By AJ Willingham, CNN You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the massive floating figures have occasionally come untethered, blown clear away, or been punctured, stabbed, deflated and subjected to
Continue ReadingBy Jackson Kurtz Click here for updates on this story CLAY COUNTY, Missouri (KMBC) — Students in the North Kansas City school district are fighting back against a parent group that wants the district to ban certain books. The parents say the books are inappropriate. Over a dozen students were at the district’s school board
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — En Estados Unidos se celebra en grande el Día de Acción de Gracias, y la indudable protagonista de la fiesta –claro, además del espíritu de agradecimiento y recogimiento– es la comida. Millones de familias en Estados Unidos comerán pavo este jueves. ¿Por qué? Mira esta y otras respuestas aquí: La cena de
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE GARCIA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall. The latest incident in a trend of smash-and-grab crimes is part of a national trend that targeted a Nordstrom store late Monday. It came
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE GARCIA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall. The latest incident in a trend of smash-and-grab crimes is part of a national trend that targeted a Nordstrom store late Monday. It came
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries of Thanksgiving is the cranberry sauce — and we’re not talking about why people eat it: Why are the labels on Ocean Spray cans upside down? Observant consumers have noticed that the labels on jellied cranberry sauce cans are flipped, meaning the rounded edge
Continue ReadingBy JULIA AVERY Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — College athletes have been under new NIL rules for nearly five months. There was a lot of controversy around the change in NIL rules but the biggest argument for it was that some college athletes were helping bring in millions of
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — St. Louis City and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt are at odds over millions of dollars that could be spent on public safety. Mayor Tishaura Jones and Schmitt differ on how $5.5 million from a settlement should be used. The city
Continue ReadingBy Jason Marks Click here for updates on this story CARMICHAEL, California (KCRA) — There are many people out there who get turned off by the idea of dumpster diving, but over the last few days, book lovers in Carmichael have done just that in search of their favorite author. Bookworm was a family-run store
Continue ReadingBy SARA BURNETT, KATHLEEN FOODY and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press Participants like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies were in the holiday spirit as they stepped off for the Waukesha Christmas Parade. But as they reveled, a red SUV was also heading down Main Street behind them, moving at a pace far faster than the parade. Police
Continue ReadingBy Aubry Killion Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — A sergeant in the U.S. Army National Guard is telling his story about losing his dad to COVID-19. Now, he’s urging everyone to get the shot before the holidays. Vaccine events are happening all across the city. People who got their
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La Champions League regresa una vez más. Entre este martes y miércoles se jugarán 16 partidos correspondientes a la jornada 5 de la fase de grupos del torneo de fútbol más importante del mundo a nivel de clubes.. Algunos equipos llegan a esta jornada ya clasificados a los octavos de final
Continue ReadingBy Quanecia Fraser Click here for updates on this story BELLEVUE, Nebraska (KETV) — A customer at The Omaha Bakery in Bellevue ordered two turnovers, and in return put forth a huge tip. Mondays tend to be fairly quiet at The Omaha Bakery in Bellevue. However, last Friday was anything but that. “Everybody was freaking
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government is making social distancing mandatory again for all adults after coronavirus infection numbers hit a new weekly record. Positive tests climbed 39% while hospital and intensive care unit admissions also rose sharply. The latest evidence of a surge in COVID-19 cases came
Continue ReadingBy KENDALL KEYS, JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story MICHIGAN (WNEM) — The opioid epidemic is trending in the wrong direction as overdose deaths continue to rise jumping nearly 30 percent from last year across the country. “Before COVID hit, we had the first dip in over a long time. And then
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Kevin Hart stays close to his comfort zone in one respect in “True Story” — playing a wealthy and famous comedian — while stretching in another, in a dark drama of cascading stakes and consequences. Also producing the Netflix limited series with “Narcos’” Eric Newman, Hart delivers a crisp and
Continue ReadingBy Matt Reed Click here for updates on this story NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A health clinic in Massachusetts is getting national recognition when it comes to transgender care. Advocates said Transhealth Northampton could be a model for other communities to serve patients who often have to travel hours for basic care. “They have patients
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — A raíz del tiroteo masivo en la escuela de 2018 en Parkland, Florida, surgió una nueva generación de activistas adolescentes que insistieron en que el viejo ciclo de auge/caída de la política de control de armas en este país ya no existía. Atrás quedaría la poca capacidad de atención del público
Continue ReadingBy JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story https://www.wnem.com/news/three-homes-destroyed-after-explosion-in-flint/article_85225dbe-4c0c-11ec-b0f5-2f0388190851.html?block_id=994426 (WNEM) — First responders are on the scene of a house explosion in the city of Flint. At 9:37 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 22, Consumers Energy received a call about a home explosion in the 3900 block of Hogarth Avenue. Hogarth Avenue between Austin
Continue ReadingCNN, WESH By Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The families of the “Groveland Four” got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, granted the State’s motion to posthumously dismiss the indictments of Ernest Thomas
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