Year: 2019

David Tran/iStock(NEW YORK) — Passengers passed through airport checkpoints in record numbers in 2018, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday, and they also tried so with a record number of firearms. While 813,791,287 passengers and [Read More…]

Onnes/iStock(NEW YORK) — A federal investigation has been launched into why inmates at a New York detention center were left to endure days of bone-chilling weather following a fire that knocked out electricity — conditions [Read More…]

Kuzma/iStock(ATLANTA) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the execution of a Muslim inmate in Alabama after the state refused to allow his imam to be at his death instead of a Christian prison [Read More…]

die-phalanx/iStock(ROME) — All flights into Rome’s secondary international airport, Ciampino, were suspended on Thursday after construction workers doing maintenance work on a tarmac uncovered three World War II bombs beneath the asphalt, according to local [Read More…]

Regional retailer Shopko has announced an updated round of store closings. The Mitchell Shopko remains on the safe list and will stay open. However Shopko’s Chamberlain Hometown store which was on the closure list and [Read More…]

Harris County Sheriffs Office(HOUSTON) — After a young woman was gunned down in her own driveway in a crime caught on surveillance video, Houston authorities are pleading for help to get her “callous killer off [Read More…]

WABC-TV(GREENWICH, Conn.) — The young woman whose body was found bound in a suitcase in Greenwich, Connecticut, has been identified as Valerie Reyes, 24, of New Rochelle, New York, officials said. The gruesome discovery was [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) — A 5-year-old girl was pulled from a massive pile of rubble on Thursday in Istanbul, some 18 hours after a 14-unit apartment building collapsed and killed at least three others. The eight-floor building [Read More…]

Chris Rank/Delta(NEW YORK) — Delta Air Lines is bucking the trend of narrower seats and fewer video screens with Thursday’s launch of its newest plane, the Airbus A220, hoping it will signal a commitment to [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The father of the young man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents said he’s heartbroken for the girl and is struggling to make sense of it all. [Read More…]

mpc28/iStock(PHOENIX) — Arizona’s governor is calling for stronger protections for people with disabilities in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal at a long-term care facility. Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order on Wednesday [Read More…]

Animal Clinic of Kalispell(KALISPELL, Mont.) — A very lucky cat in Montana is happy and healthy after thawing out — literally — at an animal clinic over the past week following a miraculous rescue. The [Read More…]

Winter Park Police Department(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Police arrested a Florida woman on Tuesday who allegedly killed her husband and tampered with the crime scene. Danielle Redlick, 45, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in [Read More…]