Two Washburn University football players were shot, one fatally, while leaving an off-campus party in the early hours of April 28. Dwane Simmons and Corey Ballantine, both 23 years old, were outside a party at a private home in downtown Topeka, Kansas, sometime after midnight when they were caught up in what police describe as […]

A Texas man convicted of brutally beating an 11-week-old puppy—an act captured by his own security cameras—has been sentenced to five years in prison. This is more than twice the normal maximum sentence for the crime. Deric Berquist, 47, was convicted by the Tarrant County Texas court of animal abuse, a charge which usually carries […]

The mother of an 8-year-old South Philadelphia elementary school student who says bullies cut off a chunk of her daughter’s hair is outraged that authorities haven’t responded. Yamina Zahir said that her daughter Amina had been bullied by a group of girls at Commodore John Barry Elementary for more than a year. The bullying reached […]

A wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident suffered fatal burns after accidentally setting himself on fire while smoking a cigarette and using an oxygen tank. A police officer responding to a 911 call on April 17 from the Grande Oaks nursing facility in Oakwood Village, Ohio, found a man lying face down on the front lawn of the […]

Recently released video captured the moment when members of the famous “Flying Wallendas” circus family fell some 30 feet to the ground after an accident during rehearsal. The video, released by the Sarasota Sheriff’s Department in Florida, shows the moment on February 8, 2017, when several performers fell while practicing the family’s signature aerial pyramid […]

It has been more than a week since Aranda Briones’s family saw the 16-year-old, and they are getting desperate. Aranda disappeared on Jan. 13 after she was dropped off by a friend at a park to meet friends. The friend who drove Briones to Moreno Valley Community Park, in her home town of Moreno Valley, California, […]

Residents of Bartow, Georgia, are returning to their homes, which they fled after a train derailment released toxic chemicals. Some 500 homes had to be evacuated after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near Bartow shortly after 8 p.m. on the night of Jan.6. According to WRDW, some of the train’s chemical tank cars split […]

The Malaysian government’s Safety Investigation Team for MH370 has confirmed that debris found in Malaysia is probably from the lost Malaysia Airlines jet. Malaysia Air Flight 370 disappeared mysteriously on March 8, 2014, and despite intensive surface and undersea searches, the wreckage has never been recovered. The plane, a Boeing 777-200 that carried 239 passengers […]

Authorities have released the names of the victims of a multi-vehicle collision on a Florida highway, with five children among the seven dead. Two truck drivers and five adolescents were involved in the tragic Jan. 3 accident while traveling to Disney World on a church-sponsored trip. The victims were killed when a semi-trailer swerved into a […]

One employee has been fired and the rest are scheduled for retraining after a worker at an Ohio Taco Bell refused to serve a hearing-impaired customer. Brandon Washburn, who is hearing impaired, regularly visits the same Taco Bell restaurant in Kettering, Ohio for a quick meal of Mexican fare. Things didn’t work out so well […]

Ten thousand dollars is for the taking for information leading to the arrest of a dog attacker in the nation’s mid-western region. A horribly abused dog was discovered wandering on a rural road in Indiana back on Nov. 2, 2018. An unnamed good samaritan reported the poor animal to the Shelbyville/Shelby County Animal Shelter staff who have […]

It has to be the dream of everyone who fishes—to catch a glimpse of the biggest fish you have ever seen, and then to catch it. For Paula Cathey Smith, that dream became an 88-pound reality on Dec. 30. Smith, who lives with her husband Ken in Waverly, Tennessee, is an avid catfisher. Their home […]

A 71-year-old woman led police and state troopers on a high-speed chase down Interstate 87, hitting two police cars and injuring three officers before finally stopping. Laura A. Duffy of Willow, New York, was wanted for fleeing a traffic stop on Christmas Eve, NBC News reported. Officers from Ulster County went to her home on […]

Alaskans who thought the brunt of the Nov.30 earthquake disaster was over have realized the New Year might bring more seismic activity. A magnitude 5.0 aftershock struck the Anchorage capitol area on the morning of New Year’s Eve—and ushered in two days filled with many more tremors. That 5.0 was the strongest aftershock since the […]

