Click here for updates on this story LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — (CBS) — A woman in Lexington is helping hundreds of families deal with severe food allergies. Amy Thieringer is the creator and CEO of A.R.T. Allergy Release Technique. She started this holistic alternative treatment after nearly losing her own son to a severe allergic
Continue ReadingThe Ingenuity helicopter had risen to every challenge it faced on Mars so far, and now it’s confronting a new one. The little chopper was supposed to lift off Thursday for a flight that pushed it further, faster and longer than before. However, the flight didn’t happen as planned. “Aim high, and fly, fly again.
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The family of Andrew Brown Jr. and a district attorney offered different accounts Wednesday as to what led to the fatal police shooting of the Black man last week in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The family and their attorneys have been allowed to see some of the police bodycam footage and a judge ruled Wednesday
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Click here for updates on this story ROOKLINE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said Gerald Alston was wrongfully fired after complaining of a racist work environment at the Brookline Fire Department. “The truth is the truth and I knew it was going to come to the surface and right now
Continue ReadingGet ready for a Big Apple summer. Mayor Bill de Blasio is targeting July 1 for New York City’s “full reopening,” telling MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “we’re ready to come back and come back strong.” “We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters, full-strength,” de Blasio said Thursday. That will likely
Continue ReadingAtlanta police are assisting Arizona authorities in the search of a homicide suspect who escaped custody at the Atlanta airport Thursday morning. Investigators from Maricopa County, Arizona, were transporting Jsaan Carlos Strover, 20, from Georgia to Arizona when he escaped just before 9 a.m at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, police said. Strover was handcuffed at
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Over the weekend, TSA officers at Lambert International Airport confiscated four “cat eyes” from passengers. “Cat eyes” are a martial arts-type item that some people carry for self-defense. To use them, two fingers are put through the “cat’s” eyes to enable the user to
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By Monday, numerous media outlets had debunked the viral false claim that President Joe Biden has proposed to restrict how much red meat Americans are allowed to eat. Even a Fox News anchor admitted on air on Monday afternoon that the claim was inaccurate. Yet two days later, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went on
Continue ReadingA bipartisan group of lawmakers announced a plan to overhaul the way the US military responds to sexual assault cases, arguing it’s time to change the way the cases are prosecuted to finally change a pervasive culture within the ranks of the US military. On Thursday, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and
Continue Reading President Joe Biden spent the majority of his first speech to Congress on Wednesday discussing his economic and infrastructure plans for the nation, his foreign policy vision for America’s role in the world and the coronavirus pandemic and other health care issues, according to a CNN analysis of the address. The President also touched on
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Early Thursday morning, a group of about two dozen protesters gathered outside Bend Senior High School to voice their concerns at the first of several COVID-19 vaccination clinics being held at high schools around Central Oregon. But nearly 200 students received the shots anyway, officials said.
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As coronavirus shut down the world last year, Terre Baldwin was getting a life-saving heart and kidney transplant in San Francisco. With no guests allowed in her hospital room, she spent most of her days staring at the ceiling. At the same time, about 30 miles east, her brother Al Baccei was on a waiting
Continue Reading Lawmakers on Capitol Hill and advocates who want to overhaul the nation’s policing laws held a series of meetings Thursday searching for legislation that can pass both chambers of Congress, the day after President Joe Biden highlighted the demand for policing reform in his prime-time address. The families of several victims of police violence met
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Over the weekend, TSA officers at Lambert International Airport confiscated four “cat eyes” from passengers. “Cat eyes” are a martial arts-type item that some people carry for self-defense. To use them, two fingers are put through the “cat’s” eyes to enable the user to
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is releasing a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for a management plan to address a significant decline in the California bighorn sheep population on Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in southeast Oregon.
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel has interviewed many eccentric guests as the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” over the years, but one of his most surreal interviews took place on Wednesday night. The ABC late night host sat down with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for an extensive talk (the full interview on YouTube runs nearly 20 minutes). Lindell
Continue ReadingThe in-custody death of Marvin David Scott III in Texas has been ruled a homicide by the Collin County Medical Examiner. Scott died after being placed on a restraint bed, pepper-sprayed, and having a spit mask put on his face while in custody at the Collin County Detention Facility north of Dallas in March. Scott’s
Continue Reading Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by an unusual alignment of conservative and liberal justices, ruled in favor of a ‘nonpermanent resident alien’ on Thursday who is seeking to challenge his deportation, arguing that the government had not given him proper notice of his removal proceedings. The case is extremely technical concerning immigration procedures and
Continue Reading When humans finally have the chance to explore Mars, the members of those crewed missions will be millions of miles from home with delayed communications. Before they go, scientists want to understand as much as possible about the potential effects of microgravity and radiation on the human body. A big step toward this goal was
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Prompted by an alarming increase of preventable head injuries among youth, The Center Foundation is proud to announce the return of its annual Train Your Brain program.
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