Cutting-edge computer technology designed to mimic the human brain is being used by hackers to create lifelike videos of celebrities and politicians. But now, bad actors are using this readily available tech to target everyday social media users in cryptocurrency scams.
Déjà vu has had 639 911 calls since it opened in February 2020, but the business says the majority of those calls are directed at a group of people gathering in their parking lot that have nothing to do with their business.
FBI statistics show that bank robberies have decreased immensely since the 1970′s due to higher-tech security, increasing the likelihood of the robber getting caught. However, as antiquated and risky as bank robberies are, they still happen, with the Quad Cities typically seeing five robberies in a year for the last five years.
TV6 looked into what was happening behind hospital doors that led up to the closure. Now employees who lost their job are left wondering what to do next and how to move forward after some spent decades at Cottage.
The Princeton Fire Department told TV6 that two things which would have made the fire’s outcome less severe are a fire escape and a smoke detector in the front entrance.
As Illinois leaders, parents, and school districts battle over mask mandates in schools, the Chief Operating Officer of the Rock Island County Health Department said wearing masks helps to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The decision on whether the chain link fence is considered to be legally a nuisance all comes down to what the court will deem the slab of concrete it obstructs.
Topping the list as the most accident prone intersection in the Quad Cities is John Deere Road and 41st Street in Moline. From 2018 to 2020, the intersection had 38 crashes.
The video, which TV6 will not air or post, shows two white teenagers. One of whom is dressed in a blackface mask, while the other pretends to beat him. The video goes along to background music that repeats racial slurs.
The After School Satan Club is intended to act as an alternative offer to religious after school programs, especially to kids who may not be able to go home straight after school.
As first of a three part series, the TV6 Investigates team sent in Freedom of Information Acts to Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline and Rock Island for their stolen vehicle rates from 2019-2021.
TV6′s Darby Sparks sat down with Bryce Schmidt, the Chief Deputy of the Scott County Sheriff’s office, and former officer in charge of the Scott County Sex Offender’s Task Force, to ask if the registry’s guidelines keep a sex offender from re-offending.
Tammy Noble, the Education and Marketing Manager with the Iowa Poison Control Center said that typically Carbon Monoxide exposure in a vehicle occurs when the car is inside of a garage or some other enclosed space.
The time limit to stay in the county jail in 364 days, yet the man--whose identity TV6 is not going to mention--ended up staying 1,707 days more than that.
As the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began approving booster doses for the COVID-19 vaccine, claims began surfacing that needing a booster means the first round of the vaccine did not work.
As of the time this article was written, workers are back out at the Milan location on strike and wearing safety gear. One member passing through stated that they are no longer crossing the street on foot.
Crime Stoppers of the Quad Cities is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who has information that will solve the case. As part of an effort to encourage tips, TV6 Investigates rode along with Moline police to revisit the crime scene.
The USDA gathered a 7 to 12 percent inflation rate for meat and dairy products in the past year alone and its the middle man selling the finished product that makes the profit.
312 of the nation’s 386 metropolitan areas have a larger population than they did at the beginning of the last decade as population in rural America declines.
A pre-print study from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute showing a rate of 1 out of 1,000 people developed heart inflammation, or myocarditis, after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine has been pulled after researchers used wrong data to calculate the incidence.
More than $443 million in emergency rental assistance has been paid to 49,100 state households since the Illinois Rental Payment Program was launched in May 2021
The vaccine is mandated for all staff at the White House, CDC, and FDA. Likewise, all three of the manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine being used in the United States have issued vaccine mandates.
It is part of a challenge called “Devious Licks,” that involves students filming themselves vandalizing school property and anonymously posting it online.
While Welford’s biological mother, Victoria Tanner, thinks what happened to Brantley was an accident, his aunt Jenna Bruck says she is seeking tougher charges on Diericx in relation to the death of the little boy.
Starting on September 5th, all teachers and healthcare workers must have at least one dose of the vaccine or get tested once weekly, said Governor J.B. Pritzker in a press conference Thursday morning, stating, “if you are unvaccinated, you are getting the people in your care sick.”
As Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine received full FDA approval Monday, August 23, 2021, the claim that the pharmaceutical company's CEO, Albert Bourla is not vaccinated emerged.
Student in six different districts across Iowa and Illinois are sitting inside classrooms that have no air conditioning, and with the unusually high temperatures schools are forced to cut their hours.
