Month: May 2021

A 10-month-old baby briefly left unattended by her father at their North Carolina home was killed Tuesday night by a pair of family Rottweilers, according to the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office. The father heard a commotion after stepping outside their Willow Spring home to move a water sprinkler, Capt. Danny Johnson said, according to CNN

Click here for updates on this story     MARIN COUNTY, California (KPIX) — When it comes to the drought, the situation for agriculture has gone from worrisome to downright scary. And anyone who plans on eating beef this year will likely feel the affects as well. In West Marin County’s cattle country, the outlook is especially

Ancient Judeans ate non-kosher fish at a time when it was thought to have been prohibited in the Bible, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed ancient fish bones from 30 archeological sites in areas that are now part of Israel and Egypt, dating from the Late Bronze Age (1550-1130 B.C.) to the end of

Click here for updates on this story     OAKLAND (KPIX) — Bishop Michael Barber of the Oakland Diocese was robbed over the weekend at gunpoint as he was on his afternoon walk, saying his rosary, near the Paramount Theater, church officials confirmed on Tuesday. At Pentecost Sunday mass, Bishop Barber told parishioners at the Cathedral of

Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A Southern California couple decided to pay it forward by slipping cash into baby products at local Target stores. Krystal Duhaney, a mother of two children, posted a video on her Instagram account of her inserting money into diaper boxes and formula cans. “Being

Click here for updates on this story     HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Deputies in Henderson County are searching for a 250-pound quartz crystal cluster that was stolen from a local gem mine. Authorities say the cluster was stolen from the Elijah Mountain Gem Mine on Brevard Road just outside Laurel Park sometime between May

Sofia Sapega, the Russian girlfriend of Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, appeared in a video overnight after the pair were detained, allegedly “confessing” to working for a social media channel that publishes personal data of government employees. The video comes a day after a similar one featuring Protasevich, 26, in detention “confessing” to organizing mass

Police in San Jose, California, are responding to a shooting downtown near Younger Avenue and San Pedro Street, according to a tweet from the San Jose Police Department. The intersection is by the site of a Valley Transportation Authority light rail maintenance yard. VTA spokesperson Brandi Childress said there “reports of an active shooter” at

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A bill legalizing sports gaming in the state heads to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk. The Connecticut State Senate voted Tuesday night to approve the bill by a vote of of 28-6. Gov. Ned Lamont applauded what he called a bipartisan effort. He said he

Click here for updates on this story     CHEROKEE COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Fire investigators are working to determine how two men were burned by electricity at a construction site. The incident happened Tuesday around 8 a.m. at the Holiday Inn being built on Reinhardt College Parkway in Canton. According to Cherokee County officials, firefighters responded

Police in San Jose, California, are responding to a shooting downtown near Younger Avenue and San Pedro Street, according to a tweet from the San Jose Police Department. “This is still an active scene and we ask that everyone stay out of the area while we conduct our investigation,” said the tweet. The Santa Clara

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — It’s been a week since the state significantly eased COVID-19 restrictions. Gov. Ned Lamont said he’ll give an update on the state’s economic and health condition on Wednesday afternoon. A news conference is set for 1 p.m. at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.

Italian officials have arrested three people on manslaughter charges over a fatal cable car accident in northern Italy Sunday which left 14 people dead. The men “have admitted to what happened,” Carabiniere Lieutenant Colonel Alberto Cicognani claimed in an interview with CNN affiliate Skytg24 Wednesday morning. According to Cicognani, the suspects said in their interrogation

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A Portland man is suing the city of Portland and a police officer after he claims he was wrongfully attacked and wounded during a protest over the summer. In a press conference Tuesday morning, Elijah Warren said he was talking to an officer about

Click here for updates on this story     CLARK COUNTY, Washington (KPTV) — A Clark County teenager’s first court appearance on a murder charge ended with the judge removing him from the courtroom after the teen shouted expletives and other snide comments. Brent Luyster III is facing a charge of second-degree murder. The 17-year-old is accused

Click here for updates on this story     CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — What started as a senior prank at Clackamas High School, turned into what the principal is calling racially motivated vandalism. School officials are investigating who put Trump stickers and refried beans on the front doors of the school on Monday night. Clackamas High

