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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency on Wednesday night after remnants of Hurricane Ida touched down in the city, brining heavy rain and flash flooding. Hurricane Ida also hit other parts of the state, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Nearly 30,000 people are without power in New York while over 80,000 are in the dark in […]
One student was killed in a shooting at a North Carolina high school on Wednesday, ABC News reports. The shooter, who is believed to be a classmate, is still at large, according to police. William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Miller Jr. was transported to Atrium Health Wake […]
A gay couple in Nashville has put the owner of a wedding venue on blast after she denied hosting their ceremony, TMZ reports. Mike Gill and his partner, Coty, shared emails from Jackie Daniel, the owner of Barn in the Bend in Nashville, Tennessee, in which she discriminates against the couple because of their sexual orientation. In a bizarre email exchange, the couple […]
A security guard at a Miami-Dade middle school has been arrested after cameras captured him punching a student. NBC Miami reports that Antwan Ruffin, 40, was arrested last week at Horace Mann Middle School in El Portal, Florida, on charges of child abuse without great bodily harm and battery. According to police, Ruffin “wilfully and intentionally punched (the victim) […]
A raging wildfire approached Lake Tahoe this week and has forced a mass evacuation of nearby California communities. The Caldor fire has already burned for 191,000 acres, the BBC reports, as more than 3,500 firefighters have been deployed to stop the two-week-old fire. More than 700 properties have been damaged or destroyed, as the 22,000 residents South Lake Tahoe, which […]
An 11-month-old female cougar that (for now) weighs roughly 80-pounds was taken out of a New York City apartment last week after its owners gave it up to the authorities. The animal, whose nickname is Sasha, was surrendered on Thursday according to a release from Kelly Donithan, the director of animal disaster response for the Humane Society […]
This week, the San Antonio Zoo will become one of the zoos in the country that will begin administering its animals a COVID-19 vaccine to protect them from the virus. According to Chron, the zoo will be working in conjunction with Zoetis, an animal health company that donated the vaccines to them. In a statement from Zoetis, […]
An Instagram user who went by the handle @AntiVaxMomma has been charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office after selling about 250 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to health care workers. Jasmine Clifford, 31, of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, has been charged with selling fake cards, while 27-year-old Nadayza Barkley of Bellport, New York, has been charged with entering […]
Multiple states are currently struggling to keep pace with COVID-19 cases, with five now reported to have less than 10 percent of their ICU beds left. The latest data from the Department of Health and Human Services, as spotted by Madeline Holcombe for CNN on Tuesday, shows that the following states are nearly out of […]
Police say a shooting that saw a Melbourne, Florida barber shop owner pulling the trigger on a customer may have been sparked by the customer (who was wounded, by the way) being upset about a past haircut. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon when a masked gunman entered the shop and reportedly pointed his firearm at several […]
