Two neighbors with health concerns who recently met online helped each other get the coronavirus vaccine, as one volunteered to give her appointment to her elderly neighbor. Emily Johnson is a grandmother in Austin, Texas, who was in need of open heart surgery, but her doctor told her she should have one vaccination before the procedure, ABC News reported Wednesday. Johnson spent hours on the phone […]
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A cemetery worker on Long Island was killed Thursday when the sides of a grave collapsed on him as he was leveling the bottom. The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. at Washington Memorial Park located on Canal Road in Mount Sanai, ABC 7 reported. Moments after Rodwin Allicock was buried in the more than seven-foot deep hole, his coworkers tried to dig him out but were […]
A puppy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has survived despite the odds after being born with six legs. The Neel Veterinary Hospital shared a picture of the pup, named Skipper, over the weekend and said she has survived in the face of several medical conditions, Fox 13 reported. “She has survived longer than we suspect any other canine has (at just 4 days old – published research […]
A man who allegedly harassed and assaulted a woman in New York City this week was released Friday without bail and under supervision hours after his arrest, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. “Patrick Mateo, 47, was arrested Thursday morning at 8:10 a.m. ET in Queens after a video of him allegedly pushing a 53-year-old Asian woman on Tuesday went viral,” Fox Wilmington reported. Reporter […]
The owner of Willie Ray’s Q Shack in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is on his way to help Texas residents affected by the recent winter storm. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Willie Ray Fairley said he and his employees are traveling south to feed people who were without power, according to KCRG. “This gesture wasn’t new for Fairly. He gave out thousands of free meals after the […]
A nurse named Emily Grigsby braved the bitter cold to care for her senior neighbors during the recent severe weather conditions in Texas. “The 39-year-old nurse has been tending to the elderly residents in her Austin neighborhood over the last week when freezing temperatures caused by Winter Storm Uri hit Texas,” People reported Thursday. As countless Texans endured power outages, they also grappled with a water […]
Electricity customers in North Texas are looking for answers regarding their sky-high electricity bills following the winter storm. Costs for some residents went up when the power was on and also for some when it was turned off during the extreme weather, Fox 4 reported Friday. “Unless you’re in a variable rate plan, you should not see a change in your energy rate. When it comes time for […]
“What I’m not going to do is lie about the lives that were lost during all of this … the journey,” Fluker commented. “I feel like if I live with those, I’m just as guilty.” Survivors of the cult said Young beat the toddlers and Emon starved and died while he was locked in a closet, according to First Coast News. The House of Prayer was […]
Thirty-seven suspects have been arrested in connection with a large scale child sex crimes and human trafficking operation, police in Phoenix, Arizona, said Friday. “The Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, and Chandler Police Departments partnered with Homeland Security and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office for ‘Operation Broken Hearts,’ an undercover operation targeting sexual predators engaged in child sex crimes and human trafficking,” Fox 10 reported. In a Facebook post, […]
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly refused to help a CBS producer find videotapes Jeffrey Epstein made of Bill Clinton because it would hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the White House in 2016, according to a recently published book. As the Daily Wire reported Friday: In his new book, “Ticking Clock: Behind The Scenes At 60 Minutes,” former CBS producer Ira Rosen writes of speaking with […]
Over two million homes and businesses in Texas are without power Monday morning as winter storm Uri sweeps across the central United States. “The agency that oversees Texas’ electric grid declared an ‘energy emergency alert three’ early Monday after the grid experienced a systemwide failure,” the Weather Channel reported. The alert turned into rotating outages that are likely to continue through Tuesday morning, according to grid […]
A veteran named Paul Grisham finally got his wallet back after losing it 53 years ago while serving in Antarctica. “Grisham, 91, of San Diego, California, arrived in Antarctica in October 1967 as a Navy meteorologist. At some point during his 13-month assignment, he lost his wallet and eventually forgot about it — until last week,” Fox News reported on February 6. The veteran received his […]
