Click here for updates on this story CARLISLE, Pa. (WPMT ) — A bang and a bright light woke up the quiet residential street. It was 1:30 a.m. in Carlisle, and a crashed car was burning. “We were the very first to be on scene,” said Grace Snyder, an EMT with Cumberland Goodwill EMS. Snyder
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – It’s been nearly a year since New Mexico bars closed their doors to the public. “It’s so sad to walk in there and see what it was,” said Alex Macias, the owner of Rad Retrocade in Las Cruces. “The community loved it. “It’s been very sad.” When Covid-19 arrived in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PENNSYLVANIA, USA (WPMT) — Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman announced he is “exploring” a run for the U.S. Senate via Twitter on Friday. In his tweet, Fetterman highlighted the things he stands for including “reimagining criminal justice reform”, “redemption”, and “ending the war on drugs”. Later, he also tweeted
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — A drive-thru Covid-19 vaccine clinic sounds like an easy way to vaccinate thousands of people in an efficient way. One in Lake County, Illinois has been working well. The county north of Chicago opened the drive-thru clinic for health care workers who do
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTHINGTON, CT (WFSB) — Connecticut has reached a new milestone in the fight against COVID-19 and it is certainly good news. The last nursing home left in the vaccine phase received its first dose on Friday. Governor Ned Lamont said the positivity rate hovers around 8.5 percent. Meanwhile,
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Footballers don’t usually smile after losing a game 4-1, but all is forgiven in the case of teenager Louie Barry. The 17-year-old was part of a youthful Aston Villa team — with an average age of 18 years — that was beaten by Liverpool in the English FA Cup third round on Friday. The FA
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta, GA (WGCL) — The Georgia State University school officials announced Friday that all men’s basketball team activities will be paused due to multiple positive COVID-19 test results. The school says this will impact Tier 1 individuals which include student-athletes, coaches, and support staff. According to school officials,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Frackville, PA (WNEP) — “Training essential workers.” – That’s a commonly used saying at the Schuylkill Technology Center North Campus near Frackville. “For me, I just learn better hands-on. It just comes naturally to me. It’s easier to learn in this type of environment instead of trying to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A St. Louis company is now the first in the state to be granted a license to both cultivate and manufacture medical marijuana and be able to do it under one roof. The state granted Proper Cannabis a license to grow marijuana plants
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(CNN Español) — La jefa de Gobierno de Ciudad de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, indicó este sábado en su cuenta de Twitter que el incendio en el puesto central de control del metro de la ciudad está 90% controlado. Sheiunbaum comunicó que al menos una persona falleció por «una caída» y que 29 trabajadores fueron trasladados
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Aalayah Eastmond was scrolling through Twitter this week when she saw a meme comparing lawmakers on lockdown at the Capitol to students during active-shooter drills in public schools. Eastmond survived the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. She was a junior and recalls sheltering in place that day
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Money is coming in for a scholarship honoring a nurse shot and killed on I-440 in December. Caitlyn Kaufman was on her way to work at St. Thomas West when it happened. The scholarship is called the Caitlyn Kaufman Legacy Nursing Scholarship at Butler
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Wendy Walsh has gone from frustrated to angry about the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine in Florida. She wants her mom protected, fearing that if the 92-year-old gets the virus, it’s essentially a death sentence. “It’s like a ticking time bomb — you’re just waiting,” Walsh told CNN. Her mom, Marie Schreiner, lives in an
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El Paso, Texas- Temperatures will be relatively mild this afternoon as we anticipate a cold front to push into the area later tonight. Winds will be breezy today from the Southeast around 10-15 MPH. Today highs temps will be in the lower 60s, but by tomorrow we will struggle to see afternoon highs in the
Continue Reading After a nightmarish 2020 of relentless bad news, this year seemed like a fresh start. No more blaming catastrophes on a calendar year that’s clearly jinxed. Venomous caterpillars? Oh, well, 2020. Murder hornets? So 2020. That was behind us. Or so we thought. Then came January 1, and the daily barrage of news — good
