Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — St. Louis is full of history and is working hard to turn itself around and rebuild. Currently, there’s more than $10 billion in development. Many are helping, including one family proud of St. Louis. Thousands of cars drive through the intersection of Kings
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Slightly more than half of US adults — 54% — now say that they know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. It’s a drastic uptick since late May, when a previous Pew survey found that just 20% of Americans knew someone
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(CNN Español) –– La carrera por una vacuna contra el coronavirus define cada vez más los días de esta pandemia. Y mientras sus avances son vertiginosos y Reino Unido ya aprobó la vacuna candidata contra el coronavirus desarrollada por Pfizer y BioNTech, el mundo reacciona a medida que aparecen muchas preguntas. Específicamente una que no
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Don’t expect to hear of Asian giant “murder hornets” or nests being captured in the coming months. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is taking down their Asian giant hornet traps for the winter. Asian giant hornets either die off or hibernate in the winter, so the traps are being removed. “This time of
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La canción “Yo no soy diferente” de la campaña de CNN en Español Proyecto Ser Humano gana el Premio Produ 2020 al Mejor Tema Musical de Programa en un empate con el tema “Contigo aprendí”.“Yo no soy diferente” se estrenó mundialmente el 15 de julio de 2019 como la canción oficial de
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police on Friday asked for the public’s help in finding the man who shot an attorney couple in central El Paso last month, killing the wife and seriously injuring her husband. On Nov. 14, investigators said an unidentified man went to a home along the 3000 block of Copper
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Two Portland institutions that survived the last pandemic, world wars, the Great Depression, and more than 100 years of business, now find themselves struggling. The owners of both Huber’s Cafe and Dan and Louis Oyster Bar say they need the economy to turn around
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WASHINGTON, DC — More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for coronavirus since March, according to the federal agency charged with their care. In total, there have been 1,061 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases among unaccompanied migrant children in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency run by
Continue Reading Pharrell Williams is not only a Grammy award-winning artist and producer, but he is also quite the entrepreneur. And this week he announced an initiative to help Black and Latino start-up founders achieve their dreams. You might recall that back in August, he and Jay-Z released the song “Entrepreneur,” which opens with him whispering the
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State Department officials who work with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have told the department’s career transition team that he will meet with President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming State Department team, according to two sources familiar with the message. The announcement comes as a bit of a surprise, as Pompeo has not yet publicly recognized Biden’s
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How much is a moon rock worth? According to new contracts inked between NASA and four startups, it’s somewhere between $1 and $15,000. NASA pledged in September to buy moon rocks from companies that can get robotic rovers to the lunar surface and scoop up samples of the dusty terrain, and the space agency asked
Continue Reading Most kids want toys or candy for their birthdays, but 6-year-old Bethany Moultry’s wish was to help more people. Months before the pandemic struck, Bethany and her mother, Colleen Moultry, were running errands when they saw a homeless person holding up a sign asking for help. “I wanted to crack open my piggy bank and
Continue Reading CNBC anchor Rick Santelli is once again under fire for misguided comments about coronavirus after a screaming match erupted on air Friday morning during a discussion about how businesses are coping with the pandemic. Santelli argued that it didn’t make sense for restaurants to shut down to prevent the spread of Covid-19 when big-box retailers
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CNBC anchor Rick Santelli is once again under fire for misguided comments about coronavirus after a screaming match erupted on air Friday morning during a discussion about how businesses are coping with the pandemic. Santelli argued that it didn’t make sense for restaurants to shut down to prevent the spread of Covid-19 when big-box retailers
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY, UT (KSL) — Though offering a scathing rebuke of the officer’s actions, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office announced Friday that it will not file charges against Val Brown, a Salt Lake City police officer who was captured on video pushing over an elderly
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — A Nashville nurse was shot and killed while driving to work on Interstate 440 West late Thursday evening, according to Metro Police. Police say Caitlyn Kaufman, a 26-year-old St. Thomas West Hospital nurse, was killed by shots fired into her vehicle by an unknown
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LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s chief negotiator says he and his British counterpart have agreed to “pause” trade negotiations while they brief their political leaders on the stalled talks. Michel Barnier said the conditions for a deal have not been met and differences remain after a week of intense talks. He says British Prime
Continue Reading The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday launched a national ad campaign promoting awareness about the forthcoming coronavirus vaccines with a modest $150,000 ad buy on YouTube. The ads, which will stream across the video platform, include clips from a six-minute-and-30-second public service announcement video featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, Food and Drug Administration
Continue Reading The House of Representatives has approved legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and seek to “address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs.” Friday’s vote in the Democratic-led House is the first time a chamber of Congress has voted on federal marijuana decriminalization. It has little chance of passing the Republican-led Senate, however. The
Continue Reading The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill that would ban private ownership of big cats like lions and tigers, after the wildly popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” helped renew attention on the issue. The “Big Cat Public Safety Act” passed the House Thursday night on a 272-114 vote, with 48 Republicans voting
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Policía Federal de Carreteras de Minas Gerais informa que la caída de un autobús de un puente dejó hasta el momento 10 muertos. Los heridos fueron trasladados a un hospital local. El vehículo tiene placa del estado de Alagoas aunque se desconocen el origen y destino del viaje. 15h30 – Inicialmente a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPARTANBURG, SC (WHNS) — A mother in Spartanburg County is home from prison after serving 21 and a half years of a 25 year sentence for drug possession. Mable tells us as a single mother of four – her family really stepped up to help her parent from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SC (WHNS) — An Upstate police chief says a high-speed chase ended in a crash that left two people dead and another person in the hospital Wednesday evening. FOX Carolina received several tips about the scene along US-29 near Locust Road around 5:15 p.m. Multiple tipsters
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Oregon has fewer hospital beds per capita than any other state in the U.S., according to a 2018 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. More recent data wasn’t available. The study shows there are 1.6 hospital beds per 1,000 people. It’s a startling figure
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY — Stocks returned to record highs on Wall Street Friday as traders took a discouraging jobs report as a sign that Congress may finally move on delivering more aid for the pandemic-stricken economy. The Dow closed up 0.8% at a new record level above 30,100 to cap a solid week (and start to December)
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Two Portland institutions that survived the last pandemic, world wars, the Great Depression, and more than 100 years of business, now find themselves struggling. The owners of both Huber’s Cafe and Dan and Louis Oyster Bar say they need the economy to turn around
Continue Reading The Cheesecake Factory has agreed to pay a fine of $125,000 to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of misleading investors about the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on its business. In March and April, when many restaurants were instructed to close their doors in an effort to curb the spread of the novel
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Tulsa, OK (Tulsa World) — The city released its annual Equality Indicators Report on Thursday, with Tulsa’s overall score improving over last year’s. The report, first issued in 2018, looks at dozens of equality indicators, such as education, income and access to public transportation to compare groups likely
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Sauk County, WI (WiscNews) — Despite a still unsolved murder this fall at Devil’s Lake State Park, local law enforcement authorities say the park remains “very safe.” “The people that come to the park are usually not looking to get in any trouble, and it’s a very safe
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The 2017 travel ban imposed by the Trump administration on seven Muslim-majority countries may be associated with an increase in preterm births among women from those countries residing in the United States, according to a new study. The study, published last week in the journal Social Science and Medicine, analyzed preterm birth rates among women
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