Despite the state recently experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, will play host Wednesday to the first Major League Soccer game of the season with fans in attendance. FC Dallas will be facing off against Nashville SC at 7:30 p.m. in the opener of two back-to-back matchups. Both teams were…… MORE
A teen working at a children’s theme park in Pennsylvania was punched in the face for enforcing the park’s face mask policy, police say. The 17-year-old employee was “aggressively punched by both a female and a male,” on Sunday at Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, according to Middletown Township Police Lieutenant Stephen Forman. The park…… MORE
A 15-year-old boy has raised over $13,000 in donations for homeless veterans, special needs children, and first responders by selling and donating wooden flags he carves himself. In 2019, Lorenzo Liberti met a homeless veteran while serving meals at a food pantry with his church youth group. The tenth grader from Lakewood Ranch, Florida, couldn’t…… MORE
A mandate from a local sheriff in Florida is going against the recommendations from scientists and government officials: masks will not be worn. That was the requirement spelled out in an August 11 email to the department from Sheriff Billy Woods of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The mandate came as the City of Ocala,…… MORE
A family of six in Whittier, Alaska — where almost all of the city’s residents live in one building — has contracted Covid-19, officials said. Owing to the unique history of Whittier, about 85% of the town’s 280 year-round residents live in one, 14-story building called Begich Towers, city manager Jim Hunt told CNN. Originally…… MORE
The Philadelphia Art Commission, which approves the design and location of construction projects and public art on city property, voted Wednesday to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus in Marconi Plaza. The commission voted 8-0 with one abstention to remove the statue, with the caveat that the city report back on its process to find…… MORE
To hear Pastor John MacArthur tell it, all Grace Community Church did was open its doors and the people came, like the animals to Noah’s Ark. The megachurch in suburban Los Angeles had reluctantly closed its doors in late May after an unsuccessful legal battle related to the coronavirus pandemic. Two months later, it reopened.…… MORE
Bystanders called police when three teens — two of them Black — were allegedly attacked by a knife-wielding man as they sat at a bus station in California’s Santa Clarita Valley, according to the mother of one of the teens. But video shows when the deputies arrived, they pointed guns at the teens and detained…… MORE
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is investigating a possible swatting incident after heavily armed officers were called to the home of a prominent Black Lives Matter activist on Wednesday morning. An LAPD spokesperson tells CNN that officers responded to a call of a reported kidnapping at Melina Abdullah’s home at 8:53 a.m. PT on…… MORE
Orange County’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to declare August 24 as Kobe Bryant Day. Bryant wore the numbers 8 and 24 during his NBA career, which is why August 24 was chosen as the date to commemorate Bryant, said Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Michelle Steel. The NBA legend, who lived in Newport…… MORE
