Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Doctors and law enforcement will provide details Thursday morning of their findings of the first fentanyl-laced ecstasy tablets in Houston. According to a news release, the Houston Forensic Science Center (HFSC) recently found the first tainted ecstasy tablets, also known as XTC. A news conference
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Ever since 5G boxes showed up in Houston, they have been blasted by homeowners who say the boxes are an eyesore. The boxes are probably here to stay, so why not make them more appealing? Cell phone companies call them “ground furniture,” and the boxes
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Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will move into the vice president’s official residence next week after their move was delayed for more than two months because of “repairs to the home,” Harris’ chief spokeswoman Symone Sanders said on Thursday. Harris and Emhoff have been temporarily living at Blair House, the President’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTH NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A South Nashville market is once again cleaning up after flood waters rushed in. This happened to Botan Market in 2010 and then again this past weekend. They had to throw out at least $200,000 worth of food. “It has been a very
Continue Reading ANTHONY, Texas — It may be April Fools Day, but legalizing marijuana in the neighboring state of New Mexico is no joke. In a special session on Wednesday night, legislators approved a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico for those aged 21 and older. The bill still has to be signed by the
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico is joining a wave of states that are legalizing recreational marijuana as its Democrat-dominated Legislature sent a package of cannabis bills to a supportive governor. Lawmakers used a marathon two-day legislative session that ended Wednesday night to push through marijuana legalization for adults over 21 and a companion bill that automatically erases
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It’s invisible in the night sky, but above us there is a cloud of more than 9,000 tons of space junk — equivalent to the weight of 720 school buses. This debris is composed of parts of old satellites as well as entire defunct satellites and rocket bodies. The debris poses risks to the International
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — After being closed for over a year due to the pandemic, a Borderland amusement park will reopen on Friday at 5 p.m. as the region’s latest entertainment option as life begins to move closer to normal. Fans of Western Playland, located at 1249 Futurity Drive in Sunland Park, will again
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Covenant HealthCare is reinstating visitor restrictions starting April 1. The changes come, as the hospital says, during the community’s increase in positivity rates and a moderate increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. “While 70 percent of our workforce has been vaccinated, and today Covenant is hosting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) — Hawaii’s homeless are dying from methamphetamine, over any other cause. On average, every three days a homeless resident dies on Oahu’s streets. Many of those sudden deaths are being blamed on meth, and so are the chronic conditions killing off this vulnerable population. Tului
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Baseball returns to Wrigley Field Thursday as the Chicago Cubs take on the Pittsburgh Pirates and unlike last year, fans are back in the stadium to cheer on the home team. The Cubs are ready to begin a new year, hoping players like Kris Bryant
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The state of Florida had alleged in 2013 that Georgia’s consumption of water resources from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin had negatively impacted Florida’s river ecosystem and collapsed its oyster industry. The court ruled Thursday that Florida had engaged in unprecedented levels of oyster harvesting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A New Haven church, burglarized. Church leaders say electronics, instruments and donations were all taken from the church in the middle of the day. “It’s sad, he feels so sad that somebody would do that,” said church leader Jonathan Gonzalez. Gonzalez and Pastor
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied countries say they have decided to gradually add back some 2 million barrels per barrel per day of oil production from May to July. They’re moving cautiously in pace with the recovery of the global economy from the Covid-19 pandemic. The group is gingerly adding
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Families held a rally to support saving the Portland Children’s Museum and Opal School from their upcoming closures. Last week, the museum’s board announced the permanent closure of both, set to happen June 30. The board said the decision was not made lightly and
Continue Reading The 19-year-old cashier who suspected George Floyd had handed him a counterfeit $20 bill said Wednesday he still feels guilt for Floyd’s death under the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer. Christopher Martin took the stand on the third day of the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, echoing other witnesses who expressed helplessness and
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The fear and outrage felt by Asian Americans after the Atlanta-area spa shootings hasn’t vanished and neither has the bias and violence that preceded it, lawmakers and activists say. A horrific attack on a 65-year-old woman in New York City this week has prompted widespread condemnation and became the latest reminder that anti-Asian bias and
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WESLACO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, speaking in Weslaco on Thursday, said, “The Biden Administration’s open border policies have created an open season for human traffickers, for drug smugglers, for cartels and gangs.” Abbott held a news conference after visiting the south Texas border to discuss Operation Lone Star, the state’s effort to ramp
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — George Floyd’s girlfriend cried on the witness stand Thursday as she told the story of how they first met in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where Floyd was a security guard with “this great Southern voice, raspy.” She also recounted how they both struggled with opioid addiction. “Both Floyd and I,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A woman charged under a rarely used federal anti-riot law is scheduled to go on trial next month, but first a judge will have to decide whether to throw the charges out. A federal grand jury indicted Tia Deyon Pugh in June after Mobile
Continue Reading The astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year — and now they have relocated a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, flew the Soyuz MS-17 capsule from its current port to another one on
Continue Reading Humanity’s first Wright Brothers moment on another planet will happen in April. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on Mars no earlier than April 8, according to NASA. It’s fitting that the mission, an experimental companion to the Perseverance rover, is carrying a piece of history. A postage stamp-size piece of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — John Hoopes, 74, has always enjoyed playing the organ ever since he was a young boy. So when he was called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy, he loved spending his preparation days playing
Continue Reading Residents of one Chicago suburb are divided over how to rechristen a school named for a founding father who enslaved hundreds of Black people. A majority of residents in Waukegan say they don’t want the district’s Thomas Jefferson Middle School to keep its name. But they haven’t yet been able to agree on someone else
Continue Reading Georgia’s Republican-controlled House on Wednesday voted to revoke a major tax break for Delta Air Lines as punishment for its CEO’s public criticism of the state’s controversial new law clamping down on ballot access. The state Senate did not take up the measure before lawmakers adjourned for the year, rendering it dead for this year
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Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey is escalating his criticism against recently passed voting laws in Georgia, saying he wants to be “crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed” in the legislation. In a new statement released Thursday, Quincey said that Coke, which is headquartered in Atlanta, has “long championed efforts to make it easier
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, South Carolina (WHNS) — South Carolina Charities, In. (SCCI) is teaming up with Univar solutions to create a program to send zero waste to the landfill at the 2021 BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by Synnex Corporation. Tournament officials say that this program is part of a three-year
Continue Reading A major fault-line within the Republican coalition over transgender student athletes has opened up, and one potential White House hopeful, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, has found herself caught in the middle. After saying earlier this month she was “excited” to sign a bill preventing transgender students from competing in same-gender sports, Noem effectively killed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (WHNS) — The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) says a man was arrested on Wednesday when he tried to break into the Tyger River Correctional Institution to distribute contraband. The SCDC says that the suspect, Nathaniel Jose Perez, was charged with Trespassing onto a
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