Time's Up launched #TIMESUPGlobes Friday, alongside a graphic that reads, "Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Not a Single Black Member Out of 87."
The governor of Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, decreed a 24-hour lockdown for all but essential services on Friday to curb a worsening COVID-19 outbreak that has filled its intensive care wards to the brim. The drastic step came as right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the gravity of the pandemic that has killed 250,000 Brazilians, renewed his attacks on state governors for destroying jobs with lockdowns. "The lockdown will start today and be total, it will be 24-hours a day," said a press aide for the federal district's Governor Ibaneis Rocha.
Frank Kaminsky (Phoenix Suns) with a buzzer beater vs the Chicago Bulls, 02/26/2021
Feb. 26—Katey Blair said her late husband would have been very humbled being honored by the Muskogee Rotary Club. Former Rotarians Jim Paul Blair and B.P. "Sud" Sudberry III were honored posthumously Thursday. Katey Blair accepted the honor for her husband, former executive director of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame who died Feb. 11, 2020. She was presented a Paul Harris Fellowship on behalf ...
Top assists from Chicago Bulls vs. Phoenix Suns, 02/26/2021
Whitehall Township Police are investigating a shooting Friday at a Lehigh County Walmart that left two people injured. The incident happened just before 6 p.m. on the 2600 block of MacArthur Road.
The California-based brokerage has held talks in the past week with underwriters about moving forward with a filing within weeks, Bloomberg said. Robinhood did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters reported last year that Robinhood has picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc to lead preparations for an initial public offering which could value it at more than $20 billion.
Feb. 26—THUMBS UP to everyone who assisted with the search for a McIntosh County teenager who went missing Monday. Some of those involved include Federal Bureau of Investigation, Muskogee Nation Lighthorse, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and more. Ethan McIntosh, 13, was reported missing after being last seen around 5:45 p.m. Monday, and multi-agency searches overnight were ...
Deandre Ayton (Phoenix Suns) with a dunk vs the Chicago Bulls, 02/26/2021
Feb. 26—NEW ALBANY — A small family business is shutting its doors after 96 years in downtown New Albany. Star Cleaners, a dry cleaning business that opened in 1925, is closing its New Albany storefront and merging the business with Old Capital Cleaners in Corydon. Four generations have operated the dry cleaner over the decades. It is owned by Terri Ehalt-Summers, and her daughter, Allison ...
Feb. 26—JEFFERSONVILLE — Police have identified the man fatally shot at a Charlestown home this week, and the person accused of his killing has formally been charged with murder. The Clark County Sheriff's Office confirmed Friday that 55-year-old David Hutchens of the Las Vegas area died Wednesday after being shot by his girlfriend's nephew. Curtis W. Johnson, 31, of Bardstown in Nelson ...
Feb. 26—LOUISVILLE — Baptist Health has reached a major milestone — administering more than 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine (and counting) to patients in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The four hospitals in the Kentuckiana Region — Baptist Health Louisville, Baptist Health Floyd, Baptist Health Hardin and Baptist Health La Grange — accounted for more than 50,000 of those doses. Baptist ...
A witness told ABC13 she and the receptionist were held at gunpoint in the lobby by one of the suspects.
Norman Powell scored 30 points, Kyle Lowry had a triple-double and the depleted Toronto Raptors beat the Houston Rockets 122-111 on Friday night. The Raptors were without head coach Nick Norse, five assistant coaches and starting forward Pascal Siakam in accordance with the NBA’s health and safety protocols regarding the coronavirus. Assistant coach Sergio Scariolo directed the team.
Feb. 26—A Goshen woman has admitted she talked two people into lying about a service payment as she helped them prepare bankruptcy filings in federal court. Ronya Phillips, 47, pleaded guilty to two counts of subornation of perjury during a hearing Thursday in the U.S. District Court of Northern Indiana in South Bend. Phillips admitted that, while working as a bankruptcy petition preparer in ...
Feb. 26—Although the Kalispell City Council makes no formal decisions during work sessions, that didn't stop a spirited debate about communication policies on Monday. Mayor Mark Johnson called the work session "the most godforsaken, most individualistic meeting [he has] ever sat through." The main topic of debate during the council's return to the City Council Chambers centered around ...
Feb. 26—Vaccine data from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services shows that since the state entered into Phase 1B of the governor's COVID-19 immunization plan in January, Flathead County has kept up with other large counties throughout the state in terms of the number of doses administered. Data specific to Phase 1B efforts, which formally launched Jan. 18, was provided to ...
Feb. 26—A Kalispell lawmaker has revived a proposal to eliminate the position of Montana's commissioner of political practices, an independent watchdog tasked with enforcing campaign finance, ethics, lobbying and voting laws. Republican Rep. Derek Skees — who was named but never charged in a high-profile campaign finance case launched by the former commissioner of political practices in 2016 — ...
Patrick Williams (Chicago Bulls) with a dunk vs the Phoenix Suns, 02/26/2021
Feb. 26—TOPEKA — An overheated welder apparently started a fire at a business near Topeka Friday. Topeka firefighters, backed by a crew from Johnson Township, responded to Dalam Welding, 7665 S. 200 West, around 12:40 p.m. Topeka Fire Chief Stewart Bender said a welding machine apparently overheated while it was up against the wall in the shop. A fire started and spread through the wall and ...