Members of the media criticized Senate Democrats for deciding Saturday not to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. “It was a surprising twist in an already tumultuous trial, given that Democrats had asked to call witnesses earlier and the Senate passed the measure by a vote of 55 to 45,” Business Insider reported. Writer and member of the board of contributors at […]
The nonconsensual removal of a condom during sex could be considered sexual battery under a bill introduced by California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) on Monday. “California’s Civil Code currently characterizes sexual battery as someone who acts with the intent to cause a harmful or offensive contact with an intimate body part of another, and as a result, commits a sexually offensive act. The perpetrator is liable […]
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) received criticism over the weekend when she showed support for the rioters inside a St. Louis jail. “Inmates at the City Justice Center broke windows, started fires and tossed debris onto the sidewalk for hours beginning early Saturday morning after a prisoner and a guard got into a scuffle,” the New York Post reported Sunday. In a tweet posted Saturday, Bush quoted […]
A woman who arrived in Minnesota with only a backpack and $200 got a huge surprise recently from her community. “Navy veteran Sierra was on her last leg when the community she now lives in came together to give her the gift of a new car,” WCCO reported Wednesday. Joe and Jake Mauer of Mauer Main Chevrolet in Anoka gave Sierra the keys and Executive Sales Manager […]
A man allegedly attempted to go through customs at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Thursday carrying 3,200 erectile dysfunction pills he claimed were for his friends. “The nine pounds of pills, worth nearly $100,000, were a generic Viagra brand sold over the counter in India, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),” ABC 7 reported. Agents seized the pills Thursday upon the passenger’s return from India. […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has reportedly docked $5,000 each from two Republican congressmen’s pay for allegedly defying her metal detector rule. “Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) are the first to be hit with the dramatic fine, which is taken directly from their $174,000 salaries,” the New York Post reported Friday. Another offense will cost $10,000 under the policy imposed in January by […]
A shattered glass portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris memorializing her career was erected this week on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Groups looking to memorialize Harris’ achievement of becoming the nation’s first black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president unveiled the artwork Thursday in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the Hill reported. Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, tweeted a photo of himself […]
A man who allegedly posed as a policeman and abducted two teenage girls in Lindenhurst, New York, was arrested Thursday, according to law enforcement officials. “Donald Cristiano Jr., 46, was charged with second-degree kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child, first-degree criminal impersonation and luring a child, Suffolk County cops said,” the New York Post reported. Authorities said the alleged kidnapping occurred on Wednesday afternoon. As ABC […]
“I jumped in it and I just basically clawed my way to the center,” the chief recalled. When he finally got to the middle of the river, Foligno said, “I reached in and grabbed the baby first to pull her away from the mother, and I guess instinctively, she just wouldn’t let go, so I had to pull really hard to get her into the boat.” Firefighters […]
Congressional Democrats on Thursday once again introduced a bill to establish $1,000 “baby bonds” for newborn Americans. “Under the bill, which is being led by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), anyone born after Dec. 31, 2021, have a government-run ‘American Opportunity Account’ with $1,000 set up for them when they’re born,” Forbes reported. The accounts will accrue about three percent interest and […]
West Virginia law enforcement said a mother who shot and killed her five kids before burning down their home and killing herself last year was reportedly obsessed with witchcraft. During a recent press conference, Greenbrier County Sheriff Bruce Sloan said 25-year-old Oreanna Antoinette Myers killed her three kids and two stepchildren at their home near Williamsburg on December 8. As the Associated Press (AP) reported: Myers’ husband […]
A stretch of Highway 1 near Big Sur in California that collapsed this week because of a winter storm will need millions of dollars in repairs. The collapse happened Thursday about 15 miles south of Big Sur, officials told the Los Angeles Times. The report continued: Caltrans earlier closed 40 miles of Highway 1 between Fullers Lookout and the San Luis Obispo County line after a […]