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Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said. “In the context of horrific events this week, we made
Continue Reading When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, nursing homes across the United States scrambled to protect their vulnerable residents. They shut their doors and banned visitors, leaving seniors isolated from the outside world. It was only March, but 16-year-old Hita Gupta suspected that life wouldn’t return to normal for a long time. To support lonely seniors
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As a mob of Trump supporters invaded the Capitol in Washington and breached the American legislature for the first time since 1814, efforts to mobilize the National Guard in an unprecedented crisis were hamstrung by bureaucracy and confusion between Pentagon, DC government and Capitol police officials. An official familiar with conversations in the DC government
Continue Reading Yakarta, Indonesia (CNN) — La aerolínea Sriwijaya Air de Indonesia perdió contacto con un avión que despegó de Yakarta el sábado, según el jefe del Comité Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte de Indonesia, Suryanto Cahyono. El vuelo SJY 182 de Sriwijaya Air que iba de Yakarta a Pontianak perdió contacto el sábado a las 2:40
Continue Reading (CNN) — La supermodelo británica Stella Tennant se quitó la vida el mes pasado, confirmó su familia, diciendo que la estrella de los años 90 «se sentía incapaz de seguir adelante». Tennant, quien evitó la estética tradicionalmente femenina y esculpió una imagen icónica y vanguardista que rara vez se ve en la pasarela, murió poco
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The fried chicken sandwich wars sparked by Popeyes in 2019 are still clucking along two years later — and they’re heating up again. This week, KFC, McDonald’s, Shake Shack and even salad-chain Sweetgreen kicked off the new year with their own takes on the crispy concoction. Cheap, tasty and growing in sales, fried chicken sandwiches
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Dr. Elmer Huerta, oncólogo, especialista en Salud Pública y colaborador de CNN, fue uno de los voluntarios para el ensayo de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de la farmacéutica Moderna. Han sido ya varios meses de estudio y así fue como finalmente le revelaron si le habían administrado un placebo o
Continue Reading As the NFL regular season came to a close, Michael Carsley knew the penalty for finishing last in his fantasy football league. Their rule: Whoever ended that season at the bottom of the league had to spend 24 hours in a Waffle House. For every waffle eaten, one hour would be removed from the total
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A huge sinkhole, about 22,000 square feet across and 66 feet deep, swallowed several cars and forced the evacuation of a Covid ward after opening up in the parking lot of a hospital in southern Italy on Friday. The incident took place around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to the Ospedale del Mare hospital in
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El 18 de diciembre, una enfermera de emergencias en San Diego se vacunó contra el covid-19. Y una semana después, dio positivo por coronavirus, informó la afiliada de CNN KGTV. Historias como esta serán cada vez más comunes a medida que millones de estadounidenses reciban las vacunas de Pfizer/BioNTech y Moderna en los
Continue Reading It’s been almost five months since Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Officer Rusten Sheskey. Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down. No charges were brought
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On the heels of the country’s deadliest week since the Covid-19 pandemic’s start, state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the state was seeing a “real and significant increase in cases and our positivity rate from people’s gatherings around the holiday.” “This surge that we’re
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The US reported more Covid-19 cases and deaths in the last week than any previous seven days during the pandemic, data showed Friday morning. And more than 4,080 US coronavirus deaths were reported on Thursday alone — the most ever reported in a single day during the pandemic and the first time the daily tally
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Men and women who endorse “hegemonic masculinity” — an idealized form of manhood where White, heterosexual men have power, status and dominance over women, gay men, men with disabilities, racial or religious minorities and other groups — are more likely to be supporters for US President Donald Trump than those who don’t embrace dominant masculinity,
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British filmmaker and documentarian Michael Apted died Thursday night in Los Angeles at the age of 79, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced in a statement Friday. No details about his death were immediately available. “Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the passing of esteemed director, longtime DGA leader and my friend
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