Month: August 2018

John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former President George W. Bush has accepted an invitation to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Sen. John McCain at the National Cathedral and is [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Reeling from the shock and outrage of Mollie Tibbetts’ slaying in the small Iowa town the college student from California called home, thousands of mourners are expected to fill [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Reeling from the shock and outrage of Mollie Tibbetts’ slaying in the small Iowa town the college student from California called home, thousands of mourners are expected to fill [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Reeling from the shock and outrage of Mollie Tibbetts’ slaying in the small Iowa town the college student from California called home, thousands of mourners are expected to fill [Read More…]

@CFDMedia/Twitter(CHICAGO) — Eight people, including six children, were killed after a fire sparked in an apartment building in Chicago, fire officials said. The blaze ignited just before 4 a.m. on the second floor of a [Read More…]

KOAT via ABCNews.com(ALBUQUERUE, N.M.) — Police body cam video captured footage of an alleged shoplifter opening fire on two officers in the parking lot of a Walmart in New Mexico, according to a report. The [Read More…]

WCVB(HANSON, Mass.) — One of two brothers on a flight to spread their father’s ashes died on Saturday after their small plane crashed in a pond in Massachusetts. Scott Landis, 34, was killed in the [Read More…]

Laura Segall/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — It’s been said that when a person runs for president, the whole family runs for president. For the McCains, that meant nine people involved in a complex 2008 campaign against eventual [Read More…]

(SEDONA, Ariz.) — John Sidney McCain III, a Vietnam War hero with more than 35 years of public service and who became one of the most distinctive figures in modern American politics, died Saturday at [Read More…]

(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 [Read More…]

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, [Read More…]

Paula Bronstein/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The attacks on Aug. 25, 2017, seemed coordinated. Myanmar military units descended on Rohingya villages in what would become a massacre — women and girls raped, men and boys executed [Read More…]

Charles McQuillan/Getty Images(DUBLIN) — Pope Francis marked the first papal visit to Ireland in nearly four decades with a speech acknowledging the “failure” of the Catholic Church to address the “repugnant crimes” of clerical sexual [Read More…]

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 [Read More…]

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. [Read More…]

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 [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Tesla will not be going private after all. Oft-eccentric billionaire owner Elon Musk announced his company will remain a public company despite a surprisingly Twitter missive to the contrary earlier [Read More…]

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 [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif.) — Verizon will stop imposing data restrictions on emergency first responders battling natural disasters, the communications giant announced Friday. Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden accused Verizon in [Read More…]