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Month: August 2022

One killed in Texas train derailment

One killed in Texas train derailment

Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — One person has died after a train derailed in El Paso, Texas, Monday night, the El Paso Fire Department said. “Nearby homes are being evacuated as a safety precaution. Please avoid the area of Franklin and Barton as it is an […]

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Officers who ‘failed’ Uvalde children in massacre allowed to continue working this fall

Officers who ‘failed’ Uvalde children in massacre allowed to continue working this fall

Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Three months after the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and just eight days before the start of the 2022-23 school year, a promised evaluation of responding school district police officers has not yet started, and those officers will be allowed to […]

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Jackson to lose running water for unknown amount of time: Mississippi governor

Jackson to lose running water for unknown amount of time: Mississippi governor

Tim Graham/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — People in Mississippi’s capital are poised to lose running water for an undetermined amount of time, the state’s governor said Monday night. A major pump at Jackson’s main water treatment facility was damaged and the city has been using backup pumps, Gov. Tate Reeves […]

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Alex Jones’ second defamation trial over Sandy Hook massacre to move forward

Alex Jones’ second defamation trial over Sandy Hook massacre to move forward

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The parent company of InfoWars has agreed to face a second defamation trial over the false claims its founder, conspiracy theorist and right-wing provocateur Alex Jones, made about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Free Speech Systems said at a bankruptcy court […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 8/29/22

Scoreboard roundup — 8/29/22

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Toronto 5, Chi Cubs 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 4, Boston 2 LA Angels 4, NY Yankees 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE LA Dodgers, 3 Miami 2 St. Louis 13, Cincinnati 4 Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 5 Arizona […]

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Filmmaker explores years of trauma experienced by New Orleans kids following Hurricane Katrina

Filmmaker explores years of trauma experienced by New Orleans kids following Hurricane Katrina

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, those who lived through the disaster are still recovering from the trauma, according to New Orleans teacher and filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. Buckles was just 13 years old when the storm hit. He told ABC News that […]

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Prep Sports Roundup: 8/29

Prep Sports Roundup: 8/29

Baseball 1A South TROPIC, Utah-Kevin Palafox, Joel Romo, Rafe Brinkerhoff and Antonio Moreno each drove in a run and the Bryce Valley Mustangs waxed Panguitch 4-1 in 1A South baseball play Monday. Romo posted 8 strikeouts in 7 innings of work for the Mustangs to earn the win on the […]

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Serena Williams wins 1st round US Open match ahead of retirement

Serena Williams wins 1st round US Open match ahead of retirement

Frey/TPN/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — All eyes were on Serena Williams as the tennis superstar made an electric first-round appearance in her final U.S. Open appearance before retirement. Williams defeated 80th-ranked Danka Kovinic of Montenegro on center court in two sets, 6-3, 6-3. Williams, 40, has been the talk of […]

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Snow College Football Remains No. 5 In NJCAA Poll

Snow College Football Remains No. 5 In NJCAA Poll

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Monday, Snow College football remained No. 5 in this week’s NJCAA Top 15 football poll. The Badgers routed Trinity Valley 36-14 last Thursday evening at Stoddard Field at Terry Stott Stadium. The Top 15 is as follows New Mexico Military Iowa Western Hutchinson (Kan.) Northwest Mississippi Snow East Mississippi […]

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Artemis 1 launch updates: NASA announces new launch date will be Saturday

Artemis 1 launch updates: NASA announces new launch date will be Saturday

NASA/Joel Kowsky (NEW YORK) — NASA kicked off Monday its plan to send an unmanned space capsule into the moon’s orbit, marking the initial launch in an ambitious plan to establish a long term presence on the moon for scientific discovery and economic development. The space capsule, called Artemis I, […]

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