Month: September 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(SYDNEY) — A major Australian supermarket chain is temporarily pulling sewing needles from its shelves as authorities continue to investigate cases of needles being put in fruit. Woolworths, which has close to 1,000 locations across [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — Lauren Hayden said she sensed something was wrong when she went on a date with prominent doctor Grant Robicheaux last year. “I was in the pool with him, or jacuzzi, and [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ABERDEEN, Maryland) — Multiple people were killed this morning in northeast Maryland, authorities said Thursday. Police responded to a call shortly after 9 a.m., Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said at a news conference. Gahler [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MELBOURNE, Australia) — Authorities in Florida briefly shut down an international airport after a man believed to be a student tried to board a plane in the middle of the night. The suspect jumped an [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SALISBURY, United Kingdom) — The British public may have reportedly been duped after a couple appeared to fall ill at a restaurant in Salisbury, England, Sunday, sparking fears that the town had once again been [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(AMES, Iowa) — As hundreds of students held an emotional vigil on the campus of Iowa State University, their tears glistening in candlelight, the mother of slain champion college golfer Celia Barquín Arozamena spoke out [Read More…]

Sonitus(ALEXANDRIA, Virginia) — Think your new wireless Apple Airpod ear buds are pretty special, don’t you? The U.S. Department of Defense is working with a Silicon Valley startup to fine-tune a crystal-clear, two-way radio so [Read More…]

ABC News(CULLEOKA, Tennessee) — It’s been a year and a half now since high school teacher Tad Cummins ran off with his then 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas. Across the country and in the small town [Read More…]

Twitter/@lmedsker(WASHINGTON) — Dozens of senior citizens were saved from a raging apartment fire thanks to Washington D.C. firefighters and several U.S. Marines, eyewitness video showed. The Marines, who weren’t wearing fire gear, sprinted toward the [Read More…]

KABC(LOS ANGELES) — A pair of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were injured in a fatal shootout on Wednesday after responding to a call about a man with a deadly weapon, authorities said. The deputies [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A desperate search is underway in the nation’s capital after a woman was stabbed to death while jogging in a trendy neighborhood just a few miles from the White House. Wendy Karina Martinez, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — For over 16 hours on Sept. 20, 2017, an island of more than 3 million people was battered by the Category 4-hurricane-force winds and rain of Maria. The toll taken [Read More…]

ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) — The leaders of North and South Korea went on a trip together to the top of Mount Baektu, a sacred mountain that borders China and is said to contain the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WAUKESHA, Wisconsin) — A Wisconsin woman was caught on tape breaking out of her handcuffs and escaping from a local police station, authorities said. Thirty-year-old Amber Gonzales was arrested last Friday at the Beaumont Hotel [Read More…]

Google Maps(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — Two South Carolina sheriff’s deputies who were transporting a pair of mental patients in a van that was overcome by flood waters — drowning the two women, who were chained in [Read More…]

ABC News(SAN FRANCISCO) — The Sisters of the Valley, a group of self-styled “weed nuns,” are putting their faith in the healing power of cannabis. Despite their moniker, this nonreligious sorority of radical feminists resides [Read More…]