One fortunate New Yorker celebrated Christmas by buying a Powerball ticket worth $298.3 million. That as-yet un-named gambler was the third person to buy a winning Powerball ticket in New York state in 2018. That set the bar high for the New York Lottery for 2019—and it didn’t take long for that bar to be […]

A pair of young hoodlums decided to steal some tools from a local hardware store but they didn’t consider that the customers there might have some hardware of their own. Two suspects, aged 22 and 23, entered the Coastal Farm & Ranch store in Marysville, Washington, just before 3 p.m. on Dec. 22, according to […]

A 21-year-old Saudi Arabian national who hit and killed a 15-year-old girl while driving with a suspended license has escaped justice—possibly with official assistance. Abdulrahman Noorah had been in the United States for a little over a year and, in that time, had racked up 18 citations for traffic and parking offenses, Patch.com reported. His […]

Christmas came a day late for one Powerball player this year—but the wait was well worth it. One person purchased the lone winning ticket to the Dec. 26 Powerball drawing a ticket worth $298.3 million. The name of the lucky Lotto gambler has not yet been announced—but the New York Lottery has revealed that the […]

It’s the holidays—which means it’s the prime season for a phenomenon called “porch piracy.” At some point in the recent past, some people opted to start spending their days cruising through neighborhoods and stealing packages off of people’s front steps. Obviously the holiday season is the most lucrative time, because nowadays, so many people buy […]

A 21-year-old volunteer firefighter crashed in her car on her way to a call and died before most people had started opening presents. Natalie N. Dempsey was racing to the scene of a house fire in Hamilton Township, New Jersey around 6:20 a.m. on Dec. 25. She lost control of her black 2001 Honda Accord […]

It is always tragic when a celebrity falls from grace. Beautiful, gifted people with wealth and talents sometimes do make bad choices and end up making questionable choices. Hollywood stars have been convicted of shoplifting and burglary, among other crimes. The deepest sorrow comes from seeing a childhood hero—a holiday icon we all grew up […]

Moroccan security officials investigating the murder of two European backpackers stumbled across a terrorist cell trying to link itself to ISIS. As of Dec. 21, 13 people had been arrested in connection with the brutal murders, which were filmed and posted online. Four of the killers also posted videos pledging their lives to the ISIS […]

Five people from Queens, New York were arrested on Dec. 22, in connection with a murder in Bayswater Point State Park on Dec. 15. Police received a call about an unconscious and unresponsive male in the bird sanctuary of Bayswater Point State Park in Far Rockaway around noon on Dec. 15th, WPIX reported. They investigated […]

Two Houston police officers are recovering from injuries after a suspected drunk driver turned in the path of their speeding patrol car, leading to an accident that caused the patrol car to burst into flames. The crash occurred just after midnight on Dec. 24. Police officers John Daily and Alonso Reid, both 25, were responding […]

After 56 hours of fruitless searching, the Coast Guard has suspended the search for a father and son from New Jersey whose light plane crashed off the Florida coast. New Jersey business executive Peter Renzulli, 51, and son Daniel, 18, were flying back from Disney World in Orlando, Florida. when their single-engine Piper PA-46 Malibu crashed […]

Two adults and a toddler are dead after a fatal collision on Highway 99 in Modesto, Calif. just after midnight on Dec. 22. According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), a 2004 GMC Yukon was heading north in the southbound lane of Highway 99, when it sideswiped a 1997 Toyota Camry heading south. After bouncing […]

An Arizona congressman, pulled over for weaving down the highway, threatened his arresting officers telling them, “You’re making a mistake.” An Arizona State Trooper spotted a pickup truck weaving between lanes on Loop 202 in Mesa around 11:22 p.m. on Dec. 20. According to Department of Public Safety report, the trooper smelled a strong odor […]

A mother of two has been charged with killing her daughter while the teenage girl was telling a 911 operator of her mother’s plot to kill her former husband. 52-year-old Svetlana Laurel of Kent, Washington was arrested on Dec. 17 for killing her daughter and kidnapping her son during a murder plot aimed at her […]

