Month: February 2019

AOosthuizen/iStock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — A zookeeper in Florida was struck by a rhinoceros during “routine rhino training” and taken to a hospital for evaluation, according to the zoo. The incident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, [Read More…]

A 20-year-old woman died early Tuesday in a one-vehicle rollover crash north of Alexandria. She was the only person involved in the crash. A pickup was traveling southbound on 421st Avenue when the driver lost [Read More…]

pop_jop/iStock(NEW YORK) — India announced Tuesday it launched airstrikes against a terrorist group in a Pakistani territory in response to a suicide bomb that killed 40 armed police in Kashmir last week, a move that [Read More…]

Rebekah Dodson(OAKRIDGE, Ore.) — An Amtrak train with 183 passengers aboard was stranded in Oregon for over 24 hours. The Coast Starlight Train 11, traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles, came to a standstill near [Read More…]

Courtesy Shannen Ludwig(GREENVILLE, S.C.) — Two Girl Scouts from Troop 1574 made the cookie sale of the season when one man bought their entire supply on their first night! Kayla Dillard, the troop’s cookie manager, [Read More…]

busracavus/iStock(WASHINGTON) — In a rare show of bipartisan consensus, Republican and Democratic senators on Tuesday grilled seven top executives from the world’s biggest drugmakers on why prices remain historically high. The most heated exchanges came [Read More…]

Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The recent reports of several high-profile men being among the lists of hundreds of massage parlor patrons set to face prostitution charges in Florida may draw [Read More…]

TheCrimsonMonkey/iStock(NEW YORK) — “Hold the door!” Game of Thrones Oreo cookies will apparently be available before the show’s eighth and final season. Oreo made the announcement in an Instagram video this week, where the word [Read More…]

Asanka Brendon Ratnayake / AFP(NEW YORK) — The revelation that a Catholic cardinal in Australia was convicted of molesting boys marks the most senior member of the church to face prison time for sexual abuse. [Read More…]

Courtesy Dylan Qian(YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.) — A California outdoors enthusiast killed by falling rocks and ice at Yosemite National Park this week became the second hiker in two months to die on Mist Trail, [Read More…]