By CHRIS HOFFMAN Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — As schools continue to train students and staff for active shooter situations, some schools are using coloring books to teach kids about drills. KDKA-TV has learned some schools in our area are using them. A child psychologist said this is a safe
Continue ReadingBy JOE BRANDT Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Philadelphia Municipal Court is resuming evictions as early as Monday, saying landlord tenant officers have now received training on use of force and de-escalation tactics. This follows the court suspending all evictions in July after multiple tenants were shot during evictions over
Continue ReadingBy JOHN DIAS Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The family of Tatyana Koltunyuk, who was attacked by a shark at Rockaway Beach, says she is still being treated and has a long road to recovery. Koltunyuk, 65, was swimming close to the shore when a shark bit her leg
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The new administrator of Walt Disney World’s governing district can’t continue to work in his new job and be chair of Florida’s ethics commission at the same time. That’s according to a legal opinion issued this week. Glen Gilzean can’t continue in both positions because state law prohibits public employees
Continue ReadingBy ALLEN HENRY Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — There are new details in an unsolved mass shooting in Minneapolis. Four survivors are sharing how a night full of creativity and inclusion quickly turned into a nightmare. And they’re remembering the beloved musician who lost his life. Mike Wilson and Felix
Continue ReadingBy WFOR Staff Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE (WFOR) — One person was pulled from a car that plunged into a lake in Lauderhill. According to police, just after 11 a.m. officers were sent to the area of 4162 Inverrary Drive after they received reports of a vehicle in a body
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MAASS Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — A United Airlines pilot has been charged in a bizarre ax attack earlier this month in which he savaged a parking arm at a Denver International Airport employee parking lot, causing an estimated $700 in damage. Police say the pilot, Kenneth Henderson
Continue ReadingWilliam Montes Nota del editor: Este reportaje incluye una imagen cruda y detalles de violencia. CNN — Cientos de familias se reunieron en El Geneina, la capital de Darfur Occidental, el 15 de junio para planear el escape de lo que se había convertido en un infierno, con edificios destruidos y cubiertos con grafitis racistas y
Continue ReadingBEL AIR, Md. (AP) — Authorities say DNA has linked the killing of a Maryland woman found near a hiking trail to a home invasion and assault in Los Angeles earlier this year. Officials announced the connection at a Thursday evening news conference in Harford County. Rachel Morin was a mother of five from suburban
Continue ReadingBy ERIN JONES Click here for updates on this story NORTH TEXAS (KTVT) — A family that narrowly escaped the devastating, deadly wildfires in Maui has made it back home to North Texas. And while they’re grateful to be safe, their hearts are still with all those affected. “We’re happy to be home,” Ryan Welch
Continue ReadingBy WBBM Staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The body of a missing teenage swimmer who went into the water earlier this week near a Winnetka beach was pulled out of Lake Michigan Tuesday afternoon. Around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, a body was found at the Wilmette Harbor, according to
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray, Tierney Sneed and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — If former President Donald Trump were facing the booking process that newly charged criminal defendants in Fulton County typically experience, he might find himself lingering for hours at the Rice Street jail waiting for his fingerprints and mug shot to be taken. Even by
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTIAN OLANIRAN Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — On Thursday, Baltimore Police made a second arrest in connection to a mass shooting in July that left two people dead, and 28 others injured, according to authorities. 18-year-old Tristan Brian Jackson is facing seven counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder,
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NORTH BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Gov. Tina Kotek announced Friday that Erin McMahon, a retired General Officer for the Oregon National Guard and U.S. Army, has been appointed to lead the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. The Oregon Senate will take up her confirmation as permanent director in September. “As our state responds to wildfires, extreme
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press A rare Rhode Island tornado lifted a car off a highway Friday as severe weather swept already storm-weary New England, damaging homes, flooding roads and toppling trees. Tornadoes were reported in several spots in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts. The National Weather Service said there were at
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — The National Weather Service is looking into whether tornadoes caused some of the storm damage in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Friday. Two tornado warnings were sent out in the morning as storms rolled through during the rush hour commute. The first
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – A year after the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Friday a total of $1.3 million in IRA funding headed to Southwest Oregon and Southeast Oregon Sagebrush Restoration Landscapes. These funds will be used for fuels reduction, improving fish habitat, and treating invasive weeds. “Restoring Oregon’s ecosystems is
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The first live specimen of a yellow-legged hornet, which “poses a threat to honeybees and other pollinators,” has been detected in the wild in the United States, according to a release from the Georgia Department of Agriculture. The GDA, US Department of Agriculture, and the University of Georgia confirmed the presence
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Beginning Monday, August 28, a section of Forest Service Road 42 on the Ochoco National Forest will be closed through November for road maintenance and reconstruction.
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese Shiite cleric who has angered politicians and religious leaders in Lebanon and Iraq says that groups including Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah are trying to silence voices of dissent within the sect — including his own. Sheikh Yasser Auda’s comments on Friday come days
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