Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.) — A Missouri man accused of holding a woman captive for a month in his basement has been indicted by a grand jury on charges including kidnapping and rape, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Timothy M. Haslett, 40, was arrested in October 2022 after a woman reportedly […]
ABC News (CLEVELAND, Ohio) — For the second day in a row, the Great Lakes are at a combined ice cover low. On Feb. 13, the combined ice cover across the Great Lakes was 7.3%, breaking the old record from 2002. The historical average for ice cover season-to-date is 40%. […]
Michigan Department of Corrections via AP (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Law enforcement officials on Tuesday named Anthony Dwayne McRae, a 43-year-old resident of Lansing, Michigan, as the suspect in the overnight shooting at Michigan State University that took the lives of three students and wounded five others. McRae led police […]
fhm/Getty Images (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — Ben Ratner has spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to survive a freight train chemical disaster. After all, he appeared in a movie about it. In 2020, Ratner and some family members traveled from his home in East […]
John Normile/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother died in the Tops supermarket massacre last May, said he’s not interested in hearing what the gunman has to say when he plans to apologize to victims’ families on Wednesday. “Nothing he’s going to say to me is […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (HOUSTON, Texas) — The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations of federal rights violations following the deaths of two inmates at the Harris County Jail in Texas after a request by the sheriff’s office. “These investigations will be fair, thorough, and impartial, and will […]
David McNew/Getty Images (PARKLAND, Fla.) — Five years later, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is still very much on the mind of English teacher Sarah Lerner. Lerner was teaching at the school on Feb. 14, 2018, when gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people — 14 students and […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Three Michigan State University students were killed and five more wounded in a mass shooting on the East Lansing campus Monday night. For several hours, terrified students sheltered in place following warnings of an active shooter at the university, before a suspect was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Salt Lake City is getting a wrong-way driver detection system. The Utah Department of Transportation will install the new technology at 20 locations on highways across the state, primarily along I-15 in Salt Lake. The system uses lights to alert drivers they’re going the wrong […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are moving closer to eliminating the use of letter grades to assess public schools in the state. House Bill 308 unanimously passed the House Education Committee yesterday. Letter grades for schools have been criticized as unnecessary and ineffective by supporters of the bill, […]
