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By Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     CARLETON-SUR-MER, Quebec (CTV Network) — DNA analysis of a 1,600-year-old mummified sheep leg found in Iran has uncovered clues as to how the ancient people of the Middle East lived. The sheep leg was recently discovered in the Chehrabad salt mine in Iran,

By Marjie Ducey Click here for updates on this story     OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — It was the one tree the residents in a Dundee neighborhood thought would never fall. They were wrong. The huge oak, estimated by homeowner Charlie Agulla to be between 100 and 150 feet tall, silently toppled in last Saturday morning’s

By Brent C. Wagner Click here for updates on this story     LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — The Nebraska volleyball program is on a recruiting hot streak. For the third time in just two days, a high school volleyball player has announced their plans to play for Nebraska. On Friday, it was Caroline Jurevicius, who

By Rob Chaney Click here for updates on this story     MISSOULA COUNTY, Montana (Missoulian) — Wade Fellin wanted a break from chasing fish as a job, so he spent a day snorkeling in the Bitterroot River. The hoped-for respite backfired. “I was excited to show my wife how many fish are down there, but we

By Riley Vetterkind Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — The Democratic Party of Wisconsin raised more than four times what the state Republican Party raised in the first half of the year, hauling in more than $4.2 million across its two major state accounts. The Democratic Party’s multimillion-dollar

By Thomas Geyer Click here for updates on this story     DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — A man was injured Friday when he was dragged by a freight train at Warren and 5th streets in Davenport. Davenport firefighters and police were called to the scene at 7:19 p.m. Police said the train had stopped and the

By Dee Holzel Click here for updates on this story     RACINE COUNTY, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Charges have been dismissed against a local man accused last month of attempted murder for allegedly trying to hang his girlfriend. Ryan Carter, 38, had been charged with four felonies, including attempted first-degree intentional homicide, aggravated battery, false

By Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new U.K. study has found that children who are hospitalized with COVID-19 are significantly more likely than adults to develop rare neurological disorders. The study, “Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalised children and adolescents in the UK: a

By Stephanie Liu Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — As COVID-19 cases trend downwards in Canada, most of the country is now reporting lower infection rates than all U.S. states. The latest available data from CTVNews.ca’s interactive tracker shows that Yukon is currently the highest-ranked Canadian region for the

By DREW MARINE Click here for updates on this story     COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, Washington (KPTV) — A six-week-old golden eagle is now recovering at an Oregon wildlife clinic after being rescued from the Lyle Hill wildfire burning on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. While working that wildfire, the Meadow Fallers – a

By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story     KIRKWOOD, Missouri (KMOV) — Police are searching for an 82-year-old man who went missing from a Kirkwood, Mo. nursing home overnight Friday or early Saturday. The search is on for Cornell Allmon. He is described as 6’4″, weighing 136 pounds, with a slender build, brown

By RUSSELL KINSAUL Click here for updates on this story     ST LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — A St. Louis County mother is turning her devastating loss of her daughter into a teaching moment. Kimberle Jones is grieving over the death of her daughter, 37-year old Erica Thompson, who died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of

By JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story     SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — The Saginaw Police Department is investigating the shooting of a 4-year-old boy that happened Friday, July 16, around 5:30 p.m. Officers converged on the neighborhood at Hampshire near Drexel in southeast Saginaw, investigating a call of a child being shot. When

By SHAIN BERGAN Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — One person is in the hospital in critical condition after their motorbike was run over by a semi Friday night in Kansas City. Police and emergency crews responded at 9 p.m. to the incident on the exit ramp from Interstate

By SHAIN BERGAN Click here for updates on this story     KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Authorities are asking for help in finding a dementia patient who walked out of Truman Medical Center early Saturday morning and is considered missing and endangered. Kansas City police sent out a Silver Alert early Saturday for Delbert Garrett, 68.

By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A Wisconsin Air Force officer lost in a plane crash almost 70 years ago made his way home Friday, July 16. The body of Airman Second Class Edward Miller, of Evansville, arrived in Mitchell International Airport earlier Friday. Miller was on

By ALEX HEIDER Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The US Coast Guard confirms to News4 that the cruise ship, American Jazz, has been dislodged from the sandbar it had been stuck on. For over a week, the ship had been stuck on a sandbar on Lake Barkley in Kentucky.

By REBECCA CARDENAS Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — As if no time had passed at all, the line was wrapped around the sidewalk at The Bluebird Café Friday, filled with eager music lovers hoping to get a spot at its first show in 16 months. The wait was finally

By NAHIMA SHAFFER Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — Investigators have arrested three people a month after a viral video led to a young boy being removed from his home. Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer, 19, Brittney Monique Mills, 35 and Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo, 18, were each charged with cruelty to children.

By Zac Summers Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — Atlanta police are investigating after a man was found bleeding and barely alive on train tracks in Buckhead. Colin Kelly said his heart sank when he got a call from police telling him his partner of 3 ½ years was clinging