Twin brothers start chair building business amid pandemic
NewClick here for updates on this story DAVIDSON COUNTY, NC (WGHP) — Teenagers spend most of their summers hanging out…
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Mock gallows, tear gas and flying rocks. Beirut erupts in violent protest days after blast
NewLebanese security forces have fired several rounds of tear gas at anti-government protesters who are on the streets of central Beirut demanding…
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History professor who has accurately predicted every election since 1984 says Trump will lose
NewHistory professor Allan Lichtman is used to being right. He has correctly predicted the winner of each presidential race since Ronald Reagan’s…
Continue Reading Winston-Salem State University students move in to campus
Click here for updates on this story WINSTON-SALEM, NC (WGHP) — It was move-in day at Winston-Salem State University…
Continue Reading Ponchatoula becomes Louisiana’s first Purple Heart City
Click here for updates on this story PONCHATOULA, LA (WGNO ) — On Friday, Ponchatoula made history by being officially…
Continue Reading NASA drops racially charged nicknames of celestial bodies
Grocery store items, pro sports teams, and country music bands have all removed racially insensitive names. Now, NASA is adding celestial bodies to…
Continue Reading Free speech experts call on public schools to not penalize students for sharing images of maskless classmates
As scores of American children return to classrooms under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, free speech experts have bristled at the sight of a…
Continue Reading The Latest: Germany has travel warning for Bulgaria, Romania
BERLIN — Germany’s Foreign Ministry has issued a travel warning for parts of Bulgaria and Romania because of regional spikes in coronavirus…
Continue Reading High-speed Cincinnati police chase kills 2 bystanders, hurts 2 more in Kentucky
Two bystanders were killed Friday and two more injured by a suspect vehicle in a high-speed police chase, Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said.…
Continue Reading AP FACT CHECK: Trump misleads on mail ballots, virus vaccine
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a week of relentless attacks by President Donald Trump and his allies on mail-in voting for the November election, and…
Continue Reading Inside the federal prison where three out of every four inmates have tested positive for coronavirus
When James Giannetta first called his brother Russ in late June to tell him that the coronavirus was beginning to spread in his Texas federal prison,…
Continue Reading 4 children identified among Air India Express plane crash casualties
Four children have been identified among the 16 passengers who died when an Air India Express flight crashed Friday in the southern Indian state of…
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A new video shows another Black man in custody pleading, ‘I can’t breathe,’ before his death
Video that shows a Black man in apparent medical distress repeatedly telling officers, “I can’t breathe,” days before he died in a…
Continue Reading Two children and three adults killed after someone set a Denver home on fire and fled, police say
A house fire that killed three adults and two children in Denver was deliberately set by someone who fled the area, authorities said. The blaze in…
Continue Reading A stricken ship is leaking tonnes of fuel into the ‘pristine lagoons’ of the Indian Ocean
Mauritius is facing a “state of environmental emergency” after a wrecked ship began breaking up, spilling oil into the Indian Ocean. The…
Continue Reading A New Mexico man has died from the state’s second reported case of plague this year
A New Mexico man has died of septicemic plague, marking the second plague case in the state this year. The Rio Arriba County man was in his 20s and…
Continue Reading As new academic year looms, public school nurses call for more funding to battle the coronavirus
As a parent, Liz Pray accepts her 13-year-old son’s return to school. As a school nurse, she doubts the Moses Lake School District in central…
Continue Reading He’s been stung 1,000 times — for science
Justin Schmidt is in the business of pain. The entomologist and chemist gets stung by insects to understand the pain they produce, why they produce…
Continue Reading NHL’s Seattle Kraken hire the league’s first Black full-time play-by-play announcer
The NHL’s newest team just hired the league’s first full-time Black play-by-play announcer. Everett Fitzhugh, 31, will serve as the…
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