The City Council of Omaha, Nebraska, was forced by state law to vote funds for medical care for a gang member who allegedly shot a police officer during a traffic stop. “I’m sure there’s going to be a number of council members who will hold their nose and vote for it,” said City Council President […]

Look! Up in the sky! It isn’t a bird, it doesn’t look like a plane—what is it? San Francisco residents looking up into the evening sky on Dec. 19, saw a bright light apparently trailing a smoking tail of some sort—something which didn’t look like anything easily recognizable. Social media exploded with photos and videos […]

The man who volunteered to be the first to have his entire head transplanted to a new body never got the surgery—but he has a new and improved life nonetheless. Valery Spiridonov has suffered all his life from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, which causes his muscles to atrophy. He cannot stand up, let alone walk. He has […]

An Indiana teen broke into a school carrying a gun, engaged police in a gunfight, and then apparently took his own life. Brandon Clegg, 14, arrived outside Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond, Indiana, around 8 a.m. on Dec. 3. The school–and the 15 other schools in the district—was on lockdown after someone phoned the state police […]

An Alabama girl took her own life because she was bullied at school, her mother claims. McKenzie Adams, 9, told her mother she was being bullied at school because Adams, who was black, had a white friend and got a ride to school from her friend’s parents each day, CBS News reported. When the bullying […]

The waning months of 2018 have not brought much cheer to the Van der Velden family of Jacksonville, Florida. William and Alaina, both retired navy veterans have two daughters; 18-year-old Alexis and 17-year-old Christina who they call “Chrissy.” Alexis is on the Autism spectrum and struggles each day to deal with the world. Other than […]

Michigan has a new attraction—one that rose up mysteriously out of the water of Lake Michigan. It is a skeleton but not the skeleton of a sea monster. It is instead the hulk of an old sailing vessel long hidden beneath the water. The mysterious vessel emerged near the White River Light Station, a still-functioning […]

The sole surviving child of four caught in a deadly car crash has joined her siblings, sadly. Two-year-old Ar’mani Jamison was the only one of four siblings not killed in a single-car collision in Greenville County, South Carolina on Dec. 7. Little Ar’mani died around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 9, Deputy Coroner Jeff Fowler told […]

Iliana Bellard has had a tough life for a ten-year-old. In January, she was diagnosed with Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer. The cancer, which attacks the lymph nodes, had already spread throughout her body. “It started in her shoulder and eventually covered up all her heart,” her mother Beth Bellard told […]

The devastating earthquake that shook Anchorage and surrounding areas on Nov. 30, can still be felt weeks after. Since the quake hit aftershocks are once again shaking Alaskans with nearly 3,000 counted as of the afternoon of Dec 6. Some aftershocks can be significant events in their own right. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, five aftershocks […]

Drug manufacturer Tris Pharma has announced a nationwide recall of infant-dosed ibuprofen sold at CVS, Walmart, and Family Dollar stores. In the announcement, Tris says that three separate lots of its liquid ibuprofen solution for infants with a slightly higher concentration of the drug than intended got through to retail distributors. The chief fear is that […]

A Prince William County grand jury indicted five Virginia teenagers, including two minors, on multiple charges, including lynching, on Dec. 3. All five were charged in connection with the killing of 24-year-old Reynaldo Eliazar Araujo on Aug. 30. The five teens went to Araujo’s apartment in the 10,000 block on Massie Street in Manassas, Virginia, […]

At least a dozen FBI agents swarmed into the home of Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam on the morning of Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 seizing boxes and computers. Federal agents from the FBI and the IRS arrived at the mayor’s home on Ohio Avenue shortly before 8 a.m. and stayed about four hours, the Press of […]

Giant bulls have been in the news lately, with towering specimens like “Knickers” and “Dozer” making headlines. From tall, the discussion has turned to massive, as people come across images of “double-muscled” bulls, or bulls that look like bodybuilders on steroids. Some cattle breeds, specifically the Belgian Blue and British Blue varieties, lack a naturally […]

