ROSALIE, Ala. (AP) — A suspected tornado killed three people in Alabama as a line of severe storms moved across the South overnight, authorities said. The three who died were all in a mobile home in the northeastern Alabama community of Rosalie, Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen told The Associated Press early Wednesday. Another […]
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) — A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed near Medellin while on its way to the finals of a South American championship, killing 75 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. They said six people survived. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline with roots […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new vaccine against HIV, to be tested in a trial to be launched in South Africa Wednesday, could be “the final nail in the coffin” for the disease if it is successful, scientists say. The study, called HVTN 702, aims to enroll 5,400 sexually active men and women aged between 18 […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Monday released the identities of the attacker and victim after a man fatally shot a woman, threw her body out of a car and then was killed in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. April Peck, 30, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer. Police said they are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York City are searching for a woman who they say stole items from several people who were waiting for performers from the Broadway hit “Hamilton” outside the theater. Police say that between May 25 and Nov. 6, six theatergoers had their belongings stolen as they waited outside the […]
DETROIT (AP) — Charges could be announced Friday against a suspect being held in the fatal shooting this week of a Wayne State University police officer in Detroit. Maria Miller, spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, said in an email Thursday morning that the prosecutor’s office had received a warrant request in connection with […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 168-foot-tall Kansas waterslide on which a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son was killed last summer will be demolished once the unfolding investigation of the tragedy is finished, the water park’s operators said. Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts and the family that runs it said in a statement Tuesday that the “Verruckt” […]
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man faces sentencing after pleading guilty to charges that he plotted attacks against a member of the U.S. military and a police station in support of the Islamic State group. U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett scheduled a hearing for Wednesday for Munir Abdulkader. Court documents said Abdulkader pleaded guilty to […]
Three years after shaving his head to show support for a toddler battling leukemia, Former President George H.W. Bush says that same boy “is feeling and doing much better.” The 92-year-old Bush provided an update and a new picture of him with the boy on his Twitter account Monday . The boy is the son […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump abruptly canceled a meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday, accusing the organization of changing the conditions for the session “at the last moment.” The newspaper denied the charge and said Trump’s aides tried to change the rules. He’d been scheduled to meet Times reporters, editors and […]
UPDATE WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have found a week-old baby who was reported missing Thursday after her mother was shot to death in Kansas, police said Saturday. Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay said baby Sophia was found alive after authorities executed a search warrant before dawn at a Dallas home, The Wichita Eagle reported. […]
