Month: April 2021

Click here for updates on this story     Raleigh, North Carolina (WRAL) — A pair of 17-year-old twins from Enloe Magnet High School are making quite a name for themselves. Not only did the siblings earn more than one million dollars in scholarships, they were accepted into 15 college institutions. Despite the challenges of an unprecedented

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — An urgent manhunt for a guy Mobile County Sheriff’s deputies said could be armed and dangerous. James Caballero is wanted for violating his bond just weeks after deputies said he beat his wife then kidnapped their kids. He was out on a more

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Asheville City Schools and Buncombe County Schools will not mandate the COVID-19 vaccines for students. School Health Program Manager April Baur helps to coordinate the health response for both Asheville City and Buncombe County schools, and she said both districts are leaning on

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Starting at 5 p.m. Friday, outdoor student athletes and officials won’t have to wear masks during their games. They can go without masks as long as they’re actively participating. “I think it’s amazing,” said Ricardo Nunez, a varsity baseball player at Erwin High

Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Two Men and a Truck Milwaukee owner Tim Lightner and Milwaukee Women’s Center manager Shamika May joined CBS 58 to talk about a new initiative. The initiative is called Movers for Moms and this year is aiming to collect essential care and comfort items for

A relative of Andrew Brown Jr., who was fatally shot by deputy sheriffs last week, has offered a different account of what happened in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, when police fired on the 42-year-old Black man. The new account underscores the differences that have already emerged between Brown’s family and the Pasquotank District Attorney. Brown

Click here for updates on this story     OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Oklahoma City’s mask mandate is no longer in effect. It expired at midnight; however, businesses can still require use of masks on their own property, so don’t ditch your mask just yet. City officials said businesses can still legally require masks on their property

Click here for updates on this story     LIGONIER, Pennsylvania (WTAE) — A driver led police on a chase in a vehicle that was later determined to have had heroin inside. Ligonier Valley police said the incident happened Thursday. Police got a tip from another law enforcement agency that a large amount of heroin was going

Click here for updates on this story     FRANKLIN PARK, Illinois (WLS) — A single father from Chicago is being mourned after he was killed in a crash early Sunday near O’Hare Airport. Dan Keene was on his way to work Sunday when he was struck and killed in a crash near Mannheim and Irving Park

Click here for updates on this story     ASTORIA, Queens, New York (WABC) — A deliveryman on an e-bike was killed and others were injured after a car crashed into an outdoor dining area in Queens Thursday night. It happened just before 8 p.m. in front of the Rosatoro Restaurant on 35th Street and Ditmars Boulevard.

Click here for updates on this story     HILLSIDE, New Jersey (WABC) — A heartbroken family from New Jersey who recently said goodbye to a loved one is now grappling with even more emotional pain. Paula Smith died from COVID-19 at just 60 years old, and her family turned her final farewell into a celebration of

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A pregnant woman and a man are critically injured after being shot multiple times Wednesday night at Cedar Pointe Apartment Homes in Antioch. Neighbors told News 4 the two were in a relationship and her ex-boyfriend was the one who shot them. One of

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary since Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was killed by US special-operations forces, Seal Team 6, inside his high-walled compound in the Pakistani military college city of Abbottabad. His name and that of his terrorist network, al Qaeda, came to

Click here for updates on this story     ST. PETERS, Missouri (KMOV) — A man accused of shooting a St. Peters officer Thursday afternoon has died after officers shot him in Lincoln County. Officials said the man shot the 41-year-old officer in the leg during a traffic stop at the 3000 block of Mid Rivers Mall

Click here for updates on this story     FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Two men are facing charges after a shooting Thursday night inside a Framingham restaurant, according to the MetroWest Daily News. Police were called just after 9 p.m. to Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant on Route 30 after several people called 911 to report shots fired inside

Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE (WBAL) — Many Marylanders who continue having a difficult time filing unemployment claims are reaching out to the 11 News I-Team with frozen accounts. The problem is accounts are frozen while a broad fraud investigation is underway. The frustration is there are no calls back, no way

