Author: NBC News

Decision 2020: Coronavirus Looms Large
Decision 2020, Politics

Decision 2020: Coronavirus Looms Large

With just days to go before the 2020 election, surging coronavirus cases have put the pandemic front and center on the campaign trail. NBC's Alice Barr reports.
NBC News,

(NBC News) — The presidential campaigns head west Wednesday, vying for Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. Polls are tight in Arizona, as well as other battleground states. Joe Biden is also making a bid for red-state Texas, a huge haul with 38 delegates, that now appears to be in reach. “In Texas, we have a shot,” Biden told supporters. He’s also…

Living Among The Ashes: Fire Survivors Wait For Cleanup
National News

Living Among The Ashes: Fire Survivors Wait For Cleanup

Just a handful of residents still have a home in Oregon's Talent Mobile Estates after the Almeda Fire burned over 2,800 structures across three towns and killed 2 people. KOBI's Amanda Rose reports.
NBC News,

ALAMEDA, Ore. (NBC News) — Joseph Powell wakes up to a view of the devastation left by Oregon’s “Alameda” wildfire every morning. “It’s just really sad. You have to really experience it to understand it, but it’s really sad,” Powell says. His home is one of the few left standing at the Talent Mobile Estates. Roughly 10 remain in the…

Together Again: Coronavirus Survivors Reunite
Coronavirus, Kentucky News

Together Again: Coronavirus Survivors Reunite

Charles and Nellie Anness have spent most of the past 71 years together, but were forced to enter separate hospitals after falling ill with COVID-19. Now, they're together again. WLEX's Michael Berk reports.
NBC News,

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX/NBC News) — Coronavirus has claimed more than 228,000 American lives, and it’s been especially hard on the elderly. Still, it’s been no match for Charles and Nellie Anness of Lexington, Kentucky. The pair have been married 71-years, with little time apart. That’s why it was especially hard for them when they both contracted coronavirus and had to…

"i Just Want To Vote" Texas Woman Casts Ballot From Ambulance
National News, Politics

“I Just Want To Vote” – Texas Woman Casts Ballot From Ambulance

Janelle Crenshaw always votes in person...even after passing out in line while waiting to cast her ballot. KAGS' Tristan Lewis reports.
NBC News,

(KAGS/NBC News) — A Texas woman made sure her voice was heard this election, no matter what circumstances she was under. “The greatest and most important duty as an American in this great country is to vote,” says 74-year-old Janelle Crenshaw. Crenshaw always votes in person. She went to the Brazos County Administration Building in Bryan to cast her ballot…

Body Washes Ashore On Maryland Beach
National News

Body Washes Ashore On Maryland Beach

Police in Ocean City are working to identify the man found in the surf early Tuesday morning. WRDE's Mallory Metzner reports.
NBC News,

OCEAN CITY, Md. (WRDE/NBC News) — Police in Ocean City, Maryland are investigating after a body was reported in the surf around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Ocean City Police Department says a public works crew was surveying the beach due to the recent oil spill in Delaware when they spotted the body and called 911. At least…

Two Dead In Tennessee School Bus Crash
National News

Two Dead In Tennessee School Bus Crash

A school bus driver and 7-year-old girl were killed and several more people were severely injured when a utility truck crossed veered into oncoming traffic in Decatur Tuesday evening. WRCB's Meredith Landis reports.
NBC News,

DECATUR, Tenn. (WRCB/NBC News) — Two people were killed in a crash involving a Tennessee school bus Tuesday afternoon. Several agencies responded to the scene on Highway 58 in Decatur. Investigators say a utility truck veered off the highway, overcorrected and turned into the path of the oncoming bus. The female bus driver and a 7-year old girl were killed….

Searching For Missouri's "ghost Candidate"
National News, Politics

Searching for Missouri’s “Ghost Candidate”

NBC News,

(KOMU/NBC News) Missouri Democrats are expressing concern over a possible “ghost candidate” on the ballot ahead of next Tuesday’s vote. Megan Rezabek, a political newcomer, defeated fellow Democrat Dennis Oglesby in the Third Congressional District primary election in August by extraordinary margins, earning nearly 70 percent of the vote. Despite this massive victory, Oglesby says she did very little to…

Violent Protests Follow Philadelphia Police Shooting
National News

Violent protests follow Philadelphia police shooting

NBC News,

(NBC News) Violence erupted in Philadelphia Monday evening following the fatal police shooting of a man armed with a knife. Dozens of arrests were made and 30 officers injured in the unrest that followed the shooting. A witness captured that confrontation on cell phone video. NBC News cannot verify what occurred before or after the events shown in the video….

Decision 2020: One Week To Go
Decision 2020, Politics

Decision 2020: One Week To Go

With just seven days to go, Joe Biden ventured to Georgia, a state Democrats haven't won since 1992, while President Trump traveled to Michigan and Wisconsin, attempting to hold two states he won in 2016. NBC's Alice Barr reports.
NBC News,

(NBC News) — With just one week to go until election day Democratic Nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump set a frenzied pace on the campaign trail Tuesday, with both candidates and their surrogates criss-crossing battleground states from Maine to Nevada. Biden was on offense, with two events in Georgia, which hasn’t elected a Democrat for president since 1992….

Connect with News 40

Download the WNKY News 40 Weather App