The family of an elderly woman killed by a medication mix-up at a Tennessee hospital has filed a wrongful death suit. A 75-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was experiencing headaches and difficulties with her vision. She was admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) on Dec. 24, 2017. The woman was scheduled […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska was rocked by a magnitude 7 earthquake early in the morning of Nov. 30—and was then shaken further by almost 200 aftershocks. Miraculously, no one was killed, but hospitals have been treating numerous patients for minor injuries, mostly lacerations caused by broken glass, and at least one broken bone. One person suffered severe […]

The former director of a charity with a mission to help veterans has been convicted of spending funds to buy jewelry, and other personal possessions. A federal jury in Washington, D.C. convicted Patricia Pauline Driscoll, the executive director of the Armed Forces Foundation (AFF) from 2003 to 2015, on Nov. 29 for two counts of […]

A mother from Muskegon County, Michigan, was sentenced to five days in jail after her six-year-old missed 26 days of school. Brittany Ann Horton, 28, of Twin Lake, pleaded guilty to truancy after ignoring repeated requests to make sure her child attended classes, the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office told the Muskegon Chronicle. The school district […]

A New Mexico woman has pleaded guilty to child abuse in the ongoing torture and eventual fatal beating of her 13-year-old son. Tracy Ann Peña, 36, accepted guilt for her role in the ongoing abuse of her son, Jeremiah Valencia, who was kept in a dog kennel and tortured with a spear and a shock […]

A 6-year-old boy from Texas is caught in two wars—one between separated and feuding parents, and another between changing concepts in psychology. James, biologically male, is allegedly forced to wear girls clothes when in the custody of his mother. His mother has even enrolled him in the first grade under the name “Luna.” His mother […]

A Utah deputy was called out on Nov.21 to apprehend a small, furry, but still quite dangerous intruder. A man from Kanarraville, Utah, called the Iron County Sheriff’s Office around 8 a.m. to report a bobcat in his chicken coop. There were no conservation officers on duty yet, Lt. Del Schlosser told Fox News, so […]

Dan Dotson, the auctioneer from the popular reality TV show “Storage Wars,” auctioned for $500 a locker containing among other things, a small safe. No one knew at the time what the safe contained. And no one, not even the most optimistic bidder, would have guessed. “Storage Wars” follows a group of people who bid […]

A strange, alien-looking animal turned up shivering under a car in Windermere, Florida on Nov. 16. The homeowners managed to trap the sickly creature and brought it to the Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge in Orlando, Florida, the next day. The creature defied all attempts at identification. The 6 pound quadruped looked like a Chihuahua […]

An Arizona man has spent six months trying to get what he claims is a $50,000 payoff he won on a slot machine. The casino claims the machine was broken and the $4,000 it actually paid out is correct—and all the man will ever get. One day in April, Ryan Sherry stopped by the Talking […]

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully flown an airplane with no moving parts and no motor. In an article in the journal Nature published on Nov. 21, the team described a plane powered by “ionic wind,” which produces no pollution. “This is the first-ever sustained flight of a plane with no moving […]

A man from Muncie lost his life in a house fire but he managed to push his fiancée out a window to safety before he died. Gary Smith and his fiancée were sleeping in the attic of their one-story home at 712 West Fifth Street when the fire broke out. The blaze started just after […]

A Louisiana couple will be having an especially happy Thanksgiving this year—and probably for many years to come. Harold and Tina Ehrenberg bought some lottery tickets in early June, but misplaced them before the drawing. While cleaning around their home in Mandeville, preparing for holiday guests, the couple found the lost tickets. “We have family […]

Survivors of an ill-fated whitewater rafting trip taken to celebrate a friend’s impending wedding have come forward to describe the tragic event. Luis Beltran’s friends wanted to do something memorable for his bachelor party, so 13 of them got together and planned a weekend trip to Costa Rica from Oct. 18. Every member of the […]

Supersonic air travel might again be a possibility as NASA and Lockheed Martin cooperate to design a plane that can break the sound barrier with almost no sonic boom. Supersonic passenger planes were banned in the United States in 1973 because of complaints about the sonic boom, pressure waves that caused shocks, and shaking up […]

