(SEDONA, Ariz.) — Arizona senator and former Republican presidential nominee John S. McCain died Saturday, months after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor. He was 81. McCain served in the United States Senate for three decades, was first elected in 1986, and was chairman of the Senate […]
iStock/Thinkstock(STATESBORO, Ga.) — Four people were killed when a single-engine plane crashed at an airport in Georgia, officials said. The pilot and three of the four passengers in the Cessna 182A died when the plane, owned by The Jumping Place Skydiving Center in Statesboro, crashed at the Emanuel County Municipal, […]
Coventry Police Department(NEW YORK) — A 13-year-old boy with autism and ADHD stole an ambulance and crashed into an unoccupied police car and a motorcyclist in Rhode Island, authorities said Friday. The unidentified boy was taken by his mother to Coventry Fire Station Number 7 Thursday because he was agitated, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(HONOLULU) — Tropical Storm Lane is just south of Hawaii, moving in a north-northwest direction, on Saturday morning. The storm’s rain bands are producing significant rain and major flooding across parts of the Hawaiian Islands. After diminishing in intensity throughout Friday, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center now classifies Lane as […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A spate of shootings outside high school football games in three states on Friday night left two dead and at least three injured. The football season is just getting underway, but this is already the second weekend in which shootings have taken place near local football games. […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Parks Department worker in New York City happened upon a grisly scene on a sidewalk outside Crotona Park on Friday when he found two black plastic bags with human body parts inside. The two trash bags were discovered Friday afternoon by the parks employee, who initially […]
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — Parents are calling for the resignation of a Chicago school principal after she said students were barred from wearing certain items of clothing to keep them from being sexually assaulted. Melanie Beatty-Sevier, the principal of King College Prep in Bronzeville, made the comment linking sexual assault and “provocative” […]
FWC(HUDSON, Fla.) — After hours of searching the waters off the coast of Florida, rescuers on Thursday found a missing diver who they said had spent an entire night alone, lost at sea, but said he had “a will to survive.” Terry Hayes, 57, and Michael Pavlich, 34, were exploring […]
iStock/Thinkstock(YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.) — A bear attacked and injured a 10-year-old boy who was hiking with his family along a trail in Yellowstone National Park on Thursday morning. The unidentified family of four from Washington state was hiking along the Divide Trail, southeast of the Old Faithful geyser when […]
Cook County Sheriff’s Office(CHICAGO) — A Chicago-area man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to “shoot” and “blow up” the conference of conservative high school students held in Washington last month that grabbed headlines when the featured speaker, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, uttered the phrase “lock her up.” 28-year-old Alexander […]
