A college professor, whose rhetoric had been labeled "vile" and "hateful" by his university, died from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said Monday.New Hanover County Sheriff's deputies were asked to check on University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Mike Adams, who hadn't been heard from or seen in a few days."Once they were able to gain access…
Posted: Sun 1:11 PM, Jul 05, 2020  |  Updated: Sun 1:16 PM, Jul 05, 2020 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The State of Alaska has announced 27 new positive cases of COVID-19 in Alaska among residents. An additional five new reported cases are from non-residents. No new deaths have been reported. To date 16 Alaskans have…
New York City will be under curfew tonight at 11 p.m. ET until 5 a.m., Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today. After a weekend of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, that sometimes broke into violent confrontations between police and protestors, the curfew was largely expected, with both Cuomo…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a curfew for downtown L.A. tonight, after days of unrest across the city over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The curfew begins at 8 p.m. and goes until 5:30 a.m. Sunday, in an area surrounded by the “four freeways.” Garcetti said in a hastily organized news…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Leaders of some of the most locked-down states have volunteered to take pay cuts as residents find themselves without paychecks because of coronavirus, while others like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy appear to have…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…