By CBS MIAMI TEAM Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WFOR) — With the start of the new school year right around the corner, Broward County Public Schools needs teachers, bus drivers, and more. In fact, they are looking to fill 800 positions. To help do that they will be holding
Continue ReadingBy CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. is on pace to do more than just join an elite 40-40 club in baseball history. The Braves outfielder is threatening to obliterate the previous high mark for power-speed combination in a season. Of the four players who have delivered seasons with at
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — Xochitl Torres Small was sworn in as deputy agriculture secretary of the US Department of Agriculture on Monday, making history as the first Latina in the No. 2 position. Her ascension to the position comes amid efforts by the USDA to rectify decades of discrimination against farmers of color
Continue ReadingCHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s national police force has opened a homicide investigation after an opposition leader in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria was found fatally shot at his home. The police force said Monday that it was taking “all appropriate investigative measures regarding the crime of murder” in the violent death of Oleg
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is spearheading a new online marketplace called Empower Global that will specifically feature Black-owned businesses. Combs says he’s not looking for financial benefit after he invested $20 million into Empower Global, which launched last week. Consumers can shop on the curated
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Blake Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (KJRH) — A few years ago in Hawaii, Roxann Whitwell got home from a camping trip to three notifications: Facebook, E-mail, and a DNA website. The messages were sent by adoptee Allison Raley of Arkansas. While using a DNA website to find out
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the last decade because of typos caused by the similarity of the US military’s email address and the domain for the West African country, according to a Dutch technologist who discovered the problem.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Alex Fitzpatrick has been around for his older brother Matt’s biggest moments in golf. He was his caddie for Matt’s victory at the U.S. Amateur in 2013 and was greenside when Matt won the U.S. Open last year for his first major title. They’re together
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — A few hundred people gathered Monday for a vigil to remember four victims of a mass shooting in an Atlanta suburb, singing “This Little Light of Mine” at the end as they lit candles in their honor. Family members, friends and neighbors were
Continue ReadingBy Hope Dean & Rebekka Schramm Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Two days after a man shot and killed four people in a Henry County subdivision, the suspect’s mother is apologizing to neighbors for her son’s alleged actions. “I’m heartbroken,” Lorna Dennis told Atlanta News First. On Saturday, police
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Las personas mayores que viven en las regiones este y sureste de Estados Unidos tienen más probabilidades de padecer la enfermedad de Alzheimer, según nuevos datos compartidos en la Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Alzhéimer (AAIC, por sus siglas en inglés) y publicados este lunes en la revista de la organización.
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Cameron Smith never gets emotional about anything. That changed Monday when he had to return the claret jug as the defending British Open champion. Now it’s about winning it back, and Smith knows that won’t be easy. He says it’s still hard to believe it’s
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist (CNN) — The Atlantic hurricane season is headed into uncharted territory with water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico warmer than they have ever been on record. Seasonal forecasters are warning it means you need to prepare for a more uncertain forecast for the rest of
Continue ReadingBy KENNEDY COOK Click here for updates on this story COLORADO (KCNC) — One of the last living Tuskegee airmen celebrated his 100th birthday over the weekend. It was a birthday celebration most won’t see in their lifetime for a man whose legacy lives on. Lt. Col. James Harvey III was born in 1923. He
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — This fall, parents and pediatricians will have a new option to protect babies from a lung-attacking virus that is the leading cause of hospitalization in infants under a year old in the United States every year. The US Food and Drug Administration approved nirsevimab to protect newborns from respiratory
Continue ReadingBy CBS DETROIT Click here for updates on this story DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Michigan (WWJ) — Dearborn Heights police are investigating after vandals damaged the Warren Valley Golf Course in Dearborn Heights Saturday night. According to Jason Pearsall, the managing partner of Warren Valley Golf Course, an unauthorized golf cart entered the grounds through a construction
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — Prince George and Princess Charlotte, the two oldest children of Britain’s Prince and Princess of Wales, sat on the edge of their seats in the Royal Box to watch the nail-biting men’s Wimbledon final on Sunday. The siblings, who are second and third in line to the
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Here are NewsChannel 21’s Sunrise Birthdays for Monday, July 17th. You can see more recent entries and submit an upcoming birthday to air at: https://ktvz.com/share/sunrise-birthdays/.
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A semi-truck flipped onto its side on Highway 97 north of Terrebonne Monday morning, causing reported minor injuries to the driver while blocking and closing the highway for several hours, authorities said.
Continue ReadingBy Aqeel Najim and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday. Built in 1727, the 11-meter Siraji minaret, was demolished to create road expansion following complaints of
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