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(CNN) — Olivia y Liam fueron los nombres más populares para bebés y niños en Estados Unidos durante el 2020, según la lista anual de nombres más populares para bebés realizada por la Administración del Seguro Social (SSA, por sus siglas en inglés) publicada este viernes. En 2020, los tres nombres masculinos y femeninos no
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Joshua Nelson landed a full-ride scholarship to Southeast Missouri State University. Now the Missouri native wants to pay it forward by donating his college savings to another high school senior. Nelson, a senior at St. Charles West High School, was one of only five students selected for the prestigious President’s Scholarship at the university. A
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SEASIDE, OR (KPTV) — It’s a trend many industries are seeing right now – businesses like hotels and restaurants struggling to get applicants to fill job openings. According to the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, 54% of employers are having difficulty hiring people right now. Summer is right
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, OR (KPTV) — Fire crews say a family cat died on Saturday morning after a house fire in Dallas. Just before 10 a.m. neighbors to 288 Southwest Applegate Trail saw smoke, heard the smoke alarms sounding from inside the house and called 911. Dallas Fire & EMS
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Lisa Wright always knew she was adopted, but had no idea her biological mother was a star on one of her favorite television shows. Now Wright is sharing the story of having been reunited with actress Lynne Moody after 50 years in what reads like the perfect Hollywood ending, according to NBC’s “Today.” “I grew
Continue Reading At the age of 12, Yolanda King is a force. She has delivered dynamic speeches about racial equality and gun control. She’s advocating for youth activism and working to dismantle racism through her family’s organization, the Drum Major Institute. Yolanda is determined to promote her late grandfather the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of
Continue ReadingEverywhere you look, there are headlines about higher prices. Some are tied to commodities, which are getting snapped up as the global economy emerges from its long slumber. Lumber prices are at an all-time high thanks to an epic home-building boom. Copper and steel prices have also reached records. Agricultural products aren’t exempt. The price
Continue ReadingThe White House Covid-19 response coordinator on Sunday said the country is “turning the corner” on the pandemic, but stressed that despite some Covid fatigue, Americans must get vaccinated and follow the science. “I would say we are turning the corner,” Jeffrey Zients told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” Zients’ comments come
Continue ReadingAnna Malaika Tubbs learned she was pregnant with her first child in November 2019 while researching her first book. Already, her relationship with the stories she was uncovering about Alberta King, Louise Little and Emma Berdis Baldwin had been intensifying, the more she learned about their revolutionary role in the fight for Black equality, respect
Continue Reading Laverne Delgado is spending Mother’s Day weekend crisscrossing Los Angeles with bags full of personal care items for single moms who’ve fallen on tough times. Her raw empathy has taken her from Pasadena to Skid Row, visiting transitional homes for mothers who’ve suffered homelessness, domestic violence and even sex trafficking. Among her many stops was
Continue Reading She stands with open arms atop a mountain ridge on the continental divide overlooking Butte, Montana. “Our Lady of the Rockies,” the fourth tallest statue in the United States, began as one man’s desperate prayer. It’s now a shrine to mothers everywhere. For the love of a mother In 1979, Bob O’Bill’s beloved spouse Joyce
Continue Reading When Alaina E. Roberts started piecing her family’s history together she made a surprising discovery that changed what it meant to be a Black American. Her father’s ancestors in Oklahoma were once enslaved by Native Americans. Nearly a century before Tulsa’s Greenwood District became a beacon of Black prosperity in the 1920s, Native American tribes
Continue Reading Here’s a look at controversial police encounters that have prompted protests over the past three decades. This select list includes cases in which police officers were charged or a grand jury was convened. 1991 – Los Angeles – Rodney King March 3, 1991 – LAPD officers beat motorist Rodney King after he leads police on
Continue Reading A female driver was shot and taken to the hospital after a verbal altercation with a male driver near Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday evening, police said in a news release. A preliminary investigation found that the woman was driving when she got into a “verbal altercation” with a male driver, things escalated
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of filmmaker George Lucas. Personal: Birth date: May 14, 1944 Birth place: Modesto, California Birth name: George Walton Lucas Jr. Father: George Lucas Sr., office supply store owner Mother: Dorothy (Bomberger) Lucas Marriages: Mellody Hobson (2013-present); Marcia Griffin (1969-1983, divorced) Children: with Mellody Hobson: Everest (daughter), 2013; adopted as
Continue Reading Here’s a look at Armed Forces Day, a holiday observed in some areas of the United States to honor all branches of the armed forces. Facts May 15, 2021 – Armed Forces Day. Is celebrated each year on the third Saturday in May. Other Facts Each year there is a theme. The theme of the
Continue ReadingThe large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend has brought about an alarming but not unprecedented situation. Space debris has crashed into Earth on a number of occasions, including last year. The good news is that debris plunging toward Earth — while unnerving — generally poses
Continue Reading As protesters take to the streets to fight for racial equality in the United States, experts in digital technology are quietly tackling a lesser known but related injustice. It’s called techno-racism. And while you may not have heard of it, it’s baked into some of the technology we encounter every day. Digital technologies used by
Continue Reading Each Sunday morning, right at 10 a.m., Carolyn Nugent and Alen Ramos sit in their townhouse and watch their phones light up with email after email from strangers eager to get their hands on their much-talked about apple fritters, Berliner donuts and rye bagels. “It went from taking us a week to sell out or
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