A man and his father-in-law, who were trying to kill time by scouting fishing holes while their wives were gone, ended up finding a man who had been trapped for days inside a wrecked vehicle, authorities in Indiana said Tuesday. Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre reported finding …
Read More »Search resumes for woman who disappeared under frozen Alaska river while trying to rescue dog
A search in Alaska resumed Tuesday for a woman who went under the ice of the frozen Eagle River while trying to save her beloved dog and has not been seen since, officials said. The Alaska State Troopers identified the woman Tuesday as Amanda Richmond, 45, of the community of …
Read More »Clerk in Alex Murdaugh trial accused of plagiarizing passage in book about her role
The South Carolina court clerk who oversaw the trial of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh and is at the center of a jury tampering claim is being accused of plagiarism by the co-author of her book. Colleton County Court of Clerk Rebecca Hill lifted passages in the beginning of her book, …
Read More »Lose a limb or risk death? Many in Gaza face an agonizing choice
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for around a week, after her ankle was partially severed in an Israeli airstrike, when doctors told her she was suffering from blood poisoning. …
Read More »Blizzards and ice making for white, and dangerous, Christmas in Plains
It’ll be a white Christmas in parts of the Great Plains, and then some. Blizzard warnings were affecting around 720,000 people from northwestern Kansas and Colorado to most of South Dakota, the National Weather Service said, while ice and sleet were affecting other parts of the region. Nebraska State Patrol …
Read More »Lahaina residents’ desperate need for housing months after wildfire devastation
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Read More »Police confirm Christmas swatting incident at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s house
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Monday she was the victim of another “swatting” incident at her home in Georgia that was confirmed by local police to NBC News. “I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here,” Greene said in a post …
Read More »To save an endangered owl species, kill off other owls, government proposes
The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argues in its proposal to allow the agency to shoot hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in West Coast forests. The service says the barred …
Read More »Death toll from China earthquake rises to 149
BEIJING — The death toll from China’s most powerful earthquake in years has risen to 149, with two people still missing after the tremor hit northwestern parts of the country last week. The 6.2-magnitude quake struck a remote mountainous area between Gansu and Qinghai provinces on Dec. 18, reducing homes to rubble …
Read More »Fog alerts lead to ripple effect of flight delays nationwide, slowing Christmas Eve travel rush
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