Although 2020 was rough for most companies — to say the least — some bucked the trend. The pandemic forced consumers to learn, workout, socialize and more in new ways. That boosted businesses using technology to improve remote access to their services, and condensed years’ worth of digital adoption into several months. Those business models
Continue ReadingStates and cities are racing to use the billions in federal relief aid approved by Congress to fight the growing crisis of homelessness — but the approaching end of some pandemic benefits threatens to make the problem worse. The federal government has made a historic $70 billion investment across successive Covid relief packages in helping
Continue ReadingA reckoning with the deaths resulting from institutionalized racism, a resurgence of almost-daily gun violence and 3.1 million pandemic deaths worldwide, there has been trauma piled upon trauma upon trauma. It turns out these collective traumas are taking a toll on all of us, according to Roxane Cohen Silver, a professor of psychological science, medicine
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(CNN) — Si los Oscar necesitaban un tema general este año más allá de solo honrar lo mejor de las pelÃculas, el cierre de la cadena de cines Arclight and Pacific quizás les haya dado uno. Difundir el mensaje para salvar los cines. El anuncio de que «Pacific Theatres» no veÃa un camino económico para
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Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — A woman has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl in February 2019 outside Central High School. Jamya D. Norfleet, 28, was convicted of second-degree murder and 10 years for unlawful use of a weapon. The shooting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BLUE SPRINGS, MO. (KCTV) — Saturday was a proud but emotional day for Armenian Americans. President Joe Biden became the first president in history to recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide. In a statement marking the 106th anniversary of the massacre’s start,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A politician from the Queen City made a stop in the mountains Saturday. As part of his 100-county campaign for U.S. Senator, N.C. state Sen. Jeff Jackson held a town hall in Asheville Saturday afternoon, April 24. Jackson currently represents the 37th District, which
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta, GA (WGCL) — Atlanta police are searching for a man who they said jumped into a city of Atlanta work truck and drove off. The work truck was a 2009 Blue Ford, according to police. The reported theft happed on Wednesday near the 100 block of Marietta
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — Craig Roberts has stories — lots of them. You could call him an expert on Mobile’s Mardi Gras. “In the early days they only had to give up for God for lent — 40 days and 7 days before Easter — fatty meats and
Continue Reading The wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine missing since Wednesday has been found on the sea floor and all its 53 crew are confirmed dead, Indonesia military commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said Sunday. The news came a day after debris believed to be from the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine was found floating about two
Continue ReadingLive from New York, it’s … Elon Musk? In one of the more surprising announcements in the recent history of “Saturday Night Live,” the NBC variety show said Saturday that its next host will be Musk, the eccentric CEO of Tesla and one of the richest people on the planet. Miley Cyrus will be joining
Continue Reading Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides, gang-related incidents and deaths resulting from domestic conflicts are not included. If a perpetrator was killed or died by suicide during the incident, their death is not included in the fatality
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) — You’re running to the store when that addictive ding chimes on your cellphone. Someone’s sent you a video. Like many of us, this happened to Murfreesboro mom Selena Carlton, as she was heading to Home Depot with her son Isaiah, who has autism. She
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At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday. Another 110 people were injured in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, according to ministry spokesman Major General Khaled Al-Muhanna. The fire started after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — A 10-year-old male died in a house fire that happened near 118th and Florist Avenue at approximately 10 p.m. in Milwaukee. Milwaukee police say other occupants of the residence are being treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation. According to officials from the
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the Pulitzer Prizes. The prizes are presented every spring in recognition of achievements in journalism, music, literature and drama. Other Facts June 11, 2021 – The Pulitzer Prize winners and nominated finalists are scheduled to be announced. The announcement, originally scheduled for April 19, is postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the 2003 CIA leak involving then-operative Valerie Plame and senior members of the George W. Bush administration. After a lengthy investigation, one member of the Bush administration, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was brought to trial and convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements. Timeline February 2002 – Joseph
Continue ReadingThe Oscars have always been an ad for going to the movies, but as we head into this year’s ceremony on Sunday, the future of movie-going and the Academy Awards themselves are as uncertain as they’ve ever been in the show’s 93-year history. Popular box-office hits have been few and far between when it comes
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Newly elected St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones led a group of elected leaders on a tour of the Criminal Justice Center (CJC) and the Medium Security Institution, known as the Workhouse, on Saturday. The group emerged from the Workhouse and had harsh criticism
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Dresses — the pretty ones worn to work, cocktail hour or anytime a pick-me-up was needed in the “before times” — have been in hiding for the past year. But the clothing item that has been relegated to the back of people’s closets in the work-from-home era is moving back up. As social activities pick
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