The State Department is reverting back to Phase 1 Covid-19 guidelines, which include limiting travel to mission critical trips and putting restrictions on the size of gatherings, according to a department-wide memo from a top State Department official which was reviewed by CNN. The plan is to return from Phase 2 guidelines to the more
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Click here for updates on this story PASSAIC, New Jersey (WCBS) — After the snow storm, parking wars are heating up in one New Jersey city. Looking around for a parking spot in Passaic, you’ll find many of the available spots aren’t actually available. Many are saved, using cones, trash cans or just about anything.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — A Lawrenceville man is facing multiple aggravated cruelty to animals, cruelty to animals and maintaining a disorderly house charges after 30 dogs were rescued from his home, which was allegedly covered in feces and had dead animals inside it, on Friday. Carlos
Continue Reading The Kansas City Star has apologized for what it’s calling decades of “robb(ing) an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.” The Star, one of the most influential news sources in the region, says it has “disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians” for the last 140 years. “It reinforced Jim Crow
Continue ReadingAttorney General William Barr on Monday rejected several of President Donald Trump’s inflammatory and unfounded statements regarding the presidential election, saying at a news conference that he doesn’t plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter or the election. “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAYWARD, California (KCRA) — A convicted killer has been arrested and charged with murder in the cold case of a 9-year-old San Francisco Bay Area girl abducted in 1988, law enforcement officials announced on Monday. Michaela Joy Garecht was kidnapped in a Rainbow Market parking lot in Hayward
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — A Des Moines man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his own mother faces further sentencing Tuesday for animal cruelty charges. Christopher Thompson, 33, is accused of killing his mother, Paula Thompson, and her cat with a crowbar in March. According to
Continue ReadingTwo days before he leaves the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr offered his sharpest rebuke to date of President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations surrounding the election result, rejecting Trump’s efforts to act on the conspiracy theories the President has embraced to explain his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. Barr rejected the call for a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — An Orange County deputy shot a man in the leg during a traffic stop Sunday night after officials said that man ran away from them. The sheriff said a man who fled from an attempted traffic stop Sunday night was shot in the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MAUI, Hawaii (KITV) — A Maui woman’s wallet led to a lot of Aloha for a Good Samaritan this holiday season. Chloe Marino and her son Cooper went shopping at Foodland at Queen Kaahumanu Center in Kahului last week when she unknowingly dropped her wallet. Hours later, a
Continue Reading Being vaccinated against Covid-19 is morally acceptable, the Vatican deemed, after some anti-abortion groups raised concerns about how the vaccines were manufactured. Some groups had suggested the coronavirus vaccines were made using cells from aborted fetuses. The cells are actually engineered and grown in labs from tissue acquired many decades ago, and are not made
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DEKALB, Georgia (WGCL) — DeKalb police are trying to find the person who shot an 8-year-old girl while she was lying in her bed. According to DeKalb police, officers responded to a person shot call at a home at the 3000 block of Orbit Circle in Ellenwood. The
Continue Reading Five New Jersey teens are being hailed as heroes after they saved two children from falling into an icy pond while they were sledding. They group of high school freshmen, Tyler Armagan, Ryan Day, Joseph Dietrich, Kieran Foley and Drew Scalice, were getting ready to head home Thursday from sledding at the Beacon Hill Country
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — A man charged with kidnapping an Amish teenager six months ago in Lancaster County is now charged with killing her. The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Justo Smoker faces an additional charge of criminal homicide in the presumed death of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — According to Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer, a father and son shot and killed each other Saturday night in Wagarville. Stringer said the altercation started after the father, 60-year-old Kelvin James Coker, found his dog had been shot. He then drove to his
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A Palm Desert woman was sentenced on Monday for the 2016 murder of a 69-year-old woman in her care. Marilyn Joy Zemek, 62, was sentenced to a total of 30 years to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder, elder abuse causing death, two counts of grand theft, identity theft, and perjury. The
Continue Reading A soldier missing from Fort Drum in New York has been found dead and another service member is in custody, officials said. An investigation into the death of Cpl. Hayden Allen Harris is ongoing, the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Command said in a news release Sunday. Harris, 20, was last heard from between Thursday evening
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Case Changes Over the Weekend Riverside County reported new 9,360 cases since Friday, bringing the total to 150,422. FULL STORY: The coronavirus vaccine has arrived to the Coachella Valley, hear from the first local healthcare workers to receive it The county’s positivity rate has more than doubled over the month, going from 7.5% (On Nov.
Continue ReadingThe US Navy nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine USS Georgia transited the Strait of Hormuz Monday accompanied by two additional American warships, the Navy said Monday in a rare public announcement of a nuclear submarine’s movements. “The nuclear-power Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729), along with the guided-missile cruisers USS Port Royal (CG 73) and USS
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on live television Monday afternoon and reassured Americans of the vaccine’s safety. The shot, which Biden received in his left arm, was administered at ChristianaCare’s Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, by Tabe Mase, who is a nurse practitioner and the head of employee
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