Firefighters grab carpentry tools to assist colleague recovering from COVID-19
Click here for updates on this story COBB COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — COVID-19 has hit Danny Alea’s family hard. The…
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UConn professor scores $2.5M fantasy football win on concepts he teaches
Click here for updates on this story STORRS, Connectitcut (Hartford Business Journal) — A University of Connecticut…
Continue ReadingRecord gun sales leading to ammunition shortages
Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — The tumult and uncertainty of last year…
Continue ReadingAuthorities: Business owner had huge cache of weapons and ammunition
Click here for updates on this story NAPA, California (Napa Valley Register) — The Napa business owner arrested on…
Continue ReadingAlexey Navalny leaves Germany on Russia-bound jet five months after being poisoned
Russia’s leading opposition figure and chief Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, has left Berlin on a flight bound for Moscow, where supporters are…
Continue ReadingHow empty stadiums proved useful during the Covid-19 pandemic
On March 11, sports in the United States came to terms with the arrival of the coronavirus. An NBA player tested positive shortly before tipoff in…
Continue ReadingHot Pockets recalled over potential glass and plastic contamination
Those Hot Pockets in your freezer could contain something more dangerous than piping hot cheese. Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling certain…
Continue ReadingHow to serve on MLK Day while isolating at home
Caught between colliding pressures of a pandemic, political unrest and outcries for social justice, this Martin Luther King Day of Service is unlike…
Continue ReadingA Spanish mountain climber has died after falling from K2
Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote has died while climbing K2, the world’s second highest summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced…
Continue ReadingUS leaders boost security at state capitols across the nation amid experts’ concerns of more violence
Just days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the entire country is on edge. The FBI has warned of indications that “armed…
Continue ReadingElon Musk donates $5 million to education group Khan Academy
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has donated $5 million to the online learning organization Khan Academy. In a YouTube video posted Monday, Khan Academy founder…
Continue ReadingMuslim advocacy group warns American Muslims and Black communities to avoid state capitol buildings ahead of inauguration
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued an advisory warning American Muslims and other minority groups to avoid state capitol…
Continue ReadingPowerful earthquake in Indonesia’s Sulawesi kills dozens, injures hundreds
At least 42 people have died with hundreds more injured after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island early Friday,…
Continue ReadingUK plumber has helped over 2,000 vulnerable families fix heating and plumbing during the pandemic for free
Thousands of elderly and disabled individuals in the UK have received emergency heating and plumbing repairs at no cost during the pandemic thanks to…
Continue ReadingThis Illinois dad surprised his family with a bachelor’s degree from the same university as his daughter
When 23-year-old Taleigh Loven walked downstairs to her family room the night of her graduation party last October, she was expecting balloons,…
Continue ReadingA goose became a family’s pet after being rescued as a baby
An orphaned goose named Lil’ Bob has no idea it’s a bird, says the Ohio man raising it. While driving in Mason last spring, Joe Songer…
Continue ReadingMontana trooper rescues driver from car submerged in icy river
A Montana Highway Patrol trooper is being praised for his heroic actions after pulling a driver from her submerged vehicle in the icy Yellowstone…
Continue ReadingMassachusetts might soon have an official state dinosaur. A bunch of other states already do
We’ve all heard of state flowers and state birds, but Massachusetts is stepping it up by proposing a state dinosaur. There’s already a…
Continue ReadingTest fire of NASA’s SLS moon rocket ends prematurely
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket ignited its four main engines Saturday on a test stand in Mississippi, but the engines shut down earlier than…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea is cracking down on digital sex crimes. Has it done enough?
Between the ages of 11 and 14, South Korean teenager Ji-o was threatened, stalked and pressured into taking sexually explicit photos of herself by…
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