Month: April 2019

Topeka Zoo(TOPEKA, Kan.) — A Kansas zookeeper who was attacked and badly injured by a Sumatran tiger when she inexplicably entered the animal’s enclosure was identified on Tuesday as a 40-year-old wildlife veteran and “one [Read More…]

JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a wave of coordinated bombings at churches and high-end hotels across Sri Lanka. The terrorist organization offered no evidence to support that assertion, which [Read More…]

iStock/Poligrafistka(NEW YORK) — The deputy mayor of an Austrian village has caused an uproar across the country’s political spectrum after he published a poem that seemed to compare migrants to rats. Christian Schilcher of the [Read More…]

Interim Archives/Getty Images(BLACKSBURG, Va.) — With the Federal Aviation Administration’s historic certification, Wing Aviation’s drone deliveries are set to arrive in Virginia. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced Tuesday that the FAA awarded [Read More…]

KNXV-TV(GLENDALE, Ariz.) — An 18-month-old girl died after she was left in her family’s car for several hours, Arizona authorities said. The child’s death is being investigated as a possible hot car case, said police [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Angelina Jolie and Amal Clooney added their voices in the calls to support a new United Nations Security Council resolution that included a mechanism to investigate sexual violence as a [Read More…]

AmyKerk/iStock(NEW YORK) — An expert who has been working with the Boy Scouts revealed that there may have been as many as 7,819 sexually abusive troop leaders and volunteers in the storied organization, according to [Read More…]

LPETTET/iStock (NEW BERLIN, Wis.) — Wisconsin resident Manuel Franco is the winner of last month’s $768.4 million Powerball jackpot — the third-largest lottery amount in U.S. history. “It feels like a dream,” Franco, 24, said [Read More…]

liveslow/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s top administration lawyer clashed with liberal justices of the Supreme Court on Tuesday over the government’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. “I’m sorry. It’s not [Read More…]

Darwin Brandis/iStock(NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors charged pharmaceutical company Rochester Drug Cooperative and two of its former executives Tuesday in a new method of charges for a drug distributor related to the nation’s ongoing opioid [Read More…]

ABC News(DELPHI, Indiana) — The mysterious murder of two Delphi girls deepened this week when Indiana State Police revealed new clues about the killer, including that he may live in the tight-knit Indiana community. But [Read More…]

WABC(NEW YORK) — Chanel Lewis, 22, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2016 murder of Karina Vetrano, who was beaten and strangled to death while out for [Read More…]

SweetBabeeJay/iStock(MENOMONEE FALLS, Wisc.) — Affordable fashion retailer Kohl’s has announced that it is expanding its Amazon returns program this summer. All 1,150 Kohl’s locations will accept opened packages starting in July for free, Kohl’s said [Read More…]