Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Ever since 5G boxes showed up in Houston, they have been blasted by homeowners who say the boxes are an eyesore. The boxes are probably here to stay, so why not make them more appealing? Cell phone companies call them “ground furniture,” and the boxes
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Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will move into the vice president’s official residence next week after their move was delayed for more than two months because of “repairs to the home,” Harris’ chief spokeswoman Symone Sanders said on Thursday. Harris and Emhoff have been temporarily living at Blair House, the President’s
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SOUTH NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A South Nashville market is once again cleaning up after flood waters rushed in. This happened to Botan Market in 2010 and then again this past weekend. They had to throw out at least $200,000 worth of food. “It has been a very
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Despite obstacles presented by COVID-19, this year’s Oregon State University Food Drive surpassed last year’s successful campaign, raising the equivalent of 467,378 meals.
Continue ReadingComing soon: Watch out for the upcoming launch of Wonder Theory, the first-ever CNN space and science newsletter. Subscribe here and be among the first to receive the week’s most fascinating stories, delivered straight to your inbox every Saturday morning. Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. The golden age of science
Continue ReadingIt’s invisible in the night sky, but above us there is a cloud of more than 9,000 tons of space junk — equivalent to the weight of 720 school buses. This debris is composed of parts of old satellites as well as entire defunct satellites and rocket bodies. The debris poses risks to the International
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Covenant HealthCare is reinstating visitor restrictions starting April 1. The changes come, as the hospital says, during the community’s increase in positivity rates and a moderate increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. “While 70 percent of our workforce has been vaccinated, and today Covenant is hosting
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story OAHU, Hawaii (KITV) — Hawaii’s homeless are dying from methamphetamine, over any other cause. On average, every three days a homeless resident dies on Oahu’s streets. Many of those sudden deaths are being blamed on meth, and so are the chronic conditions killing off this vulnerable population. Tului
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — Baseball returns to Wrigley Field Thursday as the Chicago Cubs take on the Pittsburgh Pirates and unlike last year, fans are back in the stadium to cheer on the home team. The Cubs are ready to begin a new year, hoping players like Kris Bryant
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The state of Florida had alleged in 2013 that Georgia’s consumption of water resources from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin had negatively impacted Florida’s river ecosystem and collapsed its oyster industry. The court ruled Thursday that Florida had engaged in unprecedented levels of oyster harvesting
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A New Haven church, burglarized. Church leaders say electronics, instruments and donations were all taken from the church in the middle of the day. “It’s sad, he feels so sad that somebody would do that,” said church leader Jonathan Gonzalez. Gonzalez and Pastor
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Families held a rally to support saving the Portland Children’s Museum and Opal School from their upcoming closures. Last week, the museum’s board announced the permanent closure of both, set to happen June 30. The board said the decision was not made lightly and
Continue ReadingThe 19-year-old cashier who suspected George Floyd had handed him a counterfeit $20 bill said Wednesday he still feels guilt for Floyd’s death under the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer. Christopher Martin took the stand on the third day of the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, echoing other witnesses who expressed helplessness and
Continue ReadingThe fear and outrage felt by Asian Americans after the Atlanta-area spa shootings hasn’t vanished and neither has the bias and violence that preceded it, lawmakers and activists say. A horrific attack on a 65-year-old woman in New York City this week has prompted widespread condemnation and became the latest reminder that anti-Asian bias and
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Bend residents experienced a fairly typical March, temperature-wise, though it was somewhat drier than usual, the National Weather Service in Pendleton reported Thursday.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A woman charged under a rarely used federal anti-riot law is scheduled to go on trial next month, but first a judge will have to decide whether to throw the charges out. A federal grand jury indicted Tia Deyon Pugh in June after Mobile
Continue ReadingThe astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year — and now they have relocated a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, flew the Soyuz MS-17 capsule from its current port to another one on
Continue ReadingHumanity’s first Wright Brothers moment on another planet will happen in April. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on Mars no earlier than April 8, according to NASA. It’s fitting that the mission, an experimental companion to the Perseverance rover, is carrying a piece of history. A postage stamp-size piece of
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — John Hoopes, 74, has always enjoyed playing the organ ever since he was a young boy. So when he was called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy, he loved spending his preparation days playing
Continue ReadingA British contractor missing since Islamist militants first attacked the town of Palma in northern Mozambique just over a week ago is presumed to have died, his family said Thursday. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds are still unaccounted for following the days-long attack by the ISIS-affiliated group. Relatives of contractor Philip Mawer said
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