Merriam-Webster Announces Word of the Year for 2021: Vaccine
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary recently announced its Word of the Year for 2021, which is “vaccine.”

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary recently announced its Word of the Year for 2021, which is “vaccine.”

A homeless man in Brooklyn arrested three times in 36 hours boasted to police he would avoid being held on bail because he “didn’t have a record,” the New York Post reported Sunday.

The South African doctor who initially told officials about patients with the omicron variant said symptoms of the latest variant appeared unusual but mild, the Telegraph reported Saturday.

A man in St. Petersburg, Florida, is keeping up his tradition of donating bicycles for children in the area who are in need during the holidays.

A young woman named Brittany Struebing in Racine, Wisconsin, remembers every detail about the day her son, Arkaydin Howard, was born in November 2018.

A Guatemalan man was transported to a hospital after he was discovered hiding inside the landing gear compartment of a plane arriving in Florida, authorities said.

A security guard who was shot during an attempted armed robbery while working alongside California’s KRON4 news crew has died from his injuries, the outlet reported Saturday.

Neighbors in Elk Ridge, Utah, are calling one of their school bus drivers a hero following an extremely close call at a local bus stop.

Officials are investigating a robbery incident inside the Home Depot store in Los Angeles County, Fox 11 reported on Friday.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) experienced much backlash on Thanksgiving when it described America as “stolen land.”

The federal government plans to send 44 military medical workers to Michigan to assist hospitals treating coronavirus patients during a fourth surge that has become the worst in the nation, according to state health officials.

Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) posted a Thanksgiving message with a picture showing his mother and three daughters on Thursday.

Officials have charged a man in Florida with 1,200 counts of sexual assault and incest involving a minor, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Following the Democrat Party’s huge loss in the Virginia governor’s race, strategists went to the state to find out what happened and get an idea of how bad its outlook could be in the coming year.

Members of Native American tribes in New England are gathering where the Pilgrims originally settled to mourn Indigenous people “who’ve suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

A local business in California is showing appreciation for servicemembers through a project on the home of a United States Navy veteran.

Students in Oneonta, Alabama, gave a huge round of applause for their classmate, nine-year-old JD Alfaro, when he received a merit award from emergency crews.

A little boy in Aurora, Colorado, is on a mission to help children in need during the upcoming holiday season.

Brian Laundrie, the person of interest in the death of Gabby Petito, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, a lawyer for the family announced Tuesday.

A man from New Jersey has pleaded guilty in federal court for his part in a $400,000 GoFundMe scheme, the New York Post reported Monday.

Police in Hartville, Ohio, are praising an officer who recently saved a woman from inside her sinking vehicle.

Former Erie County legislator and Board of Elections worker Betty Jean Grant was recently charged with harassing a voter at a Buffalo, New York, polling place.

Saturday was National Adoption Day and several children found their permanent families the day prior in Independence, Missouri, Fox 4 KC reported.

The Logan Township Volunteer Firefighters in Pennsylvania are yet again providing Thanksgiving meals to families in need this season.

An Illinois Democrat who appeared to describe the parade tragedy in Waukesha, Wisconsin, as a form of payback for the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse has resigned, Fox News reported Monday.

The New York Assembly released an independent impeachment report Monday with “profoundly disturbing” findings about former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Monday is the deadline for federal workers to show proof they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to NPR.

Disney paused a coronavirus vaccine requirement for employees at Walt Disney World in Florida once Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation restricting those rules in workplaces.

Michigan State Police (MSP) announced Wednesday officers arrested a suspect and found two adult victims of human trafficking connected to the rescue of a teenager in Detroit.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shared a clip Friday that claimed there was an “entirely different set of rules for white people” after Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal.

Navy sailors who recently earned increases in housing allowances due to marriage or relocating to a more expensive area are noticing months-long delays in their pay raise, according to Military.com.

Police officers in Denver, Colorado, and the Denver Police Foundation went on a unique kind of patrol recently.

Operation Turkey Houston is gearing up to prepare and deliver more than 8,300 Thanksgiving feasts to Texas families in need.

The Henrico Police Department (HPD) in Virginia joined forces with an anonymous donor Friday to deliver Thanksgiving meals to families in the area.

Eighteen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse declared following acquittal in his homicide trial that “self-defense is not illegal.”

The search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has apparently centered on a former landfill in New Jersey.

A woman was kidnapped when she pulled over to help a bleeding man along Interstate 24, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department in Tennessee said.

Citizens are preparing for Thanksgiving and noticing higher prices or limited stock, even when it comes to turkey.

Alleged thieves entered a Louis Vuitton store in Oak Brook, Illinois, on Wednesday, apparently taking numerous purses.

Records said four capital murder suspects arrested for Tuesday’s murder of a man at a Costco parking lot in Dallas are young people, according to Fox 4.
