UPDATED 8/14/21 @ 2:59P.M. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 227 killed, hundreds injured and missing, in earthquake. (Copyright 2021, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) ======== PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck Haiti just days before a tropical storm is expected to make landfall, killing…… MORE
Folk Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies
Nashville (AP) – Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68. Her management company says Griffith died Friday. Gold Mountain Entertainment did not provide a cause of death. Griffith, who often wove into her songs social commentary…… MORE
Cruise Ship Heads For Galveston With COVID On Board
Galveston (AP) – A Carnival cruise ship on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is now headed back to Galveston. The Belize Tourism Board said in a statement the positive cases were among 26 crew members and one passenger on the Carnival…… MORE
SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy with scattered (40%) showers and storms. High: 94. Winds: NE 5-10. SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with spotty (20%) showers or storms. Low: 76. Winds: NE 5-10. SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy with scattered (40%) showers and storms. High: 91. Winds: NE 5-10.… MORE
Chris Krok Show: How Can We Trust Them?
In the past 18 months since the pandemic began, have you gotten the feeling that the COVID numbers might not be accurately reported? Earlier this week, the Texas Tribune had a report that said that 5,800 children were hospitalized this past week from COVID. The only problem with that is that the number listed was…… MORE