Month: May 2021

Click here for updates on this story     CLAY COUNTY, Missouri (KCTV, KSMO) — A Clay County court lowered the bond of a Kansas City man accused of kidnapping a child at gunpoint, despite the court having “major concern” for the safety of the child and her mother. After DeShawn Barr-Cotton’s bond was lowered from $100,000

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Margery Baxter’s physical wounds are just starting to heal, after being stabbed in the hand during a carjacking at the McDonalds on Dauphin Street near I-65 Monday night. “It scared the living fire out of me and I tried to get him out of

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A mother’s desperate plea, driving dozens of donations on GoFundMe, turns out to be a total dupe. Someone claiming to be a mother of four in Mobile set up a , since deleted, GoFundMe page asking for donations to help bury her 2-year-old baby

Here is a look at the life of award-winning actor Dick Van Dyke. Personal Birth date: December 13, 1925 Birth place: West Plains, Missouri Birth name: Richard Wayne Van Dyke Father: Loren “Cookie” Van Dyke, a traveling salesman, Sunshine Biscuit Company Mother: Hazel (McCord) Van Dyke Marriages: Arlene (Silver) Van Dyke (2012-present); Marjorie (Willett) Van

Here’s a look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Facts “Doping” by professional athletes has been acknowledged as a problem since at least the 1960s. The issue gained prominence as a result of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) investigation, tell-alls by former professional athletes, a 2007 report on drugs in professional baseball

When astronauts venture outside of the International Space Station to go on spacewalks, the most important thing they have to do is focus. This may sound simple, but imagine trying to focus on a memorized set of tasks while stepping out of an airlock and wearing a 300-pound spacesuit — with the glow of planet

As European airlines suspend the flights to Belarus that once offered one of the few exit routes out of an oppressive state already in the grip of closed land borders, many Belarusians fear the return of a Soviet-style Iron Curtain around their country. Western leaders have called for tougher sanctions and drastic aviation bans following

Click here for updates on this story     SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (CTV Network) — Indigenous people, low-income Canadians and those living in rural Ontario and Quebec are disproportionately hit by Greyhound Canada shutting down its last routes in the country, advocates say. Earlier this month, the bus service announced it was permanently shutting down all operations in

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — With COVID-19 keeping many people isolated and alone, one way to combat the loneliness is by cranking the volume up on your favourite song, show or movie, new research suggests. Researchers at Australia’s James Cook University found that people who felt socially isolated

Flipping open a yearbook for the first time is normally a moment full of excitement — but at one Florida high school, some students were left in shock after seeing that their yearbook portraits had been edited. When Bartram Trail High School freshman Riley O’Keefe saw her yearbook photo, she noticed a black bar was

The United States has joined calls for a more in-depth, transparent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, after an international probe in China earlier this year yielded little in the way of firm conclusions. Speaking at the World Health Organization’s annual summit for member states in Geneva on Tuesday, representatives from the US

As new coronavirus variants pop up around the world, public health experts are looking at one key group of people who might be particularly vulnerable to future outbreaks: School children. There are no indications that any of the new Covid-19 variants causes more serious disease in children and it remains extremely rare for them to