NOTE: Shane Reichardt of Riverside County’s emergency management department issued a correction to the county’s earlier note that there weren’t any National Guard teams in Riverside County. Reichardt said the National Guard team at Riverside Community Hospital was originally only supposed to be there for a 72 hour deployment. The county was not aware that
Continue ReadingThe White House coronavirus task force warned states of incomplete and “unstable” Covid-19 data due to the ongoing holiday season, making it difficult to track the pandemic’s trajectory as concerns rise over continued or accelerated spread. “Data are currently unstable, outside of daily hospital admissions, due to inconsistent reporting and incomplete data over the holidays;
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A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday morning, according to the mayor’s office. The “Emancipation Group” statue has stood in Park Square since 1879. The Boston Art Commission voted to remove it in June after two public hearings and hundreds of letters and survey responses. “We’re
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s plan to distribute Covid-19 vaccines across the country has fallen “far behind.” “As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” Biden said, delivering remarks on the Covid-19 crisis from Wilmington, Delaware. “A few weeks
Continue ReadingWith just a few days left in the year, alarm bells are going off among health officials across the country over the slow effort to administer tens of millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year. The federal government’s Operation Warp Speed had promised that 20 million doses would be administered
Continue Reading The Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot unarmed Andre Hill shouted that Hill had a gun before shooting him to death last week, according to a statement included in a report prepared by the Columbus police chief after the shooting. Adam Coy, the officer who killed Hill, was fired Monday afternoon for his use of
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DENVER (AP) — The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The coronavirus variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver and has no travel history, state health officials
Continue Reading Russian authorities have ratcheted up pressure on opposition politician Alexey Navalny, leveling a new fraud accusation and jail threat against him in recent days. Russia’s main investigative body said on Tuesday that it had launched a new criminal case against Navalny on charges of fraud related to his alleged mishandling of $5 million in donations
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. (Gwinnett Daily Post) — A Buford man is facing kidnapping and other charges after Gwinnett police rescued an infant from a car that he allegedly stole from the parking lot of a strip shopping center near the intersection of Lawrenceville Highway and Sugarloaf Parkway on
Continue ReadingNearly two dozen downtown Nashville residents and business owners were to retrieve important items and pets Tuesday during their first up-close look at the devastation caused by the Christmas Day bombing, police said. Federal agents sifted through debris for evidence of an explosion that rocked a historic part of Tennessee’s capital on what was a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story UNITY, Maine (WMTW) — Firefighters saved a 150-year-old Bible during a fire Monday evening. Crews were called to Unity United Methodist Church on Depot Street around 6 p.m. Monday. The fire chief says the fire appeared to have started in the basement, but the cause is under investigation.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A violent night pushes Philadelphia closer to reaching a grim milestone. The city could be on track to surpass the most homicides ever in a calendar year. The record is 504 homicides which was set in 1990 and with three days left to go in
Continue ReadingJobless Americans won’t lose out on any benefits in the $900 billion stimulus deal, even though President Donald Trump did not sign it into law until Sunday. The unemployed will get the $300 federal boost in weekly payments for the full 11 weeks, the Labor Department said. Also, those in two pandemic unemployment programs will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — UPDATE: The patient has been identified and his next of kin has been notified. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center are asking for the public’s help in identifying a patient who was apparently hit by a car that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU ) — The New Orleans Police Department is asking for the public’s help locating two suspects who are believed to be involved in multiple vehicle burglaries that happened early Monday morning in Treme. At around 4:15 a.m., the suspects were captured on surveillance video burglarizing
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story UNITY, Maine (WMTW) — Firefighters saved a 150-year-old Bible during a fire Monday evening. Crews were called to Unity United Methodist Church on Depot Street around 6 p.m. Monday. The fire chief says the fire appeared to have started in the basement, but the cause is under investigation.
Continue ReadingOxygen supply issues led at least five Los Angeles County hospitals to declare an “internal disaster” Sunday, which included turning patients away. There are multiple issues involving oxygen delivery to patients, but generally the problem is not an absolute shortage of oxygen, according to Dr. Christina Ghaly, Los Angeles County Health Services director. Instead, at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (WMUR) — Manchester police are looking for a man in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident Tuesday morning. Police are searching for Franklin Castillo, 27, of Manchester. He is wanted on multiple charges including felony criminal threatening, felony theft, reckless conduct, endangering the welfare
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAKE WORTH, Florida (WPBF) — Outside the Palm Beach County Food Bank, dozens of local charitable agencies were stopping by for their routine pickup. Director of Development Ellen Vaughan said they are serving over 200,000 Palm Beach County residents. Since the start of the pandemic, the need for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert made it his mission to walk all of Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reporter Chris Lovingood was able to catch up with Schubert on Mount Washington Tuesday morning. Chief Schubert captures his experiences in the neighborhoods on camera
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