Today in History: December 4, the "Million Dollar Quartet"

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:47 -0500

Today in History Today is Sunday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2022. There are 27 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Dec. 4, 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gathered for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis. On this date: In 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson left Washington on a trip to France to attend the Versailles (vehr-SY’) Peace Conference. In 1942, during World War II, U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time with a raid on Naples. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression. In 1965, the United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard on a two-week mission. (While Gemini 7 was in orbit,...

Family says coyote attacked toddler outside LA home

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 19:00:41 -0500

A family says a coyote ambushed and injured a 2-year old girl outside her Los Angeles home in a daytime attack before it was chased off by her father

Los Angeles City Council votes to ban oil and gas drilling

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 18:41:26 -0500

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban the drilling of new oil and gas wells and to phase out existing ones over the next 20 years

Body of 7-year-old Texas girl found, FedEx driver arrested

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0500

A 7-year-old Texas girl has been found dead two days after being reported missing, and a FedEx driver who made a delivery to her home shortly before she disappeared was arrested in her death

Jury awards ex-Maine trooper $300,000 in whistleblower case

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:49:55 -0500

The jury found the state police wrongly retaliated when he raised concerns.

Man charged with threatening doctor over transgender care

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 13:23:59 -0500

Federal prosecutors have charged a Texas man with threatening a Boston physician who cares for transgender children

Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 10:54:27 -0500

A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol spread by celebrities is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence

EXPLAINER: What do we know about the Colorado bomb threat?

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 03:30:14 -0500

More than a year before police say Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and wounded 17 others at a gay night club in Colorado Springs, Aldrich was arrested on allegations of making a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of about 10 homes

Today in History: December 3, gas disaster in Bhopal

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:26 -0500

Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2022. There are 28 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 3, 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India. On this date: In 1818, Illinois was admitted as the 21st state. In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College. In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway. In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in. In 1965, the Beatles’ sixth studio album, “Rubber Soul,” was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone (it was released in the U.S. by Capitol Records three days later). In 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard...

Family seeks answers after police kill man on his own porch

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:59:27 -0500

The family of an Austin, Texas, man is seeking answers after he was fatally shot by police last month on his front porch following a late-night emergency call by a neighbor