UPDATE # 14: The origin of the Three Rivers Fire remains unknown and under investigation but fire crews are at the halfway mark exterminating the fire. National Forest Service officials said Tuesday that the wildfire is 50 % contained as crews extend fire control lines along the southern part of the blaze in steep terrain
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Census Bureau says the population of the United States is 331,449,281. The 7.4% increase over the last decade is the second slowest ever. The Census Bureau is releasing the first data from its 2020 headcount. The release marks the official beginning of the once-a-decade redistricting battles. The numbers released Monday, along
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Click here for updates on this story PELLA, Iowa (KCCI) — A Pella family is angry after their child was left alone in a school van for hours. Three-year-old Alivea Cole is always on the go, rarely without a smile on her face. She often makes little noses to express her happiness. But her aunt,
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Joe Biden says he has a strict rule about his phone: No matter what’s happening, he always answers a call from one of his grandchildren. Biden said on the campaign trail that he kept up with them every day of the pandemic with calls and texts, and now the ritual has carried over to his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KELSO, Washington (KPTV) — Three people died and two others are hurt after a crash on I-5 Saturday morning north of Kelso. According to police and family members, a Battle Ground couple was on the side of the highway picking up their son as his car was being
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ELK GROVE, California (KCRA) — Elk Grove’s newest park is also a site of remembrance. “Singh and Kaur Park was actually scheduled to open next week,” said Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen. “We got permission to open early for our vigil.” On Saturday, Singh-Allen and other community members
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Apple is the only American company to reach a $2 trillion market value. But it could soon have a lot more company in that elite club. Microsoft is worth just under $2 trillion. Amazon has a market capitalization of $1.7 trillion, and Google owner Alphabet is worth about $1.5 trillion. Tech stocks have come roaring
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story O’FALLON, Missouri (KMOV) — A pizza debacle in St. Charles County is costing a family a lot more than just their delivery order. It happened after Sharie Ford said her son ordered delivery from the Dominos on Pheasant Meadow Drive around 11:15 Tuesday night. The family said they
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (KETV) — A Nebraska man has been arrested after police say he stole a couple’s puppy at knifepoint. On April 24, officers were called t0 Holmes Lake Dog Run in Lincoln. The victim, an 18-year-old female, reported that she went to the dog park with her
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(CNN) — Los Oscar han terminado y, a excepción quizás de los ganadores, la sensación que prevalece es más de alivio que de euforia. Si podemos quedarnos con un mensaje de la ceremonia y del evento previo, es la esperanza de que vendrán días mejores, tras una ceremonia presencial que indica la posibilidad de volver
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LENEXA, Kansas City (KMBC) — The legacy of a Lenexa firefighter who passed away from cancer is living on with new legislation in Kansas. Governor Laura Kelly recently signed the Michael Wells Memorial Act. KMBC 9 spoke with some of the people who helped get the bill passed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Even though the state said churches could allow everyone back, the Archbishop of Santa Fe is asking priests to limit the crowds and stay with the color-coded risk level their county is in, but others are ready to welcome back their congregation. Sunday,
Continue Reading As Americans have been shaken by recent mass shootings and national leaders have renewed calls for firearms reform, the Supreme Court on Monday announced it would take up a New York case that could give gun owners more freedom. The court said it would decide when states may prevent people from carrying a concealed weapon
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) — As violence continues in Mississippi’s capital city, dozens of protesters marched through downtown Jackson on Sunday in search of an end to gun violence. So far in 2021, 50 homicides have been reported. Behind these numbers are real people with families that are grieving.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FENTON, Missouri (KMOV) — Anna Zamenski and Julia McCarthy met in kindergarten and grew up as best friends. This year, the girls would have graduated high school together, but Julia died by suicide just before their sophomore year. “After Julia died, her parents said their biggest fear was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FREDERICK, Maryland (WBAL) — A school resource officer in Frederick County uncovered drugs, a pellet gun and real ammunition while investigating a man who was found asleep in a car on campus, the sheriff’s office said. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy 1st Class Dustin Turner, the
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Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pence, the 48th vice president of the United States. Personal Birth date: June 7, 1959 Birth place: Columbus, Indiana Birth name: Michael Richard Pence Father: Edward Pence, gas station owner Mother: Nancy Pence-Fritsch Marriage: Karen Pence (1985-present) Children: Michael, Charlotte and Audrey Education: Hanover College (Indiana), B.A.,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BRADENTON, Florida (WESH) — A Florida man and his three sons have been indicted on federal charges alleging they sold tens of thousands of bottles of bleach that were marketed as a “miracle cure” for COVID-19. Mark Grenon, Jonathan Grenon, Jordan Grenon and Joseph Grenon, are accused of
Continue Reading (CNN) — Cuando el fotógrafo David McMillan visitó por primera vez la ciudad de Pripyat, en 1994, esperaba que sus movimientos fueran restringidos. Apenas ocho años antes, un reactor en la cercana planta de energía nuclear de Chernobyl había explotado, forzando una evacuación en toda la región y enviando una lluvia radiactiva a toda Europa.
Continue Reading Several US Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical Monday of a California law that requires charitable organizations that solicit donations to disclose a list of their contributors to the state attorney general. The challenge is brought by conservative non profits American for Prosperity Foundation (a Koch affiliated group) and the Thomas More Law Center, who want
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The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by police in North Carolina last week is set to view police body camera footage of the shooting on Monday. Andrew Brown Jr., 42, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City on Wednesday when they attempted to serve him with an
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to county judges across Texas on Monday requesting that they send his office an estimate of the fiscal impact of the current “border crisis” on their respective communities. According to a statement from Abbott’s office, “The State of Texas will use this information to formally request
Continue Reading Authorities in New York City are asking for help to identify a man who attacked a 61-year-old Asian man last week. The victim was approached from behind on an East Harlem corner Friday, struck in the back and, after he fell to the ground, kicked in the head multiple times, New York police said. The
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Authorities in New York City are asking for help to identify a man who attacked a 61-year-old Asian man last week. The victim was approached from behind on an East Harlem corner Friday, struck in the back and, after he fell to the ground, kicked in the head multiple times, New York police said. The
Continue Reading A North Carolina city declared a state of emergency Monday morning amid concerns that video showing the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. could cause civil unrest when it’s released to the public. Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City on Wednesday when they attempted to
Continue Reading Habiba Iliyasu, 15, was asleep in her school dormitory in northwestern Nigeria when a group of armed men burst in and ordered her and her schoolmates out of bed. The schoolgirls — 279 in total — were rounded up by the men, who arrived at the school on motorbikes. “They fired guns. Some of them
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday announced an investigation into the policing practices of the Louisville Police Department. Garland made the announcement at the U.S. Justice Department, and it marks the department’s second ‘pattern or practice’ investigation of a police force in the past five days alone. The Louisville Police Department has faced heavy scrutiny over the
Continue Reading A group of House Democrats have introduced a bill to permanently expand the child tax credit and want to see it as part of President Joe Biden’s recovery plan, a new marker that could complicate the passage of the bill. The push over the child tax credit is the latest in a high stakes negotiation
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The European Union is seeking to resume “transatlantic travel as soon as it is safe to do so,” and is urging member nations to take a unified approach to opening borders to US citizens. EU officials have been “following very closely the progress of vaccination in the United States” and the speedy rollout there is
Continue Reading Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce a Justice Department investigation into the practices of the Louisville Police Department, a law enforcement source told CNN on Monday. The impending probe will come a little over a year after officers with the department shot and killed Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old aspiring nurse, in her own
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