Click here for updates on this story CARROLL, IA (WQAD) — Several fire departments spent hours late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning putting out a fire at a propane business in rural Carroll County. According to a volunteer firefighter on the scene, crews worked the fire from 10 p.m. Tuesday to 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. People
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MAGAZINE, AR (KFSM) — A man was found dead after trying to rescue a calf from a frozen pond in the Magazine area. According to the Logan County Sheriff’s Office, Jesse Roberts, 69, of Magazine, died after falling into his frozen pond while attempting to free a calf
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, IA (WQAD) — Anonymous racist trolls on Saturday crashed a public meeting of Iowa state lawmakers on the video conferencing service, Zoom. The “Zoom bombing” of a virtual legislative forum hosted by four Des Moines area lawmakers comes one week after a similar incident on a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — Students at one mountain school are jumping for joy — and for a healthy heart. Coach Thomas Callahan is using a jump rope to show his students how they can exercise in small spaces. Since students in the Asheville City Schools system are still
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB) — Drivers were warned to brace for higher gas prices in the coming days and months. GasBuddy blamed the effects that a stretch of extremely cold weather has had on refineries across the country. GasBuddy said millions of barrels of refining capacity went offline because
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITTLETON, CO (KCNC) — Two homeowners are still waiting to learn the fate of their Black Lives Matter flag. In December, Kara and Ben Willkoff received a letter from the HOA saying their flag was not approved. “I looked in the bylaws to figure out if we were
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Los Angeles (KCAL/KCBS) — The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Tuesday voted to cut 133 positions from the L.A. School Police Department, ban the use of pepper spray on students and divert $25 million in funding cut from the department to better support Black students.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — Police officers are not among the groups who are next in line for vaccines. But calls are growing louder from South Florida to change that. “A report came out, Florida’s ground zero for this new strain, this B117,” said El Portal Police Chief David
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Dallas (KTVT) — Now that we are past the preparedness phase of the winter blast we are experiencing in North Texas, hundreds of our neighbors are reporting being stranded in their homes without power, gas, or running water. For many of them, survival mode has kicked in. Retired
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHERRY HILL, NJ (KYW) — A South Jersey man made it his mission to collect books for classrooms. He gave away a quarter-million of them before the pandemic. But he hasn’t stopped! We met Larry Abrams in February 2020, hard at work in Cherry Hill. Piling up tens
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Manchester, New Hampshire (WBZ) — New Hampshire police issued a warrant for a 24-year-old who is accused of leaving severed rabbit heads on a woman’s car. Manchester Police said Tuesday the warrant stems from a December incident involving 24-year-old Estevan Hincapie. On December 29, a woman told police
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Baltimore (WJZ) — We’re all trying to take steps to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially wearing a mask when traveling. But one man said he was recently taken off a flight because of the mask he was wearing. Rob Joseph said he was taken off his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — A Sacramento woman was excited to receive her new Real ID until she opened it up and saw the driver’s license photo shows her wearing her face mask. Lesley Pilgrim received the ID in the mail with a greeting reading, “Congratulations, enclosed is your
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MORAGA, CA (KPIX) — A coyote that attacked and bit a child walking with a parent in a Moraga neighborhood Tuesday morning may be responsible for other recent attacks in the area. Moraga police said the attack happened at about 8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Calle la
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PLYMPTON, MA (WCVB) — Police say they are working with Amazon to complete the delivery of dozens of undelivered packages after they were found in the woods Wednesday. The packages were found near Brook Street in Plympton, police said. Photos from the department show that many of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MODESTO, CA (KCRA) — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder after the deadly shooting of the owner of a taco truck in Modesto. Modesto police said officers went to the 1600 block of Monterey Avenue around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday after there were reports of a shooting.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAMILTON COUNTY, OH (WLWT) — After a winter storm swept through Greater Cincinnati on Monday, many residents had to clear their driveways of snow — but one family got creative. Kevin Koch of Bridgetown handcrafted a small snowplow using his son’s motorized toy car. Koch’s 2-year-old son, Owen,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WISN) — Two Marquette students are facing backlash over a video posted to social media that shows them using racial slurs. The students involved are a Marquette sophomore and a Marquette freshman, who was a member of the university’s lacrosse team. Marquette officials confirmed the student-athlete
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — Lots of people living in Chicago are dealing with a one-two punch. Not only are they buried under a foot or more of snow, but they also are stuck with what is in some cases weeks’ worth of garbage. As CBS 2’s Charlie De
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, OR (KPTV) — As line crews continue to work around the clock to restore power, communities are doing what they can to show support for them. There was a very special delivery Wednesday morning at a fire station in Marion County for crews headed out on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Fredericktown, Missouri (Daily Journal) — Cold temperatures may be responsible for a sprinkler system malfunction that dumped approximately 2,000 gallons of water inside Kelly A. Burlison Middle School in Fredericktown Tuesday morning. The Fredericktown Fire Department responded to a call at 11:10 a.m. Tuesday to Kelly A. Burlison
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Butte, Montana (Montana Standard) — A judge on Wednesday sentenced a man accused of hijacking a bus and holding a man hostage in Butte to 10 years in custody of state mental health officials, who can later transfer him to any number of supervised facilities. Prosecutors recommended the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Davenport, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — Tim Alexander knew something was wrong around 2 p.m. Tuesday when he pulled into the parking lot of PR Masonry and saw Andrew Rupp inside his mother, Dianne Rupp’s, car. “That was weird,” Alexander said. “Dianne would never let her son (Andrew Rupp)
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Racine, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — A 57-year-old Racine woman, Margie Jean Phillips, is facing dozens of criminal charges in 11 separate court cases in Racine and Milwaukee counties, according to online court records. Most of the charges against Phillips are in connection with thefts and attempted thefts
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — The Saint Louis Zoo needs your help naming their newest penguin! On Dec. 11, 2020 a female southern rockhopper penguin hatched at the Penguin & Puffin Coast, the first for the zoo in 11 years! Bird keepers have picked four potential names for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — People have been slipping and falling all over the area since Sunday. Area hospitals have already seen people with broken bones due to the ice. While some people, of course, don’t have a choice, others didn’t realize just how slick it is outside. Louise
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Long Beach, California (KABC) — A man who spent half of his adult life in prison has graduated from Cal State Long Beach. In a Facebook post, Joseph Valadez says he finished his last two semesters on the “President’s Honor List” for getting straight A’s. He also made
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — When you hear that snow and sleet is coming, some people might think of it as an inconvenience, while others think it’s a chance for fun in the snow. For Natalie Wheeler, it was a chance for her and her husband to say “I
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/KSMO) — Paula and Cal Kingman said they thought a medical program exempted them from Evergy shutting their power off during the rolling outages. An Evergy spokesperson told KCTV5 the medical program only gives people an automated call to tell them their power could be
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) — He came in clutch during Hurricane Harvey, and now, Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is doing it again. This time, he’s opening Gallery Furniture’s doors to get people out of their cold homes. Power outages that have lasted longer than 24 hours have forced people
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