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By Lauren Sennet Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Atlanta police responded to a shooting at a diner where one man died, say investigators. The incident occurred around 4 a.m. on Saturday near North Avenue and Peachtree Street in the midtown area. According to law enforcement, witnesses said the man was
Continue ReadingBy Erin Gretzinger Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — UW-Madison will remove a 70-ton boulder from the heart of campus Friday morning following calls over the past year from students of color who view the rock as a symbol of the university’s racist past. Chamberlin Rock, located on
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Ángela Reyes (CNN) — Un sistema crucial de corrientes en el océano Atlántico que ayuda a controlar las temperaturas en el hemisferio norte y tiene implicaciones para los sistemas climáticos de todo el planeta está mostrando signos de inestabilidad debido al cambio climático provocado por el hombre, dicen los científicos. Su colapso tendría consecuencias graves
Continue ReadingBy Alyce Brown Click here for updates on this story WAVERLY, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — As vaccination rates slow, students at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, have been spending their summer running initiatives to get their hometowns vaccinated. Nine Wartburg students have been working under professor Caryn Riswold to come up with ways to increase
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Tam Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — With the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Hawaii, there’s a growing need for contact tracing. There’s currently about 270 contact tracers across the state. With hundreds of new cases to track everyday, more help is needed. Because of the
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) responded to a swimmer in trouble on Friday afternoon. The 19-year-old swimmer had jumped off of Spitting Caves and was in distress, lifeguards reported windy and choppy conditions, which made it difficult for the swimmer to get
Continue ReadingBy Mike Savino, Ashley RK Smith Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Governor Ned Lamont said on Aug. 6, that judges will now have access to juveniles’ records 24/7, when ruling on requests. Police and republicans hope the change will help lower car thefts by minors. The governor stated that
Continue ReadingBy Emily Rittman Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Ambulance strike teams arrived in the Kansas City metro Friday to provide long-haul patient transfers outside of the area to keep Kansas City area ambulance crews in the metro. “All of the services in this region, we are all suffering
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN We are driven by discovery. As a kid, I devoured stories about the arduous efforts to reveal the past (and I still do). There were divers seeking shipwrecks, astronomers peering through telescopes at the universe, researchers digging for fossils, and historians looking through pages and paintings to find lost masterpieces.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN We are driven by discovery. As a kid, I devoured stories about the arduous efforts to reveal the past (and I still do). There were divers seeking shipwrecks, astronomers peering through telescopes at the universe, researchers digging for fossils, and historians looking through pages and paintings to find lost masterpieces. Their
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Moody Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — It was a scary moment Friday afternoon after a man walked into a Mobile bank with a knife demanding money. But it was the efforts of a good Samaritan that prevented him from getting away. “He mumbled something again. Then he
Continue ReadingBy Drew Marine Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKIE, Oregon (KPTV) — A well-known Milwaukie figure is hospitalized battling COVID-19. Keith McDonley, otherwise known as the “Milwaukie Santa,” has been in the ICU for more than a month and on an ECMO machine for over two weeks. For more than a decade, Keith
Continue ReadingBy Lacey Beasley Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — The last surviving World War Two veteran in Mobile was honored at his home. Captain Wilmer Lamey served when he was 17 years old, and his legacy still lives on today. Captain Lamey was born in Bayou La Batre in 1924,
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Allyson Felix became the most decorated US track and field athlete in Olympics history after helping Team USA win the women’s 400m sprint relay on Saturday. It was Felix’s 11th Olympic medal and her seventh gold, overtaking sprint legend Carl Lewis’ haul of 10 medals. She remains one
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Moody Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — It was a scary moment Friday afternoon after a man walked into a mobile bank with a knife demanding money. But it was the efforts of a good Samaritan that prevented him from getting away. “He mumbled something again. Then he
Continue ReadingBy Gabriella Bachara Click here for updates on this story WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The Wisconsin State Fair is celebrating 170 years of fair fun this year, but we’ve yet to come across any vendors who date that far back. There is one that’s been returning for 66 years. “It’s just a happy place
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Deidre McPhillips, CNN Florida reported 134,506 new Covid-19 cases over the last week on Friday, more than any other 7-day period during the pandemic. Data published Friday by the state health department shows the state, which releases Covid-19 data on a weekly basis, reported an average of 19,215 cases each day.
Continue Reading Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) escalated his ongoing feud with President Joe Biden over Covid-19 regulations, taking a stab at the President’s memory following Biden’s latest comeback.
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN It’s the end of another week, end of another Olympics and the end of my hopes of becoming the next “Jeopardy” host (Although, I never had any chance because I’m a woman and a person of color. Bazinga.) With all these endings, let’s start something. How about this week’s TV OT?
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles left Tokyo on Wednesday with her fame intact, but changed from the person she had been before the games. Suffering from the twisties — a mental condition in which gymnasts lose the sense of where their bodies are in midair — Biles stunned the world by withdrawing
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