Click here for updates on this story MOBILE COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — New Year’s Eve celebrations will be unlike anything we have seen in decades. Many cities around Southern Alabama have canceled their fireworks and festivities because of COVID. That is prompting many people to put on their own displays and sales are popping at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FOLEY, Alabama (WALA) — A Foley mother is on life support after her family says she risked her life to save her two children in a house fire last Tuesday. Lelann Thompson jumped through a window that morning, able to get her kids out of the home just
Continue ReadingNota del editor: Jorge Dávila Miguel es licenciado en Periodismo desde 1973 y ha mantenido una carrera continuada en su profesión hasta la fecha. Tiene posgrados en Ciencias de la Información Social y Medios de Comunicación Sociales, así como estudios superiores posuniversitarios en Relaciones Internacionales, Economía Política e Historia Latinoamericana. Actualmente, Dávila Miguel es columnista
Continue ReadingAs if there was any doubt, LeBron James celebrated his 36th birthday in style. Not only did he top score for the Los Angeles Lakers in a 121-107 victory over the San Antonio Spurs, but his 26 points marked another milestone for James. He has now gone 1,000 consecutive games with a personal score of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANITOWOC, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A 19-year-old from Manitowoc was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for possession of controlled substances with the intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon on Dec.
Continue Reading People around the world are beginning to wave goodbye to 2020 and welcome 2021. The Pacific Island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati were the first to see in the new year — when it was still 5 a.m. on December 31 on the East Coast of the United States and 11 a.m. UTC (Coordinated
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITTLESTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — A second grade teacher in the Gettysburg Area School District is facing charges for sexually abusing a minor. Vincent Marfia, 40, of Littlestown, was arrested by State Police Wednesday. He is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, corruption of minors and other
Continue Reading Pope Francis will not lead the Vatican’s New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day celebrations due to sciatic pain, the Vatican said in a statement on Thursday. This marks the first time the Pope has missed New Year’s Eve or Christmas celebrations, but not the first event he has skipped. On February 27, Pope Francis,
Continue Reading After years of persistence and hard work, Jasmin Parks-Papadopoulos was at the peak of her professional career when the coronavirus pandemic hit: the executive chef of a well-known hotel group in Colorado. But the soaring US infection numbers soon brought challenges — including home schooling her 6- and 7-year-old children while her husband prepared for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Do you want to have good luck this 2021? A dish in Pennsylvania could bring you that, and one ice cream shop in Harrisburg has scoops of it. Urban Churn turned sauerkraut into one of its flavors for good luck this new year. “You
Continue Reading(CNN) — La administración Trump tomará medidas para designar a Cuba como Estado Patrocinador del Terrorismo en los próximos días como un esfuerzo de última hora para crear obstáculos para la administración entrante de Biden, que probablemente persiga lazos más cálidos con La Habana. Un alto funcionario de la administración le dijo a CNN que
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After a pair of seasons streaming on YouTube’s premium tier, “Cobra Kai” was picked up by Netflix, where those episodes found an appreciative audience. Enter season 3, which kicks up the nostalgia factor into an even higher gear while remaining every bit as soapy, playful and disarmingly funny. “The Karate Kid” might be 36 years
Continue ReadingAnother 787,000 Americans filed first-time claims for jobless benefits during the Christmas week, factoring in seasonal adjustments, the Labor Department reported Thursday. It marked a decrease from the prior week and was slightly better than economists had predicted. Even so, claims were still three-and-a-half times higher than in the same period last year. Overall, unemployment
Continue Reading At the end of the dank, dark tunnel that was 2020 comes light — a bright yellow, pungent light with toothpick legs and a penny in its mouth. Meet the lemon pig. Lemon pigs — edibly fashioned out of lemon rinds — were popular tabletop trinkets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, then
Continue Reading Dr. Drew Pinsky has Covid-19. He shared the news on his Instagram but says he’s on the mend. “Thanks for checking in on me, I appreciate all the kind shout-outs,” he said in a video. “Covid is no fun. I don’t recommend it.” Previously, the doctor had called the pandemic “press-induced” but later apologized. He
Continue ReadingCome Friday, many low-wage workers across the US are getting a pay bump. Twenty states are raising their minimum wage rates — some by pennies, others by a dollar or more — as part of previously-scheduled efforts to adjust for cost-of-living gains or to ratchet up toward goals like $15-an-hour minimum pay. In New Mexico,
Continue ReadingBritain’s largest supermarket chain Tesco underpaid almost 80,000 of its workers, the UK government has revealed, as it “named and shamed” dozens of companies for not paying the minimum wage. A total of 139 companies failed to pay £6.7 million ($9.1 million) to thousands of workers, the government said Thursday. The cases were investigated between
Continue Reading As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, voices all over the world will resurrect the centuries-old tradition of singing “Auld Lang Syne” to say goodbye to the passing year. “Auld Lang Syne” — which roughly translates to “times gone by”– was written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 and is thought to
Continue ReadingSenators are still blocking an immediate and final vote to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, Republican leaders are grappling with a new problem on their hands: GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and his planned objection to the results of a fair and free election. The backlash is coming
Continue ReadingTalk of a possible Apple car is back. Apple hasn’t commented publicly on its plans for the project, nicknamed Titan, so it’s not clear exactly what will come of the effort. Some who follow the company think it could release a whole Apple-branded, electric, self-driving car. Others think it’s more likely Apple will partner with
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