Click here for updates on this story WINTER HAVEN, Florida (WESH) — A paramedic with the Polk County Fire Rescue Department has been arrested for allegedly stealing COVID-19 vaccines. Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said 31-year-old Joshua Colon stole three doses’ worth of the Moderna vaccine, then forged the vaccine screening and consent
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(CNN) — Estados Unidos cruzó el terrible hito de 400.000 muertes por coronavirus a principios de la semana pasada, y actualmente hay más de 2,1 millones de muertes reportadas en todo el mundo, según muestran los datos de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. También hay nuevas variantes con mutaciones que podrían hacer que covid-19 sea aún
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WORCESTER, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A registered nurse working at a COVID-19 field hospital in Massachusetts is going above and beyond the call of duty. Rebecca DeCoteau, who works in the field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester, says a number of the patients are homeless and many
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MERRIAM, KS (KCTV) — Throughout the month of February, puppy love can be delivered across the Kansas City area. Great Plains SPCA volunteers will deliver puppygrams to recipients to play with, smooch and snuggle for 15-30 minutes. They can be delivered to businesses or residences. “Puppygrams are a
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as secretary of state. Antony Blinken becomes the third Cabinet member to win approval as the Biden administration forges ahead with a foreign policy intended to reverse former President Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine and restore U.S. global standing. The 58-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PINE GROVE, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Assault charges have been filed in Schuylkill County against a man in connection with the death of his grandmother. Police were called to a home along North Tulpehocken Street in Pine Grove around 3 p.m. Sunday. Kalvin Clark, 32, of Pine Grove, told
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In prepared remarks obtained by CNN, acting US Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman told congressional members the department was aware of a “strong potential for violence” and did not take the appropriate steps to prevent the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Read the statement as prepared:
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The biggest tech companies spent much of the last four years in Washington playing defense: Answering to threats of regulation and repeatedly being called before congressional committees; serving as former President Donald Trump’s foil on social media moderation; and protesting his approach to immigration and tariffs. Now, with President Joe Biden in the White House,
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Paleontologists have long been puzzled about how the Spinosaurus — a giant dinosaur and aquatic predator — would have behaved. Now, they believe it would have been less like an otter, and more like a huge, flightless stork or heron. Rather than hunting fish in the water, the massive dinosaur would have likely caught prey
Continue Reading The acting head of the US Capitol Police told congressional members during a closed-door briefing Tuesday that the “department failed to meet its own high standards” on January 6 when a crowd of pro-Trump rioters overran the Capitol building. Acting US Capitol police chief Yogananda Pittman called the insurrection a “terrorist attack” and offered her
Continue Reading Cici’s, a restaurant chain best known for its pizza buffets, has filed for bankruptcy. In a court filing late Monday, Cici’s blamed its Chapter 11 filing on the “unpredictable and unprecedented scale” of the pandemic, which decimated its bottom line and customer demand because it relies heavily on its dining rooms. The Texas-based company has
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Some 31 London Metropolitan Police officers each face a £200 fine (about $275) after having their hair cut at a police station in east London — breaching Covid-19 regulations — while on duty. The Met said it launched an investigation after the force received an allegation earlier this month that “a number of officers had
Continue Reading The European Union is calling out vaccine makers AstraZeneca and Pfizer over delivery delays that could slow its recovery from the pandemic. Officials are even threatening to restrict exports and take legal action as anger mounts. AstraZeneca will not be able to deliver as many doses of its vaccine as promised, according to EU officials,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — High school basketball is already being played or there is a plan in place in every state other then Hawaii. The decision by both public and private schools on Oahu to cancel the season also trickled down to the middle school level. A pivotal time
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What used to be homes are now mangled piles of debris, with personal belongings strewn across lawns and streets. That’s the new reality near Birmingham, Alabama, after a “large and extremely dangerous” tornado late Monday night annihilated parts of Jefferson County. The storm killed at least one person and injured dozens more, officials said. The
