By ANDREW MASSE Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — City officials revealed some details regarding this year’s Pride celebration. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin announced that this year’s event will be held from September 6-11 in Bushnell Park. A variety of events and activities will be held throughout the week, culminating
Continue Reading By KAITLYN NAPLES Click here for updates on this story New Fairfield, Connecticut (WFSB) — A new water quality report on Wednesday showed all state park swimming areas are open, except two. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said Wednesday that the Squantz Pond State Park swimming area is closed after bacteria was detected
Continue Reading By CHUCK MORRIS Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Transportation Security Administration officers at Nashville International Airport discovered 25 firearms at security checkpoints in July, the highest monthly total on record for the airport. While firearms may be transported in checked baggage, provided they are declared to the airline, in
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business CVS will raise its minimum wage for hourly workers from $11 to $15 by next summer, becoming the latest large US chain to pledge a $15 starting rate as companies compete for workers in a tight labor market. The pharmacy giant, which has nearly 300,000 employees, said Wednesday that it
Continue Reading By Eric Grossarth, EastIdahoNews.com Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, ID (eastidahonews.com) — A woman will spend time on probation for fleeing police while she drove to a hospital. Blair Alan Morgan, 29, of Rexburg, pleaded guilty in May to felony eluding police and was sentenced on Monday to a four-year term
Continue Reading By Eric Grossarth, EastIdahoNews.com Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, ID (eastidahonews.com) — Deputies say an Idaho Falls woman deceived an undocumented immigrant into giving her tens of thousands of dollars. Maria Martinez, 44, is charged with felony grand theft by deception. According to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by EastIdahoNews.com,
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former President Donald Trump’s legal team formally stepped into a long-running fight over a US House request for his tax returns, claiming Trump’s financial history is being unfairly pursued for political reasons by Democrats and seeking to end House Ways and Means Committee investigations into the ex-President
Continue Reading By ELAINE EMERSON Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, NV (KVVU) — VICI Properties Inc. will buy MGM Growth Properties LLC for $17.2 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal would allow VICI to redeem a majority of the MGP operating partnership held by MGM Resorts for $43
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Masks on. Masks off. Masks on … again. New federal guidance last week urged everyone — regardless of vaccination status — to mask up in areas with substantial or high Covid transmission whenever they’re in an indoor public setting. In the absence of legal rules issued by local authorities —
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque authorities say a fire Wednesday destroyed a small set at the Netflix film studios. Chief Tom Ruiz of Albuquerque Fire Rescue said crews responding to the pre-dawn blaze found the set “fully involved” in flames and smoke. He said the fire was extinguished quickly but that the set was a
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El gobernador demócrata de Nueva York, Andrew Cuomo, acosó sexualmente a 11 mujeres y creó un ambiente de trabajo “hostil” para las mujeres, según un informe publicado el martes por la fiscal general de Nueva York, Letitia James. Los hallazgos condenatorios de su revisión civil sobre las acusaciones de acoso
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Vanguard, one of the world’s largest asset managers, is offering employees $1,000 to get vaccinated. The incentive shows how aggressively some companies are moving to encourage workers to get vaccinated as concerns about the Delta variant mount. All of Vanguard’s approximately 16,500 US employees are eligible and must show proof
Continue Reading By MATT KLING Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, NV (KVVU) — As families around the Las Vegas Valley get ready for their children to return to school, some students will be attending new schools, as families chose to transfer their students from public to private and charter schools. Preston Grinstead is
Continue Reading By DAVID CALTABIANO Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, AZ (KTVK, KPHO) — The owner of North Mountain Brewing Company told Arizona’s Family that they closed for Tuesday to give their staff a break. The few employees they do have are picking up all the slack. Some are working 70 hours a week
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By Jack Guy, CNN The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru was occupied from around 1420-1530 AD, several decades earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. A team of researchers, led by Richard Burger, a professor of anthropology at Yale University, used radiocarbon dating to reveal that the emperor Pachacuti, who built
Continue Reading By JASON BARRY Click here for updates on this story SAN TAN VALLEY, AZ (KTVK, KPHO) — Five-year-old Irene Kim and her 8-year old sister Rosalind were excited to start school. But the thrill of being back in class at Eduprize Elementary didn’t last long. Their mother, Heidi Kim, said that Irene just tested positive
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By Jen Christensen, CNN The more contagious Delta variant is spreading fast across the US, but children under 12 cannot get the best protection there is — a vaccine. Nonetheless, pediatricians say there are still easy things parents can do to keep help kids safe from Covid-19, particularly as they go back to school. The
Continue Reading By Candace McCowan Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WABC) — Wednesday, there will be a protest outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office, led by Republican Mayoral Candidate Curtis Sliwa, demanding Cuomo resign and not prolong the process. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont,
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By Gregory Wallace, CNN Frontier Airlines now says it “supports” and will pay the crew of flight attendants it had earlier said were suspended after restraining a passenger charged with groping and punching them. The airline initially told CNN the crew members “will be, as required in such circumstances, relieved of flying pending completion of
Continue Reading Frontier Airlines employees duct-tape an unruly passenger to a chair after he broke out into violence during a flight.
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business General Motors’ earnings fell short of Wall Street forecasts — but the company expects better results in the second half of the year, even with continued chip shortages and rising raw material costs. GM, the nation’s largest automaker, reported Wednesday a record adjusted pre-tax profit of $4.1 billion for the
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ATLANTA, Georgia — The highly-infectious Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 93.4% of all coronavirus cases now occurring in the United States, according to figures published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday. This includes several sub-lineages of Delta, all of which are classified as variants of concern. Together, they made up
Continue Reading By Eyewitness News Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK CITY, NY (WABC) — This is a huge day for New York City. There is a play opening on Broadway tonight for previews, the first one in a year and a half, as more venues require proof of vaccination for entry. In fact,
Continue Reading By HAYLEY MASON, JOSH MORGAN Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — The Atlanta Police Department has released several new photos of people they say were in or around Piedmont Park on the night Katie Janness was murdered. Police say the people in the images are not considered suspects, and APD
Continue Reading By DREW REEVES Click here for updates on this story RIDGEFIELD, WA (KPTV) — Family, friends, coworkers, and complete strangers gathered to remember the life of Sgt. Jeremy Brown. Brown was killed in the line of duty while working as a narcotics officer on July 23. The Clark County sheriff’s deputy was killed by a
Continue Reading CNN Staff If you’re planning to travel to New York City, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect regarding Covid-19 if you want to visit. The latest news New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul announced September 7 that face masks are now optional in multiple settings where they were previously required. For tourists visiting
Continue Reading By FOX 12 STAFF Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Firefighters have responded to a “significant” gas leak in northeast Portland and residents in the area have been evacuated early Wednesday morning. Portland Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched to Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Northeast Prescott Street
Continue Reading By STEPHANIE BAUMER, DIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCER Click here for updates on this story VENICE, Ill. (KMOV) — An officer died following an early morning incident on the McKinley Bridge. The officer was putting spike stripes on the bridge around 3 a.m. to stop a suspect vehicle that was being pursued by Brooklyn police. The suspect
Continue Reading By BETSY WEBSTER Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) — The announcement from the City of Independence Tuesday was sudden and brief with little explanation of why a mandate would be lifted so soon after being imposed. “Following careful consideration, we are rescinding the public health order and returning to the
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first shots. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the appeal on Wednesday mostly to wealthier
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