Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — A former St. Louis County officer is facing charges, accused of inappropriately using a police database to look up sensitive information about 17 other officers. Amy Loftus, 38, is charged with five counts of misuse of information by a public official. Between
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A sword taken from a historical monument in Westfield, Massachusetts has been returned by the man who took it as part of a college prank about 40 years ago, according to a city official. Cindy Gaylord, the head of Westfield’s historical commission, received a phone call three weeks before Christmas from a man saying he
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials reported that confirmed Covid-19 infections in New Mexico now total 147,315, including the 936 additional cases reported Monday. More than 2,570 deaths statewide have been linked to the virus since the pandemic began, including 23 added fatalities reported Monday. Among those latest deaths were five in southern
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President-elect Joe Biden said electing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Tuesday’s runoff elections would end the gridlock in Washington and allow a Democrat-controlled Senate to provide $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans. “If you send Jon and the Reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks will go out the door, restoring hope and decency
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Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Monday approved a request from the mayor of Washington to deploy DC National Guard forces to the city to support local authorities during pro-Trump demonstrations scheduled in the city this week, a defense official told CNN. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the request Thursday in a letter addressed to Maj.
Continue Reading President Donald Trump had been trying for weeks to get Georgia’s secretary of state on the phone. Aghast at the thought he lost a state Republicans have held for decades, and desperate to reverse the result, the President insisted to his advisers he could persuade the state’s top election official to validate his false claims
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EL PASO, Texas — A man was struck by a vehicle and killed Monday evening in El Paso’s Lower Valley. The incident happened at North Loop Drive and Emerson Street. Authorities said the pedestrian was hit about 6:05 p.m. and police traffic investigators were summoned a short time later to determine who was at fault
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(CNN) — La actriz Tanya Roberts, quien según informaron CNN y otros medios de comunicación que había muerto —citando a su publicista de toda la vida, Mike Pingel— todavía está viva, dijo Pingel a CNN el lunes. Pingel dijo que el domingo por la noche la pareja de Roberts, Lance O’Brien, le notificó que Roberts
Continue Reading Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia will oppose the certification of the Electoral College results on Wednesday, she said in a statement released Monday evening. “On January 6th, I will vote to give President Trump and the American people the fair hearing they deserve and support the objection to the Electoral College certification process,” Loeffler
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El canciller de Bolivia, Rogelio Mayta, dio positivo por coronavirus, según informó este lunes el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del país en un breve comunicado. «El canciller se encuentra estable. Y tal como establecen los protocolos de bioseguridad, se encuentra aislado y bajo el debido control médico», indicó la nota oficial. Hasta
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Una pasarela peatonal en el municipio Libertador en Caracas, Venezuela, colapsó este lunes, y dejó al menos una persona sin vida y a otras 3 heridas, según la alcaldesa Erika Farías. A los lesionados se les trasladó al Hospital Miguel Perez Carreño del oeste de Caracas para recibir atención, informó Farías. Al
Continue Reading A top Georgia election official said Monday that “everybody’s vote did count” in the state’s November elections as he shot down a list of voter fraud conspiracy theories President Donald Trump aired in a call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger this weekend. “The reason I’m having to stand here today is because there
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Hundreds of employees at Google and its parent, Alphabet, have launched a union, a rare step for the tech industry that also represents the biggest and most organized challenge yet to the company’s executive leadership. Announced Monday morning, the Alphabet Workers’ Union will be run by employees and open both to full-time workers and contractors
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Nashville, TN (WSMV) — A new mural downtown is honoring the six Metro Police officers who helped evacuate the downtown area moments before a bomb exploded on Christmas morning. The mural, designed by the people behind the I Believe in Nashville mural, was finished early Monday morning. They
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EL PASO, Texas — Following a meeting Monday between El Paso area school leaders and local health officials, the three major districts all agreed to stay with online classes for now – but also signaled that they could begin the phased-in return of some students to school campuses later this month. With current hospitalization rates
