Month: April 2021

Click here for updates on this story     GRANBY, Connecticut (WFSB) — April 18 to the 24 is National Pediatric Transplant week. It’s a week dedicated to ending the pediatric transplant waiting list. A young girl in Connecticut was able to get off that list when she found an unexpected match for a kidney transplant. Piper

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A now-fired Mobile County corrections deputy, a convicted murder and that defendant’s wife have been indicted on charges relating to an alleged contraband-and-bribery scheme at the county’s lockup. The indictments and authorities allege that Prichard resident Danell Michael Davis, who pleaded guilty to murder

A year after losing everything in a flood, a Michigan man won $2 million from a scratch off lottery ticket, according to lottery officials. The 29-year-old man, who decided to stay anonymous, bought the ticket at a grocery store in Midland. “Last year, I lost everything in a flood, so to win this prize is

Click here for updates on this story     CONECUH COUNTY, Alabam (WALA) — Human remains found in Conecuh County were identified as a woman who disappeared almost three years ago. 70 year-old Shari Saunders was traveling to Monroeville when she vanished. Her death is being called a homicide. Saunders’ niece, Amanda Reed, said she wants to

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE (WALA) — As the sun set over Eight Mile, light blue balloons were set free from the hands of loved ones who gathered to remember Ariel Jasper and her baby boy Noah. In front of family and friends, Gloria Luckie recalled the night she got the devastating

Click here for updates on this story     CLAYTON COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Clayton County police said they arrested a woman who plowed down three juveniles with her vehicle. According to police, officers responded to a person hit by a vehicle Thursday night at the Zaxby’s in the 6000 block of Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro. When

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — The Emory University Hospital in midtown Atlanta is seeking the public’s help identifying a patient who has been in the hospital for more than five months. On November 20, Atlanta Police brought a man to the hospital’s emergency department after he was found wandering throughout

A man in the town of Manacor on the Spanish island of Mallorca has been arrested on suspicion of infecting 22 people with Covid-19, according to the Spanish National Police. “Despite having symptoms and having done a PCR test, he continued his normal life without waiting for the result or quarantining,” police said of the

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 68-year-old woman says she did not know police in Salisbury, North Carolina were chasing her for speeding until they approached the side of her vehicle and laid out spike strips. When Stephanie Bottom was pulled over, several officers rushed to her car with guns

Click here for updates on this story     OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — Olathe police and Johnson County dispatchers had to act fast Friday morning to save a wrong way driver who drove down train tracks as two oncoming trains came toward him near Northgate and Woodland Street. Someone called 911 to report a driver was driving

Click here for updates on this story     CAMP LEJEUNE (WLOS) — The regional Marine Corps trials aboard Camp Lejeune are held at Wounded Warrior Battalion-East, where wounded, ill, and injured marines and sailors are battling it out in a number of athletic events for a chance to compete in the department of defense warrior games.

A turtle crashed through a car’s windshield in a story that seems on-brand with the weird news that comes out of Florida. What may surprise you though, is this bizarre accident has happened around here before. A 71-year-old woman was riding with her daughter on Interstate 95 near Port Orange, Florida, on Wednesday when a

Click here for updates on this story     MARION COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — On Friday a Marion County grand jury found that the police shooting of a suspect in April was a lawful and justified use of deadly force. Police and fire crews say they responded to the 400 block of Ewald Avenue Southeast on April

Click here for updates on this story     WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A local community helped a young boy who had all his snacks stolen from his lemonade stand. 10-year-old Hunter Weaver has been running a lemonade stand in front of Valley Baptist Church in Cherry Grove to save up for some backyard playground equipment

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Women, hopeful families, and health professionals across the country are working to spread awareness during National Infertility Awareness Week. For so many families, the struggle haunts them for years, and in some cases, even a lifetime. Some medical experts believe half of all women

Louis Goffinet never imagined that raising tens of thousands of dollars to help his community through the Covid-19 pandemic could cost him financially. The 27-year-old middle school teacher from Mansfield Center, Connecticut, started making grocery runs last April for elderly neighbors who didn’t feel safe doing so themselves. Soon, he got a similar request from

Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon’s surface in 1969, it became a defining moment for the space age. For the first time, humans truly explored beyond their home — and it won’t be the last. We were witnesses to history once again as two

Click here for updates on this story     OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is dropping the age of eligibility it is recommending for those who can receive the AstraZeneca vaccine to anyone 30 years of age and older, but it remains up to the provinces and territories to determine

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A Canadian-made COVID-19 antibody treatment is sitting on hospital and pharmacy shelves amid the country’s third wave of the pandemic because doctors say a plan on how to administer the drug was never made. “It’s actually very frustrating that we have a therapy

Three students kidnapped by armed bandits from Greenfield University in northern Nigeria on Tuesday have been killed, a local official said in a statement on Friday. “The armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students,” said Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Kaduna State Ministry of Internal Security and

Five people were injured early Saturday in a shooting on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street, and no arrests had been made as of a few hours after the incident, police said. The shooting was reported to police at 1:16 a.m. CT on the street popular with tourists near an address on the edge of the

