By Jacqueline Quynh Click here for updates on this story PEMBROKE PINES, Florida (WFOR) — It’s not just South Floridians feeling the impact of the housing shortage, two eagles in Pembroke Pines might soon be struggling to find a new place to live because developers have their eyes set on the couple’s nesting land. If
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — The Prichard Water Works & Sewer Board reported three sanitary sewer overflows, including an ongoing overflow, all caused by Wednesday’s heavy rains, according to the Mobile County Health Department. The ongoing spill at the intersection of Chin Street and Butts Street
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Nalepa Click here for updates on this story KILLINGWORTH, Connecticut (WFSB) — Connecticut is home to beautiful wildlife, both in the air, on the ground, and in the water. And every day there are trained rehabilitators who come together to help these animals when they need it most, just like the folks at
Continue ReadingBy Rex Hodge Click here for updates on this story SYLVA, North Carolina (WLOS) — Sylva Fire Chief Mike Beck said, with a growing number of calls, it’s time to have a permanent staff at the ready. He’s requesting funding to increase public safety. Beck said his department has outgrown its all-volunteer status. He’s requesting
Continue ReadingBy CHUCK MORRIS Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Metro Police are executing warrants related to human trafficking at a business in Nashville and a home in Antioch, according to police. Metro Nashville officials said via Twitter that Charles McGlother Jr., his girlfriend Karen Bailey, 41, and Charles Sumner, 60,
Continue ReadingBy JOYCE LUPIANI Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — Parents of students at Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, received a letter today about an incident at the school. According to the letter, two 9th grade students began exchanging punches shortly before 1 p.m. in a classroom. During the
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Melissa Alonso, CNN Two people are dead and two others are hurt after a tornado struck in the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, authorities said — part of a series of storms that have laid waste to buildings around the South since Wednesday. A tornado struck Washington County, north of Panama
Continue ReadingCNN By Jason Hanna and Melissa Alonso, CNN Two people are dead and two others are hurt after a tornado struck in the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, authorities said — part of a series of storms that have laid waste to buildings around the South since Wednesday. A tornado struck Washington County, north of
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says the U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants. The RAND
Continue ReadingThe Bundesliga resumes to a full house as Union Berlin is allowed a capacity crowd for the first time in months for Cologne’s visit. Coronavirus restrictions are being scrapped in Berlin from Friday, part of a wider trend under national guidelines that will see full stadiums across the league. It’s going to be a special
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has endorsed a state legislator over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in the upcoming Republican primary. Tillis’ backing of state Sen. Chuck Edwards adds another consequential voice in North Carolina’s GOP willing to oppose Cawthorn in his reelection bid in the
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Happy Thursday, Central Oregon! Skies become partly cloudy Thursday night, with lows in the 20s. Breezes become light and variable after midnight. Our skies will stay sunny to mostly sunny going into the weekend. Highs Friday will be in the low 60s and in the upper 50s Saturday. Sunday will stay warm, with highs in the upper
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Of the many safety measures that Disney Parks had to set up to operate during the Covid-19 pandemic, requiring guests to keep a six-foot distance from the costumed characters must have been one of the hardest. At least emotionally. For kids (or kids at heart), running into the waiting arms of
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There are five newly reported COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 7,144, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Janfaza, Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Alex Rogers and Marshall Cohen, CNN Rep. Madison Cawthorn — the freshman Republican representing North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives — has in recent weeks become the center of chaos within the GOP. At 26 years old, the youngest member of Congress has
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has granted a request from a Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy while it appeals a ruling that found it discriminates against Asian American students. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a car chase through the city, has pleaded not guilty. Twenty-eight-year-old Kente Bell was arraigned on charges of attempted murder from his hospital room Thursday, where he is recovering after
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The four blueblood programs that have descended upon the Superdome for the men’s Final Four all have the ability to recruit on a national scale. Their coaches are able to hop aboard a jet on a moment’s notice to sit in a living room or
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN It takes just a tiny virus-laden droplet — about the width of a human blood cell — to infect someone with Covid-19. That’s just one of the findings from research that deliberately infected healthy volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The findings were published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine. Challenge studies
Continue ReadingGOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) — Shane Bieber will throw the first pitch for the Cleveland Guardians. Bieber will start the season opener on April 7 at Kansas City. It was expected that Bieber would get the start, but manager Terry Francona made the formal announcement after speaking to the right-hander who missed three months last season
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