Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has called out the rail operator at the center of a hazardous train derailment in Ohio. In a sharply worded, three-page letter sent Sunday to Norfolk Southern Railway president and CEO Alan Shaw, Buttigieg accused the […]
kali9/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Five people were shot, one fatally, at the Krewe of Bacchus Parade in New Orleans on Sunday night, police said. All five victims — three males and two females — were transported to local hospitals. One of them is a juvenile, according to the New […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — An 18-year-old man was arrested Sunday for the fatal shooting of a Temple University police officer in north Philadelphia, authorities said. Miles Pfeffer, 18, of Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania, is facing charges including murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking and related offenses in […]
Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PLAINS, Ga.) — Former President Jimmy Carter will receive hospice care following a series of short hospital stays, the Carter Center announced Saturday. Carter, 98, is both the oldest living and longest-lived U.S. president. “After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter […]
Nic Antaya for The Washington Post via Getty Images (EAST LANSING) — Five students injured during the shooting at Michigan State University remain in critical condition. Grief counselors and a bolstered police presence will be on hand Monday at Michigan State University, as in-person classes resume eight days after a gunman […]
Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A long-serving Catholic bishop known as a “peacemaker” was fatally shot in a Los Angeles home on Saturday, prompting police to launch a murder investigation, officials said. Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who had been a priest and then a bishop […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Don’t be fooled by the mild winter weather in some places — a massive storm is on its way to wreak havoc in several states as it treks across the country. The next storm gearing up to affect the U.S. will start in the Northwest […]
Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library, North Carolina Room. (WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Athalia Howe was just 12 years old when she, her sister and mother were forced to seek refuge in a cemetery as armed white supremacists terrorized Wilmington, North Carolina, in the fall of 1898. Separated from her father, […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A Temple University police officer was fatally shot in the head when trying to arrest a robbery suspect in north Philadelphia on Saturday night, officials said. He was later pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital, the university said. The suspect fled, and no arrests have […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (COLUMBUS, Ga.) — Police in Columbus, Georgia, responded to the shooting at a local Shell gas station Friday night to find nine children, including a five-year-old child, injured with gunshot wounds. The Columbus Police Department has made no arrests in the case, and the nine victims are being […]