A man fought with deputies and a K-9 while allegedly resisting arrest Thursday for an attempted home burglary in Escambia County, Florida. “Eric Tyler Mathis, 25, is charged with attempted carjacking, attempted burglary, three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, and battery on a police K9,” WEAR-TV reported. The incident occurred at about 1:30 p.m. in the 4900 block of State […]
Firefighters saved a 14-year-old’s life after he found himself trapped beneath several feet of snow in Truckee, California, on Wednesday. “The boy had been playing inside of a snow cave just outside of his home, located in the Serene Lakes area, when an accumulation of snowfall fell from the roof and buried him,” KTVU reported. Family members waited for him to return home, but when he […]
Firefighters took a few moments to save an American flag that fell during inclement weather and high winds in Monterey County, California, on Wednesday. The first responders were patrolling neighborhoods near the Carmel Fire burn scar when they saw the flag lying on the ground in the rain, according to KSBW. “The flag had toppled from strong winds overnight,” the outlet said. Video footage shows one […]
Arizona Republicans on Saturday censured three of the state’s prominent party leaders who are at odds with former President Donald Trump. Republicans voted to censure Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake, and Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, NPR reported. “The sweeping — yet essentially symbolic — rebuke took place during a meeting to figure out how to move forward after the state flipped […]
A Native American tribe this week criticized the Biden administration’s order halting agency approvals for oil, gas, and coal permitting on federal lands including tribal lands. As the Washington Times reported Friday: The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, which has run an oil-and-gas operation on its 4.5 million-acre reservation for more than 70 years, requested Thursday an exemption for tribal lands from […]
Community members joined forces to give a pizza delivery man in Indiana the gift of a lifetime last week. Anyone who has ordered pizza from the Pizza Hut in Tipton likely knows Robert Peters, who has worked there for the past 31 years, according to Fox 59. “Every time you see him, he has a smile on his face. He has never not been joyful,” said […]
Five children found shot to death after a house fire last year in West Virginia were killed by their mother, who then killed herself, officials said Thursday. “Greenbrier County Sheriff Bruce Sloan revealed details of the shootings and fire last Dec. 8 at a news conference,” the Associated Press (AP) reported. Sloan said 25-year-old Oreanna Antoinette Myers shot her three kids and two stepchildren at their […]
A veteran in Boothbay, Maine, is helping fellow veterans struggling with homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. “Ed Harmon, a service officer with the American Legion post in Boothbay, Maine, retrofits trailers into living spaces through a project he calls the Veterans Emergency Temporary Shelter, or VETS,” Fox 10 reported Friday. The trailers serve as temporary housing for veterans looking for permanent homes and feature a one-room […]
A 14-week-old pit bull has a forever home thanks to a New Jersey police officer and his colleagues who rescued him earlier this month. Officer Matthew O’Hanlon of the Mount Laurel Police Department said he took the dog in after he and fellow officers found him wandering around an industrial area on January 2, according to Good Morning America. The 26-year-old named the pup Thor, noting, […]
A Boston attorney whose name was once on People magazine’s list of most eligible bachelors has been charged with raping two victims, according to the New York Post. “Gary Zerola, 49, who appeared in the magazine’s 2001 list of ‘America’s Top 50 Bachelors’ alongside the likes of actors Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Benicio del Toro, was arraigned on Jan. 15 on charges of rape and […]
Rudy Giuliani is more popular with New Yorkers right now than New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), according to a recent Siena College poll. “The Republican former New York City mayor and current lawyer and adviser to President Trump came in a full 4 percentage points ahead of the embattled de Blasio — who is a Democrat, as is more than half the state,” […]
Texas is reportedly preparing for lawsuits against Joe Biden’s incoming administration, the San Antonio Express-News reported Friday. During his first 100 days in office, President-elect Joe Biden has “vowed to roll back the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, push policies addressing climate change and potentially forgive student debt for thousands of Americans,” the article stated. Biden has also said he will advocate for a mask mandate and wants […]
Loews Hotels has canceled a fundraiser event for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) set for the Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando. “The event was scheduled for February 12th through 15th,” Fox 35 reported Saturday. In a tweet, Loews said it was “horrified and opposed to the events at the Capitol and all who supported and incited the actions”: We are horrified and opposed to the events at […]
