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A lightning strike sent a chunk of highway through the windshield of a truck in Florida on Monday and authorities say the truck’s occupants are lucky that their injuries weren’t more severe. When fire rescue crews in Walton County, 40 miles north of Destin, responded to the scene of a traffic accident near mile marker
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — This Mother’s Day, new technology is helping a Kansas City mom who suffers from a rare disease affecting her vision. KMBC 9 talked to her about how a special device is helping her regain her independence and confidence as a mother. Ashley Mizell
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — When Danielle Yonemura was 14 and her daughter, Leilani, was born, she said she made a promise to give her a better life than she had. And that started with bettering herself first. “Wow, I really need to get my stuff together because
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(CNN) — La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha clasificado la variante de covid-19 B.1,617, que se identificó por primera vez en India, como una variante preocupante, dijo la líder técnica de la OMS para el covid-19 durante una conferencia de prensa el lunes. La etiqueta de “variante de preocupación” indica que la variante identificada
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A 96-year-old retired schoolteacher, who is now a crossing guard in the Sherman Park neighborhood, says he loves what he does, and he’s hoping to hit a milestone. “I get up at about 4 o’clock in the morning,” Julius Campbell said. “And then I go
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WMTW) — Sometimes maternal bonds can cross into other species. A Maine family from Jefferson is sharing video from their trip to the Franklin Park Zoo last month, where one of the gorillas seemed fascinated with their five-week-old son. Emily Austin held up her sleeping son Canyon
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When Alexandra Leighton set out to get her Covid-19 vaccine, she found herself pleasantly surprised. Leighton, who produces television commercials, found she could get any of the three Covid-19 vaccines — Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson — within a reasonable drive from her Miami home. “At the beginning it was horrible — you wanted
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO (WESH) — A Polk County mother and military wife is back in Orlando with her family, after being deported three years ago. Alejandra Juarez entered the United States illegally more than twenty years ago and lived undocumented. She was deported in 2018. Congressman Darren Soto asked President
Continue ReadingFacebook’s plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13 continues to get backlash. On Monday, 44 attorneys general signed a letter addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to scrap plans for an Instagram intended for younger users, citing mental health and privacy concerns. The letter comes less
Continue ReadingRiverside County Public Health has worked hard to narrow the coronavirus vaccination gap among the Latinx community. It is a group who make up about half the population here. News Channel 3’s Dani Romero takes a closer look at the progress in closing those disparities. “I am feeling good,” said Alexia Mendez. She got her
Continue ReadingIt’s the claim that’s suddenly everywhere: The Covid-19 vaccine is going to make women infertile. “No! You don’t know the science!” one woman posted on Twitter in response to naysayers. “The vaccine creates an immune response to the placenta and renders a woman sterile! They know this and this is the objective! It’s a shifty
Continue ReadingOne of the largest US fuel pipelines remained largely paralyzed Monday after a ransomware cyberattack forced the temporary shutdown of all operations late last week — an incident that laid bare vulnerabilities in the country’s aging energy infrastructure. The victim of the attack, Colonial Pipeline is a company that transports more than 100 million gallons
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New York Police Department investigators are looking for a 31-year-old man they believe to be the shooter who left three people injured in Times Square over the weekend, according to two law enforcement officials. The law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, say the man intended to
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un quiebre en el último informe de empleos del gobierno de Estados Unidos está electrizando la batalla de Washington por los programas enormemente ambiciosos de Joe Biden y ofrece una pista temprana del peligro político que el presidente podría enfrentar si la economía no se recupera con fuerza. Los datos, que muestran que
Continue ReadingDogecoin may have started as (and may still be) a joke. But serious cryptocurrency investors who’ve bet on ethereum are laughing all the way to the bank. Ethereum, or ether for short, hit a new record high of above $4,100 Monday morning. Ether is the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, trailing only bitcoin. It has
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden will focus in a speech Monday on how the administration is providing funding for states and localities, bolstering child care providers and helping Americans return to work safely, a White House official told CNN. “Today the President will announce additional steps to get Americans back to work, including removing barriers that are
Continue ReadingToday in ultra-billionaire news, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a modest 100-foot schooner as he looks forward to a quieter life and hours of reflection on the open seas … LOL, just kidding. The world’s richest man is reportedly buying a boat, though that word feels inappropriately sensible for the monstrosity going to Captain
Continue ReadingThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week it had designated a coronavirus variant first seen in India as a “variant of interest,” adding it to the growing collection of viral variants it’s keeping an eye on. Vaccine makers are so worried about the chance new variants will escape the protection offered
Continue ReadingBiden administration officials worked urgently Monday to ascertain the scope and fallout of a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies much of the eastern United States its gasoline — an incident that laid bare vulnerabilities in the country’s aging energy infrastructure. Senior White House officials said Monday the administration was working closely with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VILLAGE OF SANFORD, Michigan (WNEM) — A man and his three daughters have a new home after his was destroyed last year. When floodwaters caused by the two dam failures submerged the village of Sanford, his new home was built with community support. “It’s really nice to call
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