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Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WRAL) -- State lawmakers are debating whether the state should be able to require masks in schools.Rep. David Willis, R-Union, stripped out language related to occupational therapists from Senate Bill 173…
Click here for updates on this story ELMIRA, New York (WENY) -- Every now and then, the CDC publishes reports of people developing extremely rare conditions after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. After getting vaccinated, one local man was diagnosed with a…
Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) -- IKEA Atlanta is responding after employees told CBS46 Monday that the Atlanta-based store created a menu to honor Juneteenth, with items like fried chicken and watermelon.The menu sparked outrage among employees…
Deborah Roberts grew up in a family of gun owners. But it wasn't until March this year that the 68-year-old finally pulled the trigger and purchased her own firearm."I think the rhetoric and how things are stirred up in the…
The Amazon rainforest may be headed for another devastating fire season. After a destructive 2020 and with drought conditions in Brazil, the forest has rarely been drier than it is right now.Here's what you need to know to Get Up…
The Amazon rainforest may be headed for another devastating fire season. After a destructive 2020 and with drought conditions in Brazil, the forest has rarely been drier than it is right now.Here's what you need to know to Get Up…
The New York Police Department's 46th Precinct, covering the South Bronx, was once known as the most dangerous square mile in America. Though not near the rate of the early 1990s, crime in New York City is spiking once again.…
When eight girls from the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch were killed in a crash in Alabama Saturday, they were taken from the sense of family and community many of them had long been searching for.The ranch provides a home for…
Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) -- Firefighters rescued a woman stuck in her car underneath a fallen tree Sunday morning.It happened in the morning during the wind and rain off Hollowell Parkway near Eugenia Place."I was laying…
Joel Gilmore is wise beyond his years. When the salutatorian for the Lower Richland High School Class of 2021 took the stage before his classmates and family, he spoke with the confidence of a man who has been through a…
You can't tell by looking at him, but retired Staff Sgt. Wesley Black is about to die. He's just 35 years old.And today he's having what he calls a good day."I could be dead tomorrow. I could live another six…
The heat is finally off for the southwestern US, which will cool down this week after a wave of record-breaking temperatures.Here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.(You can also get "5…
As Americans continue to come out of coronavirus isolation and states lift restrictions on gatherings, shootings continue to plague the nation, with 10 mass shootings occurring in the US since Friday night.Seven people were killed and at least 45 were…
A volunteer working with New York mayoral candidate Eric Adams' campaign was stabbed in the Bronx on Sunday, Adams tweeted Sunday evening."This violence must stop," he wrote, adding police are investigating the situation.The victim, a 42-year-old male, was stabbed "multiple…
Authorities say the incident in which two pedestrians were hit by a truck at a Pride parade near Miami Saturday -- leaving one dead and the other injured -- was a "tragic accident" and not an intentional act.The 77-year-old driver…
Juneteenth is the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. African Americans and others mark the anniversary much like the Fourth of July, with parties, picnics and gatherings with family and friends.Juneteenth was signed into law as a…
The family of a Utah teen with Down syndrome says they're grateful for the support she's received from friends and the community after she wasn't included in the cheerleading team photo used in her school's yearbook.Morgyn Arnold, 14, was the…
Dr. Michael Saag normally cares for Covid-19 patients, but early in the pandemic, he became a patient. Now, he has joined the ranks with lingering symptoms from a condition doctors are still trying to understand.In Saag's case, Covid-19 was never…
About 50 officers assigned to the Portland police department's crowd control team resigned one day after one of the team's officers was indicted for allegedly using his department-issued baton to assault a protester last summer.The wholesale resignation of the police…
The West is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave this week, as all-time records were shattered and daily records broken in over a dozen states.Even by desert standards, the heat wave in the Southwest is atypical. On Thursday,…