A naked man allegedly shoved another person off a Harlem subway platform Saturday then was electrocuted to death when he jumped down on the third rail. Police said the unclothed man had been wandering around the two and three station at 110th Street and Central Park North when he pushed the stranger at about 3:40 p.m., according to the New York Post. Video footage shows the […]
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of a Temple University graduate who was shot while walking his dog last week in Philadelphia. “A police source tells FOX 29 one of the suspects, a 20-year-old, is facing murder and weapons charges. More information is expected from Philadelphia police soon,” the outlet reported Saturday. Authorities said 25-year-old Milan Loncar was shot just before 7:00 p.m. […]
Rapper Post Malone is giving away thousands of his sold-out Crocs shoes to healthcare workers in hospitals across the country. Malone and Crocs joined with the nonprofit Musicians On Call to gift 10,000 pairs of his Duet Max Clog II to caregivers, housekeeping staff, and other medical workers at about 70 facilities, People reported Thursday. “This gift was made in gratitude of and support for their tireless […]
Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) on Tuesday proposed fining members of Congress who refuse to wear masks on Capitol grounds $1,000 a day. Dingell’s legislation comes after three House members tested positive for the coronavirus following the breach of the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday when lawmakers were evacuated to one location, the Detroit Free Press reported. The representative told the Free Press that at the time, […]
Firefighters in Alpena, Michigan, went above and beyond to save a dog from drowning in an icy river Friday. “A pair of huskies were playing on the ice on the Thunder Bay River off of Long Rapids Road when one of them fell through thin ice and into the frigid water,” the Alpena News reported. A person who saw the pup trying to stay afloat called […]
A Michigan church is celebrating being debt-free after paying off its more than $2 million mortgage in a short amount of time. “Just 14 years ago, Galilee Baptist Church moved into a new building in Kalamazoo’s Northside neighborhood, and the senior pastor said it’s the community’s support that got them to where they are today: debt-free,” Fox 17 reported last week. Neighbors are quite familiar with […]
A high school teacher in Largo, Florida, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly spraying a student with disinfectant for not wearing a mask correctly. A police report said the incident was caught on video Tuesday, Fox 32 reported. “Christina Reszetar, 51, sprayed the unnamed student with ‘Claire disinfectant aerosol spray’ because, she allegedly told investigators, ‘the kids were not wearing their mask properly,’” the article continued. The […]
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) appeared to celebrate President Trump’s ban from Twitter Friday by posting video of the moment Saddam Hussein’s capture was announced in 2003. “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” U.S. Administrator Paul Bremer said at the press conference in December 2003. https://t.co/v4j0rbTmPl pic.twitter.com/6ESQxSn5QY — Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) January 8, 2021 “U.S. forces converged on a farmhouse near Tikrit and discovered the Ace of Spades […]
The man accused of carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) lectern through the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday has been arrested and faces federal charges. “The man smiling and waving at the camera has been identified as 36-year-old Adam Johnson of Parrish in Manatee County,” WFLA reported Saturday, adding that it learned Johnson is married to a physician and has five children. Johnson was booked into the […]
A woman was taken into custody this week for allegedly spraypainting graffiti on St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on New Year’s Day. According to authorities, “Chriselle Vega, 20, was arrested Tuesday night for marring the facade of the landmark church with the letters ‘ACAB’ — which stands for ‘All Cops Are Bastards,’ only hours into the new year,” the New York Post reported. Investigators reviewed video reportedly […]
Stacey Abrams has already purchased television ad time in Georgia to make sure ballots are counted and cured following the senate runoff elections on Tuesday. New York Times national political correspondent Jonathan Martin tweeted an ad showing Abrams telling voters to “confirm the status of your ballot today”: 2020 ends and 2022 begins:@staceyabrams has bought TV time in GA to ensure ballots are counted and cured […]
Democrats will turn America into a one-party country if they win the Senate runoff elections, President Donald Trump said Monday in Dalton, Georgia. “They’ll make Washington, DC, and other liberal places the 51st, 52nd, 53rd states of the union, guaranteeing the radical left a permanent majority of the U.S. Senate and the House, and the electoral college,” he said at a rally for Republican Sens. Kelly […]