Click here for updates on this story     CLAY COUNTY, Missouri (KCTV, KSMO) — A Clay County court lowered the bond of a Kansas City man accused of kidnapping a child at gunpoint, despite the court having “major concern” for the safety of the child and her mother. After DeShawn Barr-Cotton’s bond was lowered from $100,000

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Margery Baxter’s physical wounds are just starting to heal, after being stabbed in the hand during a carjacking at the McDonalds on Dauphin Street near I-65 Monday night. “It scared the living fire out of me and I tried to get him out of

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A mother’s desperate plea, driving dozens of donations on GoFundMe, turns out to be a total dupe. Someone claiming to be a mother of four in Mobile set up a , since deleted, GoFundMe page asking for donations to help bury her 2-year-old baby

Here is a look at the life of award-winning actor Dick Van Dyke. Personal Birth date: December 13, 1925 Birth place: West Plains, Missouri Birth name: Richard Wayne Van Dyke Father: Loren “Cookie” Van Dyke, a traveling salesman, Sunshine Biscuit Company Mother: Hazel (McCord) Van Dyke Marriages: Arlene (Silver) Van Dyke (2012-present); Marjorie (Willett) Van

Here’s a look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Facts “Doping” by professional athletes has been acknowledged as a problem since at least the 1960s. The issue gained prominence as a result of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) investigation, tell-alls by former professional athletes, a 2007 report on drugs in professional baseball

As European airlines suspend the flights to Belarus that once offered one of the few exit routes out of an oppressive state already in the grip of closed land borders, many Belarusians fear the return of a Soviet-style Iron Curtain around their country. Western leaders have called for tougher sanctions and drastic aviation bans following

Click here for updates on this story     SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (CTV Network) — Indigenous people, low-income Canadians and those living in rural Ontario and Quebec are disproportionately hit by Greyhound Canada shutting down its last routes in the country, advocates say. Earlier this month, the bus service announced it was permanently shutting down all operations in

Flipping open a yearbook for the first time is normally a moment full of excitement — but at one Florida high school, some students were left in shock after seeing that their yearbook portraits had been edited. When Bartram Trail High School freshman Riley O’Keefe saw her yearbook photo, she noticed a black bar was

The United States has joined calls for a more in-depth, transparent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, after an international probe in China earlier this year yielded little in the way of firm conclusions. Speaking at the World Health Organization’s annual summit for member states in Geneva on Tuesday, representatives from the US

People are getting back to traveling, which means flights are filling up — and plane ticket prices are going sky-high. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)

The story of George Floyd has ignited a movement. But to his girlfriend, “Big Floyd” was the man she loved. While the US marked the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the police killing of a man whose death sparked months of reckoning over policing and racial bias, Courtney Ross remembered who Floyd was before the world

Wildfires have burned roughly 14,000 acres in California this year as a deepening drought grips the Southwest — more than five times the acreage charred by the same time last year. It’s a worrying trend that has fire officials taking a proactive approach — from more funding to wildfire prevention to hiring additional crews —

Wildfires in California have burned more than five times the amount of acreage in the first five months of 2021 as they did in the same period last year, a worrying trend after what was the worst year for fires in the state’s history. A dry winter season that has led to drought conditions is

No charges will be brought against law enforcement personnel who fatally shot a Black restaurant owner during protests in Louisville last year, the Kentucky Commonwealth attorney said Tuesday. David McAtee, the owner of YaYa’s BBQ, died after being shot during a protest against police brutality on June 1, 2020. The shooting and protest in Louisville

Authorities are investigating more than 100 reports of vehicles being struck by projectiles along a busy Southern California freeway over the last month. California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez told CNN the shootings, believed to be from a BB or pellet gun, have been reported on the 91 Freeway in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside

Two zookeepers have been killed by tigers this week at separate zoos in China, according to state media. In the first incident Sunday, a 55-year-old keeper surnamed Yang was mauled to death by a tiger as he cleaned its cage at a zoo in eastern Anhui province, state media reported. Yang had been a tiger