Two years after the Tulsa massacre left some 300 Black people dead and a once-booming neighborhood destroyed, another White mob attacked a Black enclave in Florida. The incident, known as the Rosewood massacre, would end with at least eight casualties: six Black people and two White people. Historians say the violence erupted after a White
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Resilience, determination, and perseverance. That’s the expectation Oregon fire officials set for this year’s wildfire season.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HALTOM CITY, Texas (KTVT) — Staying healthy has always been a lifelong challenge for 13-year-old Adam Roberts of Haltom City. He was born with several different heart defects. He also had his first open-heart surgery at just 15 days old. “It was a hard road because he had
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story AUSTIN (KTVT) — It’s a story about the night that the lights went out in Texas — but this time it was the audience who came to the rescue of a high school graduation ceremony. The class of 2021 at Anderson High School in Austin will never forget
Continue ReadingWalmart is rolling out a new app for its employees and giving them a new Samsung phone to use it. The retailer is outfitting nearly half of its US workforce, amounting to 740,000 employees, with a free phone by the end of the year for personal and professional use. The phone, a Samsung Galaxy XCover
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The graduating class of 2021 has overcome a lot to make it to the finish line. But when some students at Roseville Area High School found out a normal senior prom wasn’t happening, they got creative. “I never knew how much I would take a
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Deschutes County’s Department of Solid Waste is hosting special one-day collection events in Sisters, La Pine and Redmond this summer where residents can drop off household hazardous waste for free.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story OCEAN COUNTY, New Jersey (KYW) — A mystery washes ashore on a New Jersey beach. A skull showed up on Monday on the sand at Island Beach State Park in Ocean County. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection shared the pictures on Twitter. We have confirmed that
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SOLANO COUNTY, California (KOVR) — The Flores ranch in rural Solano County was quiet Wednesday afternoon, but they had a rude and ravaging ruckus that happened at around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, according to the Solano County Sheriff’s Office. “I thought it was probably like a cat or
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GILROY (KPIX) — For the first time in the city’s history, Gilroy is flying the Pride flag outside City Hall, but not without controversy. “We’ve never had commemorative flags in Gilroy, our city hall has the United States flag and the California flag,” said Mayor Marie Blankley. “I
Continue ReadingDenmark has passed a law allowing it to relocate asylum seekers to third countries while their asylum claims are processed, in a move that has drawn sharp condemnation from human rights groups. The bill paves the way for the establishment of offshore asylum centers outside the European Union. It was approved in Danish parliament on
Continue ReadingNASA has released an image detailing the never-before-seen “violent energy” at the center of our galaxy, created after two decades of research. The stunning panorama was compiled using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. Images also documented an X-ray thread known as G0.17-0.41 that researchers say suggests
Continue ReadingPassengers on an Air France flight were evacuated in Paris on Thursday after an anonymous threat, the company said in a statement. The AF865 flight from Chad’s capital N’Djamena landed at Charles de Gaulle airport after it was “escorted by a French Air Force fighter plane” as a result of the “anonymous threat,” Air France
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Investigators released San Francisco Muni Bus surveillance video Wednesday of an brazen daytime assault of a female passenger whose hair was set blaze. Other passengers assisted the victim who left the scene prior to police arrival. Investigators are asking the victim to come forward
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AMC’s comeback, and then some — its stock price surged to a record high on Wednesday — has been fueled by Reddit’s army of retail investors as well as some legitimate good news about customers returning to movie theaters. But that doesn’t mean that AMC and the rest of the industry’s inherent problems are solved.
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Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel announced Thursday that his office will officially launch the Deschutes County Emerging Adult Pilot Program on July 1, a pre-charge diversion program for young adults that he said “will provide first-time offenders between the ages of 18-24 the opportunity to redirect their lives onto a more positive pathway.”
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden offered to bring his price tag on an infrastructure package down to $1 trillion but wants to ensure it amounts to “new money” — not redirected from funding already approved by Congress as Senate Republicans have been demanding, a GOP source briefed on the talks said. Biden also reiterated his call for
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration on Thursday announced a plan to share the first 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses with the rest of the world and an overall framework of distributing at least 80 million doses by the end of June. At least 75% of these donated vaccines will be shared with the global vaccination program called
Continue ReadingSenate Democrats will have to decide in upcoming weeks whether or not they will make changes to the For the People Act, a sweeping voting, ethics and campaign finance bill, in order to garner support when it comes to the floor later this month. The internal caucus discussions are just getting underway and no final
Continue ReadingAMC’s comeback, and then some — its stock price surged to a record high on Wednesday — has been fueled by Reddit’s army of retail investors as well as some legitimate good news about customers returning to movie theaters. But that doesn’t mean that AMC and the rest of the industry’s inherent problems are solved.
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