iStock/Thinkstock(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — TV news employees were forced to evacuate from their building Sunday night, skipping a newscast, after a nonemployee gained access to the building and sat down on set. KRQE, a CBS affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was forced to skip its 10 p.m. newscast due to the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Another day of blistering heat is in store for much of the Northeast. A prolonged heat wave is gripping the Northeast, with heat index values near 100 degrees Monday in major cities like Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; New York City; Hartford, Connecticut; and Albany, New York. Some record […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — A federal judge has approved a temporary restraining order that allows the nearly 1,800 Puerto Rican survivors of Hurricane Maria to stay in temporary housing for another four days. Following the order, the Federal Emergency Management Agency added a fifth day of housing. The FEMA-funded […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Three days after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newspaper office, killing five staff, the publication in Annapolis, Maryland, thanked the community for its support in a piece printed on its Sunday opinion section. “Thank you. We will not forget,” read the headline. “Thank you […]
iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON, Texas) — The world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, happened 30 years this week. One hundred sixty-seven workers perished in the fire that followed an explosion on July 6, 1988, caused by a gas leak on the North Sea oil rig, 120 miles off the northeast […]
Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office(CANTON, Ga.) — Police in Georgia showed up at an upscale house in Cherokee County looking for a suspected criminal on Friday only to find a completely unrelated $1.2 million marijuana grow house operation — and a very elusive homeowner. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office arrived at […]
iStock/Thinkstock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado for starting the Spring wildfire, which grew to over 40,000 acres in size on Saturday. The Costilla County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Jesper Joergensen was taken into custody on Saturday after the announcement was made at a community […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A multiday heat wave that brought a heat index reading of 112 degrees to Chicago on Saturday will reach its peak in the Northeast on Sunday. Temperatures were in the 90s from Chicago to New York City on Saturday, including a high of 96 degrees in […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BOISE) — Nine people are hospitalized — some seriously — after a man went on a stabbing spree at an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, that is home to many refugee families, police said. A 30-year-old man from out of state has been arrested in connection with the attack Saturday […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BOISE) — In an act of “pure evil,” a knife-wielding man stormed a 3-year-old girl’s birthday party at an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, stabbing her, five other children and three adults — all refugees who had fled violence in their homelands only to find it in America, police said. […]