A resident of downtown Nashville captured video footage Friday of two base jumpers leaping from the top of the Grand Hyatt hotel. “The woman who sent us the video tells us she was sitting at the rooftop bar around 6 p.m. last night when two men wearing parachutes came walking through,” WSMV reported. On what appeared to be her Twitter profile, Amanda Bagley posted the video […]
As the rest of the world rang in the New Year, neighbors in Lowell, Massachusetts, helped a World War II veteran celebrate his 105th birthday. “Henry Naruszweicz was born in 1916, the fourth of 10 children born to Polish immigrant parents,” WCVB reported Friday. To celebrate his milestone birthday, neighbors put up signs and about 75 cars, including emergency vehicles, drove past the home he designed […]
Police officers in Port St. Lucie, Florida, are getting a lot of attention for saving a Golden Retriever from drowning in a canal on Tuesday. “Police said the pup named Max was being taken for a walk near the C24 canal when he maneuvered out of his collar and decided to go for a swim,” WPTV reported. Max’s owner tried to coax him out of the […]
Police are searching for a man who allegedly pushed his way into a woman’s Manhattan home then raped and robbed her Thursday morning. “The NYPD said the unidentified man knocked on the door of the Kips Bay residence, near the intersection of East 30th Street and Third Avenue, around 11:45 a.m.,” PIX 11 reported. The suspect said he was there to deliver a package, but when […]
A dog is being praised for saving an elderly blind pit bull from drowning in their family’s pool in Argentina on December 19. A surveillance camera in Julieta Firpo’s backyard caught the moment her pit bull, Luna, walked near the pool’s edge before accidentally falling in the water. In a Facebook post, she said 14-year-old Luna had recently become “disoriented.” However, when the family’s other dog, Caipirinha, […]
A man named National Teacher of the Year in 2019 tweeted Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) neighbors should act like a “true Kentucky hero” and attack McConnell the way Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) neighbor attacked Paul in 2017. The attack on Sen. Paul left him with six broken ribs, necessitating the removal of a portion of his lung, according to the Daily Wire. Conservative […]
A grandmother raising five children in Fauquier County, Virginia, no longer has to use pots and pans to catch the rain coming through her ceiling. When pastor Tyronne Champion, the director of nonprofit group Community Touch, learned that Carol Johnson’s home needed repairing, he made it his business to get it fixed, according to WSET. “Community Touch wrote a grant to Dominion Energy who funded it to replace […]
An oncologist has lifted the crushing weight of medical debt off the shoulders of almost 200 cancer patients in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Dr. Omar Atiq founded the Arkansas Cancer Institute in 1991 and his clinic recently sent out a special holiday greeting to his patients, according to Fox 16. The letter read: I hope this note finds you well. The Arkansas Cancer Clinic was proud to serve […]
Hundreds of people helped an elderly veteran in Hanahan, South Carolina, celebrate his milestone birthday on Christmas Day. Source link
A family in Toms River, New Jersey, has opened their house to six orphaned siblings to keep them from being separated. When Rebecca and Robert Kolas decided to become foster parents to two-year-old Ella Fuller in 2013, they later learned she had a one-year-old brother, William, and also brought him home to live with them, according to the Asbury Park Press. The couple officially adopted the two children […]
A salon owner and several stylists in Stockton, California, were cited Wednesday for keeping their doors open despite the state’s regional stay at home orders. “Agents with the Department of Consumer Affairs visited Pomp Salon in Lincoln Village, where the owner and staff have been outspoken about their desire to stay open,” KCRA reported. Video footage of the incident shows one person asking an agent, “Are […]
The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) thanked President Trump this week for pardoning a former Prince George’s County K-9 officer. “We applaud @realDonaldTrump for pardoning Stephanie Mohr, a former Prince George’s Co. Officer & first female canine handler in the Department’s history,” the order tweeted along with a photo of Mohr: 🚨BREAKING: We applaud @realDonaldTrump for pardoning Stephanie Mohr, a former Prince George’s Co. Officer & first […]
A patient allegedly beat another coronavirus patient to death with an oxygen tank last week inside Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California. “The victim, an 82-year-old Latino man, was being treated for a COVID-19 infection in a two-person room with suspect Jesse Martinez,” the Los Angeles Times reported. The incident occurred December 17 around 9:45 a.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a press […]
