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Click here for updates on this story     EDMOND, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — University of Central Oklahoma researchers are trying to better understand Oklahoma’s “alarming” veteran suicide metrics while developing new strategies to reverse long-term trends. Oklahoma’s veteran suicide rate in 2018 is 10th highest in the nation, according to the latest data available from the

Click here for updates on this story     DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — A Davenport congregation that’s been meeting in a gymnasium for the last three and a half years wants to build a permanent home in the woods. Davenport zoning code, city staff, and Plan and Zoning Commission members say otherwise. “It’s changing people’s lives,”

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The novel coronavirus has been well documented in cats big and small across the world, and now a U.K. study shows evidence of human-to-cat transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in two cases. The two cats were from different households and suffered different severities of the

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — New research from the United Kingdom suggests shift workers are associated with higher likelihoods of COVID-19 hospitalization compared to people with more traditional working hours. Using data from more than 280,000 participants in the U.K. Biobank study, hospital episode statistics and U.K. health

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE (WSMV) — A Metro Police Officer is on administrative assignment after he shot and killed a man on Clarksville Pike early Saturday morning. Police have not identified the man who died as they continue to notify the next of kin, but said Officer Christopher Royer pulled over

Click here for updates on this story     CHARLES CITY, Iowa (The Courier) — Sharon Miller could barely contain her excitement in the phone message. “Our girl made it!” she said. “She made it through the Crucible. I like to call it the ‘Crucifixion.’” “Our girl” is Mackenzy Bilharz. On Jan. 25, Bilharz, of Charles City,

Click here for updates on this story     TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — The Tulsa World recently talked to 10 Tulsans who, each in their own way, have committed to telling the story of Greenwood and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre while helping raise awareness of its too-long-ignored history. 50 years ago, the 1921 Tulsa Race

Click here for updates on this story     CHARLESTON, Illinois (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier) — A woman could avoid a record of a conviction if she follows the terms of the sentence she received for stealing money from an elderly woman. Laurie A. Morehead, 59, whose address on record is in Decatur, admitted taking several thousand

Click here for updates on this story     FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — Three people have been charged, including two who are still wanted, after a missing person investigation from last year in Flint. Flint police started searching for Craig Myott Jr. in June 2020, who was last seen in May of 2020 in the city of

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A boy wishing to see his parent one more time has inspired a song that will help other kids going through grief. Jace and Emmy Lu Muller’s mother Amie died of cancer four years ago. They’ve been going through grief counseling at school, through a

Click here for updates on this story     MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — A South Florida woman has made it her mission to make the world more accessible to people with disabilities after becoming paralyzed in an accident and now she is bringing that inspiration to Miami Beach. Sabrina Cohen is bringing that inspiration to create an

Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Seeing a loved one struggle with a serious illness is never easy. But if it’s a child that’s sick, the emotional impact can be even more devastating. But when Giselle Chiprez Ramirez saw her little brother Francisco hospitalized with a rare condition, she turned

Click here for updates on this story     VENICE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A small but hateful message appeared on the sidewalk on Abbot Kinney leading one Los Angeles resident to take matters into his own hands. Daniel Khalili took a video of himself spray painting over an anti-Semitic message he found on the sidewalk in

Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — More fuel has been added to the continuing feud between federal officials and local police and sheriff’s departments regarding immigration enforcement. The divide between them was highlighted most recently by arrest of Enrique Guzman-Rincon. The 29-year-old man was caught in Aurora on April 9, five

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A federal judge on Monday imposed a five-year prison sentence on a Gulf Shores man who copped to thousands of images of child pornography. Zachary Nicholas Wood, 22, pleaded guilty in January to receiving child pornography. The images in Wood’s possession depicted children having

Click here for updates on this story     KELSO, Washington (KPTV) — Three people died and two others are hurt after a crash on I-5 Saturday morning north of Kelso. According to police and family members, a Battle Ground couple was on the side of the highway picking up their son as his car was being

Click here for updates on this story     O’FALLON, Missouri (KMOV) — A pizza debacle in St. Charles County is costing a family a lot more than just their delivery order. It happened after Sharie Ford said her son ordered delivery from the Dominos on Pheasant Meadow Drive around 11:15 Tuesday night. The family said they

Click here for updates on this story     LINCOLN, Nebraska (KETV) — A Nebraska man has been arrested after police say he stole a couple’s puppy at knifepoint. On April 24, officers were called t0 Holmes Lake Dog Run in Lincoln. The victim, an 18-year-old female, reported that she went to the dog park with her

Click here for updates on this story     LENEXA, Kansas City (KMBC) — The legacy of a Lenexa firefighter who passed away from cancer is living on with new legislation in Kansas. Governor Laura Kelly recently signed the Michael Wells Memorial Act. KMBC 9 spoke with some of the people who helped get the bill passed

Click here for updates on this story     ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — Even though the state said churches could allow everyone back, the Archbishop of Santa Fe is asking priests to limit the crowds and stay with the color-coded risk level their county is in, but others are ready to welcome back their congregation. Sunday,