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una escultura de hormigón enorme que parece una vulva humana ha causado revuelo en Brasil. La pieza hecha a mano de 33 metros de largo es obra de la artista visual Juliana Notari, quien la instaló en la ladera de la Usina de Arte, un parque rural de arte en el estado de
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EL PASO, Texas — The city of El Paso has officially run out of Covid-19 vaccines as of Monday afternoon, according to Fire Chief Mario D’agostino, who also serves as the city’s emergency management head. The city will now have to wait until they receive the next shipment of vaccine, but there’s no immediate word
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Sia is explaining why she cast Maddie Ziegler rather than an actor with autism in her new movie, “Music.” The “Chandelier” singer appeared on Australia’s “The Sunday Project,” to explain the reasoning behind her casting choice. Ziegler is set to play Music, a teen with autism who ends up living with her drug-dealing sister Zu,
Continue Reading Many conservative House Republicans defended President Donald Trump in the aftermath of his phone call demanding Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” the votes needed for him to win the elections in his state — as Democrats drafted a resolution seeking to censure Trump over the matter. After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy downplayed
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ATLANTA (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Atlanta has left his position. Byung J. “BJay” Pak’s resignation Monday came a day after an audio recording was made public in which President Donald Trump called him a “never-Trumper.” Pak was sworn in as U.S. attorney in the Atlanta-based Northern District of Georgia in October 2017
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — An 83-year-old man is in the intensive care unit after he was bound, gagged, and robbed inside his North Philadelphia home on New Year’s Eve. Tonight, his family is pleading for answers. “Honestly, I’m still in disbelief,” Geo Gesmundo said. Gesmundo is on edge. His
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — As we begin a new year, it will still be the same stresses for nurses juggling a global pandemic. “Some of the experiences I was having, symptoms of burnout — it’s an understatement to say it’s tough to work at the bedside,” said Anthony Berardi,
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Hospitals now have to disclose the rates they privately negotiate with insurers under a Trump administration rule that took effect Friday. While President Donald Trump has boasted that the historic measure will save patients money, health policy experts aren’t so sure. And hospitals, which unsuccessfully fought the rule in court, say it’s an extra burden
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reimposed a lockdown in England on Monday as a more transmissible variant of Covid-19 fuels a surge in infections and hospitalizations in the country. “It is clear that we need to do more to bring this new variant under control,” Johnson said. “That means the government is once again instructing
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — Donors reportedly sent tens of thousands of dollars to replace a Queens community refrigerator in the hours after pictures emerged showing it was destroyed by vandalism. State Sen. Jessica Ramos said in a Tweet on Sunday, “After a rough start to the new year,
Continue Reading A decision on whether to charge the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot Jacob Blake is expected to come in the next two weeks, and city officials are preparing for the possibility of unrest. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Gravely will deliver his charging decision within the first two weeks of January, according to a
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to make it a crime to sell or administer the Covid-19 vaccine to anyone trying to skip ahead in the line. The governor said in a news conference Monday that any entity misrepresenting who they are or distributing the vaccine to those who aren’t yet eligible should lose their
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — It was a heist that could have been out of a movie. Cameras captured two thieves stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a Bronx discount store. As CBS2’s Ali Bauman reported Friday, the suspects are still on the loose. Surveillance video shows two
Continue Reading (CNN) — La vicepresidenta electa de Estados Unidos, Kamala Harris, criticó al presidente Donald Trump y su llamada de presión al secretario de Estado de Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, para «encontrar» votos que anulen los resultados de las elecciones, lo que calificó como un «abuso de poder descarado y atrevido». El domingo en Savannah, Georgia, Harris
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The apparently unrelated deaths of two female Army soldiers in Texas are under investigation after officials said one died after being shot in her car on a freeway on New Year’s Day and the other was discovered dead in her military barracks on New Year’s Eve. The soldiers were identified as
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