Month: April 2021

Click here for updates on this story     PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A young fan stole the show at the Phillies’ game Wednesday afternoon when the toddler tried to eat a home run ball that went into the left-field stands. It was Phillies centerfielder Mickey Moniak’s first career major-league home run, but it was 1-year-old Eddie Sharkey

Click here for updates on this story     RADNOR, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A local middle and high school are without a mascot. Over the next two days, Radnor families are getting the opportunity to talk about a handful of options. However, there’s a push to keep the Raider in Radnor, at least in name. Thursday night

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Based on surface area, it’s the largest fresh water lake in the world. And thousands of people visit Lake Superior every year. But as old as it is, the lake is still evolving. John Lauritsen shows us how climate change and warmer temperatures are changing

An anti-terrorism investigation has been launched in France after a female police officer was killed in a knife attack at a police station in a Paris suburb. Police on the scene quickly intervened and killed the attacker, Prime Minister Jean Castex told journalists on Friday, referring to the incident in Rambouillet as a “terrorist attack.”

Click here for updates on this story     MIAMI (WFOR) — Almost a year since the death of her daughter, one South Florida mother is begging for justice. Maria Gray says the young man responsible for her daughter’s death is living comfortably on house arrest, and she says it’s time for him to be locked up.

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore woman says hula hooping helped her get through the pandemic. So much so, she started sharing her love for the retro activity with others at Lake Montebello. On any given day in Baltimore, you’ll see Diana Miller with her hula hoop — always

Click here for updates on this story     FARMINGDALE, Long Island (WABC) — A Black apprentice electrician is speaking out after he says he found two nooses hung in his work area on Long Island, allegedly put there by white co-workers. Kyrin Taylor said he showed up to Cooper Power & Lighting Corp. in Farmingdale in

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore County man said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for not wearing a mask while eating Twizzlers and wants to share his story in the hopes things will change. Avi Mandel said he was a frequent Southwest flyer until his flight

Click here for updates on this story     BOSTON (WBZ) — Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey is responding to criticism after she released redacted files about a former police officer accused of child sexual abuse. “That would not happen under my watch,” Janey said. She was talking about disturbing new information showing Patrick Rose kept his

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men accused of leading deputies on a vehicle chase Thursday evening, April 22, in the area of Smokey Park Highway and Asbury Road in Candler. Deputies were initially responding to a breaking and entering call, and

Multiple high school students in Texas are facing disciplinary action after they created a social media group pretending to auction off their Black peers. The group, called “N***** Auction” on the app Snapchat, was started by a handful of students at the Aledo Independent School District, just outside of Fort Worth. One student bid $100

Click here for updates on this story     NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the

Protests over deputies’ fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. kicked off for a third straight day Friday in North Carolina’s Elizabeth City, with demonstrators calling for authorities to release officers’ body camera footage of Wednesday’s killing. Demonstrators stood in the streets early Friday afternoon, blocking a few intersections in a commercial section of the city

A fresh manicure makes Trevor Wilkinson feel a little more like his true self. And now, after a fight that lasted most of his senior year, the teenager can breathe easily in his Texas high school knowing that he fought for the right to be unapologetic about who he is. Wilkinson, 18, an openly gay

Another gender reveal party turned dangerous, this time in New Hampshire, with an explosion that shook nearby homes. The partygoers detonated around 80 pounds of explosives, Kingston police said in a statement. They used an explosive called Tannerite, a target used for firearms practice that also comes in a gender-reveal variety. After Kingston police arrived

Clashes between Palestinians from east Jerusalem and Israeli police around the Damascus gate entrance to the Old City erupted in a night of unrest that earlier saw Jewish extremists marching through another city street shouting “Death to Arabs.” The violence marks a high point so far in a new phase of complex heightened tensions in

A female police official has been killed in a knife attack at a police station in a suburb of Paris, French officials said Friday. The attack took place at the station in Rambouillet, 35 miles southwest of the capital. The suspect is dead, officials said. The anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office, which usually handles investigations of terrorist

Neighbors on Thursday described a chaotic scene of North Carolina deputies trying to serve a warrant, a car pulling away and shots fired — leaving one man dead. The shooting took place Wednesday morning in a working-class neighborhood of Elizabeth City in the northeastern corner of the state. The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday

Click here for updates on this story     FARMINGTON, Illinois (KMOV) — A one-month-old lamb is learning to walk after a Metro East animal rescue stepped in to help. The lamb was born to a farmer along with 100 other lambs, but a deformity in its front legs made it difficult for the baby to stand,

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny said Friday that he is ending his weekslong hunger strike, following a warning from doctors close to him that he was close to death. Navalny had been on hunger strike since March 31, demanding “proper medical care” and to be examined by an independent doctor — something his team claims

Click here for updates on this story     MT. PLEASANT, Michigan (WNEM) — The family of the little girl whose hair was cut at school without her parent’s permission is frustrated. What happened to Jurnee Hoffmeyer at Ganiard Elementary turned into controversy that attracted attention from around the nation and prompted an apology from the Mt.

A man was killed in a deputy-involved shooting while sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant Wednesday morning in the North Carolina city of Elizabeth City, officials with the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said. At a brief afternoon news conference, Sheriff Tommy Wooten said footage from body-worn cameras exists, but he had not yet viewed it.

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — There’s a new job opening in town, paid for with your tax dollars. Nearly four years after News 4 Investigates exposed concerns about the county’s auditor – a supposed watchdog with a highly paid job in St. Louis County – now, he might finally

A version of this story appeared in the April 23 edition of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on the royal family, what they are up to in public and what’s happening behind palace walls. Sign up here. London (CNN) — This week saw members of Britain’s royal family return