This week, Muslims across the United States will begin observing another pandemic Ramadan. But this year’s holy month — marked by fasting, prayer, reflection and community — will be different than the last, as vaccines are now available and some Covid restrictions have been lifted. Still, health experts and community groups warn it’s not completely
Continue ReadingShops, gyms, pubs and beauty salons in England have welcomed back customers after three months of lockdown, delivering a crucial boost to retail and hospitality businesses that have been forced to close repeatedly during the pandemic. Shoppers braved unseasonably cold temperatures as they lined up outside stores in cities on Monday after restrictions on non-essential
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The Oregon Liquor Control Commission approved a “floor pricing” plan for distilled spirits that will increase the price of the lowest-priced spirits sold in Oregon liquor stores.
Continue ReadingA Florida teen is dead after she stepped on a downed power line while trying to escape her burning car. Valentina Tomashosky, 17, was driving in Hernando County on Sunday and collided with a power line brought down by a fallen tree during severe weather, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Investigators said the teen’s
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — A captain at the time with a National Guard infantry battalion, Ed Wheeler wasn’t overly worried about his own safety. He had a rifle and he knew how to use it. But there was his wife and their little boy to think about.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken named retired ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley as the department’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer Monday, a step that current and former diplomats said reflects Blinken’s seriousness about improving diversity at America’s oldest Cabinet agency. “Gina has a track record over her career of bringing empirical rigor and fierce urgency to
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — A man who fired into a vehicle in February and critically wounded a 5-year-old boy was trying to pre-empt anticipated retaliation for a fatal shooting last year, a Mobile police investigator testified Monday. Cpl. Joshua Coleman testified that Reginald Paul Pryor later told police
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NORTHERN CHEYENNE, Montana (Billings Gazette) — Laura Rockroads was in bed at her Busby home in 1970 when she heard a knock at the door. The mother of three answered each knock with “enter” in Northern Cheyenne. The door opened; a face she hadn’t seen in a year
Continue ReadingFamilies who lost loved ones to Covid-19 can now get help with funeral expenses from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The agency launched on Monday a hotline — 844-684-6333 — to apply for up to $9,000 in assistance per burial. While FEMA has aided families with disaster-related burial costs in the past, the Covid-19 effort
Continue ReadingThis week, Muslims across the United States will begin observing another pandemic Ramadan. But this year’s holy month — marked by fasting, prayer, reflection and community — will be different than the last, as vaccines are now available and some Covid restrictions have been lifted. Still, health experts and community groups warn it’s not completely
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Central Oregon Community College plans to keep its current tuition rate for the coming school year.
Continue ReadingPhilonise Floyd, George Floyd’s younger brother, took the stand Monday in Derek Chauvin’s criminal trial as prosecutors tried to humanize the 46-year-old Black man. Minnesota is unique in that allows “spark of life” evidence in which the victim’s family or friends can speak about them on a personal level. The term stems from a 1985
Continue Reading“The Talk” returned Monday by jumping right into a conversation about race. It was the first new episode since cohost Sharon Osbourne left the CBS daytime talk show in the wake of a heated discussion she had with fellow cohost Sheryl Underwood over Osbourne’s support of her friend, Piers Morgan. Underwood questioned that support after
Continue ReadingMacaulay Culkin and Brenda Song have welcomed a new baby, a rep for Culkin confirmed to CNN. The couple welcomed a son named Dakota Song Culkin, after the actor’s late sister, Dakota, who died in 2008 at age 29. The baby was born on April 5 in Los Angeles. “We’re overjoyed,” Culkin and Song said
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — The past five years were filled with grief for Betty Willmore. The Cambridge woman lost her husband of 66 years in 2016. Then, in October 2019, her son, an accomplished athlete and engineer, died unexpectedly from a medical incident while on his
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — The City of Hartford is mourning the death of a 3-year-old who was killed in a shooting over the weekend. Police continue to try and track down the suspect or suspects responsible. A vigil has also been planned for 3-year-old Rondell Jones. It’ll happen
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A 20-year-old man was fatally shot during a traffic stop after a Minnesota police officer shouted “Taser!” but fired a handgun instead, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said. Daunte Wright was driving with his girlfriend Sunday afternoon when he was pulled over in the Minneapolis suburb. Earlier, police said they tried to take the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, La. (KTBS) — A possible love triangle may be at the heart of a shooting early Monday in Shreveport. It happened just before 12:30 in the 3500 block of McWillie Avenue in the Caddo Heights neighborhood. As many as 55 shell casings littered the roadway after the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — Britt Reid faces charges of DWI, with serious physical injury. Prosecutors announced the charges on Monday. This comes months after a devastating crash that badly injured a young girl named Ariel. She was 5 years old at the time of the crash. She
Continue Reading US climate envoy John Kerry is traveling to China this week to discuss potential joint US-China efforts on climate change, according to two administration officials. Kerry’s visit, less than a month after Biden administration officials sat down with Chinese officials for a tense meeting in Alaska, puts the climate crisis at the top of the
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