Officials in Redondo Beach, California, are turning to tiny homes to help solve the city’s homelessness problem. The city’s homeless population is estimated to be less than 200, a small number compared to other cities in Southern California. However, officials are experimenting with ways to meet the growing need, ABC 7 reported Friday. “We have had an increasing homeless problem and we needed a solution,” Redondo […]
A gingerbread monolith resembling the metal ones previously seen around the world appeared in San Francisco’s Corona Heights Park on Christmas Day. “Instead of the shiny metal material, the mysterious object appears to be made of gingerbread. The monolith even has icing and gumdrops,” ABC 7 reported. However, it is unclear who placed it there or how long it will remain. Following the discovery, photographer Karl […]
A veteran and his family in Tarboro, North Carolina, settled into their mortgage-free home Wednesday thanks to two generous organizations. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Clint Myatt and his wife, Jacki, did not think homeownership was possible until they received the keys to the house donated by Wells Fargo and the Military Warriors Support Foundation, the Associated Press (AP) reported. But that was not the only surprise […]
A family in Elk Grove, California, got a huge surprise on Wednesday when a loved one who serves in the military returned home for the holidays. “Nineteen-year-old Matthew Esguerra has been away from home for six months, so he and his dad teamed up to surprise the whole family,” KSBW reported. Video footage showed the moment Esguerra’s dad gathered everyone for a picture, only to see […]
An Arkansas woman gave numerous shoppers a huge surprise at two Kroger grocery stores in Little Rock and North Little Rock on Tuesday. When Ashley Ann Jones learned about the long lines at food banks and the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on people’s jobs, she decided to do something to help, according to KNWA. “I was like, I’m going to buy groceries,” Jones said, adding, […]
Democrat Rita Hart is filing a notice of contest with the U.S. House of Representatives in Iowa’s District 2 election against her Republican opponent, Mariannette Miller-Meeks. In a press release posted on Twitter, Hart’s campaign said the notice will be filed Tuesday “outlining why Rita is the winner of this race.” “Further, the Notice explains why the House should count every legally cast ballot to guarantee fulfillment of […]
About 1,600 of Illinois’ Cook County employees joined a strike Tuesday amid a dispute regarding pandemic pay and their working conditions. “The Cook County Health workers, Sheriff’s office civilian employees, and Cook County Clerk’s office workers represented by SEIU Local 73 walked off the job at 6 a.m., accusing the county of walking out on negotiations,” CBS Chicago reported. In a statement, SEIU Local 73 president Dian […]
An unnamed person recently left a sparkling Christmas surprise inside a Salvation Army kettle in Tennessee. “According to the Salvation Army, a 1.81 carat antique diamond ring was dropped into a red kettle on December 10 in the Germantown area by an anonymous donor,” 5 News reported. Inside the bag with the ring was a note that said, “Help the poor.” In a Facebook post on […]
The family of an American college student jailed for reportedly violating coronavirus restrictions in the Cayman Islands is asking the Trump administration for help. “Skylar Mack, an 18-year-old pre-med student at Mercer University in Georgia, was sentenced to four months in prison after breaking her mandatory quarantine,” CBS News reported Monday. The young woman flew to Grand Cayman on November 27 and was ordered to quarantine […]
Residents on Hawaii’s Big Island were asked to stay indoors when the Kilauea volcano erupted Sunday during an explosion that shot ash into the sky. The explosion happened at the Halemaumau Crater following several weak earthquakes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and a 4.4 magnitude earthquake came shortly after the eruption, NBC News reported. “The agency added that significant damage to buildings or structures was not […]
Numerous Kentucky families will not have to worry about putting food on their tables for quite a while thanks to an anonymous person’s generous gift. “Santa Clause is known for delivering toys to children but in Daviess County he just dropped off 246,300 pounds (123 tons) of food for families struggling this holiday season,” the Kentucky State Police wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday: Secret Santa Filled […]
A fallen police officer’s family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, no longer have to worry about paying their mortgage thanks to a nonprofit’s gift. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation announced Saturday it paid off Sergeant Craig Johnson’s mortgage through its Fallen First Responder program, News On 6 reported. The 15-year Tulsa Police Department veteran was shot multiple times during a traffic stop in June and succumbed to his injuries […]
