Month: October 2019

MicroStockHub/iStock(NEW YORK) — The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to three economists “for their experimntal approach to alleviating global poverty.” Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were announced as the winners on [Read More…]

Jennifer Smith(NEW YORK) — One year after Jayme Closs was kidnapped as a 13-year-old and held for months by a man who murdered her parents, the teenager says she’s feeling “stronger every day.” “I really [Read More…]

iStock(FORT WORTH, Texas) — A white police officer responding to a call early Saturday for a welfare check at a home in Fort Worth, Texas, fired a shot into a bedroom window, striking and killing [Read More…]

iStock(BOCA RATON, Fla.) — One person was injured after shoppers fled during a false alarm over a suspected shooting at the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, Florida, according to police. The male victim suffered [Read More…]

Twitter/@ABC(NEW ORLEANS) — Crews were feverishly working on Sunday to stabilize the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans a day after the building partially collapsed, killing two construction workers, leaving a third trapped in [Read More…]

iStock(BOCA RATON, Fla.) — There is no active shooter at the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, Florida, according to police. Officers responded to the mall after receiving reports of a shots fired Sunday afternoon, [Read More…]

iStock(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — An Amber Alert has been issued for an Alabama toddler girl who vanished while attending a birthday party over the weekend, authorities said Sunday. Investigators fear she may have been kidnapped. 3-year-old [Read More…]

Facebook/Deerfield Harvest Football(DEERFIELD, N.J.) — A 10-year-old girl has died after she fell off a carnival ride in New Jersey, according to police. The girl was on a ride called “Extreme” at the Deerfield Township [Read More…]

iStock(KEY WEST, Fla.) — A propeller on a private plane severed a Florida woman’s arm and foot, according to authorities. The woman, a resident of Naples, was struck by the propeller at the Key West [Read More…]

iStock(LITTLE ROCK, Ill.) — At least 11 people have been hurt, one of them critically, after a car slammed into people enjoying an autumn hayride on Saturday afternoon about 55 miles west of Chicago. Authorities [Read More…]

iStock(FORT WORTH, Texas) — A police officer responding to a call early Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas, fired a shot into the window of a woman’s home, striking and killing her. The woman was black. [Read More…]

iStock(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — “Not qualified to make a fair and impartial decision,” is how Florida State Senator Bobby Powell described the judge who sentenced a 21-year-old man to 10 days in jail for missing jury [Read More…]

iStock(CHICAGO) — A woman known to police for trying to evade capture by airport security was arrested again at Chicago O’Hare airport, police said. Marilyn Hartman, known to authorities as the “Serial Stowaway,” was charged [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Due to “public safety concerns,” several artists slated to perform at this weekend’s Rolling Loud Festival in New York City were removed from the lineup. In a letter to festival organizers, the [Read More…]

Twitter/@ABC(NEW ORLEANS) — At least one person was killed and several others injured after a crane collapsed at the under-construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, officials said. Eighteen people were transported to local hospitals [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — Several California wildfires are still wreaking havoc as firefighters continue to battle the blazes Saturday. The Saddleridge fire in Los Angeles County, the largest of the latest California wildfires, encompasses 7,552 acres [Read More…]