Joshua Nelson landed a full-ride scholarship to Southeast Missouri State University. Now the Missouri native wants to pay it forward by donating his college savings to another high school senior.Nelson, a senior at St. Charles West High School, was one…
Two wildfires in Arizona have prompted evacuations and scorched more than 6,000 acres amid hot, dry and windy conditions.A brush fire that broke out Friday east of Phoenix, Arizona, has grown to 2,650 acres, according to the state Department of…
When Alaina E. Roberts started piecing her family's history together she made a surprising discovery that changed what it meant to be a Black American.Her father's ancestors in Oklahoma were once enslaved by Native Americans.Nearly a century before Tulsa's Greenwood…
A female driver was shot and taken to the hospital after a verbal altercation with a male driver near Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday evening, police said in a news release.A preliminary investigation found that the woman was…
As protesters take to the streets to fight for racial equality in the United States, experts in digital technology are quietly tackling a lesser known but related injustice.It's called techno-racism. And while you may not have heard of it, it's…
Laverne Delgado is spending Mother's Day weekend crisscrossing Los Angeles with bags full of personal care items for single moms who've fallen on tough times.Her raw empathy has taken her from Pasadena to Skid Row, visiting transitional homes for mothers…
A Florida school principal did not commit a crime when she paddled a 6-year-old girl on the buttocks, as she appeared to have been asked by the child's mother to discipline the girl, according to a review by the state…
Several weeks after world health officials declared the coronavirus a pandemic, 40-year-old Sheri McCaskill decided to apply to a master's program in public health.The decision, McCaskill said, stemmed partly from the sudden heightened awareness about the importance of public health…
She stands with open arms atop a mountain ridge on the continental divide overlooking Butte, Montana."Our Lady of the Rockies," the fourth tallest statue in the United States, began as one man's desperate prayer. It's now a shrine to mothers…
A rare lobster almost ended up as someone's dinner at a Red Lobster restaurant in Virginia before employees recognized its uniqueness and rescued it.The male calico lobster, named Freckles by the Red Lobster team in Manassas, arrived at the restaurant…
Two women and a 4-year-old girl, believed to be innocent bystanders, were wounded in a shooting at New York's Times Square on Saturday, according to New York police.Shots rang out at about 4:55 p.m. near 45th Street and 7th Avenue,…
Four-year-old Noah Ruiz loves two things: Popsicles and SpongeBob.And when he discovered both objects of his passion had been combined into one fruity and delicious icy treat, he did the only sensible thing: he ordered them.To be exact, he ordered…
Three people are dead and another was injured in a shooting and fire at a townhome Saturday morning just outside Baltimore, officials said.Police and fire crews responded to calls of "an active fire, as well as an active shooter" around…
A Miami-Dade police lieutenant and former high-ranking union member has been charged with sexual battery and was booked into Palm Beach County Jail on Friday, according to police.John Jenkins Jr. has been "relieved of his official duties as a Miami-Dade…
It appears that Aubrey Plaza has married her longtime boyfriend, director Jeff Baena.Plaza, 36, known for playing April Ludgate on the NBC comedy series "Parks and Recreation," referred to Baena, 43, as her husband for the first time on Instagram…
Members of George Floyd's family on Saturday praised the news that four former Minneapolis police officers will face federal charges in connection to his death, saying they were "very grateful."Floyd's nephew Brandon Williams said during a news conference held not…
Olivia and Liam were America's most popular names for baby girls and boys in 2020, according to the Social Security Administration's annual list of top baby names, released on Friday.In 2020, the top three most popular female and male names…
Attorneys for the family of a North Carolina man fatally shot by deputies have called for a local district attorney to recuse himself from the case, citing "well-defined" conflicts between the prosecutor and the sheriff's office.Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally…
"Courage over oppression" is the message the Louisiana Office of Tourism is pressing into with the installation of historical markers memorializing significant locations that were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement around the state.Similar to the US project of the…
