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06/24/2022

This week the U.S. Supreme Court said women CAN carry a gun outside their home & MUST carry a child inside their womb.

03/19/2022

The baby boy — whose name is Niguel Jackson, according to local station WAFB — was recovered Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the city's police department announced on social media.

'The timing didn't give us a lot of hope, but the baby was tough,' an EMS spokesman told The Advocate of the 8-month-old, who was found in a field

03/09/2022

A Polk County teacher is facing misdemeanor battery charges over allegations she bit two students over a jar of pickles.

02/25/2022

Yay!

02/12/2022

The far-flung friends use the Super Bowl to meet up, spend time together and reminisce. But in recent years they've come to grips with the fact it must come to an end one day, said Henschel, 80.

“I still think I have a few years left. I'm going to try to make it to 60. But old man age is catching up to all of us."

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Three friends who have attended every Super Bowl are hoping for a memorable contest this year, because it will probably be their final trip to the big game as a group. The three men are all in their 80s and have attended every game since the first AFL-NFL World Championship ...

02/01/2022

Two black women mysteriously died on the same day in CT. Two detectives that handled the cases have been placed on leave.

Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls both died Dec. 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Their families said police failed to notify them of their deaths.

01/07/2022

Sidney Poitier, Who Blazed a Path for Black Actors in Hollywood, Has Died

Sidney Poitier, a Black movie star in the racially charged 1950s and 1960s who became the first Black actor to command top billing and win an Oscar for a leading role, has died.

12/30/2021

Based on preliminary data which found that is more transmissible and multiplies 70 times faster than the variant, experts say that it's time to upgrade to a high-filtration respirator, such as an mask.

Here are several options that you may be able to find at your local hardware store or on .

Experts say N95s offer superior protection from the Omicron variant, compared to surgical and cloth masks

12/27/2021

Paige Bramlett officially adopted William in October after they formed a special bond through her position at his school in 2019.

Paige Bramlett and adopted son William just welcomed a puppy to their family, too

12/25/2021

The $10 billion telescope, NASA’s long-delayed successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is folded up upon itself and fully enveloped, unseen, in the cone of Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket, which rolled to the launchpad Thursday.

The $10 billion telescope is NASA’s long-delayed successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

12/17/2021

Botswana and South Africa alerted the world to this variant, but it was found among travelers who reportedly flew in from Europe. And it was subsequently found that the variant was reported in the Netherlands a week before the announcement from Africa.

How do you feel about the world reacting by banning travelers from southern Africa?

"We were saddened. For me, personally, I felt that after two years into the epidemic, clearly as the global health community, we could be responding better and coordinating better."

-Sikhulile Moyo, the laboratory director at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership and a research associate with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, headed the team that identified the omicron variant.

He and his team were stunned by the number of mutations. They felt they'd made a contribution by alerting the world to a dangerous variant. Then came the travel bans for residents of southern Africa.

12/02/2021

“Maybe we will need to update the vaccine to make it more tailored to the strain we’re seeing, but this might not be necessary. The current vaccine still works very well, and when it doesn’t work, a third dose does."

This quote is related to an uptick in cases of the Mumps, not Coronavirus.

Mumps cases continue to circulate in the U.S., largely among vaccinated people, including children.