BALTIMORE (AP) — A school bus blocks away from its first stop Tuesday morning rear-ended a car, hit the entrance to a cemetery and then veered into an oncoming commuter bus in a crash that killed at least six people and injured 10, authorities said. No children were on board the school bus, whose driver […]
CHUNKY, Miss. (AP) — A vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities said. Two children and one adult — all related to each other — were killed in the crash, Newton County Coroner Danny […]
LEICESTER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman who bought a scratch-off ticket to show her husband that lottery tickets are a waste of money has won $1 million. Glenda Blackwell of Leicester tells WLOS-TV that her husband asked her to buy two Powerball tickets from a Quik Mart last Saturday, but she bought a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter, seemingly unable to find a buyer and losing money, is cutting about 9 percent of its employees worldwide. The social media site has failed to keep pace with rivals Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram and in recent months, rumors that it would be acquired have run rampant. Shares of Twitter, which […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) â Amtrak will pay $265 million to settle claims related to a deadly derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. Lawyers who negotiated the settlement say people will have their awards in hand by June instead of going through years of legal wrangling. Amtrak has previously taken […]
DENVER (AP) — Authorities say a fan has died after falling 60 feet at the Denver Broncos’ stadium after a game on Monday night. Stadium Management Co., which operates Sports Authority Field at Mile High, said the fan fell over a railing. The medical examiner’s office said Tuesday the man was transported to a hospital […]
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on a California highway through the night, and the work had gone on for hours without problems. Then a tour bus returning to Los Angeles from a casino trip slammed into the back of a semi-truck. Passengers who were asleep on the bus […]
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Senegalese-American hip-hop star Akon is in Liberia to endorse this country’s plan to outsource oversight of its primary education system to a U.S.-based for-profit company. Akon’s visit comes six months after this West African nation unveiled plans to allow Bridge International Academies to write curricula and train teachers. Some Liberian educators […]
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Several families have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Michigan and the Flint school district, saying more needs to be done to help students whose academic performance and behavior have worsened since drinking the city’s lead-tainted water. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, says there “has been no […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday tore into Donald Trump for sowing suspicion about the integrity of the U.S. election, telling the Republican presidential nominee to “stop whining” and focus on winning votes. Obama called Trump’s intensifying, pre-emptive warnings about voter fraud “unprecedented” in modern politics. The rhetoric is not based on any […]
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges he tried to kill police officers in New Jersey before they captured him. Ahmad Khan Rahami’s hearing is set for Thursday in Elizabeth. Prosecutors said he […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamic extremists more than two years ago have been freed in negotiations, officials said Thursday. Some 197 girls remain captive, though it is not known how many of them may have died. The freed girls, the first to be released as a […]