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) won a coveted seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday following a battle with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). “Rice and Ocasio-Cortez have been battling behind the scenes for weeks to secure one of the few open seats on the exclusive committee, which oversees everything from health care policy to climate issues,” Politico reported. The issue came to a head at […]
Walmart shoppers in Hazard, Kentucky, are feeling grateful that an anonymous donor gave them a huge surprise this week. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the store announced the benefactor paid off $21,000 worth of layaway bills for 96 families. “We would like to send out our heartfelt thanks to the anonymous donor that reached out through the Pay away the layaway organization to pay out the […]
A little boy fighting leukemia worked as Santa’s helper recently while waiting for his Make-a-Wish dream to come true in Stockton, California. On December 3, five-year-old Mateo gathered letters to Santa from people outside a Macy’s store and dropped them into a big red box labeled “Santa Mail,” according to CBS Sacramento. In his own note to Santa Claus, he asked for a toy. But part […]
Two suspects were arrested recently after allegedly killing a man and critically wounding his grandfather last month in North Carolina. “On Nov. 29, a 73-year-old North Carolina man and his 23-year-old grandson drove to Columbus County to buy a 2011 Chevy Camaro they’d spotted on Craigslist,” People reported on Tuesday. December 10, 20202nd ARREST IN SELLERS TOWN ROAD MURDER Whiteville, NC –Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Criminal… […]
Members of the Minneapolis City Council claimed this week that the group never said it would defund the police department. “‘Defund’ is not the framework the council has ever chosen,” Councilman Steve Fletcher told KSTP during a recent interview. “If we’re going to look at how we fund different programs, it would be very hard to do that without taking that money from the Minneapolis Police Department,” […]
Gov. Gina Raimondo (D-RI) is facing a backlash for a photo showing her at a wine and paint night after urging residents to avoid nonessential activities. “The picture, taken by Erica Oliveras last Friday, shows Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo sitting at table in Barnaby’s Public House in Providence without a mask,” Fox News reported Wednesday. However, Oliveras said she did not realize the criticism the photo […]
A secret Santa recently surprised a family living near Ashton, Idaho, with several gifts that will help them through the Christmas season. The anonymous benefactor has been handing out more than $500,000 in gifts to deserving community members with the help of a local news team, according to EastIdahoNews.com. Shanna and Brandon Wheeler have ten children, eight of whom are adopted and nine of them have […]
A Good Samaritan and several first responders saved a family whose car flipped and landed upside down in a canal in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday. Bodycam footage showed the moment Orlando Police Officer Mckenzie Greene saw the overturned car off of Lee Vista Boulevard, according to Fox 35. “It’s a 4-year-old baby, guys, a male and 4-year-old baby,” Greene said in describing the scene. “There was a 7 […]
Pornhub announced Sunday it suspended all videos not uploaded by verified users as part of a recent policy implementation. “The sweep appeared to affect the vast majority of Pornhub’s content — there were about 2.9 million videos on the platform as of midday Monday, down from roughly 13.5 million on Sunday afternoon, according to a counter displayed in the site’s search bar,” the New York Post reported. […]
An Army veteran and his family in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, will stay warm this winter thanks to a local business. Stewart Battle has been using space heaters to warm his house ever since his furnace quit working, according to WTAE. “Snuggled up with each other, blankets, doing school work, not only is it dangerous, it’s disheartening a little bit for me as a dad,” said Battle, a […]
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) filed a complaint Friday to the House Ethics Committee asking it to “immediately open an investigation” into allegations that suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang compromised Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). His complaint referred to an Axios report alleging that Fang became close to several politicians, including Swalwell, and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stepped into the situation, according to Fox News. […]
Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer will appear Sunday on conservative talk radio host Mark Levin’s television show, Life, Liberty, & Levin, to discuss his groundbreaking investigative research into the Biden family corruption. The one-hour episode will air at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on Fox News Channel. During his radio show on Thursday, Levin said Schweizer, the author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive […]
