Attorney General Merrick Garland has launched a 30-day “expedited review” to figure out how the Justice Department can “deploy all the tools at its disposal” to combat hate crimes across the country, according to a memo released Tuesday. The effort comes on the heels of a rise in hate crimes and hate incidents — specifically
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Click here for updates on this story DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register and Bee) — Five inmates at the Danville Adult Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the second outbreak at the facility this month and the third since December. The inmates tested positive last week and are in quarantine, said Frank Mardavich, the
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Police in Boulder, Colorado, are paying tribute to 10 people who lost their lives in last week’s shooting at a grocery store in the city. The Boulder Police Department announced Tuesday that it has put the names of those who died in the shooting on decals on its vehicles. The victims included a Boulder police
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Kentucky’s Republican-led General Assembly this week passed bipartisan voting reform legislation setting rules for absentee and early voting — an exception to increasingly polarized partisan efforts in multiple states to remake election rules in the wake of the 2020 presidential race. The bill, which received widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans in the Republican-led
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(CNN) — El nuevo coronavirus que causa el covid-19 probablemente se propagó a las personas a través de un animal, según el informe final de 120 páginas de la Organización Mundial de la Salud. El informe, publicado el martes, da cuatro posibles fuentes del virus: transmisión directa de una fuente animal, descrita como «desbordamiento»; que
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lyndon, Wisconsin (wiscnews.com) — Court documents from a double homicide in the town of Lyndon show authorities believe the victims were murdered using a baseball bat following an argument. Deputies from the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office found the bodies of Tina Decorah, 42, and Duane Mallory, 33, at
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DONNA, Texas — The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 migrants, including children and families, were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOLINE, Illinois (Quad-City Times) — A Moline High School teacher is on leave after allegedly sharing a homemade sex video on SnapChat in November, where it was seen by multiple students. The Moline Dispatch-Argus and Quad-City Times on Monday obtained a copy of a heavily redacted Moline Police
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is increasing the regular season to 17 games and reducing the preseason to three games to generate additional revenue for America’s most popular sport. Team owners on Tuesday approved the 17th game as expected, marking the first time in 43 years the regular season has been increased. It went
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Gwinnett County’s tax commissioner and one member of its Board of Commissioners are engaged in a public dispute over whether the county’s top tax official should charge eight cities that use her office for tax billing a fee that would reportedly
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A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the pronouns of a transgender student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally disciplined
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FARMINGTON, Maine (WMTW) — Farmington police say a woman was killed Monday morning when strong winds caused a tree branch to fall onto her moving car. Police say the incident occurred along Knowlton Corner Road shortly before 10 a.m. Rochelle Hager, 31, of Waterville died at the scene
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With so many challenges facing us here on Earth — the pandemic, climate change, the economy — it might seem like an odd time to focus on space. But space exploration offers enormous benefits for all of us. There’s a long list of innovations that have emerged as a result of space research that have
Continue Reading The Internal Revenue Service will start sending stimulus payments to low-income Social Security recipients this weekend, and expects most of the money to be received electronically on April 7. Most eligible households have already received the stimulus payments approved by Congress in the latest Covid relief bill passed earlier this month. Roughly 127 million payments
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A professional mixed martial arts fighter who came upon the scene of George Floyd’s death testified Tuesday that he called 911 after watching former officer Derek Chauvin’s actions on May 25, 2020. “I called the police on the police,” Donald Wynn Williams II testified Tuesday. “I believed I witnessed a murder.” Williams, whose testimony began
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Phoenix (KPHO/KTVK) — Phoenix police have released dramatic body camera video of officers saving a man from a burning car last week. The crash happened near 34th Street and Osborn Road at around 6:30 a.m. last Thursday. Phoenix police said when officers arrived to the crash, they found
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — Virgin Galactic rolled out its newest spaceship Tuesday as the company looks to resume test flights in the coming months at its headquarters in the New Mexico desert. Company officials said it will likely be summer before the ship — designed and manufactured in California — undergoes glide flight
Continue Reading Officer Eric Talley was remembered for his bravery at a public funeral in Lafayette, Colorado, on Tuesday — one week after giving his life as the first police officer to arrive at the King Soopers store where a gunman killed 10 people. “This is part of that bravery, in that, rightfully so, everyone in that
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Japan recorded the second-biggest win in its history, thrashing Mongolia 14-0 in a World Cup 2022 qualifier. Werder Bremen striker Yuya Osako scored a hat trick, while Liverpool midfielder Takumi Minamino — who is currently on loan at Southampton — was also on the scoresheet. Mongolia, who are ranked No. 190 in the world, registered
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — Students are learning about the human body from models dead and alive. Anatomy and art students have used the Real Bodies exhibit on the Las Vegas Strip to practice. A local performer serves as a model and poses alongside the cadavers on exhibit for
Continue Reading The Biden administration is expanding the pause on student loan interest and collections to the more than a million borrowers who are in default on loans made by private lenders, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. “This step particularly protects 800,000 borrowers who are at risk of having their tax refunds seized,” Psaki
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GameStop is adding to its growing list of new executives hired from Amazon and Chewy with the hope of turning the struggling, longtime mall staple into an e-commerce powerhouse. The video game retailer on Tuesday announced the hire of Elliott Wilke as its chief growth officer. Wilke spent the past seven years at Amazon, including
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WACO, Texas — A Texas state trooper and married father of four children, who remains hospitalized after being shot while in the line of duty, “no longer displays signs of valuable brain activity,” authorities said. “After extensive life-saving efforts conducted by the Baylor Scott and White medical professionals, it has been determined that Trooper Chad Walker no
Continue Reading Chipotle is jumping into the bitcoin craze. Sort of. No, the chain isn’t accepting the cryptocurrency as payment for its Mexican dishes. Instead, Chipotle is giving away $100,000 worth of bitcoin on Thursday to celebrate National Burrito Day. The contest marks the first time a US restaurant chain has given away bitcoin, according to Chipotle.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Georgia (WGCL) — Georgia State Patrol announced a settlement with 26 troopers who were accused of cheating on a radar test during Trooper School. In January 2020, GSP announced state troopers were fired after an investigation, according to the GSP, revealed the troopers cheated on their radar tests
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EDMOND, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers on Monday night rescued a 4-year-old child who was abducted out of North Texas. Authorities said the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force put out an alert on a vehicle, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers were able to track it down to
Continue Reading Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s head and neck for 4 minutes and 45 seconds as Floyd cried out for help, stayed on his neck as Floyd flailed and had seizures for 53 seconds, and then remained on a non-responsive Floyd for another 3 minutes and 51 seconds, prosecutors said during
Continue Reading George Floyd’s public death under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last May set off an intense debate about societal issues on anti-Black racism, on police accountability and on the entire American criminal justice system. But over the next four weeks, the debate in Chauvin’s trial inside a Hennepin County, Minnesota, courthouse
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — After a year of virtual commencement ceremonies, students at New Mexico State University will be able to graduate in person this May. Tickets will be required for the ceremonies, which will take place at Aggie Memorial Stadium, according to NMSU. Students are allowed two guests. The first ceremony will be
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BERLIN, Germany — German health officials have agreed to restrict the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in people under 60, amid fresh concern over unusual blood clots reported in a tiny number of those who received the shots. Health Minister Jens Spahn and state officials agreed unanimously to only give the vaccine to people aged
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