Hot 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…
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How 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 ReadingChris Cramer, veteran journalist and pioneering former CNN executive, dies aged 73
Chris Cramer, the passionate and forthright leader at the helm of CNN International for 11 years, has died, aged 73. He was an early champion of…
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…
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Dozens of protesters rally in Prineville, call on governor to let businesses reopen
Dozens of protesters gathered Saturday in front of a closed gym in downtown Prineville, rallying to call for Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to let all…
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…
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Police: NE Bend driver flees traffic stop, crashes into two other cars
A Bend police officer tried to pull over a driver for not wearing his seat belt late Saturday afternoon, but he sped away, crashed into another car…
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…
Continue ReadingNew York man arrested for alleged participation in Capitol riot
Federal agents have arrested a 26-year-old New York resident for his alleged participation in the January 6 US Capitol riot in Washington, DC, a…
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Parade for Prineville Marine celebrates his 99th birthday
Prineville Marine Jack Becker, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, celebrated his 99th birthday in style on Saturday with a horn-honking…
Continue ReadingAtlanta synagogue says it was the target of a cyber attack before MLK Shabbat service with Raphael Warnock
The president of an Atlanta synagogue says its website was the target of a cyberattack during its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Shabbat service with…
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