iStock/Pornpak Khunatorn (NEW YORK) — Nearly half of New Hampshire’s population has been fully vaccinated and rather than focusing on incentives, the state wants to send excess COVID-19 vaccines to Canada. New Hampshire is “leading the nation in many ways” in vaccine distribution and doesn’t need to invest in incentives, […]
iStock/nirat (CHICAGO) — Anti-Asian hate incidents continue to rise across the country, one legislator seeks to combat racism with a new law requiring Asian American studies in public schools Illinois state Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz said she wants to fight “ignorance” with the Teaching Equitable Asian-American History Act (TEAACH). The legislation […]
iStock/sankai (NEW YORK) — A stunning annular solar eclipse will illuminate the sky, appearing as an ominous ring of fiery, glowing light in some parts of the world next week. The spectacle, called the “ring of fire” solar eclipse, will be visible for many people around sunrise on June 10 […]
Thursday, college football guru Phil Steele selected his FCS All-American squads which featured several Southern Utah University and Weber State University standouts. Weber State senior offensive lineman Ty Whitworth made Steele’s first team as did SUU redshirt senior offensive lineman Braxton Jones. SUU redshirt senior linebacker La’akea Kaho’Ohano-hano-Davis made Steele’s […]
Naperville Police (NAPERVILLE, Ill.) — Nearly 50 years after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death in suburban Chicago, genetic genealogy has led to an arrest in the case. Barry Lee Whelpley, 76, was arrested on Wednesday for the July 1972 murder of 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson in Naperville, Illinois, […]
WEWS-TV (CANTON, Ohio) — A high school football coach and six assistant coaches have been fired after they allegedly forced a player to eat pork against his religious beliefs as punishment for missing a non-mandatory practice. The player, a rising senior at McKinley Senior High School in Canton, Ohio, had […]
luckyraccoon/iStock (PARIS) — A Russian tennis player was placed in police custody Thursday night on charges of “sports corruption and organized gang scam targeting acts likely to have been committed in September 2020,” the Paris prosecutor’s office told ABC News. At last year’s French Open, Russian player Yana Sizikova lost […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal investigators say a tour bus crash that threw more than a dozen people onto a remote Utah highway in 2019 and killed four Chinese tourists highlights a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows. The National Transportation Safety Board released its final […]
carlballou/iStock (MIAMI) — A third victim, a woman, has died from her injuries following the mass shooting rampage in Miami Dade-County, Florida, last weekend, police said Thursday evening. Partygoers were gathered outside the El Mula Banquet Hall in Hialeah early Sunday when three gunmen opened fire, police said. Twenty-three people […]
Courtesy Rebekah Bryant (NEW YORK) — Sunny Bryant, an 8-year-old transgender girl who lives in Texas, loves to play baseball and participate in gymnastics. She’s also been “begging” to play soccer, according to her mother, Rebekah Bryant. But Sunny, who currently plays on co-ed teams, is aware that she might […]
