A Republican Wyoming state senator who’s running against US Rep. Liz Cheney for her House seat told a local newspaper he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18-years-old after he referenced the incident during a Facebook Live stream. Anthony Bouchard told the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper on Thursday he married the girl after she turned
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Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Bars in East Atlanta are taking a proactive approach to prevent drug overdoses. At least five people overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl at or near metro Atlanta bars this week, according to the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition. “Usually you don’t find fentanyl, an opioid,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate the discharge of a weapon in response to an Asheville Police Department call. On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at around 7:40 p.m. police responded to a call for a reported
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He would’ve liked to have done it earlier in the day, but eventually, Robert Lewandowski was a history maker. In the final minute of Bayern Munich’s 5-2 victory over Augsburg on Saturday, the Polish striker collected the rebound of Leroy Sane’s shot to tap home his 41st goal of the season. In doing so, he
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say an out-of-compliance sex offender was arrested after being found with a missing teen in southeast Portland on Thursday. Just after 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the 14600 block of Southeast Harrison Street. Officers saw
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RIDGEFIELD, Washington (KPTV) — Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue, along with TLC Towing, helped rescue a cow that had been stuck in mud for several hours Thursday afternoon. CCFR says a family milking cow slid down a 20-foot embankment and got stuck in mud up to its belly. The owners
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White House officials on Friday presented a counteroffer to Republican lawmakers on their infrastructure and jobs package that reduced the size of the proposal from $2.25 trillion to $1.7 trillion. The new offer is a decrease of $550 billion on the top line, but it still leaves the two sides far apart as the window
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A 31-year-old woman died and three other people were injured early Saturday morning, after a pickup crossed over the median and struck her vehicle head-on, according to the Kansas City Police Department. A Dodge pickup was driving northbound on Broadway Boulevard near 29th
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A house with a backyard coop found out the true meaning of the phrase, “Madder than a wet hen.” Lucky Perez has been raising chickens for a few years in her KC home, selling the eggs to neighbors through her side business, Hoops
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A woman’s terrifying story is a snapshot of what people in St. Louis City say is a rise in gunfire. Sarah Gilland stayed crouched behind a trash can for nearly three minutes, to dodge gunfire at her bus stop near North Market and Florissant.
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Tennessee State University announced it is exploring adding men’s and women’s ice hockey teams, a development that would make TSU the first of the historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, to do so. TSU, in partnership with the National Hockey League, the Nashville Predators and College Hockey Inc., is conducting a feasibility study on
Continue Reading A Black teenager in Fairfield, Connecticut, was the target of a racist Snapchat post allegedly made by a classmate earlier this month, according to the teen’s mother and the Fairfield Police Department. Sixteen-year-old Jamar Medor was sitting in his Fairfield Warde High School homeroom on May 7 when a classmate, who is White, allegedly took
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Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, police said. Seven of the victims were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries and one man was in critical condition, according to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). A verbal confrontation likely led to the shooting, police said.
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(CNN) — A principios de mayo, los médicos de la India empezaron a advertir del aumento de la mucormicosis, una infección rara y potencialmente mortal también conocida como hongo negro. Muchos de los infectados son pacientes con coronavirus, o aquellos que se han recuperado recientemente de covid-19, cuyo sistema inmunológico se ha debilitado por el
Continue Reading (CNN) — A principios de mayo, los médicos de la India empezaron a advertir del aumento de la mucormicosis, una infección rara y potencialmente mortal también conocida como hongo negro. Muchos de los infectados son pacientes con coronavirus, o aquellos que se han recuperado recientemente de covid-19, cuyo sistema inmunológico se ha debilitado por el
Continue Reading For all the people who are clamoring to get back out in the world post-vaccine, there are plenty who are saying, “nope, we aren’t ready.” Even with science of the vaccine on their side — and liberating new CDC guidance on masks issued last week — it’s about what people are comfortable doing. Getting on
Continue Reading In a CNN interview that was supposed to focus on the United Nations finding a solution to the violence between Israel and Hamas, Pakistan’s top diplomat Shah Mahmood Qureshi instead made an anti-Semitic remark. “The pressure of public opinion is mounting, and ceasefire is inevitable. Israel is losing out. They’re losing the media war despite
Continue Reading It was before 8 a.m. ET on Wednesday and President Joe Biden was on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the fourth time in a week. Outside, Biden’s helicopter was idling as he ran behind schedule. Amid the flurry of 80 calls between Washington and the Middle East, this one had not
Continue Reading Astronomer Carl Sagan famously once said that “we’re made of star stuff.” It’s a beautiful thought that the material dispersed throughout the universe when stars explode came together to form something else: life. But our own lives are too brief to watch star birth unfold. This incredible process can take tens of millions of years.