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Carlos Holmes Trujillo, ministro de Defensa de Colombia, falleció la madrugada de este martes, según informó su hermano José Renán Trujillo en su cuenta de Twitter. “Con profundo dolor, recibo el fallecimiento de mi hermano. Luchó por sus convicciones y murió defendiéndolas”, escribió el hermano del funcionario. Hospitalizan al ministro de la
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — Virginia man who pleaded guilty to cyberstalking Mayor G.T. Bynum and his family over his handling of then-President Donald Trump’s visit to Tulsa last summer was sentenced Monday. U.S. District Judge Claire Eagan sentenced Adam Maxwell Donn, 41, of Norfolk, Virginia, to 15
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has become the first country in Europe to pass 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths. With more than 2 million dead worldwide, people the world over are mourning loved ones, but the U.K.’s toll weighs particularly heavily: It is the smallest nation to pass the grim milestone. For comparison, the United States, with
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is set to order a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with his plans. The move is expected to be the most prominent in a series of climate actions the President will take on Wednesday, including elevating the climate crisis as
Continue Reading If you thought Fox News would dial down the highly charged rhetoric after Donald Trump left office, you’d be mistaken. It is not slowing down when it comes to bashing President Joe Biden. The network, which has long attacked Democrats, has noticeably ramped up the war of words about Biden since Inauguration Day. “These channels
Continue Reading The meteoric rise in GameStop’s stock, as traders congregating on Reddit and Discord take on short sellers and hedge funds, is hard to look away from. It’s the closest thing Wall Street has to David vs. Goliath. What’s happening: Shares of GameStop, a legacy company whose stores are often located in struggling malls, have soared
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — To those who loved Harold Cutler the most, 78 years have done little to soften the blow of losing him. “On his birthday, my mum’s in tears. Around the time of his death, she’s in tears. Christmas, she’s in tears. It’s still very
Continue Reading Marty Baron, the editor who transformed the Washington Post into an international powerhouse and led the news organization to win 10 Pulitzer Prizes, is retiring next month. Baron, 66, said in an internal memo Tuesday morning that he feels “ready to move on.” His last day at the paper will be February 28. “From the
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Polite society considers swearing to be a vulgar sign of low intelligence and education, for why would one rely on rude language when blessed with a rich vocabulary? That perception, as it turns out, is full of, uh … baloney. In fact, swearing may be a sign of verbal superiority, studies have shown, and may
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A cold war is underway within the Republican Party as its members begin to navigate how former President Donald Trump and his legacy fit into the GOP’s future. Some in congressional leadership have signaled their desire to move the party beyond Trump by impeaching and convicting him. Allies of the former President, on the other
Continue Reading Michelle Bennett is trying to keep life inside her Waldorf, Maryland, home as normal as possible during Covid-19. Three of her four daughters are learning remotely, while she makes them three meals a day. But outside, the relentless threat of eviction keeps knocking. She lost her job as a receptionist at a doctors’ office in
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Beyoncé has released a new Ivy Park collection called Icy Park, filled with streetwear, footwear and winter pieces for her fans. Ivy Park, a collaboration with Adidas, released the ad campaign for Icy Park on Monday, featuring Hailey Baldwin Bieber and Gucci Mane wearing select pieces from the line. Mane sports a gold parka and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — It took some convincing, but Micah Shade’s parents finally let him play Hastings Midget Football last year. The home-schooled sixth grader said playing football alongside other boys his age “was one of the best experiences” of his life, lamenting that under the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLUMBUS, Nebraska (The Columbus Telegram) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders was spotted all over Columbus throughout the weekend. Well, at least digitally. Sanders (D-Vermont) was dressed for comfort rather than fashion when he was photographed at the inauguration for President Joe Biden last week. The photo of him
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is expected to reopen enrollment on the federal Affordable Care Act exchanges on Thursday as part of a series of executive actions related to health care, taking a step to help uninsured Americans that his predecessor rejected. It will be Biden’s first move toward delivering on his campaign promise to bolster the
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