3 September 2024 Amanda Forrester / [email protected] According to experts, school closures caused by COVID-19 have had a negative impact on the reading skills of many students across Michigan. Third and fourth graders across the state took the M-STEP, a test that measures various learning outcomes. According to a press release from the Mackinac Center […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PATERSON, NJ) – As the search continued Sunday for a relative accused of stabbing a 4-year-old girl multiple times in the child’s New Jersey home, the young victim’s father said she is fighting for her life and the attack has left him “speechless.” The child remains in stable condition and is currently […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) – The two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing’s Starliner will have to return home on another spacecraft, NASA officials announced Saturday. Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who conducted the first manned test flight of the Starliner, will return with Space-X Crew […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) – After a nearly two-and-a-half-month manhunt, law enforcement officials have arrested fugitive Joshua Zimmerman, who has been on the run since escaping from the DeSoto County Circuit Court building in Mississippi on June 14. The United States Marshals Service said Zimmerman was arrested Wednesday morning following an overnight standoff at […]
WABC (NEW YORK) – Due to strong surf backwash from Hurricane Ernesto, several beaches in New York City will be closed over the weekend. The Category 1 storm made landfall in Bermuda early Saturday morning and slowly moved over the island throughout the day, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain. Despite being hundreds of miles […]
15 August 2024 Tom Tolen / [email protected] Despite its strategic location at the busy intersection of Main St. and Grand River in downtown Brighton, the CVS store in Brighton will close its doors next month. Shift manager Sherie Combs confirmed today that the company will permanently close on September 24. Employees were told they would […]
Russian Defense Ministry/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) – Ukraine is continuing to try to expand its surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. The Russian military reported several attempts by Ukrainian forces to push deeper into the region on Sunday evening. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the operation for the first time since it began six days […]
John Lamparski/Getty Images (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) – The sheriff of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois, which employed the former deputy accused of shooting Sonya Massey in her home after she called 911 to report a burglar, will retire later this month, he announced in a statement Friday. “As elected leaders, we must always put […]