Continue Reading Ledell Lee maintained his innocence until the end. Before he was executed by the state of Arkansas in April 2017, Lee gave some of his last words to the BBC, telling the broadcaster, “My dying words will always be, as it has been: I am an innocent man.” Now, four years after Lee was put
Continue Reading Colonial Pipeline is still trying to narrow in on how its network was breached following a ransomware attack that resulted in the closing down of a critical pipeline that led to a massive gas run on the East Coast and sparked worries about supply shortages and the nation’s cyber vulnerability. The incident prompted a massive
Continue Reading America’s rural ambulance services, often sustained by volunteers, are fighting for their survival — a crisis hastened by the impact of Covid-19. More than one-third of all rural EMS are in danger of closing, according to Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association. “The pandemic has further stretched the resources of our nation’s
Continue Reading Randa Aweis, 58, waited nine years for the organ donation that would change her life. An Arab Christian, born in the Old City of Jerusalem, she was relying on regular dialysis sessions as her kidneys failed. Then the call came: A donor kidney was available. Aweis had surgery Monday at Jerusalem’s famed Hadassah University Hospital
Continue Reading Democratic activist Cam Ashling pulled out the stops ahead of Georgia’s general election last year and its recent Senate runoffs. Her Georgia Advancing Progress PAC sent 12,000 handwritten postcards in an array of languages — Korean, Vietnamese, Urdu and more — to reach voters in Georgia’s fast-growing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Her team
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hawaii (KITV) — Man’s best friend could be another tool in the fight against COVID-19 in Hawaii. Right now there’s four dogs in the state that can detect COVID-19, not in humans yet but in human samples like sweat-swabs. They’re being trained by Maui based non-profit Assistance Dogs
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Wild, stomach-churning moments are part of the experience when you buy a ticket to the crypto circus. But the past week’s volatility was enough to make some of the crypto faithful wonder whether they’ve been bamboozled. On Wednesday, a broad crypto crash wiped out about $1 trillion in market value — a staggering drop from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR, CT (WFSB) — Security has been beefed up at Amazon’s construction site in Windsor. In the past month, seven ropes tied like nooses have been discovered at the company’s new warehouse. Construction workers found them, and police are treating it as a hate crime. The construction company
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Over 50 protesters have blockaded four McDonald’s UK distribution centers and are calling for the world’s largest fast-food chain to become entirely plant-based by 2025. Animal Rebellion is stopping workers from accessing four sites across England using trucks, beacons and bamboo towers with people locked into concrete blocks at the base, said the climate and
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El Paso, Texas- It will be the battle of two air masses today that will ultimately decide who sees rain and who sees winds. Thunderstorms will develop towards the east in Hudspeth & Culberson county. However, towards the west, drier air will persist and winds will be gusting around 30-35 MPH. The storms that develop
Continue Reading There are countervailing storylines that complicate the pandemic recovery. Millions of Americans remain unemployed while companies big and small are reporting extreme difficulty in finding workers. That’s prompted a push by Republican governors — 22 so far — to reject the $300-per-week unemployment benefits that were included in the Democrats’ Covid relief bill this past
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