(NBC News) American women are having fewer babies according to a new report by the National Center for Health Statistics. It reveals in 2018 there were just over 3.7 million births, a 32 year low. “I think what we’re seeing is that there is a trend towards delayed child bearing,” says Cleveland Clinic maternal-fetal physician Dr. Jeff Chapa. Birth rates…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The husband of a popular former bar owner, pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree manslaughter in the Jan. 3, 2018 shooting death of his wife, Betty Lasley, who at that time was the former owner of her namesake pub, Betty’s Bar. Ernest Lasley, Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter for shooting his wife inside her 200 Shaker…
(WCSH) What lengths would you go through to get your pet back? A Bangor woman is taking it to the Maine Supreme Court. Jessica Sardina and Kelvin Liriano ended their relationship, and to distribute property, they went to court. During that hearing, the court ruled Liriano the owner of their dog, Honey. Sardina says the dog was as much hers…
Melissa Whitley from Hope Harbor joins us for a look at the success of this year’s Take Back the Night event. Take Back the Night is an annual international event with the mission to end sexual violence.
(WOAI) A service dog that spent time working for the military reunited with his former partner in San Antonio, Texas Tuesday. Marine Corporal Aaron Stice spent three years working with Kkeaton, the bomb-sniffing dog who kept him safe when he served as a military police officer at Camp Pendleton California. When Cpl. Stice was transferred to Lackland AFB to work…
(KARE) A Minnesota lawsuit, filed in federal court Tuesday, seeks to force the Vatican to release the names and files of all clergy worldwide accused of abuse. The plaintiffs are five men, all survivors of clergy abuse, including three brothers who say their abuser is former St. Paul priest, Curtis Wehmeyer. Luke, Stephen, and Ben Hoffman appeared at a news…
(KSNV/NBC News) A Las Vegas, Nevada woman is facing murder charges after pushing an elderly man off of a city bus. Police say 25-year-old Cadesha Bishop, pushed Serge Fournier, 74, off of the bus following an argument on March 21. Witnesses say Fournier had been asking Bishop to be nicer to the passengers before being pushed out the doors and…
(NBC News) AAA expects more than 40 million Americans to travel by plane, train or automobile this Memorial Day weekend. While some three million Americans will travel by air, 38 million are expected to drive, even though the cost of gas has gone up 30 cents over the past two weeks. As for traffic, AAA says drivers should watch the…
(WMC) A Tennessee man is facing charges after an 8-year-old accidentally shot his mother at a baseball game Tuesday night. The shooting happened at USA Baseball Stadium in Millington. Charles McFarland, 76, faces reckless endangerment charges. Police said the child found the gun inside McFarland’s vintage World War II Jeep, which was at the game as part of a Veterans…
(NBC News) The Alabama State Senate approved a bill Tuesday to outlaw nearly all abortions in the state. According to the measure, a doctor performing an abortion at nearly any stage of pregnancy could be charged with a felony and face 99 years in prison. There is one exception, though, and that’s for serious health risks to the mother. Critics…
