Author: WNKY Staff

YouTube fined $170 Million for child privacy violations

(NBC News) YouTube has agreed to a $170 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General for illegally collecting information from minors without parental consent. Federal law protects children 12 and under from having their personal information collected online. The Federal Trade Commission found that YouTube and parent company Google violated that law by tracking children’s…

Hurricane proof parking?

(WPTV) Jessica and Patrick Eldridge were among the thousands of Jacksonville, Florida families who scrambled to prepare for Hurricane Dorian. That preparation includes parking their cars in a secure spot. The couple has a two-car garage and thee vehicles. With a sedan and a pickup truck in the garage, there wasn’t any room for Eldridge’s Smart Car. With no room…

Caught On Cam: Out-Of-Control Trailer Hits Firefighters

(KFOR) Officials with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol are releasing dashcam video in hopes that it teaches drivers to slow down on the road. On August 23rd, troopers were called to an accident near Stringtown. As troopers and firefighters with the Stringtown Fire Department were at the scene, a car pulling a U-Haul trailer spun out of control and slammed into…

Carolinas brace for Dorian

(NBC News) As Hurricane Dorian inches toward to the Atlantic coast, aerial images are revealing the devastation the storm left behind in the Bahamas. Piles of debris and concrete slabs are all that remain where many of the buildings on the island of Abaco once stood. At least seven people were killed there, and many more injured. The images serve…

Swifts swoop through Portland, Oregon

(KGW) Birds are the word in Portland, Oregon. Thousands of people recently filled the hillside at Chapman Elementary School to watch the migratory population of Vaux’s swifts fly out of the school’s chimney and swirl into the sky. Experts say the birds first came to Portland in the late 1980s, to claim a sleeping spot on their migration route to…