By Sharon Chin Click here for updates on this story MARTINEZ, California (KPIX) — U.S. military veterans can go through a maddening mountain of red tape and roadblocks in applying for government benefits available to them. But a Bay Area woman has spent the last 35 years fighting on the frontlines to get these American
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story ALTA, California (KOVR) — A pair of sisters from Reno were arrested after they reportedly left two young children at a fire station in Placer County, then kept on driving. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says the sisters pulled up at the Cal Fire station
Continue ReadingBy Velena Jones Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A longtime family-owned Christmas store in Old Sacramento is being forced to close as it’s been overwhelmed by shoplifters. The thieves have stolen more than just holiday spirit from the business that’s been in the city for decades. Clearance signs saying
Continue ReadingBy Ross Guidotti Click here for updates on this story GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — The Catholic Diocese of Greensburg received a multimillion-dollar gift to further education efforts. “Twenty million dollars at least,” said Maureen Marsteller, the Superintendent of Catholic Schools. That is how much money an anonymous donor gifted the Diocese of Greensburg’s Catholic schools.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Old toys never die. They just keep coming back in new poses and flexing different muscles as movies and TV shows. This weekend brings two popular artifacts from many a childhood back to screens: “Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins” hits theaters, with Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) as the martial-arts
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A Philadelphia police officer at the center of a lawsuit and accused of deleting arrest videos off a cellphone now faces charges, according to the police department. The Philadelphia Police Department confirms Tyree Burnett is charged with attempted tampering, attempted official
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn. Surveillance video shows a woman using a hammer to smash the windows of a Hasidic Jewish school in Williamsburg. It happened earlier
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN While the Texas Legislature remains embroiled in a battle over election laws, Republican senators have advanced a bill that would reshape how social studies teachers can discuss race and current events in their classrooms. SB3, which passed the Republican-led chamber in a 18-4 vote last week, now remains stalled in the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La variante delta de covid-19, más contagiosa, constituye ahora el 83% de las muestras secuenciadas en Estados Unidos, según declaró el martes la Dra. Rochelle Walensky, directora de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos, (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés).”Se trata de un aumento
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, CNN Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been criticized as “racist” — even as a Black woman — and she’s been called “notoriously thin-skinned” but she remains determined to leave a legacy far beyond her time in office. Still navigating the Covid-19 pandemic and the record surge in violence that came with it,
Continue ReadingCNN’s Omar Jimenez sits down with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to discuss her time in office and her plans for the city.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Bees are taking over Times Square again. For the second time in as many weeks, NYPD beekeepers responded to the area Wednesday. This time, a smaller swarm of about 10,000 bees was gently removed and relocated. Two weeks ago
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN M. Night Shyamalan is up to his old tricks in “Old,” but after his heralded breakthrough with “Split,” he’s back on a downward trajectory. While the premise again has an eerie “Twilight Zone”-type quality, the long journey to a payoff — littered with pretty awful dialogue — might be picturesque,
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — En todo el mundo, hay un aumento alarmante de casos de coronavirus, y los expertos en salud dicen que un factor clave en esta última ola es la variante delta altamente contagiosa. Vacunarse ‘ahorcaría’ el coronavirus, según congresista 1:49 La variante se está propagando aproximadamente un 55% más rápido que
Continue ReadingBy Liz Collin Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — A couple from Minnesota has set out this summer to make the dream of living and working in an RV a reality. WCCO caught up with Amy and Joel Leger on their latest stop up north to see what went into
Continue ReadingBy Ted Scouten Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — When we first met Ryder, he was having trouble walking. The one-year-old German Shepard rescue is missing part of his hind legs and his rear paws. Then, his life changed. Ryder was fit with custom-made prosthetic legs and paws and he
Continue ReadingBy Bobeth Yates Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — The once 12-story building, reduced to rubble is now a nearly empty lot. Officials say 22 million pounds of debris was removed from the Champlain Towers South collapse site and as work continues, efforts are underway to help victims and family
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story VICTORVILLE, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A council meeting in Victorville took an aggressive turn Tuesday night when Council Member Blanca Gomez was arrested. According to the city, a masked man in the audience — later identified as Daniel Robert Rodriguez — began recording the meeting
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Not unlike his “Ted Lasso” character Dani Rojas, for 15-year old Cristo Fernández, football — known stateside as soccer — really was life. At 15 and already in the professional soccer system in his native Mexico, Fernández had little else besides the game on his mind. He’d attend high school at
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story LONG BEACH, California (KCAL, KCBS) — The fate of the Queen Mary, an iconic rusted, floating tourist attraction, is up in the air after a report commissioned by the Long Beach city council. The ship is in dire need of expensive repairs that come with
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