By WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Some Minnesota lakes are seeing dead fish pile up along their shores. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said there has been an increase in fish die-offs across the state due to this stretch of hot weather. “This is a rare occurrence.
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott, CNN Another day, another crash-filled Tour de France stage. And for Geraint Thomas, who won the Tour de France in 2018, a day he’s unlikely to forget in a hurry after he got back on his bike after suffering a dislocated shoulder on Monday. “Following a post-stage scan and x-ray we’re pleased
Continue ReadingBy WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 39-year-old Woodbury man is accused of fatally stabbing his wife in the basement of their home while six children were watching television upstairs. Charges filed in Washington County show McKinley Phillips faces second-degree murder with intent, but without premeditation, in connection
Continue ReadingBy Alina Panek Click here for updates on this story LAREDO, Texas (KTVT) — A 42-year-old U.S. citizen was busted with $384,600 worth of fentanyl at the Texas-Mexico border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized the narcotics on June 23 at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge. “CBP has seen an increase in smuggling attempts concerning illicit
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc and Stella Chan, CNN California will ban state-funded travel to five new states over their “discriminatory” LGBTQ laws, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, citing the importance of “aligning our dollars with our values.” The new travel restrictions target Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia over what the attorney
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By Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN Fred and Wilma get to keep their house, and all of their dinosaurs, too. Florence Fang, the owner of the colorful, dome-shaped “Flintstone House” in Hillsborough, California, can keep her garden collection of dinosaurs and eye-catching “Flintstones” sculptures after settling a lawsuit with local officials, according to city
Continue ReadingBy Alina Panek Click here for updates on this story Indiana (WBBM) — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources sent out an alert on Friday, warning bird lovers statewide to remove their bird feeders while they investigate reported songbird deaths in 15 counties. Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and the USGS National Wildlife Health Center
Continue ReadingBy KPIX Staff Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A San Francisco Chinatown business just trying to stay afloat since the COVID-19 reopening is facing a new fiscal challenge — repairing the costly damage left behind by repeated acts of vandalism. A sheet of plastic covers the front window of
Continue ReadingBy Anna Giles Click here for updates on this story TRACY (KOVR) — It’s a high-cost battle against a big bird nuisance. City of Tracy Animal Services says they seeing a surge in calls about peacocks in the area – but they want neighbors to try and scare them off on their own because the
Continue ReadingBy KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story LONG BEACH (KCAL, KCBS) — A brutal robbery and beating that left the victim with a broken leg was caught on nearby security video. According to the Long Beach Police Department, officers responded to the 300 block of East Peace Street, at around 12:49 p.m.,
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Victory Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Airline tickets, Air Pods, massage therapy. Those are just some of the gifts one woman gave to her spiritual caregiver before passing away. But the woman’s nephew later found out his aunt also left the cargiver a half-million dollars in her will
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN Former President Barack Obama said Monday that action to protect voting rights is even more important in the wake of the 2020 election, taking a swipe at his immediate successor as having violated a “core tenant” of the American election system and for spreading baseless claims of voter fraud. During a
Continue ReadingOpinion by Sonia Pruitt Congress is now in recess, and only has a “framework” for a police reform bill from the Senate. Since early March, there have been negotiations but no decisive action on the Justice in Policing Act (JPA) that bears George Floyd’s name. Floyd died at the knee of Derek Chauvin on May
Continue ReadingBy Tori Mason Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — While most Coloradans were staying in, some residents were coming out. The pandemic altered or canceled many Pride events in June 2020. Much of the LGBTQ community is ready to make up for lost time in 2021, but one man is making
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The Imperial County Sheriff’s Office is mourning the loss of one of their own. Deputy Anthony Redondo, 25, was killed in a car crash Saturday evening near the city of Imperial. According to the California Highway Patrol, the incident started at around 7:30 p.m. when Redondo was driving a marked patrol vehicle westbound on Aten
Continue Readingjosemartinezgomez (CNN Business) — La última película de Fast & Furious muestra a nuestros héroes lanzando un Pontiac Fiero al espacio. Pero esa fue simplemente la segunda hazaña más impresionante que logró la película este fin de semana. La primera fue los mayores números de taquilla en un estreno desde que comenzó la pandemia. «F9:
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlyn Naples Click here for updates on this story Connecticut (WFSB) — A group of parents and students are rallying together, calling on the University of Connecticut to withdraw its policy mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for students. On behalf of hundreds of UConn college students and parents, the Family Freedom Endeavor, Inc., said it
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott Another day, another crash-filled Tour de France stage. And for Geraint Thomas, who won the Tour de France in 2018, a day he’s unlikely to forget in a hurry after he got back on his bike after suffering a dislocated shoulder on Monday. “Following a post-stage scan and x-ray we’re pleased to
Continue ReadingBy Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Bitcoin rose Monday after Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the owner of Mexico’s Banco Azteca, said he was pushing his country to accept the cryptocurrency and encouraged his Twitter followers to buy it. “Me and my bank are working to be the first bank in Mexico to accept #Bitcoin,” he tweeted Sunday.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business A federal court has dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying the agency had failed to provide evidence for its claim that the social media giant holds a monopoly in social networking. In an opinion published Monday afternoon, Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for
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