Five bystanders who witnessed former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneel on George Floyd testified in court Tuesday about the horror and fear they felt watching Floyd slowly die. They included a 9-year-old girl, three high school students and a mixed martial arts fighter. Each said they had gone to the Cup Foods corner store
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Miami International Airport directly or indirectly generates approximately 300- thousand jobs for South Floridians. AAR Aircraft Services, which provides maintenance work on planes at MIA, introduced on Monday the first all-female class of technicians in training at their facilities. Once they complete their training, they
Continue ReadingLate civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis‘ posthumous graphic novel, “Run: Book One,” is set to be released this summer, as the fight for voting rights intensifies in Lewis’ own state of Georgia and efforts are under way to restrict voter access in more than 40 states. The novel is a sequel to Lewis’ graphic
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Do you know where your goat is? The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said a goat has been wandering around Andover for “the past few days.” Authorities are looking for the owner. The sheriff’s office said the goat has been seen on the 2900 block of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A driver in Belmont Cragin tracked his own car thief Monday – then held her down until police arrived. As CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported Monday night, the owner of the car is able to track it using an app on his phone. When
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a brutal assault in Hell’s Kitchen in the latest attack on an Asian New Yorker. The victim, a 65-year-old woman on her way to church, was hospitalized with serious injuries, police said. Surveillance video shows a
Continue ReadingVideo calling has, for many, been key to staying connected with friends, family and coworkers as coronavirus forces people to stay apart. Now, the technology is being used to connect health care providers and patients in hospitals. Northwell Health, a New York health care system, is expanding a program to outfit coronavirus patients’ rooms with
Continue Reading A piece of celestial good luck likely made it easier for engineers to successfully refloat the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week. Sunday’s so-called full “Worm moon” led to a high spring tide — about 18 inches (46 centimeters) above normal — on Monday, which eased the process of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Three Pittsburgh residents are charged with pandemic-related fraud. Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Monday that Linda Slade, Dr. Rochelle Oaks and Keith Brown are accused of conspiring to provide false information on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance applications and fraudulently submit claims on behalf of at
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Tony Blinken on Tuesday formally dismissed the statements of a controversial Trump-era committee that argued that some rights may not be worthy of protection — an initiative that civil liberty groups and advocacy organizations feared would have damaging effects on human rights abroad and the freedoms of women and LGBTQ people. Blinken
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Almost 60 years after they rumbled in a pretty awful 1962 movie — featuring guys in monster suits destroying tiny models — “Godzilla vs. Kong” reunite with all the wonders that modern special effects can offer and still don’t much improve the results. After a lengthy buildup, this “thrilla” in the “MonsterVerse” — for anyone
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story AMADOR COUNTY, California (KOVR) — A Jackson man has been arrested after a fight in the Walmart parking lot that escalated to a person being struck and run over by a pickup truck. The incident happened Monday afternoon in Amador County. According to the sheriff’s office, dispatchers got
Continue Reading(CNN) — El rapero y cantante Lil Nas X lanzó un controvertido par de «Satan Shoes» con un pentagrama de bronce, una cruz invertida y una gota de sangre humana real, y se agotaron casi de inmediato. Las zapatillas negras y rojas, parte de una colaboración entre Lil Nas X y el colectivo artístico con
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The Desert Hot Springs Police Department said they were able to locate a 14-year-old girl who had been missing for over 12 hours.
Continue Reading Four bystanders who witnessed former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneel on George Floyd testified in court Tuesday about the horror and fear they felt watching Floyd slowly die. The bystanders included a 9-year-old girl, two high school students and a mixed martial arts fighter. Each said they had gone to the Cup Foods corner
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Credit card fraud, payment app scams, wire transfers gone wrong; you’ve likely heard about the different ways you can get conned out of your coin through these payment methods. But today, the Morning Insiders are telling you about a scam involving a new type of
Continue ReadingAfter two years of searching for problems with the investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign advisers in 2016 and their ties to Russia, federal prosecutor John Durham hasn’t found wrongdoing by Obama-era intelligence officials involved who were outside of the FBI. But Durham is still at work, looking at early aspects of the FBI investigation into
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Click here for updates on this story ROXBURY, Massachussetts (WBZ) — A car crashed into a clinic that provides COVID vaccinations in Roxbury overnight, but appointments are still on for Tuesday as scheduled. The car hit and damaged the front of the Whittier Street Health Center on Blue Hill Avenue around 3 a.m. and came
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A job fair slated for tomorrow will solicit workers skilled in a variety of trades who are needed to complete a mixed-use development under construction in downtown Coachella. Crews broke ground on the Pueblo Viejo Villas project last fall. It will bring commercial space and 105 subsidized affordable apartments to the northeast corner of Cesar
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — UW-Madison’s obstetrics and gynecology department changed its surgical consent process to ask patients to sign consent forms on the day of surgery, not before, after a case in which a patient’s ovaries were not removed as desired during a hysterectomy. “This reduces
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