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Two lawsuits have been filed against the local power company, blaming the utility for the extent of the damage caused last year by Oregon’s Beachie Creek fire. The fire, which ignited in August and burned through the end of October 2020, destroyed nearly 200,000 acres. More than 1,300 structures, including 470 homes, and at least
Continue ReadingThe European Central Bank plans to pick up the pace of its bond buying in the coming months to bolster the region’s lackluster recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and counter a spike in borrowing costs. The central bank said in a statement on Thursday that over the next three months it expects asset purchases under
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FLOWERY BRANCH, Georgia (WGCL) — A teacher at Flowery Branch High School was arrested late Tuesday afternoon for allegedly sending a sexually explicit photograph of himself to one of his students. Hall County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Matthew “Tyler” Stubbs, 25, of Duluth at the sheriff’s office headquarters.
Continue ReadingCVS has added 12 new states to its Covid-19 vaccine rollout as more supply becomes available. In the last week, CVS has started administering the vaccine to eligible populations in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah and Vermont. The company is now administering Covid-19 vaccines in nearly 1,200
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Attorney General Merrick Garland arrived at the Justice Department Thursday for his first day at work and spoke about the need to “adhere to norms” in an implicit rebuke of the Trump-era leadership. “We are united by our commitment to protecting our country as our oath says, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And by
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story QUEENS, New York (WABC) — An incident in which an Asian American mother says she was spit at while holding her baby and called the ‘Chinese virus’ is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The woman told police that the confrontation occurred Tuesday morning, sometime between 10:30
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story VALLEJO, California (KGO) — In Vallejo Wednesday, was a birthday party for the ages. It was a gathering of firefighters and a family they know very well though difficult circumstances. We have never seen a party like it, especially for a two-year-old like Michael Reading. “He loves fire
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Body-cam video shows a Phoenix police officer crashing through a side gate to save a family of six while their house burned down all around them. It happened at a home off McDowell Road and 64th Avenue in Phoenix on Saturday. Eighty-year-old Ruby Johnson Smith
Continue ReadingSenior members of the US military took to Twitter late Wednesday and Thursday to call out Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a sexist segment in which he mocked women serving in the armed forces. Carlson, who is effectively the face of Fox and hosts the top show on the right-wing channel, ridiculed President Joe
Continue ReadingNiecy Nash knows that people were surprised when she married Jessica Betts last August. “The Claws” star said on Ellen DeGeneres talk show on Wednesday that she and Betts, a singer, were friends for more than four years before they became romantically involved. “You called her my wife,” Nash told DeGeneres. “I lovingly call her
Continue ReadingIn September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. “Hi Emily, I’m wondering if you’ve written something regarding ethical considerations of large language models or something you could recommend from others?” she asked,
Continue ReadingKenneth Branagh is set to direct a movie based on the lives of the Bee Gees. The as-yet-untitled biopic will tell the story of how three brothers, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, became one of the best-selling music groups of all time with hits like “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever” and “How Deep Is Your Love.”
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Prince William has denied the royal family is racist in his first public remarks since his brother Prince Harry, and his wife Meghan, made explosive claims in a TV interview. Asked by a reporter during a visit to a school in east London if the royals were a “racist family,” the Duke of Cambridge said,
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Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV/KSMO ) — When the Food Pantry Team at New Jerusalem Apostolic Church in Kansas City, Kansas walked into the church this week, they were shocked to find it had been ransacked. Nearly $15,000 worth of equipment was stolen, including a television used for announcements,
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In a phone call to the Georgia secretary of state’s office in December, then-President Donald Trump urged a top investigator to find fraud in the 2020 presidential election, telling her that she would be “praised” for overturning results that were in favor of Joe Biden, according to audio of the call obtained by CNN. The
Continue ReadingLinkedIn — one of the few Western social media networks available in China — has suspended new sign-ups in the country, but said the decision has nothing to do with a recent cyberattack on parent company Microsoft. Microsoft revealed last week that a group called Hafnium exploited its Exchange email service and was able to
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (WOWT) — Dozens of Nebraskans on Wednesday tried to speak for nearly 200,000 who had their voices on medical marijuana silenced by the courts last year. The issue is once again before state lawmakers, and many supporters say lawmakers continue to be on the wrong side
Continue ReadingKenichi Kurosawa clung precariously to a tree as the water rose around him, entirely flooding the roads below. For almost six minutes on March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake — the worst to ever hit Japan — struck 370 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of Tokyo, triggering a huge tsunami that crashed into Ishinomaki, the
Continue ReadingDenmark is suspending the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for two weeks as it investigates reports of some patients developing blood clots after being inoculated, days after several other EU countries suspended use of a specific batch of the vaccine. Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said Thursday authorities were looking into “signs of a possible
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