Is our modern technology-run society about to be all but eliminated by “bad weather” from outer space? This may sound like the premise of a bad science-fiction movie, but it is in fact a daunting reality, according to Britain’s Meteorological Office. A report, co-authored by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and […]

A 22-year-old murder suspect was found unresponsive in his Anchorage, Alaska, jail cell and died in the hospital the next day. Chaz A. Shanigan had been in jail since March 2017, awaiting trial on charges of murder 1, murder 2, robbery 1 and misconduct involving weapons, KTUU reported. Shanigan’s jailers found him unresponsive in his […]

From the time she was 6 years old, Kira Iaconetti knew that she was born to be in musical theater. I think it’s one thing I’m actually good at. I act and I sing, and that’s just been my, kind of like “brand,” since elementary school.” The 19-year-old from Lynden, Washington, had all the natural […]

A 52-year-old woman on a Caribbean Island cruise died after falling over a balcony railing in what could be an accident or murder. The woman, whose name has not been released, was traveling on the Princess Cruise lines ship Royal Princess on an 8-day island tour. The ship departed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Nov. […]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is officially on his way to Washington to serve in the Senate after machine and hand recounts showed him leading by at least 10,000 votes. Scott, a two-term Republican governor, was facing three-term Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in a race that saw numerous lawsuits and accusations of voter fraud. It took […]

Not every young lady dreams of strapping herself onto a jet engine and launching down a drag strip at 300 mph. The potential thrill—and the potential danger—are immediately obvious. And for most people, let alone most young ladies, the thrill is far too small and the danger, far too real. Kat Moller was not “most […]

A Christian minister earned both praise and criticism for asking a cross-dressing member of the congregation to go home and change clothes. Pastor Antonio Rocquemore of Power House International Ministries in Chicago, Illinois, stopped halfway through his sermon to ask a male attendee, who had come to church dressed as a woman, to leave and […]

Wildfires in southern California are blazing out of control and driving residents from their homes. The Hill and Woolsey fires have devastated more than 100,000 acres of California’s Ventura County the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reports. The Woolsey fire has consumed more than 97,000 acres in seven days, destroyed 435 structures, and […]

Four women, outraged by what they saw as racial profiling at a local mall, wore supposedly banned hooded sweatshirts to show that justice was not blind, or at least no colorblind, on this occasion. The four women, well-dressed and white, wore their hoodies to Wolfchase Galleria in Cordova, Tennessee, after seeing an online video of […]

Police in Lubbock, Texas, found a bone related to the case of a Texas teen who disappeared in 2013. Investigators with the Lubbock Police Department’s crime scene investigation team and other units found a bone that they said was related to the missing-person case of Zoe Campos. Campos was last seen on Nov. 17, 2013. […]

A Texas woman lies in a coma, on the edge of life, after a botched plastic surgery procedure left her with severe brain damage. Laura Avila, of Dallas, Texas, traveled with her fiancé across the Mexican border to Ciudad Juarez on Oct. 30. Avila wanted to get plastic surgery to alter the shape of her […]

A suspected burglar cut himself as he was illegally entering an El Paso home in Texas. He bled to death on the floor of the house he allegedly planned to rob. According to a City of El Paso press release, 28-year-old Javier Tellez Jr. broke a window to gain entry to a house on the […]

California wildfires have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes in the past week. While the Chico area, north of Sacramento, was beset by the destructive Camp Fire, the Los Angeles area was afflicted with a pair of out-of-control blazes—the Hill and Woolsey fires. These two fires have affected people across every economic […]

When Maria Lisanti, owner of La Bella Pizza Bistro, decided to paint a flag mural on the outside wall of her shop, she didn’t expect to be terrorized. Lisanti, who owns the pizza parlor in New Paltz, New York—a tiny town of 7,000—was following a small-town, small business tradition when she hired an artist to […]

Florida’s Fort Lauderdale airport was shut down for over an hour on the evening of Nov. 11 because of a report of a “suspicious package.” Not only were passengers not permitted to approach the airport, the media was excluded as well. The Broward County Sheriff’s office tweeted on Nov. 11, that “Our deputies and bomb […]