A convicted terrorist is now free and living in the United Kingdom after a judge agreed he was too obese to survive the Chinese coronavirus in jail. “Adel Abdel Bary, 60, had spent 21 years in a New Jersey prison for his role in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans,” the New York Post […]
A Vietnam War veteran finally received his long awaited high school diploma this week in Tucson, Arizona. State and school leaders cheered for Clyde “Rocky” Brown during the ceremony on Tuesday when he received his diploma thanks to a revamped Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services (AZDVS) program, according to KOLD. “I didn’t want to be left behind during wartime and wanted to help fight over there, to serve […]
Hundreds of customers got a sweet surprise last week in the drive-thru line at a Dairy Queen in Brainerd, Minnesota. When a man paid the check for the car behind him on December 3 at the restaurant located at 522 C Street Northeast, manager Tina Jensen could hardly believe what happened next, according to KARE 11. After she told the woman next in line what the […]
A homeowners association (HOA) recently told a family in Raleigh, North Carolina, to remove a cross from their home’s outdoor Christmas display. “James Faison and his wife have lived in their community for five years. This Christmas, they put up a six-foot cross in their yard,” ABC 13 reported. However, the HOA later sent them a letter saying it was not considered a Christmas decoration, but […]
“In rest of the state, indoor dining would be reduced to 25% capacity,” he continued. In a subsequent tweet, Cuomo said coronavirus hospitalizations are at 4,602, and “Of the 152,287 tests reported yesterday, 7,302 were positive (4.79% of total). Sadly, there were 80 fatalities”: Today’s update on the numbers: Total COVID hospitalizations are at 4,602. Of the 152,287 tests reported yesterday, 7,302 were positive (4.79% of total). […]
A man in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is using his talent for carpentry to help children doing their schoolwork at home. When Justin Foley heard a few months ago that students in his neighborhood needed somewhere to sit and learn online this year, he came up with an idea, according to NJ.com. “Just after talking with parents in the area, I know there are families that […]
San Francisco Mayor London Breed expressed regret this week for dining at a restaurant in November while telling residents to avoid social gatherings. “This criticism is fair. It doesn’t matter whether something is technically allowed or not–I need to hold myself to a higher standard and I will do better,” she wrote in a tweet Thursday: This criticism is fair. It doesn’t matter whether something is […]
President Trump said Saturday during a rally in Valdosta, Georgia, that he has worked harder in the past few weeks than he ever has in his life. “I thought we’re gonna easily win, and that maybe for the first time in a long time, I’d go take a nice little vacation for about two days and then we go back,” the president explained during the campaign […]
Austin, Texas, Mayor Steve Adler (D) is apologizing for traveling to Mexico after urging residents to stay home to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus. In a Facebook video posted Wednesday, Adler said following his daughter’s private wedding in Austin during the first week of November, a “small, mostly family group traveled to Mexico”: .@MayorAdler‘s full comments on Facebook Live tonight about his trip to […]
Canadian police officers stopped a church congregation from holding a drive-in worship service on Sunday morning in Manitoba. The Church of God Steinbach shared a video on Facebook showing officers blocking members from entering the church parking lot before the service began at 9:30 a.m., the Christian Post reported. However, cars lined up outside the lot to hear the pastor deliver his sermon from a stage […]
New York is preparing to recruit retired doctors and nurses to staff hospitals dealing with a surge in coronavirus cases, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Monday. The governor called it a “new phase in the war against COVID [Chinese coronavirus],” according to the New York Post, adding that daily hospitalizations across the state are almost quadruple what they were in June. Cuomo said every hospital in New […]
A wreck involving two vehicles decorated with American and pro-Trump flags and a third car occurred Saturday in Hermosa Beach, California. The incident took place at Seventh Street and Hermosa Avenue around five p.m. and halted all southbound traffic for quite a while, according to CBS Los Angeles. “Eyewitnesses tell us while they were stopped at an intersection — with both cars taking up the two lanes […]
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) claimed Saturday that no matter what President Donald Trump’s campaign does legally, it will not change the election’s outcome. When asked during an interview on CNN if he felt worried about the Trump campaign saying they will appeal a lawsuit dismissed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to the U.S. Supreme Court, Fetterman said “I hope they do”: I hope they do […]