iStock/Thinkstock(ROCHESTER, Ind.) — The pickup truck driver allegedly never hit her brakes until it was too late to avoid hitting four children, including three siblings, who were killed as they crossed a two-lane highway in rural Indiana to catch their school bus, according to a relative of the dead children. […]
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — More victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will be laid to rest Wednesday. Friends and family will gather at separate funerals to remember Joyce Fienberg, 75, Irving Younger, 69, and Melvin Wax, 88, who were among the 11 worshippers gunned down at the Tree of Life […]
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — The man accused of killing 11 Jews in an anti-Semitic attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue was charged in a 44-count indictment that includes federal hate crimes. Suspect Robert Bowers, 46, “made statements indicating his desire to ‘kill Jews’” in the shooting attack on Saturday, the Department […]
Union County Sheriffs Office/Monroe NC/Facebook(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A North Carolina mother has been charged after her baby drowned from Hurricane Florence floods, authorities said. Dazia Ideah Lee was driving on Highway 218 in Union County on Sept. 16 when the rushing water pushed her car off the road, the Union […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Ahead of a massive storm system, 10 states are under weather alerts Wednesday morning, with heavy, wet snow falling in the Rockies and flooding expected in the Ohio River Valley. The storm system Wednesday afternoon is moving into the Gulf Coast and South, with severe storms […]
tfoxfoto/Thinkstock(BEEKMANTOWN, N.Y.) — Two people were killed when their helicopter hit a set of power lines and exploded in flames in far northern New York on Tuesday afternoon. Miraculously, two other men in the helicopter who jumped to the ground managed to survive. The accident took place at about 4:16 […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A mother, frustrated by what she deems as inaction by authorities, is suing a day care center in St. Louis, Missouri, after surveillance and iPad footage captured teachers encouraging preschool-age children to fight each other. Nicole Merseal’s then-4-year-old son was encouraged to fight another child by teachers […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The two sisters whose bodies were found bound together with tape in the Hudson River were from Saudi Arabia, the New York City Police Department said Tuesday. Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 22, had previously been living in Fairfax, Virginia, according to the NYPD. The younger […]
WLS(ROCHESTER, Ind.) — Three children from the same family were killed and a fourth child was seriously injured Tuesday morning when they were struck by a pickup truck as they were about to board a school bus, police said. Identical twin 6-year-old brothers, Xzavier and Mason Ingle, and their 9-year-old […]
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — President Donald Trump and the first lady, joined by the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump, visited Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue Tuesday afternoon in the wake of the massacre at the house of worship this weekend. As Rabbi Jeffrey Myers — who escaped […]
