Month: December 2018

rustythedog/iStock(SEGUIN, Texas) — Police arrested an armed Texas man on Sunday who allegedly said he was on his way to a nearby church to fulfill “a prophecy,” authorities said. Tony Albert, 33, was arrested in [Read More…]

Former Minnesota Vikings linebacker and Mount Vernon native Chad Greenway was in Mitchell over the weekend with his latest venture: Gray Duck Vodka. He says the idea for the name came from a Minnesota Vikings [Read More…]

ronniechua/iStock(MOSCOW) — Russian authorities have detained an American citizen over accusations of spying, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. In a short statement, the agency notes Russia’s Federal Security Service detained a U.S. citizen named [Read More…]

Fire destroyed a single-family home in Mount Vernon Sunday afternoon, but not before two neighbors helped the occupants get out. Davison County Chief Deputy Steve Harr heard the fire whistle around 2:15, turned on his [Read More…]

Mizpah Volunteer Fire Company 18-2(NEW YORK) — A firefighter who was killed in a Christmas Day car crash while heading to an emergency call was laid to rest Sunday. Natalie Dempsey, a 21-year-old volunteer firefighter [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) —  Two storm systems are on the move as revelers get ready to ring in the new year — and those headed to Times Square to see the ball drop should [Read More…]

iStock/MrRuj(CHARLOTTE) — A 22-year-old newly-hired employee was attacked and killed by a lion after it escaped a locked space at a North Carolina animal center on Sunday, officials said. A “husbandry team, led by a [Read More…]

iStock/MrRuj(CHARLOTTE) —  One person was killed by a lion that escaped a locked space at a North Carolina animal center, officials said Sunday. “While a husbandry team led by a professionally trained animal keeper was [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) –Authorities are searching for a gunman after a 7-year-old girl was shot dead in a Walmart parking lot in Houston Sunday as the girl sat in her car with her mother and three other [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) –Authorities are searching for a gunman after a 7-year-old girl was shot dead in a Walmart parking lot in Houston Sunday as the girl sat in her car with her mother and three other [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEWMAN, Calif.) — Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the nation are expected to descend on a small California farming town this week to honor a police corporal described as his family’s “role model,” [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — A 7-year-old girl was shot and killed in a Walmart parking lot in Houston early Sunday when a gunman opened fire on a vehicle she was traveling in with her mother and three [Read More…]

moodboard/Thinkstock(HARAHAN, Louisana) — The Harahan Police Department is very concerned about Zika virus in your meth — and would love for you to just stop on by to drop it off for testing. The department [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Two systems are set to bring unsettled weather across the country as revelers get ready to ring in the new year. The first system in the Northwest is the colder one [Read More…]

KABC(LOS ANGELES) — Blaze Bernstein was a bright student, loyal friend and passionate culinary aficionado who spent the fall of 2017 as a sophomore taking pre-med courses at the University of Pennsylvania and acting as [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — Several U.S. newspapers came under attack from apparent hackers on Saturday, preventing some from printing and distributing their daily editions. The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun [Read More…]

Twitter/@starryeyd_(BALTIMORE, Maryland) — Six people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a jet bridge failed at a Baltimore airport, officials say. Just before 8 p.m. on Saturday, Southwest flight 822 arrived at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood [Read More…]