Author: WNKY Staff

CA: Santa Anita races continue amid horse deaths

(CNN) Arcadia, CA – Santa Anita park’s biggest day of racing went off without any injuries. It comes after arms runner had to be euthanized last Sunday after he tripped and fell with another horse. For Theresa Richards and Michael Hearn – attending the park’s flagship derby day is a family tradition. “I’ve been bringing her for about 10,12 years….

E-sports & health: gamers as athletes

(NBC News) Hospitals are known to partner with professional sports teams to care for their athletes, and now major medical centers are allocating resources for professional video game players as well. Reid Hill, known in the gamer world as “Reizey,” is with Magic Gaming, Orlando’s professional NBC 2K League. “Even though it is a video game, it’s still pretty draining…

Living With Autism

(KPRC) Marshall Jones is 14 years old. He likes making lattes, wearing bow ties…and he’s autistic. When asked what he wants other kids with autism to know, he says, “You don’t have to struggle with your life if you can’t work your brain out.” He explains he sometimes gets frustrated when he can’t do something. His mother, Lynn Clouser, focuses…

Lullabies Help NICU Babies Heal

(KING) A special program at the University of Washington Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit is helping heal premature babies while comforting parents. Little Kassie Turner spent the first 53 days of her life in the NICU. Complications with the pregnancy threatened both Kassie and her mother’s life. She was born at 28 weeks and barely weighed 2 pounds. “I…

Robotics Team To The Rescue!

(KARE) In need of a costly power wheelchair for their son, the parents of 2-year-old Cillian Jackson turned to an unlikely source. Teenagers. Thanks to the robotics team at Minnesota’s Farmington High School, Cillian now has his ride – a functioning power wheelchair hand-built from a Power Wheels riding toy. “These kids took time out of their busy schedules to…

Brother’s Bone Marrow Saves Siblings

(WESH) The Aihe family is especially tight-knit, and for good reason. The youngest of three siblings, 8-year-old Stefan, donated his bone marrow to his big brother, 22-year-old Kingsley, and his sister, 13-year-old Vanessa. The older children were born with sickle cell disease, a deadly illness that decreases blood and oxygen flow throughout the body and can be excruciating to live…

ATF offers reward for info on Hopkinsville explosion

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a reward up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the explosion that occurred in Hopkinsville Wednesday. At about 1 a.m. Wednesday, near Nelson Drive, in Hopkinsville, an unknown person or people used a device that caused the explosion of a white 2019 Ford…