Click here for updates on this story ROCKAWAY, New Jersey (WCBS) — Every day, a New Jersey woman travels to Newark to help people experiencing homelessness, but Tuesday, she took it a step further. She offered for them to spend a day out of the cold and take them to a place they could feel
Continue ReadingSenate Democrats are down to the wire. In a furious last-minute push, Democrats are scrambling to put their final touches on a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill that the entire caucus will have to support, a task that has proven difficult in the final hours of negotiations and revealed the uphill climb the party will
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The end of mask mandates in Texas and Mississippi has created a dilemma for businesses: Keep such safety rules in place to protect against Covid-19 spread, as leading health officials advise, or follow the two states’ decisions and loosen restrictions. Leading US grocery chains, pharmacies, retailers and auto manufacturers, including Target, Kroger, CVS, Walgreens, Best
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — For almost a decade, a Northeast Philadelphia man and his family have brought joy to hundreds of children, finding new homes for bikes. Ukee Washington has this week’s story of Brotherly Love. Sophia might be only nine, but she has a steady hand with a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — North Texas businesses are grappling with the changes Gov. Greg Abbott made to current COVID-19 restrictions. Many are celebrating, while others are concerned about how to keep their customers and employees safe. “It’s been a year, I think that’s enough,” said Joanna Perez,
Continue ReadingThe Church of Cyprus has called for the country’s official entry to the Eurovision Song Contest to be withdrawn, arguing that it promotes devil-worship. Greek singer Elena Tsagrinou is due to represent the island nation in Rotterdam in May with the dance-y pop song “El Diablo.” She rose to fame in 2009, making to the
Continue ReadingRussian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is being held in detention center-3 in Kolchugino in the Vladimir region east of Moscow, his lawyer Vadim Kobzev told CNN on Wednesday. Kobzev says he visited Navalny where his client, currently in quarantine, will be held temporarily before being moved to a penal colony. “Alexey Navalny is in a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The shortcomings of the U.S. Postal Service are now hitting a suburban couple where it hurts: on the ring finger. They purchased a $360 wedding band in November, but they still haven’t gotten it, and they told CBS 2 Morning Insider Tim McNicholas that USPS
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Neighbors in Canton are stringing cafe lights along dark streets all in hopes of deterring crime. Chris Broughton spent Tuesday afternoon stringing lights. “The point is to make it as unappealing as possible for anyone who wants to commit a crime,” Broughton, of the Canton
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story WEST SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A West Sacramento mother of seven put a sign on their family basketball hoop saying, “This neighborhood is full of Karens!” Raquel Davis said that she had reached her breaking point when a neighbor had a problem with her children and others skateboarding
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story TAHOE, California (KOVR) — It is world-famous for its spectacular setting, and now people trying to protect Lake Tahoe’s beauty have added something new underwater to help keep it crystal clear: a “bubble curtain.” Millions of tiny bubbles are pumped up from a line placed at the bottom
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A would-be thief tried to break into an optical store by using a blowtorch in San Francisco. San Francisco Optics by Alexander Daas on Chestnut Street was targeted on Sunday Feb. 28 around 6 a.m. Store surveillance video shows the moment the glass cracked.
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A Redmond Airport official reached out to NewsChannel 21 Wednesday with answers to some questions the public are asking about traveling, including information regarding the Real ID requirement, as well as what you need to do to fly amid the pandemic.
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Cuba may be on the verge of a coronavirus vaccine breakthrough and not a moment too soon, as deaths and cases spike on the communist-run island. Starting in March, two of the island’s four homegrown vaccine candidates will begin their third and final trials, the Cuban government has announced. While other developing countries compete with
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at the life of His Serene Highness, Prince Albert II. He was formally invested as Monaco’s ruler on July 12, 2005, following the death of his father, Prince Rainier. Personal Birth date: March 14, 1958 Birth place: Monte Carlo, Monaco Birth name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi, His Serene Highness, the Hereditary
Continue ReadingThe details surrounding the deadly accident in rural California on Tuesday are still unclear, but what is known is that an SUV was struck by a semitruck towing two trailers — and at least 13 people were killed in the fierce collision. Authorities still don’t know why the SUV was packed with 25 people early
Continue ReadingFormer Vice President Mike Pence is seizing on a Democratic-led initiative to streamline election standards to again push false claims of voting irregularities in one of his first public statements since leaving office. Pence expressed concern about “the integrity of the 2020 election,” citing “significant” and “troubling” voting irregularities in an op-ed for the conservative
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In “an effort to move forward negotiations on a first-time labor contract,” St. Charles Health System said it approached the union representing more than 150 medical tech workers with an offer to return to the bargaining table with a federal mediator Wednesday — if it would revoke its strike notice.
Continue ReadingReggae music pioneer, Neville “Bunny Wailer ” Livingston, has died at age 73, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport said in a statement. Wailer had been in the hospital since December and died at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Olivia Grange said in the statement Tuesday. No cause of death was given.
Continue ReadingFossil fuel workers will not be left behind in the Biden administration’s push to embrace clean energy. That’s the promise from new Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, addressing workers worried their livelihoods will be disrupted. “This is our opportunity to build the energy economy back better, in a way that lifts up communities that have felt
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