Florida’s Secretary of State has announced that votes will be recounted in the state’s two most important elects, the races for Governor and the Senate. By law, votes Florida state elections get recounted when the margin of victory is beneath 0.5 percent. On Nov. 10, Secretary of State Ken Detzner issued orders for recounts in […]

Police in Statesville, North Carolina have arrested a daycare worker on charges that she abused a 22-month-old boy. Police reviewed video from the daycare’s security cameras before arresting Lori Fisher Turner and charging her with simple assault on a child under 12, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. The Charlotte Observer reported that Fisher Turner had worked […]

Six people were injured when a Fly Jamaica jet headed from Guyana to Canada made a crash-landing shortly after takeoff on Nov. 9. According to Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s Facebook page, a Fly Jamaica aircraft carrying 120 passengers and eight crew crash-landed at the airport shortly after takeoff. Fly Jamaica flight OJ256 took off from […]

Wesley Harvey was charged with abandoning or endangering a child after a fire in West Lubbock County, Texas claimed the lives of four children, the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office announced. Deputies from the Lubbock Sheriff’s Office along with members of the Wolfforth, Woodrow, and Carlisle Volunteer Fire Departments and EMS crews responded to a house […]

A Texas State Representative celebrated his re-election while still being incarcerated. Democrat Ron Reynolds of Missouri City, Texas ran unopposed for re-election to District 27’s seat in the State Congress. Reynolds has held the seat since 2010. According to a tweet by OccupyMedia, Reynolds and his fellow prisoners in Pod 2 of the Montgomery County […]

An Indonesian airplane was delayed for an hour because the passengers complained about the odor coming from the cargo hold. A Sriwijaya Air flight was scheduled to depart from Bengkulu airport on the island of Sumatra on the 150-mile hop to Jakarta at 10:40 a.m. on Nov. 5. Passengers crossing the tarmac from the gate […]

The pyramids have long been recognized as one of the wonders of the world. It has never been clear how the ancient Egyptians, even with armies of slave laborers, were able to quarry, ship, shape, and place the enormous blocks of stone which comprise these magnificent monuments. A chance discovery made by a team of […]

An Oklahoma City man has been arrested after telling his sister, “Hundreds of people are going to die in Oklahoma City, and something very large is going to happen.” Amiremad Nayebyazdi, originally from Iran, was observed by members of the FBI joint Terrorism Task Force on Oct. 30, acting in a suspicious manner. Nayebyazdi was […]

In what has been described as a scene out of an action movie, a pickup truck roared through a red light and slammed into a van carrying prisoners. The van carrying the prisoners was heading through Monday morning traffic in downtown Houston on Nov. 5. As the van was passing Minute Maid Park, (home of […]

Tigers are India’s national animal, and classified as endangered under the Wildlife Protection Act. But in rural India, tigers are also a deadly threat. Unlucky or unwary villagers can be killed and dragged off to be eaten. To compound the issue, there are villages inside the newly established boundaries of some tiger reserves. The villagers […]

A Georgia woman is facing multiple charges after leading police on a high-speed chase where she hit 70 mph through two different school zones, on Oct. 30. Deputies from Coweta County, responded to call from a clerk at the Delta Community Credit Union on GA-34 in the city of Newnan, 40 miles southeast of Atlanta. […]

A 15-year-old from DeBary, Florida gave police a “full and detailed confession” in the strangling death of his mother. Gregory Logan Ramos told detectives from the Volusia County Sheriff’s office that he strangled his mother, 46-year-old Gail Cleavenger in the family’s home shortly after midnight on Nov. 2. Ramos then loaded his mother’s body into […]

The Milwaukee Police Department has released video of an officer-involved shooting that happened in August and is still under investigation. The video shows the fatal shooting of 48-year-old Mario Hobson by two officers after Hobson held a gun to his head and threatened to kill himself during a traffic stop. According to the Journal Sentinel, […]

Justice Department lawyers at an Oct. 31 hearing rejected a plea offer from a man accused of killing and burning the body of a mail carrier. James Wayne Ham is on trial in a Houston court for the 2013 killing of 52-year-old postal carrier Eddie “Marie” Youngblood. Youngblood was working her rural route in Coldspring, […]

