After a year that didn’t go as planned for anyone, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell, aka the “MyPillow Guy,” are among the winners — if you can call them that — of the 41st Golden Raspberry Awards, which are handed out to the worst in cinema every year. The nine categories are voted on by
Continue ReadingIn the early months of the pandemic, blood donation centers around the country rushed to collect convalescent plasma as it was seen as a potential wonder treatment for Covid-19. Now many are moving away from plasma collection, and even doing away with antibody testing to find volunteers who want to donate. With vaccinations up and
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The massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I — and the question of whether it should be called a genocide — remains highly contentious a century after the event. The issue is an emotional one, both for Armenians, many of whose forebears were killed, and for Turks, the
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The desert is taking part in celebrating Earth Day this weekend. The city of Indio hosted a sustainability event on Saturday and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is encouraging the community to take a pledge. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay tells us more about these events. “We’re doing an Earth Day event where we’re
Continue ReadingInvestors are getting ready to reposition their portfolios for the post-pandemic world. That means moving money out of big tech, which did amazingly well in the work-from-home economy, and into more cyclical sectors, like manufacturing. But hold on a moment — big tech might have another ace up its sleeve. Next week’s earnings calendar is
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Click here for updates on this story GRANBY, Connecticut (WFSB) — April 18 to the 24 is National Pediatric Transplant week. It’s a week dedicated to ending the pediatric transplant waiting list. A young girl in Connecticut was able to get off that list when she found an unexpected match for a kidney transplant. Piper
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A now-fired Mobile County corrections deputy, a convicted murder and that defendant’s wife have been indicted on charges relating to an alleged contraband-and-bribery scheme at the county’s lockup. The indictments and authorities allege that Prichard resident Danell Michael Davis, who pleaded guilty to murder
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Former President Donald Trump’s continued promotion of the “big lie” about the 2020 election could still incite his followers to violence, the Justice Department and judges noted repeatedly this week, as courts weigh the future dangerousness of US Capitol riot defendants. Two federal judges this week brought up the disinformation about 2020 from right-wing figures,
Continue Reading A year after losing everything in a flood, a Michigan man won $2 million from a scratch off lottery ticket, according to lottery officials. The 29-year-old man, who decided to stay anonymous, bought the ticket at a grocery store in Midland. “Last year, I lost everything in a flood, so to win this prize is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CONECUH COUNTY, Alabam (WALA) — Human remains found in Conecuh County were identified as a woman who disappeared almost three years ago. 70 year-old Shari Saunders was traveling to Monroeville when she vanished. Her death is being called a homicide. Saunders’ niece, Amanda Reed, said she wants to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE (WALA) — As the sun set over Eight Mile, light blue balloons were set free from the hands of loved ones who gathered to remember Ariel Jasper and her baby boy Noah. In front of family and friends, Gloria Luckie recalled the night she got the devastating
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CLAYTON COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Clayton County police said they arrested a woman who plowed down three juveniles with her vehicle. According to police, officers responded to a person hit by a vehicle Thursday night at the Zaxby’s in the 6000 block of Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro. When
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The Emory University Hospital in midtown Atlanta is seeking the public’s help identifying a patient who has been in the hospital for more than five months. On November 20, Atlanta Police brought a man to the hospital’s emergency department after he was found wandering throughout
Continue Reading A man in the town of Manacor on the Spanish island of Mallorca has been arrested on suspicion of infecting 22 people with Covid-19, according to the Spanish National Police. “Despite having symptoms and having done a PCR test, he continued his normal life without waiting for the result or quarantining,” police said of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 68-year-old woman says she did not know police in Salisbury, North Carolina were chasing her for speeding until they approached the side of her vehicle and laid out spike strips. When Stephanie Bottom was pulled over, several officers rushed to her car with guns
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — Olathe police and Johnson County dispatchers had to act fast Friday morning to save a wrong way driver who drove down train tracks as two oncoming trains came toward him near Northgate and Woodland Street. Someone called 911 to report a driver was driving
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(CNN Español) — Laura Pausini está nominada a su primer premio Oscar. Una nominación inimaginable, dice. La cantante italiana llega a la edición 93 de los premios de la Academia con una canción en su idioma, de una película extranjera y que se estrenó en Netflix, plataforma que hasta hace poco era vista de reojo
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Armada de Indonesia cambió el estado de su submarino de «desaparecido» a «hundido» el sábado, cuando un jefe naval reveló escombros que se cree que son del buque en una conferencia de prensa. Las autoridades ahora esperan llevar a cabo un proceso de evacuación para recuperar el submarino KRI Nanggala-402 y su
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CAMP LEJEUNE (WLOS) — The regional Marine Corps trials aboard Camp Lejeune are held at Wounded Warrior Battalion-East, where wounded, ill, and injured marines and sailors are battling it out in a number of athletic events for a chance to compete in the department of defense warrior games.
Continue Reading A turtle crashed through a car’s windshield in a story that seems on-brand with the weird news that comes out of Florida. What may surprise you though, is this bizarre accident has happened around here before. A 71-year-old woman was riding with her daughter on Interstate 95 near Port Orange, Florida, on Wednesday when a
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