Month: April 2021

During his Easter sermon last weekend, Pastor Jim Conrad preached a message of love and acceptance from the pulpit of his church. Over the past several months, the pastor’s stance on love and acceptance has drawn national attention to Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia. Specifically, over the question of who’s allowed to become

For weeks, Nick Muerdter had been hearing about his coworkers’ concerns and frustrations as they tried to navigate complicated and evolving Covid-19 vaccination systems to land an appointment for their parents. Some sent around emails with helpful articles and brainstormed for a solution. “It seemed like a lot of people were just spending a lot

Two Salt Lake County Sheriff’s deputies were shot near the sheriff’s office building Saturday morning by a man during an altercation, authorities say. The deputies were doing campus security on the sheriff’s office property and around the Salt Lake County Metro Jail when an altercation began around 10:30 a.m. local time, Salt Lake County Sheriff

The Pentagon police officer who was charged with two counts of murder Friday may be facing charges related to an incident in 2020 in which he pointed a shotgun at a woman’s face, authorities said. Takoma Park, Maryland, police say they will be filing criminal charges after video surfaced of David Hall Dixon — accused

Watching eyewitnesses in Derek Chauvin’s trial express their grief, anger, fear and helplessness at seeing George Floyd beg for his life, Feidin Santana had been there before. The 29-year-old, who recorded the fatal police shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, six years ago, had to testify himself amid threats, bigotry and bogus

A 27-year-veteran of the Iowa State Patrol was shot and killed by a man who had earlier assaulted a police officer, Iowa Department of Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens said Saturday. Sgt. Jim Smith died Friday while trying to enter the home where the man had barricaded himself in Grundy Center, Iowa, Bayens said. Grundy

At first, Cecelia Perry thought she knew what happened to her younger brother when he failed to return from a late-night trip to a service station on March 20, 1981. Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was thoughtful and responsible — working at night and watching Perry’s oldest son during the day. He’d been with Perry at another

Books that talked about racism and racial justice — or told the stories of people of color or the LGBTQ community — were among the most challenged as inappropriate for students in 2020, according to a survey by the American Library Association. As the nation attempted a reckoning in 2020 over the issue of race

The search for a Louisiana State University freshman missing since Tuesday has been narrowed down to one section of the Mississippi River, the school said in its latest update. Kori Gauthier’s car was found unoccupied at the scene of an accident on the Mississippi River bridge on Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge, according to LSU.

The sixth victim of a shooting in Rock Hill, South Carolina, earlier this week has died, the York County coroner announced Saturday. Robert Shook, an air conditioning technician, initially survived the attack that left a beloved doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and another air conditioning technician dead on Wednesday, but he died late Saturday

A woman has made history in the United Arab Emirates as the country’s first female astronaut. Noura Al-Matrooshi is one of two new astronauts in the UAE’s Mohammed Bin Rashid (MBR) Space Centre astronaut program, UAE vice president and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced on Twitter. She was chosen with Mohammed