Year: 2019

Starcevic/iStock(PARIS) — It’s not the kind of record they’re used to making — but it’s a big one for the famed Louvre museum. The Paris landmark welcomed a record 10.2 million visitors in 2018, a [Read More…]

Merced Police Department(NEWMAN, Calif.) — Slain California police officer Ronil Singh will be recognized with a solemn procession and honor guard visitation on Friday. Cpl. Singh, 33, a native of Fiji who dedicated his life [Read More…]

MattGush/iStock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — Five children and two adults were killed in a fiery car crash on Interstate 75 in Alachua County, Florida, near Gainesville, officials said. A semi-truck was heading north Thursday afternoon when it [Read More…]

MattGush/iStock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — Seven people are dead and others critically hurt after a fiery car crash on I-75 near Gainesville, Florida, officials said. Fifty gallons of diesel fuel spilled in the crash. The blaze has [Read More…]

ronniechua/iStock(NEW YORK) — As a Russian attorney for an American accused of espionage in Moscow is already floating the idea of a possible prisoner exchange, former intelligence officials and experts have speculated that Russia may [Read More…]

PeopleImages/iStock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. employers added 312,000 jobs to their payrolls in December, the Labor Department reported Friday morning, exceeding economists’ expectations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said most of the job gains were in health [Read More…]

DanHenson1/iStock(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Lawmakers in Tennessee are asking the state’s governor to pardon a 30-year-old woman who was sentenced to life in prison for murder. State lawmakers, ministers and activists gathered for a press conference [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — There are seven states under flood or snow and ice alerts on Friday morning, including Oklahoma City and Atlanta, as a storm that brought record snowfall targets the Northeast with heavy [Read More…]

Thiago Santos/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries, is investing in teaching older people how to use social media as they are increasingly looking to social media to find new [Read More…]

Texas City Police Department (TEXAS CITY, Texas) — Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday. Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and [Read More…]

Harris County Sheriff’s Office(HOUSTON) — Texas authorities have released a composite sketch of the man they believe killed 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes as she rode in the backseat of a car with her mother and three [Read More…]

Jody Pottingr(NEW YORK) — An 11-year-old boy apparently suffered a severe asthma attack and died when he inhaled the aroma of salt fish cooking in his grandmother’s New York City home after going there to [Read More…]

Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As Lindsay Scott’s family braced for the government shutdown, she was offered financial assistance from an unlikely benefactor: her 11-year-old son tried to donate his saved allowance [Read More…]

Texas City Police Department (TEXAS CITY, Texas) — Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday. Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and [Read More…]