Author: Kent Smith

Elizabeth Morris/CBS via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — CBS has suspended production of the reality TV series “The Amazing Race” over coronavirus fears, a representative for the network told ABC News. According to a statement, production of the series, now in its 33rd season, has been shut down “temporarily” and only as a “precautionary measure.” Nobody involved with the show has contracted the virus or shown symptoms of the disease, the statement continues, and “all contestants and production staff are in the process of returning home.” “Out of an abundance of…

Centers for Disease Control(WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday that capabilities for testing for the COVID-19 virus would “rapidly expand” nationwide in the next several weeks as well as the criteria for who gets tested and when. That announcement came as the Centers for Disease Control scrambled to distribute new testing kits for coronavirus to state and local health departments after the latest confirmed case in California raised concerns it could spread beyond individuals known to have recently traveled to a country affected by outbreaks.…

Vallejo Police Department(NEW YORK) — Over four decades after a woman was sexually assaulted and killed, a suspect has finally been identified through the new, but growing, investigative tool of genetic genealogy. Naomi Sanders was found sexually assaulted and strangled to death on Feb. 27, 1973 inside her apartment in Vallejo, California, about 30 miles outside San Francisco. Sanders, 57, lived alone and was the onsite manager for the apartment complex, the Vallejo Police Department said. But the years ticked by without progress in her case. In 2014, forensic testing…

ijoe84/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Six years after 8-year-old Relisha Rudd vanished in Washington, D.C., the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released a new age-progression image for what she may look now at 14. Meanwhile, Rudd’s community is vowing to continue the search until she’s brought home. Rudd was last seen on March 1, 2014, and was reported missing to the D.C. police on March 19, 2014, the department said. Authorities believe Rudd went missing with 51-year-old Kahlil Malik Tatum. Rudd lived in a Washington, D.C., homeless shelter with her…