(NBC News) Widespread flooding has millions on edge across the Midwest. Dam failures in Michigan overnight forced more than 10,000 people to evacuate their homes…a hardship compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s hard to believe we are in the midst of a 100-year crisis and global pandemic, we are also dealing with a flooding event, the worst in 500 years,”…
(KYTV/NBC News) — A Missouri man was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday for fatally stabbing an 81-year-old woman nearly three decades ago. The execution of 64-year-old Walter “Arkie” Barton was the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Barton had long maintained he was innocent of stabbing Gladys Kuehler some 50 times in her Ozark home….
VALE, N.C. (NBC News) — Tables were full at Mitchem’s Kitchen in Vale, North Carolina Monday night. In a defiance of the governor’s executive order stating North Carolina restaurants can be take-out or delivery only, owner and Lincoln County commission chair Carrol Mitchem opened for full service. “I felt like it was time for someone to take a stand,” Mitchem…
(WLWT/NBC News) — The search for a missing Ohio teen entered its third day Tuesday. Maddie Bell, 18, was last seen leaving her house around 10:00 Sunday morning. “She just yelled, ‘Mom, I’m going tanning,’” said her mother, Melissa Bell. “She always comes right back. She’s not one to be a minute late without calling or texting or letting me…
(KULR/NBC News) — Yellowstone National Park opened to visitors Monday for the first time since the park shutdown in late March. Only entrances to Wyoming were open, however. park officials are still planning with Montana and Idaho to open other entrances when those states allow. Park officials say the number of visitors coming into Yellowstone’s east entrance in Wyoming was…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX/CNN) — Four cheerleading coaches with the University of Kentucky have been fired from the program after a three-month investigation found they failed to provide reasonable oversight during off-campus events. Head Coach Jomo Thompson and Assistant Coaches Ben Head, Spencer Clan, and Kelsey LaCroix are no longer with the program. The university says they did not take action…
(WPTZ/NBC News) The Wools of Burlington, Vermont are a tennis family. “It brings us together because we always have a place to go. We are always going outside, getting active together, doing something that we lover together,” says Ruby Wool, a Burlington High School varsity tennis player. Tennis is a great way to enjoy the outdoors, but it’s difficult to…
(NBC News) The march toward reopening is picking up pace, with nearly every U.S. state loosening COVID-19 restrictions to some degree. Many restaurants and bars saw crowds outside this weekend, and beaches were packed from coast to coast. Still, top experts warn it may be happening too soon. “When you interact with people – its a simple fact – that…
(NBC News) Federal investigators say they now have clear evidence Al Qaeda was involved in the December shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Station. “We know for example that he was sharing plans and tactics with them,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said of the gunman. “We know that he was coordinating with them and providing an opportunity for them to take…
(KARE) The weather fit his mood. “Yeah, not much good news,” Jeff Nelson said as he stood beneath his open garage door at his Brooklyn Park, Minnesota home looking out at Sunday’s all-day downpour. “It doesn’t leave much to do,” he added. Jeff might have been talking about rain, or more likely, the drought in graduation parties. The man Anoka…
