Rebecca Knier

3 weeks ago | kold.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Imagine a vehicle hurtling down the highway at more than 100 miles per hour, and the driver is powerless to stop it. While it is rare, it can happen. In 2024, a video of a “runaway car” went viral thanks to its capture on police dash cameras. Watch this footage in the video at the top of this story. Officers were on the phone with the driver, trying to stop the car before the rural Minnesota road came to a dead end. What happened to this vehicle?

1 month ago | kktv.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Is the emergency room nearest you prepared to treat children in need of care? A new national study reveals that a majority of emergency rooms across the United States are not fully prepared to care for pediatric patients, raising concerns that thousands of children’s deaths each year may be preventable.

1 month ago | wdbj7.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Many parents tell their kids to “think before they post” to social media accounts. However, is it time for parents to practice what they preach? One survey of U.S. parents found more than 75% posted videos, images or stories of their children on a social media account. An even larger percentage used their children’s real names in those posts. In today’s digital world, it’s been dubbed, sharenting, the act of parents oversharing online content that features their kids.

1 month ago | kktv.com | Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier |Shannon Weston

(InvestigateTV) — Is space truly limitless? It is a question that has been debated for centuries and remains one of the great mysteries of science. While the limits of space may be debated, the total amount of debris in orbit near Earth is not. Space exploration and travel by the population of Earth have resulted in millions of pieces of debris, including items like discarded spacecraft bolts and defunct satellites.

1 month ago | actionnews5.com | Shannon Weston |Heather Graf |Rebecca Knier

(InvestigateTV) — Nearly half of all Americans are living with obesity, which is second only to smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in our country. While there’s no magic bullet to reverse this growing trend, experts and patients say they have found something that is working. Medications targeting weight loss like Wegovy and Zepbound are part of a relatively new class of drugs that work by suppressing appetite and food intake.