Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Less than two weeks after losing its beloved giraffe Pongo, Zoo Miami is mourning the loss of Toshi, a black rhino who had become one of the most beloved animals in the history of the zoo. At nearly 44 years old, Toshi was believed to
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Teacher Naseeb Gill has been through a full range of reactions since the pandemic closed down in-person learning 10 months ago. She scrambled to set up virtual lessons for her fifth-grade language arts students in the spring. By fall, she was excited about returning to the classroom, but on just her second day back she
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AUSTIN, Texas — A famous Texan is proving that getting vaccinated is “Willie” cool. Willie Nelson is among the many Americans who signed up to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. During his drive-through vaccination this week in Austin, a masked Nelson posed for a series of pictures, offering the camera a thumbs-up as he received his
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States are ramping up their Covid-19 vaccination programs so more people can get vaccinated, but some governors are confused and angry because they don’t know how much vaccine the federal government will send them. “I have 2.1 million of you in line, and they gave us 60,000 [vaccine doses],” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Friday.
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Dustin Diamond, who played the role of Screech on the popular 1990s high school comedy “Saved by the Bell,” is hospitalized with cancer, his manager told CNN Friday. Diamond’s health is “serious” and he is undergoing testing at an undisclosed Florida hospital to determine the type and severity of the cancer, according to his rep.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut (WFSB) — So many businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, and here in Connecticut, it’s no different. A New Britain college student is looking to save a popular college bar/restaurant after hearing about its struggle to stay open. Melissa and Kenneth Cook, owners
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An estimated 1,000 fast food workers across the United States went on strike Friday over low wages, staging protests in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of the federal holiday next week. The demonstrations were set to take place in more than 15 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles. The strike
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The review of US Capitol security in the wake of this month’s riots will be handled by retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, the widely praised former commander of the First Army who became a household name as he coordinated relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Over the course of his career, the general
Continue Reading The numbers are in. The hottest seven years in recorded history are: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014. Notice a trend? As 2020 smashed hurricane and wildfire records, doing $90 billion worth of damage in the United States alone, new data shows last year neck-and-neck with 2016 as the hottest year in recorded
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Three off-duty Las Cruces police officers are being credited for their quick thinking this week when they stopped to help an El Paso motorist whose pickup truck had burst into flames along Interstate 10. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, an El Paso motorist was driving east on I-10 when his pickup
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James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near the town of Almonte in Ontario, Canada. He didn’t invent the game in Ontario, that would come when he was a physical education teacher
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EL PASO, Texas – Omar Ibarra’s hard work ethic both on the court and in the classroom has certainly paid off his senior year. Ibarra is one of the top basketball scorers in Ysleta’s history. He’s been on the varsity team for the Indians ever since his freshman year, and in December, he surpassed one
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Champlin Police Department has issued what it calls a friendly reminder after a “romantic entanglement” needed to be broken up in a busy parking lot. The police department posted the reminder to social media Wednesday morning and has since garnered over 1,000 likes and
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There’ll be no arguments about crowd size at Joe Biden’s inauguration — because there won’t be a crowd. In an extraordinary move that reveals the extreme state in which President Donald Trump leaves the nation, the entire monument-dotted National Mall in Washington will be closed on Wednesday. There are fears that violent pro-Trump mobs that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On Thursday, student-athletes in Minnesota returned to the court and ice rink for their first games and scrimmages of the winter sports season. Most of these sports are requiring athletes to wear masks during game play and practices. Not all students and parents are too
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Hopes of a surge in Covid-19 vaccine shipments under a new policy to release second doses held in reserve appear to be evaporating — with the revelation that those doses have already been distributed, contrary to recent indications by the Trump administration. A senior administration official told CNN that when the administration announced that it
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Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers at an Alabama facility will begin voting next month on whether to unionize their workplace, potentially paving the way for the first US-based union at the e-commerce giant. The election will allow approximately 6,000 employees at the company’s Bessemer, Alabama, facility to cast a vote by mail-in ballots beginning Feb.
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden is elevating the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet-level position, a move that highlights the emphasis the incoming administration plans to put on science as it inherits a public health crisis. Biden on Friday named Eric Lander, a principal leader of the Human Genome
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden on Friday outlined a plan to administer Covid-19 vaccines to the US population that includes opening up eligibility to get more people vaccinated, creating more vaccination sites and taking measures to increase the supply and distribution of the vaccines. His plan includes mobilizing more personnel to support the vaccination effort, launching a
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP football program announced Friday that a long-time assistant coach with Michigan State has been hired as the Miners’ new offensive coordinator. Dave Warner has spent the past 13 years on the offensive coaching staff for Michigan State. Warner has been either a quarterbacks coach or offensive coordinator for 31
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Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Leaders in the metro area business community said Thursday they were shocked to learn this week that the military wanted to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama, when the Space Force was already headquartered in our state and the aerospace industry has such
Continue Reading Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who will leave office in less than a week. stated that he ‘cannot wait to leave this job,” according to a transcript released by the Department of Defense. The admission, during a press gaggle Thursday on his way back from a trip to Nebraska, Tennessee and Colorado, was one
Continue Reading James Murdoch, the youngest son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, assailed “media property owners” and outlets that have promoted disinformation and conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 election. Murdoch did not explicitly mention Fox News, which is controlled by his father and his brother Lachlan Murdoch. But it was clear that, even
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(CNN Business) — La Asociación Nacional del Rifle de Estados Unidos (NRA por sus siglas en inglés), el principal grupo de presión por la posesión de armas del país, se declaró en bancarrota voluntaria en Texas, dijo la organización el viernes. El grupo dijo que planea salir de Nueva York y reincorporarse como una organización
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — As many students and staff prepare to head back into the classroom this semester, some argue if teachers aren’t vaccinated, it’s too soon to learn in-person. At least 600 students, teachers, parents, and staff at East High School have signed a new petition calling on
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EL PASO, Texas – A 45-year-old El Paso woman has been arrested after she allegedly yelled at an employee at a smoothie shop using racially charged language and then threw her drink at the worker. Pamela Underwood has been arrested and charged with assault, police said Friday. The incident happened at a Tropical Smoothie store
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KPIX) — Some Bay Area residents over age 65 got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday but others are finding out that — just because they’re eligible — it doesn’t mean the shot is easy to get. “It ended up being two
Continue Reading Rep. John Garamendi said Friday that he was concerned that fellow representatives who want to be armed at the Capitol were a threat to him and other lawmakers. When asked by CNN’s Brooke Baldwin whether, regarding members trying to bring guns into the Capitol, he thought that one of his fellow members of Congress might
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, FL (WFOR) — An Orlando waitress is being hailed a hero after helping a boy escape from a possibly abusive home. Flavaine Carvalho was working at Mrs. Potato Restaurant on New Year’s Day when she noticed a family walk in. A man, woman, 11-year-old boy, and four-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATHERTON, California (KPIX) — Hours of staring at our own faces on video calls during lockdown have gradually made certain features more prominent and bothersome. As a result, plastic surgeons across the country are seeing an uptick in patients seeking surgical and non-surgical treatments. Call it a “Zoom
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