly related to leadership failures,” Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said. “I directed
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Parks and recreation workers in South Carolina made an extraordinary discovery during a routine water quality test at a small lake. The crew caught a 9-pound goldfish that was about 15 inches long in the murky waters of Oak Grove Lake, said Ty Houck, director of Greenways, Natural and Historic Resources for the Greenville County
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico plans to being vaccinating its people against Covid-19 at the end of the third week of December, starting with health workers, the government announced Tuesday. The word came as Mexico has reported 1.18 million confirmed infections and at least 110,074 virus deaths, though both are acknowledged to be under-counts. The total number
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to
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Click here for updates on this story St. Louis County, MO (KMOV) — St. Louis County prosecutors announced Tuesday they will not issue charges in the shooting death of Terry Tillman. St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell told reporters Tuesday charges would not be filed in the case, which his office had been investigating for
Continue Reading Woody from “Toy Story” went off on another adventure, and this time he found a new job. It started when a Home Depot employee in Plaistow, New Hampshire, found a Woody doll in the store parking lot last week. A team member decided to post a photo of the toy doll on Facebook to help
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(CNN) –– Tras meses de negociaciones, el gobierno de Ecuador logró un acuerdo comercial de primera fase con Estados Unidos. La firma se concretó este martes durante un evento en el Palacio de Carondelet en Quito. El evento estuvo encabezado por el presidente Lenín Moreno y el representante de Comercio de Estados Unidos, Robert Lighthizer.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Normandy, MO (KMOV) — A local mayor’s tirade was recorded by city employees and now some people who work for that municipality tell News 4 Investigates that this is just one example of a hostile work environment. The audio, which was taken at Normandy’s Public Works Department, lasts
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS) — People all over the internet are talking about an Upstate tree service worker who rescued a cat that was stuck in a tree. It started with a post from Sharon Dawkins who wanted to thank Tanner Saraceno for the daring rescue. “No I didn’t
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“Wonder Woman 1984” director Patty Jenkins did not expect the movie to release first on a streaming platform, but she believes now is the time for people to see it. The theatrical release date for the Warner Bros. film has been delayed multiple times due to the Covid-19 pandemic and is now set to premiere
Continue Reading The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is overseeing the Peachtree PAC, a new political action committee that emerged in recent days to shape the US Senate runoffs in Georgia, officials tell CNN. The group will spend $43 million in new television and radio ad spending. That’s on
Continue ReadingThe Pentagon has drafted a list of the groups that it will provide the coronavirus vaccine to first, prioritizing health care workers and then “critical national capabilities,” which will include the country’s nuclear forces, elite military units and senior Pentagon leaders, according to two defense officials familiar with the list. Officials have said that the
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One of college football’s biggest rivalry games won’t be played this year. Saturday’s scheduled football game between rivals Michigan and Ohio State has been canceled due to ongoing coronavirus issues within the Wolverines program. The two Big Ten Conference teams have played “The Game” every season without disruption since 1918. Michigan said in a statement
Continue Reading With the presidential election technically over, all eyes are now on Georgia. Not only has the state’s election process led to Republican infighting, but Georgia is also set to host two runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate. Two of the four senatorial candidates, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her Democratic challenger
Continue Reading President Donald Trump made yet another symbolic effort Tuesday to combat coronavirus — even as cases continue to rise and administration officials have admitted that the White House missed an opportunity to acquire more vaccine doses. On Tuesday, the President signed a largely symbolic executive order aimed at prioritizing the shipment of the coronavirus vaccine
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to approve a 15% pay raise for their positions, which amounts to just over $5,000 annually, the county confirmed. “We don’t really offer enough money to entice young people to participate in the process of being a county commissioner,” said
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The White House coronavirus task force is warning states that current vaccination plans won’t reduce the spread of the disease until at least the late spring. Even as President Donald Trump said Tuesday the US vaccination plan would “quickly and dramatically reduce deaths and hospitalizations and within a short period of time, I think we
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hawai’i i, USA (KITV) — 23 more Hawai’i inmates at an Arizona prison have tested positive for COVID-19. The news comes weeks after the first inmate from Hawaii incarcerated at Saguaro Correctional Facility died due to COVID-19. The male prisoner was in his 60s, and was hospitalized for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Maui, HI (KITV) — Tuesday, an incident with a shark and recreational surfer was reported at Honolua Bay near where the Maui Pro is being held. The World Surf League (WSL) announced that the competition is currently on hold indefinitely. WSL took to social media to make the
Continue Reading Cardiff, Gales (CNN) — Gran Bretaña es ya la primera nación occidental en comenzar a vacunar a sus ciudadanos con una vacuna contra el covid-19 fuera de los ensayos clínicos, un momento histórico en la pandemia de coronavirus. Lo que debes saber sobre la vacuna de Pfizer/BioNTech A la primera persona de Gran Bretaña en
Continue Reading Judge Emmet Sullivan of the DC District Court on Tuesday dismissed Michael Flynn’s criminal case as moot, following Flynn’s pardon by President Donald Trump, ending a tortured three-year-long proceeding. In his 43-page opinion, Sullivan critiqued Trump’s pardon of Flynn, however, calling it “extraordinarily broad.” He noted that the pardon does not make Flynn innocent. Flynn
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Las autoridades de México solicitaron a Estados Unidos la extradición de Genaro García Luna, exsecretario de Seguridad Pública durante el gobierno de Felipe Calderón. Según informó este lunes la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de ese país, la gestión se realizó a través de la embajada de México en Estados Unidos por pedido
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EL PASO, Texas — The latest mysterious metal monolith across America appeared Monday night in El Paso’s Upper Valley, but it didn’t last long. Hours after onlookers gathered to take pictures with the tall, silver, shining object near Sunset and Doniphan, across from an Ardovino’s Pizza restaurant, it disappeared. Video posted to social media by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Historian and civil rights activist Timuel Black has witnessed and participated in some of the world’s most pivotal moments. Monday marked his 102nd birthday and was cause for him to be treated like the living legend he is. “He has been telling our story but
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Bitterly cold, frozen and inhospitable to nearly all wildlife apart from polar bears. This is the image of the Arctic that comes to mind for many. But in a matter of decades — a blink of an eye in the history of this planet — human-caused global warming has transformed the Arctic into a place
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LILBURN, Ga. (Gwinnett Daily Post) — As U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff addressed a crowd of supporters at a Latino voter registration rally outside Plaza Las Americas in Lilburn on Monday, he touched on an important topic in the Latino community — immigration — by talking about his
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County is following in the footsteps of the Ruidoso Municipal School District in taking a different approach to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, the county will begin deploying several Xenex germ-zapping robots to disinfect facilities including the El Paso County Courthouse, Juvenile Probation Department, Ascarate Park, County Attorney
Continue Reading President Donald Trump made an explicit appeal to lawmakers and the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to help him overturn the results of an election he lost, his latest and most vocal attempt to cling to power even as his presidency comes to an end. Speaking at a summit focused on the coronavirus vaccine, Trump
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANHATTAN, Mont. ( Missoulian) — The demand for guns, bullets and ammunition in Montana has caused a record surge in FBI firearm background checks in the state and has retailers and manufacturers overwhelmed and shocked. Ted Beardsley, the owner of Empire Arms and Ammunition in Manhattan, Montana, pauses
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story STURGIS, S.D. (Rapid City Journal) — The owner of a Sturgis gun store is distraught after her shop was burglarized twice in two months after operating without incident for the past five years. “The last five weeks, everything has been turned upside down,” Tammy Bohn, who owns Sturgis
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