Year: 2018

andrew_t/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A small plane with four people on board crashed off the coast of New York’s Long Island on Saturday. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, a Piper PA31 Navajo aircraft crashed about [Read More…]

ustino73/iStock/Thinkstock(ROME) — After months of political turmoil, Italy has a new populist government. Sworn in Friday, the next step for the new government is confidence votes in Parliament, which will be called early next week. [Read More…]

zorandimzr/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Visa says a “technical issue” that prevented some users in Europe from making payments with their credit or debit cards has been resolved. The outage was widespread, and impacted banks including the [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — In the past week, a Tesla sedan driving with Autopilot collided with a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle in California, authorities confirmed, stoking concerns about the semi-autonomous system, which [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BEIJING) — This year marks the 29th anniversary of China’s violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. More than a generation later, this pivotal event in modern Chinese history still remains one of [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) — The killing of two paralegals has been tied to the recent murder of the notable forensic psychiatrist who worked on the JonBenet Ramsey case in Phoenix the day before, Arizona police said. Veleria [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) — Steven Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist who consulted with law enforcement on a number of high-profile cases, including the mysterious death of JonBenet Ramsey, was found shot to death outside his Phoenix office on [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A dog on a cross-country flight was found dead in its cage upon arriving at its destination airport on Wednesday, according to the pet’s owners and the airline. “I want to know [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Investigators on Saturday continued scouring the home of a kidnapping suspect in Springfield, Massachusetts, where three dead bodies have already been found in and around the unassuming, green clapboard house. “Needless to [Read More…]

Daytona Beach Police Department(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) —   A man speeding through the streets of Volusia County, Florida, had the help of police as he raced to take his wife who was in labor to the [Read More…]

Steven Ferdman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A new Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit filed Friday in a Manhattan federal court accuses Harvey Weinstein’s defense attorney of deceiving a Connecticut woman who accused Weinstein of rape. [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — A dirty tissue led to the arrest of one of the most-prolific serial killers in U.S. history, according to a newly unsealed search and arrest warrant. After four days of [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — It’s that time of year again where thousands of developers head to Silicon Valley for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, aka WWDC. The five-day conference, which will take place [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A slow-moving cold front is pushing through the Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Saturday morning, bringing rounds of strong thunderstorms to area. The cold front will slide south on Saturday and as it [Read More…]

Stefan Wermuth – WPA Pool /Getty Images(LONDON) — On June 2, 1953, the 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II and her husband The Duke of Edinburgh were driven in the Gold State Coach from Buckingham Palace to [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(DETROIT) — When Berlin club owner Dimitri Hegemann first visited Detroit in the 1990s, he was struck by city’s decaying, decadent buildings. “In any empty building I see an opportunity—and there are so [Read More…]

Ohio House of Representatives (NEW YORK) — Ohio state Rep. Emilia Sykes has had trouble on multiple occasions getting into the statehouse building and was even once told by security that she didn’t “look like [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two police officers in South Florida have been placed on administrative leave while their department investigates a video that purportedly shows them beating a suspect on the ground with batons. Officers Jaime [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) — A couple visiting Las Vegas from Vietnam was stabbed to death at Circus Circus hotel and casino on Friday, according to authorities. The man and woman were part of a Vietnamese tourist [Read More…]