Month: March 2021

Tam Nguyen, one of several hundred demonstrators at a Stop Asian Hate rally in Koreatown, shook with rage as he held a racist letter. Nguyen said the note was sent to several Vietnamese-owed nail salons in California this week, but not his, and is a stark example of the hatred directed toward the Asian community.

Reva-Lou Reva is worried. For the first time he can remember, he says hospitals around the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are so overburdened they are closing their doors to patients. “This is very frightening, to know that you don’t have any medical facilities open, or very limited, and you cannot easily

A North Carolina woman got a shock when she realized she won the lottery on her 20th wedding anniversary. Sadhana Patel of New Bern won $373,741 in the jackpot, according to a news release from the North Carolina (NC) Education Lottery. She purchased her ticket for $5 on January 16 and claimed the prize on

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says the city will no longer prosecute for prostitution, drug possession and other low-level offenses. Mosby made the announcement on Friday following her office’s one-year experiment in not prosecuting minor offenses to decrease the spread of Covid-19 behind bars. “Today, America’s war on drug users is over in the

San Francisco is launching a pilot program that will guarantee monthly income for artists affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Mayor London Breed announced the program on Thursday in a news release. It would guarantee monthly payments of $1,000 for around 130 San Francisco artists for six months beginning in May. The city partnered with the

Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of an Uber Eats driver this week in Washington, DC, police say. Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was killed Tuesday afternoon near Nationals Park, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement. Anwar was working as an Uber Eats driver, says a GoFundMe page

Click here for updates on this story     HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — An 11-year-old boy died on Thursday night due to an accidental drowning near a low-head dam in Codorus Creek in York County. Low-head dams can be very dangerous and Rep. Keith Gillespie says the effects of the water can be crucial. “What happens after

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — March’s Worm Moon will form on Sunday afternoon when the moon appears opposite from the sun at 2:48 p.m. ET, and depending on your definition, it could even be considered a supermoon. Because the peak of the full moon will be mid-afternoon for

Those afraid of heights have a new excuse to steer clear of amusement park rides. This week, two Florida teens were suspended for a few hours on a slingshot ride around three stories high after a cable snapped, rescue officials told CNN affiliate WKMG-TV. The passengers were rescued without injuries from the ride at Old

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — One person was shot and suffered life-threating injuries Friday afternoon. Police were called about 1:30 p.m. to a hair salon business in the 4300 block of Blue Ridge Boulevard. A witness at the salon told KCTV5 that it started as a fight between

At least 91 civilians were killed across Myanmar on Saturday, according to a tally by the independent Myanmar Now news outlet, as the military junta continued to crack down on peaceful protests. The killings in 40 towns and cities across the country would represent the bloodiest day of protests since a military coup last month.

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Just like influenza vaccines, which are adjusted each year to combat viruses as they change and mutate, COVID-19 vaccines may need similar alterations until infection rates decrease, a recent study suggests. Influenza viruses are fast-changing, making it difficult for the human body to

A tree frog from Florida named Betty has been named Cadbury’s 2021 Easter Bunny. The White’s tree frog, native to Australia, beat over 12,000 contenders for the coveted title, the Hershey Company announced in a news release this week. Betty will be Cadbury’s mascot in a national commercial this spring. Kaitlyn Vidal — a college

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — South St. Louis City resident Gary Chaffin says he was shocked this week when officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) showed up to his home to evict him. “I didn’t think the police evicted people,” Chaffin said. He said on Wednesday,

Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of a man this week in Washington, DC, police say. Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was killed Tuesday afternoon near Nationals Park, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement. Anwar was working as an Uber Eats driver, says a GoFundMe page set up

A Russian socialite and TV personality is under fire for interviewing a convicted rapist following his release from prison. Ksenia Sobchak interviewed 70-year-old Viktor Mokhov who was sentenced in 2005 to 17 years in prison for the kidnap and rape of two teenage girls, whom he kept in a basement for almost four years. Mokhov

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A study led by Boston University and in co-operation with the government of the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati has discovered new deep-sea microbes so foreign that human cells cannot recognize them or register that they exist. The study, published March 12

