Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84. Everly died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to his attorney and family spokesperson Linda Edell Howard. His brother, Phil Everly,… Read More
Nevada schools close early due to wildfire smoke
All K-12 schools in the Reno-Sparks area will be closed on Monday due to wildfire smoke that the Washoe County School District said made the air quality hazardous. Smoke blowing over from the Dixie and Caldor fires in neighboring California has blanketed Northern Nevada on and off for weeks, leaving… Read More
Henri continues across Northeast, threatens inland floods
The slow and sprawling storm system named Henri drenched much of the inland Northeast with rain Monday, hampering cleanup efforts and threatening further flooding in areas with ground already saturated from a wet summer. Rains from the storm, which spared coastal areas of New York and New England major damage… Read More
US regulators give full approval to Pfizer vaccine
The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday, a milestone that could boost public confidence in the shots and spur more companies, universities and local governments to make vaccinations mandatory. The Pentagon immediately announced it will press ahead with plans to require members of the military to get… Read More
Jesse Jackson rushed to hospital on Saturday
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized for coronavirus disease on Saturday, along with his wife Jacqueline Brown Jackson. The two of them were “responding positively to treatments” for the virus, one of their children told The Associated Press on Sunday. Does zinc actually work? Shocking study… [Sponsored] As of Sunday… Read More
Flooding in Tennessee leaves 22 dead, many missing
At least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee. Saturday’s flooding in rural areas took out roads, cellphone towers and telephone lines, leaving families uncertain about… Read More
US schools now faced with bus driver shortage, other challenges
A Montana school district is dangling $4,000 bonuses and inviting people to test drive big yellow school buses in hopes of enticing them to take a job that schools are struggling to fill as kids return to in-person classes. A Delaware school district offered to pay parents $700 to take… Read More
Filly escapes racetrack, runs on Kentucky highway
A 2-year-old filly got loose before a race at a Kentucky track and ran onto a highway alongside cars before being apprehended Saturday. The filly named Bold and Bossy got loose on her way to the starting gate at Ellis Park. Jockey Miguel Mena was thrown off. Little Deadly Pill… Read More
Hurricane Henri overwhelms Northeast with floods, power outages
The slow-rolling system named Henri is taking its time drenching the Northeast with rain, lingering early Monday atop a region made swampy by the storm’s relentless downpour. Henri, which made landfall as a tropical storm Sunday afternoon in Rhode Island, has moved northwest through Connecticut. It hurled rain westward far… Read More
Navy vet convicted in gruesome killing of four
A jury found a chiropractor and Navy veteran guilty Friday in the gruesome killings of four people at a North Dakota property management firm two years ago. Jurors returned guilty verdicts on all counts against Chad Isaak, who was charged in the April 1, 2019, deaths of RJR Maintenance &… Read More
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