A Native American chief was denied entry into the U.S. Supreme Court building because he refused to remove his traditional feathered headdress. Yakama Nation Tribal Council Chairman JoDe Goudy went to the Supreme Court on Oct. 30 to hear arguments in a case involving his tribe. The chairman showed up in a traditional Native American […]

A man whose father has been missing for decades has found human bones in the basement of his family’s home on Long Island. He’s having the bones tested to see if they really are his father’s. Michael Carroll, 57, and his siblings had long suspected that the remains of their father, who disappeared in 1961, […]

A letter sent to the judge who is hearing the case of the Cesar Sayoc, the man who allegedly sent suspicious packages to prominent Democrats, claims that Sayoc started planning his attacks in July. The letter was sent to Judge Edwin Torres by the prosecutors in the case urging that Sayoc not be released on […]

A Baltimore police officer recently acquitted on charges of assaulting a suspect has been charged with assaulting a desk. Baltimore Police Officer Kevin Battipaglia had been charged with first-degree assault after he allegedly beat a suspect with his baton on Christmas Eve. After chasing and catching 21-year-old Darrian Carr, Battipaglia allegedly struck Carr in the […]

Humans have killed about 60 percent of animals, including mammals, fish, birds, and reptiles, on the planet since 1970, according to a report from the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund. The 2018 Living Planet Report, produced jointly by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL,) says that habitat loss and […]

Gunfire claimed 43 victims in Chicago over the Halloween weekend—38 people were wounded and five killed between 5 p.m. on Friday and 5 a.m. Monday. According to Fox News, the levels of violence rose with each passing day. Three people were wounded and one killed on Friday, Oct. 27; 11 were wounded and one killed […]

According to tracking data, an Indonesia airliner carrying 189 people crashed into the ocean at about 350 miles per hour. Everyone aboard is feared dead. Data from the flight posted on FlightRadar24 shows Lion Air Flight JT610 going into a dive and accelerating at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute, or approximately […]

A pilot from a Minnesota airline was arrested in Florida while trying to board an airplane with a loaded pistol in his luggage. Brian Andrew Machtemes was scheduled to fly a Sun Country Airlines flight out of Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, around 6:50 p.m. on Oct. 26. A Transportation Security Administration […]

NASA has completed three successful tests of the parachute that will lower its landing craft to the surface of Mars in 2020. NASA’s ASPIRE project (Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment) was tasked with developing a parachute that could open extremely quickly, at very high speeds, in a very diffuse atmosphere. In a series of […]

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook central Alaska around 9 a.m. local time on Oct. 27. The quake was centered 13 miles east of the city of Tanana and 120 miles west of Fairbanks. Tanana resident Cynthia Erickson told the Anchorage Daily News, her house shook like an “off-balance washing machine.” “It was really erratic and […]

A lady who spent a dollar on an Oregon state lottery ticket ended up getting an excellent return on her investment—she was the only player to match all six numbers. Tina McClendon from Tigard Oregon opted to take the one-time bulk payment. After paying taxes, she took home a check for $2.89 million, KGW News […]

Twenty-three alleged gangsters from Chicago have been charged in a federal racketeering investigation. All 23 were allegedly members of the Goonie gang, an offshoot of the Gangster Disciples. The indictment alleges that the gang was responsible for 11 murders in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood between 2014 and 2018. The indicted gangsters were allegedly members of the […]

The Wiltshire Police in Salisbury, England, reported that a 45-year-old man tried to steal the Magna Carta, the UK’s first attempt at setting the foundations for constitutional government and freedom under the law. The police reported that alarms in Salisbury Cathedral sounded shortly before 5 p.m. on Oct. 25, after a man armed with a […]

Lightning sparked a seven-alarm fire that totally gutted an historic church in the small town of Wakefield, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Oct. 24. Nothing was left of the First Baptist Church of Wakefield, a town landmark for almost 150 years, save some remnants of scorched walls and a few ribs of the once 180-foot-tall steeple. According […]