Kimberly Wright
Assistant news director, Digital Content Center
Updated: Oct. 15, 2024 at 11:05 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
A hardware company has decided to sell itself to a rival, but to facilitate the sale, it must declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2024 at 2:10 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Troubled discount retailer Big Lots intends to add dozens of additional stores to its closures list.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2024 at 7:00 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Here's who to watch as Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump vie for the presidency.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2024 at 10:33 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Four people have died after a house exploded in Ohio, authorities say.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2024 at 11:53 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
For those auto buyers who are curious about electric vehicles but are concerned about charging, Ford is sweetening the pot.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
President Joe Biden welcomed Olympic and Paralympic athletes to the White House as a thank you to those who represented Team USA in the 2024 Paris Games.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2024 at 10:13 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Salt Life’s new owners are closing all of the company’s retail locations.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2024 at 9:37 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
About 50 Big Lots locations have been added to a closures list as the retailer pares down its stores amid bankruptcy procedures.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Tropical Storm Helene has formed, the National Hurricane Center reported Tuesday, as it continues to head toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2024 at 8:35 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Yelloh, a food delivery service company formerly known as Schwan’s, announced Monday that it will cease operations in November.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
President Joe Biden welcomed the National Women’s Soccer League champions Gotham FC to the White House on Monday.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The contributions, histories and cultures of Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America are being celebrated.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2024 at 1:24 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
President Joe Biden is participating in a briefing Tuesday regarding the ongoing wildfire season response and federal efforts to reduce wildfire risk.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2024 at 2:41 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will talk to the press Friday about their unexpectedly lengthy mission via an Earth to space call.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 10:22 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
BurgerFi International filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, according to media reports.
Tropical Storm Francine forms in Gulf of Mexico, expected to become hurricane before making landfall
Updated: Sep. 9, 2024 at 2:13 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center say a tropical disturbance has strengthened into Tropical Storm Francine in the Gulf of Mexico Monday morning.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2024 at 9:28 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Big Lots announced that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Kroger apps and websites appear to be back up and running as of Friday afternoon.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2024 at 2:48 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Betting on sports is now live and legal in 38 states and Washington, D.C.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2024 at 10:20 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The roughly 25 million Americans who are without health insurance will pay up to $200 for the shots.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2024 at 8:02 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Tributes are pouring in for actor Obi Ndefo, who played Bodie Wells in the TV series “Dawson’s Creek” and also had a recurring role in “Stargate SG-1.”
Avoid the bite, avoid the disease: Tips to avoid West Nile and similar illnesses spread by bug bites
Updated: Aug. 30, 2024 at 9:59 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Mosquitoes are more than just a biting nuisance. They, along with ticks, are also vectors for nasty diseases.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2024 at 2:37 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they are continuing to investigate a multistate salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 400 people.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2024 at 1:49 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Biden was joined by civil rights leaders, community members and elected officials as he signed a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2024 at 2:53 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Palmer Candy was notified by a supplier its liquid coating could potentially have been contaminated by salmonella from a supplier’s ingredient.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2024 at 1:19 PM EDT
|By WTVY Staff and Kimberly Wright
A high school football player in Alabama died Tuesday afternoon after suffering a medical emergency at football practice during drills.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2024 at 12:51 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The United Auto Workers said Tuesday it’s filing federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk after their comments during Musk’s interview of Trump that streamed on Musk’s social media platform X.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2024 at 7:29 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
LL Flooring, formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, has started Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and is closing 94 stores, the company announced Sunday.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2024 at 1:28 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Regions Bank said via social media replies that a glitch that was causing its customers’ debit cards to be declined has been resolved.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2024 at 9:30 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Each location that is closing has a 20% off banner on its respective store web page.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2024 at 11:05 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Two restaurant chains - World of Beer and Buca di Beppo - have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid financial headwinds.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Badcock has more than 380 stores in eight states.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2024 at 9:11 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Shield is approved as a screening method for those 45 and older who are at average risk for colon cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2024 at 9:01 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Boar’s Head Provisions Co., Inc., is recalling all of its liverwurst currently available for sale over concerns the products may be contaminated with listeria.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 8:39 PM EDT
|By Emma Dollenmayer, Kimberly Wright and Andrew McMunn
Steve Hunt was off-duty when he saw a man fighting for his life in the Cape Fear River. He immediately knew what to do.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2024 at 1:38 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The retailer said it currently expects to open three stores and close 35 to 40 stores this year.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2024 at 1:35 PM EDT
|By WJHG Newsroom and Kimberly Wright
It sets aside $20 million for the victims, as well as creates a process for the former students at both the Dozier School for Boys and the Okeechobee School to make claims for the decades of abuse victims endured at the school.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM EDT
|By WJHG Newsroom, Kimberly Wright and Jordan Gartner
The three young men, all from Alabama, arrived in Panama City Beach, Florida, on Friday afternoon and soon after went swimming.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2024 at 11:33 AM EDT
|By Steve Kirch and Kimberly Wright
For decades, Indian boarding schools forced children to assimilate and abandon their traditional languages, dress and customs. Hundreds died there.
Updated: Jun. 13, 2024 at 10:56 AM EDT
|By Mitchell Carter , Liz DeSantis and Kimberly Wright
The maternal grandparents of missing 8-month-old Miya Rudd, Taletha and David Tucker, who have been raising her three siblings, were arrested late Wednesday afternoon on warrants, Kentucky State Police said.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2024 at 8:13 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Fresh Start Produce Sales Inc. of Delray, Florida, said the recalled cucumbers were shipped in bulk from May 17 to May 24 to retail distribution centers, wholesalers and food service distributors in 14 states.
Updated: May. 31, 2024 at 10:05 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The recall was originally issued in March, but the Food and Drug Administration updated its classification recently to Class III, which is the lowest level of concern.
Updated: May. 30, 2024 at 2:11 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
They said they want the improvements to “delight existing and new guests.”
Updated: May. 23, 2024 at 12:07 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The researchers said they are concerned that scientists have underestimated the likelihood of the glacier’s collapse.
Updated: May. 20, 2024 at 10:46 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
He flew 116 combat missions, destroying 16 and 1/4 enemy aircraft in aerial combat and another on the ground. He also served as a test pilot.
Updated: May. 17, 2024 at 8:29 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright and DOUG FERGUSON
In a span of four hours, the top-ranked golfer in the world was arrested wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt, dressed in an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, returned to Valhalla Golf Club in golf clothes and made his 10:08 a.m. second-round tee time.
Updated: May. 15, 2024 at 12:33 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
The service at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., was held as part of National Police Week, which recognizes those who were killed in the line of duty.
107-year-old man believed to be oldest surviving WWII merchant marine plans to attend D-Day ceremony
Updated: May. 9, 2024 at 7:55 AM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Believed to be the oldest World War II merchant marine veteran in the country, 107-year-old Reynolds Tomter is going to Normandy to help mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. The ceremony will be held June 6.
Updated: May. 7, 2024 at 2:42 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
Susan Buckner, the actress who played Sandy’s cheerleading friend Patty Simcox in the 1978 “Grease” movie, has died, her family members confirmed to the media.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2024 at 2:12 PM EDT
|By Kimberly Wright
When it comes to your phone plan, it helps to read the fine print. A Florida man learned that the hard way.