A person is dead following a call for a behavioral crisis in northeast Baltimore, police said. Police said around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, officers received a call for an assault and armed individual in the 6000 block of Alta Avenue.
Funchess was speaking to reporters Saturday when he told them he could tell when they were smiling under their masks because their eyes "go c----y."
R. Kelly's first trial on sex-trafficking charges gets underway in federal court with jury selection Monday in Brooklyn. It's expected to last a month.
"To watch someone suffer for weeks, unable to eat, unable to drink, struggling for every breath - it changes you."On the verge of tears, Nichole Atherton has reached her breaking point."Watching someone die, more than that: coding someone, doing chest compressions on someone, breaking their ribs - when you know there's no hope for them. You know if you get them back that all you're doing is delaying the inevitable. It feels like torturing people. I don't want to do that. I don't."The intensive care nurse watched helplessly last year as COVID-19 sufferers died in her Mississippi hospital - slowly, painfully and alone...Then in July she was again confronted with a wave of deathly ill patients.It's the deaths that stick with Atherton..... long after her shift ends."I see these people over and over again when I try and sleep, suffering, and I hear their last words. It's a big burden to bear to hear someone's last words."New daily coronavirus cases in the United States have hit a six-month high, with the seven-day average reaching nearly 95,000. That rate is five times higher than it was less than a month ago, according to Reuters data.Nurses and doctors on the frontlines of America's hospitals are once again getting worn down as the Delta variant spreads rapidly where vaccination rates are the lowest.Doctors, nurses and hospital leaders interviewed by Reuters in six states described a workforce that is depleted and demoralized by wards overflowing with mostly unvaccinated patients.Some, like Atherton, are turning to social media and finding other ways to speak out."It's frustrating to hear people call us heroes and thank us when that's great, and we appreciate that, but what we need is for people to wear masks and get vaccines. That's how we want to be thanked for fighting through this, is for people to protect themselves and protect us from it."
About 30 kilometres into the men's marathon in Sapporo on Sunday, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge pulled away from the pack and began running his own race, chasing immortality. "I wanted to create a space to show the world that this is a beautiful race," Kipchoge said after winning gold. He began to smile as marathon-mad Japanese fans, who defied Olympic organisers' request to stay away due to COVID-19, lined up the streets of Sapporo and cheered him on to the finish line.
South Dakota's annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally kicked off Friday, with at least 700,000 people expected to descend on the state during the 10-day rendezvous for bikers and motorcyclists, AP reports.Flashback: Hundreds of rallygoers were infected last year at Sturgis, accounting for 19% of all new cases in the U.S. for a monthlong period, Axios' Caitlin Owens reports.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeThe big picture: This year's ev
A 53-year-old South Carolina woman has been arrested after the woman she was caring for was found dead
The bars appear on a new track titled "Nobody" where the hip-hop icon keeps it all the way real about the state of Hip-Hop.
The backlog of heart patients is set to take five years to clear, with thousands at risk of dying from treatable conditions, health experts have warned.
The head of the American Federation of Teachers told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that the union's leadership should consider implementing a vaccine mandate for teachers in schools.Why it matters: The move would mark a policy reversal from last October, when the union allowed vaccinations on a voluntary basis. AFT President Randi Weingarten called the Delta variant of the virus "alarming" and voiced concern for children who cannot yet be vaccinated. Stay on top of the latest market trends an
As reported by Deadline, Markie Post—best known for roles on Night Court and The Fall Guy, as well as an appearance in There’s Something About Mary—has died. The news was confirmed by her manager, and it comes nearly four years after Post was diagnosed with cancer. She was 70.
Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty ImagesMuch writing on Russia stems from a simple proposition: to understand autocracy, you need understand the autocrat. Because autocrats have an outsize influence on politics, it is essential to know what makes the leader tick. A Putin adviser coined the memorable phase “No Putin, No Russia,” but for many Western observers, “Know Putin, Know Russia” might be more appropriate.As a never-ending stream of profiles suggest, Putinology makes great copy. Who doesn’t lov
The Obamas rang in Barack's 60th birthday at their Martha's Vineyard home with an outdoor party for about 200 close friends and family, including Gayle King, John Legend, H.E.R., and Erykah Badu
Due to the surge in the COVID-19 Delta variant and updated guidance on masks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several retailers are reverting to requiring masks. Many of these...
The 1979 case of a murdered 18-year-old baffled local police officers for decades, until they got a break from evidence Michelle Martinko left behind.
Eric Ulis began search near spot where skyjacker is believed to have buried wads of cash after parachuting out a half century ago DB Cooper sketch. Photograph: AP An amateur crime historian has begun a two-day search along Washington’s Columbia River, close to a spot where notorious skyjacker DB Cooper is believed by some to have buried wads of cash after parachuting out of the back of a Boeing 727 half a century ago. Eric Ulis began the dig to looking for a parachute and briefcase on Friday, wo
At 5, Joshlyn Johnson was going to school, being a big sister to her 3-year-old brother Larry and living happily, relatives said, in Dayton, Ohio, with their mother and the couple they called Papa and Nana. James Phillips and his wife, Evelyn Phillips-Simon, had themselves raised the children’s mother, their niece Dachelle Johnson, from the time she was 7, away from her family in Baltimore. ...
A Washington state inmate was sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison after he murdered his sister's rapist who was housed in the same cell.
A Burgerville branch in Lents, Portland, will temporarily close its doors, citing crime and vandalism around the storefront.
An off-the-grid New Hampshire hermit known to locals as “River Dave,” whose cabin burned down on the wooded property where he was squatting for 27 years, says he's grateful and overwhelmed by fundraising efforts and offers for a place to live. “I feel about as good as I ever have in my life," David Lidstone 81, said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, saying he has many friends. Lidstone lived in the woods along the Merrimack River in the town of Canterbury.
Video shows EasyJet passengers vocally opposing the removal of two men on a flight to Spain, telling them "no, don't get off" and "sit down."