Debris believed to be from the missing Indonesian navy submarine has been found, Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Yudo Margono told a news conference Saturday. Six pieces of debris believed to be from the submarine, which was lost in the Bali Sea on Wednesday, were presented to journalists. The latest update came as hopes faded

Following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, his family has received death threats, an attorney for the mother of his child said Friday. “There have been some threats to the family, which is disturbing,” attorney Thomas Bowers said during a press conference Friday. Bowers said he has received racist calls

A Grand Rapids, Michigan, officer who is seen on bodycam footage punching a man during a March traffic stop initiated for littering has been defended by his police department. Bodycam footage of the incident, provided by an attorney for the man who was punched, Diabate Hood, shows at least four officers attempting to handcuff Hood

Click here for updates on this story     DENVER (KCNC) — Some state lawmakers say it’s time school bullies faced real consequences. A new bill would rewrite the state’s bullying prevention policy and require school districts to adopt it. Right now, they’re encouraged to do so. Rick Padilla is among those pushing for the bill. “I

Click here for updates on this story     SANTA ANA, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A 26-year-old man was charged with multiple hate crimes after punching an elderly Asian couple as they took a walk and a verbal attack on Japanese American Olympic karate athlete, Sakura Kokumai, all at the same park in Orange. Michael Orlando Vivona,

Click here for updates on this story     SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A nice swing on the green, but if that golf ball doesn’t end up in the hole, chances are they’re getting picked up next door. They’re wayward balls of the worst kind. You expect them when you live next to a golf course, but these

Click here for updates on this story     SAN JOSE, California (KPIX) — Santa Clara County fire officials are putting out a call to action because of the triple threat of drought, wildfires and unhealthy air. “We are urging residents to take action now to prepare for wildfire,” said Luisa Rapport, Public Information Officer for Santa

Nine firearms were found by officers at the home of Phillip Adams, the man police say shot and killed six people at the home of a doctor in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on April 7. Search warrants released Friday by the York County Sheriff’s Office also say “numerous notebooks were located with cryptic writing with

Click here for updates on this story     LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — A Louisville woman’s life was turned upside down Monday morning when she was robbed at gunpoint for her car. “I got out and looked at my bumper and I was like, ‘It’s fine,’ or whatever, I turned around and they had a gun out,”

Click here for updates on this story     TORRANCE COUNTY, New Hampshire (KOAT) — When you think of New Mexico wildlife, sharks aren’t typically where the mind wanders. But that’s exactly what one graduate found in the Manzano Mountains in 2013. Well, not an actual shark, but remnants of one. “I was just sitting in a

Click here for updates on this story     PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (WMUR) — The owner of a Portsmouth fitness center had a day to remember, coming to the aid of an animal in need. It took some work to reach a raccoon that had gotten itself into a tough spot, and it was something you should

Dr. Nelson Atehortua, an assistant professor at Jackson State University’s school of public health, drove two hours to get a coveted shot of Covid-19 vaccine because demand was so high, he couldn’t find an appointment locally. But on a recent day at a mass Covid-19 vaccination site at the university in Jackson, Mississippi, getting a

Prosecutors filed an additional reckless murder charge against former Columbus, Ohio, police officer Adam Coy, on Friday for the shooting death of Andre Hill, according to court records. Coy was previously indicted in February on charges of murder in the commission of a felony, felonious assault and two counts of dereliction of duty related to

The police department in Ohio’s largest city is under national scrutiny after an officer fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant — the second deadly shooting by a city police officer in the last four months. But unlike other high-profile incidents across the country, officials in Columbus released clips of both shootings within a day and, in

Tiger Woods has posted his first photo of himself since his car accident earlier this year, showing him on a golf course in crutches with his dog. Woods posted the photo to his verified Instagram account on Friday, writing, “My course is coming along faster than I am. But it’s nice to have a faithful

Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCICSO (KGO) — Proof of vaccination can now get you a designated seat, in a separate section, at Giants games at Oracle Park. ABC7 News reporter, Kate Larsen, spoke to fans at Thursday night’s game in one of the park’s first “vaccine only” areas. “You know the

Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — he Biden administration’s loosening of restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in research will allow UW-Madison scientists to continue such studies, which opponents have tried several times to ban in Wisconsin. After the Trump administration suspended federal funding for most fetal

Click here for updates on this story     LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — When a pair of geese made their home near a small pond in southwest Lincoln, John Davis was there to greet them. The 13-year-old would visit almost every day this spring, bread crumbs and tortilla pieces in hand. “Eventually, they recognized him,”

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges Friday in her first court appearance since her arrest last summer. Maxwell entered the New York courtroom in a dark blue prison outfit with her ankles shackled and her hair, now slightly grayed at the roots, hanging

Click here for updates on this story     RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Former Racine mayor John Dickert was found not guilty of misdemeanor disorderly conduct by a Racine County District Court jury on Wednesday. In March of last year, the now 58-year-old was accused of getting into a fistfight with another man in the parking lot

California will stop issuing new hydraulic fracturing permits by January 2024 as part of a statewide effort to reach carbon-neutrality by 2045, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in a news release Friday. Fracking uses high-pressure water to fracture rocks in order to access pockets of oil that would otherwise be unreachable. Newsom directed the state’s Department