Month: April 2021

Click here for updates on this story     MT. VERNON, Alabama (WALA) — On what would have been his 42nd birthday, family and friends gathered to remember the life of Grover Byrd Thursday night. Byrd, police say, died from a stab wound to his torso one week ago at One Club in Gulf Shores. The case

Click here for updates on this story     CONROE, Texas (KTRK) — Conroe ISD has an official bus patrol officer, tasked with keeping an eye on routes and chasing down a bus or two every day. Little Jack is obsessed with school buses and demands to go outside just to see them pass by everyday. According

Hours after a gunman opened fire in an Indianapolis FedEx facility, family members of employees at the facility were still corralled at a nearby Holiday Inn, waiting to hear from their loved ones. Some families were still trying to contact employees as recently as 9 a.m. ET, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told CNN on

Click here for updates on this story     DEWEY, Arizona (KPHO/KTVK) — A Dewey couple watched their dog accidentally jump off a cliff at Oak Creek Canyon and fall 200 feet. Somehow, the dog survived with injuries. Simba’s happy place is in the car on the way to a campsite. On Good Friday, the golden doodle

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — It’s estimated that tens of thousands of pounds of food are thrown away every year in Asheville. So, the city of Asheville has initiated a challenge to cut down on food waste. Earlier this week, the city declared April Food Waste Reduction Month.

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — The lone survivor in the metro Atlanta spa shootings is finally back at home after getting shot in the face during the shooting spree on March 16. Elcias Hernandez Ortiz turned 30 on Thursday and was able to celebrate his birthday at home with his

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — Counseling sessions begin Friday for Grady High School students after a spring break “bracket ranking post” caused a social media uproar. The school system is investigating the incident which many called demeaning and objectifying to dozens of young girls. “First of all, it’s not right.

Click here for updates on this story     SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Hospitals across the state are seeing rising cases of the coronavirus in kids. At Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw, Dr. Nicole Sinclair said she’s seeing an all-time high of kids with COVID-19. “In the last two weeks, we’ve seen more than we’ve seen in all

Click here for updates on this story     SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN (WNEM) — A mid-Michigan city is addressing a potential ticking time-bomb in its sewer system before it blows up into a catastrophic mess. Saginaw Township is warning residents to be mindful of what they put down the drain after a recent troubling discovery. “We started

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — As Portland’s seen a dramatic spike in shootings and homicides, groups in our community are launching a grassroots campaign by putting signs in neighborhoods with a strong message to stop the violence. On a busy street corner in Southeast Portland, a memorial sits at

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A controversial asphalt plant proposal for East Flat Rock got a vote of disapproval from the Henderson County Planning Board on Thursday. The board voted 5-2 to recommend the Henderson County Board of Commissioners deny the request to conditionally rezone the land from

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — It’s been a challenge for some Canadians to find vaccination appointments through the myriad of different portals and the various eligibility criteria across the country. But a team of web-savvy Canadians is making it a little easier for others to find open vaccination

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Following the news that pregnant women are increasingly ending up in ICUs with severe COVID-19, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is calling on the government to prioritize this group for vaccines immediately. “According to SOGC members, there is currently

The hauntingly beautiful Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, is releasing an incredible amount of energy. The nebula is six light-years wide, and it’s a growing cloud of debris formed from a supernova explosion. (A light-year is six trillion miles). The light from this supernova first reached Earth in July 1054

Eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility on Thursday night, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Genae Cook said. Authorities were aware of multiple other injured victims in hospitals, one of whom was in critical condition, she said during a media briefing early Friday. Police believe the shooter took his

The shooting started in the city of Bago, Myanmar at 5 a.m. on April 9. By the early hours of the next morning, at least 82 people were dead, according to advocacy group AAPP. One pro-democracy protester, an 18-year-old member of the so-called Defense Team tasked with protecting the neighborhood from the military, says he

[Breaking news update at 3:03 a.m.] Eight people with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds were pronounced dead at an Indianapolis FedEx facility, police said. Authorities said they were aware of multiple other injured victims in hospitals. [Previous story, published at 1:48 a.m.] Multiple people with gunshot wounds have been brought to local hospitals after a

Multiple people with gunshot wounds have been brought to local hospitals after a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, according to Officer Genae Cook, a spokesperson for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Police believe the shooter took his own life and there is “no active threat to the community at this time,” he said.

Simon & Schuster said it won’t distribute a book written by the Louisville police officer who was shot while executing a no-knock warrant at the home of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in the raid. Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly’s book, “The Fight for Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy,” was to be published

It was nothing short of a miracle when it became clear that scientists had developed several effective vaccines against Covid-19 in less than a year. Announcements last week from European Union and British drug regulators finding a possible link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 shot and rare blood clots, however, have been a real low point in

Rescue crews will keep searching overnight for the 12 people still missing after a commercial vessel capsized Tuesday several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, according to the US Coast Guard. Six people were rescued and one body was found after the accident. The capsized vessel has now been declared a major marine casualty by

Law enforcement officials in Indianapolis are working a “mass casualty situation,” according to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Spokesperson Officer Genae Cook. The incident happened at a FedEx facility located at 8951 Mirabel Road in Indianapolis, according to Cook. Police are on the scene and gathering information, no other details were immediately available. The major nearby

Billions of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North America during their fascinating reign as top predators, according to a team of researchers that went about the daunting task of making the calculation. Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, set out to put a number on how many T. rex lived during the Cretaceous period — about

Click here for updates on this story     WIND LAKE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — One lucky woman from Wind Lake, Wisconsin thought she won $25,000 on a Super Mega Star Crossword game, when she actually had a top prize-winning ticket worth $500,000! The Wisconsin Lottery says Bobbi Mangan picked up the ticket at GP 4 Petroleum LLC,