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — New insights into the history of a remote Welsh island have emerged thanks to some rabbits who kicked up 9,000-year-old artifacts as they were burrowing. Richard Brown and Giselle Eagle, two nature wardens who are in lockdown on Skokholm Island off the coast

You know how they say that anything worth doing is worth doing twice? Well, a man in South Carolina must have taken it to heart — and now he has $200,000 to show for it. The man went to a package store in the town of Summerville and bought two tickets with the same number:

Iron age warriors were laid to rest in an ancient burial ground complete with feather-stuffed bedding from an array of birds, new research has shown. The Valsgärde burial ground, near Uppsala in central Sweden is renowned for its 600 and 700 CE boat graves, and home to some 90 burial sites from the Merovingian period,

Meimei Xu grew up in Illinois, Florida and Georgia. But that didn’t stop people from asking her, “Where are you from?” The 19-year-old says growing up Asian American hasn’t been easy. When she was in grade school there were classmates who made hurtful comments. They told her Chinese food was strange and one of them

The Library of Congress has added Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” and Kermit the Frog’s “The Rainbow Connection” to its National Recording Registry. The songs are among 25 “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said

An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won’t be wreaking any havoc on Earth — at least not this century. That’s the good news from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, released on Friday. Asteroid 99942 Apophis has been considered one of the most hazardous asteroids with the potential to impact

An African American mother says she won’t sit down to talk with two men who came armed with about 13 other White people to her North Carolina home last year looking for a missing teenage girl — and she doesn’t care that a court acquitted them. Still, lawyers for the two men say they not

Several people may have life-threatening injuries after a shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, police tweeted early Saturday. Police are investigating the incident that happened “at the oceanfront between 17th and 22nd St.,” the post said. There is a large police presence in the area and officials are asking people to stay away. This is a

Don’t be surprised if you find your neighbors turning off their lights for a full hour Saturday night. They’re taking part in a global movement called Earth Hour. How did it start? Earth Hour is an annual tradition in which people switch off their lights to spread awareness about sustainability and climate change. Started by

A man being held on a murder charge in New Jersey was charged Friday with three counts of first-degree murder in New Mexico. Sean Lannon is accused of killing his ex-wife Jennifer Lannon, Jesten Mata and Matthew Miller and stuffing their bodies into a car that was left in the Albuquerque airport parking lot, according

A Washington, DC, church discovered a noose hanging in a tree on its property Friday, and police are now investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Rev. Michele Morgan, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, told CNN the rope was found by a technician preparing for musical performances

Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry has died of heart failure, according to his publicist, Amanda Lundberg. McMurtry, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for “Lonesome Dove,” died on Thursday. “Larry McMurtry passed away last night, on March 25 of heart failure at 84 years old surrounded by his loved ones who he lived

Three Oregon college students are claiming in two class-action lawsuits that they should be reimbursed tuition and other fees since the University of Oregon and Oregon State University transitioned to mostly remote instruction during the coronavirus pandemic. Undergraduate student Danielle Pranger and graduate student Garrett Harris filed a lawsuit against Oregon State University on March

After a three-year investigation, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that her office was “forced to close” its inquiry into Michigan State University’s handling of former school doctor Larry Nassar after the school declined to waive attorney-client privilege for approximately 6,000 documents. The investigation was set to look into how Nassar, a disgraced former USA

An Ohio coroner’s office ruled this week that Andre Hill, who was fatally shot by a former Columbus police officer, died of multiple gunshot wounds and that his manner of death was homicide. Hill was shot once in the chest and three times in the right leg, according to Dr. Elaine Amoresano, the forensic pathologist

The NCAA allocated $28 million for the Division I men’s basketball championship for the 2018-19 season, nearly twice the amount budgeted for the women’s basketball championship that season, its budget report shows. CNN obtained the budget document on Friday from the NCAA. The New York Times was the first to report on the issue. The

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a transgender sports bill into law Friday requiring students to prove their sex at birth in order to play in middle and high school sports. The bill states that “a student’s gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be