Southwest pulls threat of furloughs after relief bill signed
DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says it’s not going to furlough workers in 2021 after all. The airline’s CEO says that with Washington’s approval of $15 billion in new federal aid to airlines,...
View ArticleTwo people injured and one killed in Dallas crash
Dallas, Texas – A 55-year-old man was killed and two other people were injured in a crash after a driver ran a red light, Dallas police say. The crash happened around midnight Monday at the...
View ArticleHouse backs increasing coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill Monday evening to increase direct coronavirus relief payments to some people to $2,000, though the measure faces an uphill...
View Articlefire at Black church in Massachusetts being investigated as arson ‘Highly...
A “highly suspicious” overnight fire at a Black church in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Monday is being investigated by local and federal authorities. Firefighters responded to a call at the Martin...
View ArticleNearly 200 active COVID-19 cases among inmates at Forrest City prison
FORREST CITY, Ark. (WMC) – According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, there are currently 193 active COVID-19 cases among inmates at the Forrest City medium-security prison. There are 99 inmates with...
View ArticleMass Shooting Kills 220+ People in Western Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the death toll from a mass shooting attack in the west of the country last Wednesday has surpassed 220 people, according to humanitarian workers. The Ethiopian military killed dozens of...
View ArticleJermaine Dupri’s Call for More Police Profiling Following the Shooting Death...
Last week, Kennedy Marie, a 7-year-old girl, was hit in the head by a stray bullet in Atlanta’s Buckhead district, and she succumbed to her injury on the day after Christmas. The devasting news...
View ArticlePetition To Fire Keller Police Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Man Reaches...
A petition to fire the two Keller police officers who handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a man who was filming the detention of his son has more than 20,000 signatures as of Tuesday. On Aug. 15, two...
View ArticleFamily of 14-year-old shot in face by Duke Webb at Illinois bowling alley...
14-year-old Prentiss Wynn was shot in the face by Duke Webb at Don Carter Lanes and is still in the care of doctors. His sister tells us his ‘fight or flight’ instincts kicked in and are part of the...
View ArticleMcConnell blocks Senate Democrats’ move to pass $2,000 coronavirus checks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday shot down a Democratic bid to answer President Donald Trump’s call for increased direct coronavirus payments to Americans, but the measure’s ultimate...
View ArticleMaster P and former NBA player Baron Davis are in talks to buy Reebok for...
Rapper Master P and former NBA player Baron Davis are in talks to buy shoe company Reebok for some $2.4 billion. The pair have entered into negotiations with parent company Adidas to acquire the...
View ArticleJanet Hubert slams Lori Loughlin prison release: ‘to be white, blonde and...
Hubert took exception to Loughlin only spending barely two months in prison for her crime Lori Loughlin was released from prison after serving almost two months for her part in a college admissions...
View ArticleJoe Clark, Paterson, New Jersey’s “Principled Principal,” Has Passed Away
PATERSON, N.J., Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding Principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods at...
View ArticleFriends, Family Believe Transgender Woman Found Shot To Death In East Chatham...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A transgender woman was shot and killed in East Chatham on Christmas Day, and her family and friends spoke out Monday only to CBS 2. They told CBS 2’s Tara Molina her homicide is a...
View ArticleLeBron James, Naomi Osaka Named Associated Press Male and Female Athletes of...
During a year that’s presented an endless succession of unprecedented challenges, LeBron James and Naomi Osaka dug deep and still managed to dominate both on and off the court, and for their...
View ArticleNashville Christmas bomber’s girlfriend warned he was building explosives
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police that he was building bombs in...
View ArticleBlack man in New Jersey misidentified by facial recognition tech and falsely...
A New Jersey man sued police and prosecutors, claiming he was wrongly arrested and jailed after facial recognition software mistakenly linked him to a hotel theft. Nijeer Parks, 33, a Black man from...
View ArticleLouisville Police To Fire 2 More Officers Involved In Death Of Breonna Taylor
Two police officers who were part of the raid that ended with the shooting and death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, are reportedly being terminated by the Louisville Metro Police...
View ArticleNYPD claim they have Identified Karen Who Falsely Accused Black Teen Of...
The woman who attained viral infamy this week for falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her iPhone has been identified by the NYPD, according to a police spokesperson, and could face charges...
View ArticleAdolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quinones, Pioneering Hip-Hop Dancer and ‘Breakin’ Star,...
Adolfo Quinones, better known as “Shabba-Doo,” the pioneering hip-hop dancer and one of the stars of the film “Breakin,’” has died. He was 65. Shabba-Doo was one of the members of the dance crew The...
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