Click here for updates on this story     CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCCI) — A couple from Conrad is bringing a new meaning to the old phrase “marriage on the rocks.” What started as an escape from the house during the pandemic became a road trip across Iowa. The couple has now visited more than 60 of

Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — It was close to a year ago that KMBC 9 Investigates broke the story of multiple women suing the Kansas Highway Patrol and the state of Kansas. All of the women have previously worked for or still work at KHP, and all claim

Click here for updates on this story     CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A teenager was arrested during a recent drug bust by the Clackamas County Inter-agency Task Force, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators with the task force checked social media earlier this month for any illegal drug activity. The sheriff’s office says the task

Click here for updates on this story     CLINTON, Missouri (KCTV) — Angela Hammond’s future was bright in April of 1991. She was 20 years old, engaged to be married, expecting a child. But one night she was snatched from the payphone outside the old Food Barn in Clinton. The person on the other end of

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Health Canada is warning about the “potential risk of treatment failure” for a Canadian-made COVID-19 monoclonal antibody, saying it may not protect against infection from some variants. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Health Canada said that bamlanivimab may fail to treat certain

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The mRNA technology used for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines has been hailed as a medical breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19. The vaccines’ high efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, their safety in clinical trials, and how quickly they were

Ma’Khia Bryant loved styling her curly hair in front of her camera phone and posting about it on TikTok. “My baby was an innocent, talented, bubbly, loving teenager,” her mother, Paula Bryant, told reporters earlier this week. Ma’Khia, 16, died April 20 during an encounter with a Columbus, Ohio, police officer at her foster home.

Once there was a bustling construction zone here. Now it’s like a ghost town, frozen in time. Heavy machinery is parked and motionless. Stacks of steel bollards stretch as far as the eye can see. The Trump administration built more than 450 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border — including hundreds of miles of

A man in Texas died unexpectedly after being attacked by a swarm of bees in his yard. A 70-year-old man was mowing his lawn in Breckenridge when he was attacked by a swarm of Africanized honey bees, also known as killer bees. The Breckenridge Fire Department said in a Facebook post that when they were

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Israeli investigators are examining what caused a crush that killed at least 44 worshipers and injured 100 more at a mass religious gathering in Mount Meron overnight. Thousands of worshipers had crowded onto the mountain burial site to celebrate the Lag B’Omer holiday, an annual event where participants sing, dance and light fires in homage

A murder suspect who was being extradited to Arizona from Georgia and escaped while handcuffed walking to a tram connecting to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been captured, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Arizona murder suspect J’Saan Carlos Strover, 20, was taken into custody shortly before 11 p.m., after College Park Police received

Click here for updates on this story     Oakland, CA (Bay Area News Group) — OAKLAND — Chinatown Chamber of Commerce president Carl Chan was attacked on a public sidewalk Thursday afternoon, and police officers were able to detain a suspect, authorities said. In preliminary information, authorities confirmed that officers responded to reports of a victim,

The family of a Black man fatally shot by Delaware police officers after he was found resting in his rental car earlier this year filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the officers used excessive and deadly force and they are demanding a trial by jury. Lymond Moses was fatally shot by New Castle County Police (NCCP)

At least 44 people have been killed in a crush at a mass religious gathering on Mount Meron in northern Israel, emergency responders say. Attendees were celebrating the religious Lag B’Omer holiday, the largest annual public event in Israel. It commemorates the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Mishnaic sage whose book “The

Almost half of Myanmar’s population could be forced into poverty by the end of the year as the country teeters on the brink of economic collapse caused by the double shock of a bloody military coup and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. Rising food costs, significant losses of income and

A former Louisiana police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly punching, pistol-whipping and kicking a man who was under arrest. Dylan Hudson of the Shreveport Police Department was arresting a man in Caddo Parish in August 2019, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice, when he allegedly

A murder suspect who was being extradited to Arizona from Georgia escaped while handcuffed and slipped into the woods near the Atlanta airport, authorities said Thursday. Jsaan Carlos Strover, 20, ran from deputies while walking to a tram connecting to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to a news release from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.