Robert Deane walked outside of his home to pick up some packages when he noticed two car seats in a ditch. When he went to investigate, he found two baby girls who were kidnapped earlier Monday morning in a stolen vehicle. The girls were found in their car seats left out in the below-freezing temperatures…
A 24-year-old California man was electrocuted and died while hanging Christmas lights on Thursday, according to officials. Antonio Pascual was hanging Christmas lights the morning of Nov. 21 on a roof in Escondido, the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a news release. He was hanging the lights near a high voltage powerline…
Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to teacher Denny Flora (not shown) as they ride a train to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 30, 2020. Biden on Wednesday branded his presidential rival’s caustic debate performance as a “national embarrassment” for not addressing the concerns of everyday Americans and failing to denounce white…
A Kansas mother convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a 2022 car crash that killed three Girl Scouts − including her daughter − deflected blame, questioned the fairness of her trial and expressed optimism she would avoid prison during recorded jailhouse phone calls. Amber Peery, 35, was found guilty in August of three felony counts of…
It’s been almost 10 years since a white supremacist was welcomed into a South Carolina church and opened fire, killing nine people in a Bible study, including the Rev. Sharon Risher’s mother, two cousins and childhood friend. When the shooter, Dylann Roof, was sentenced to death in 2017, Risher believed he deserved to die. Over…
Veterans Day is Monday, a federal holiday that has roots to events more than a century ago. The holiday dates back to Nov. 11, 1918, which was the official end of World War I, when an armistice between the Allied nations and Germany started on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh…
Fans have been in an uproar since internet sensation Peanut the squirrel was seized from his owner’s home and euthanized by New York officials this week, over what they say was the unfair killing of a beloved family member. Peanut and a raccoon named Fred were both taken Wednesday from Mark Longo’s home in Pine…
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping and killing Memphis mother Eliza Fletcher during her morning jog in 2022. Cleotha Abston, 40, was able to avoid the death penalty with the guilty plea to first-degree murder and will face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Fletcher, who was 34 at the time…
Two ballot boxes were burned in Washington and Oregon on Monday, possibly damaging hundreds of mail-in votes with only about a week to go before Election Day. The Portland Police Bureau responded to reports of a fire in the Buckman neighborhood of the city at about 3:30 a.m. The fire had been extinguished by security…
Push aside imagery of the towering Tyrannosaurus rex because the smallest-ever dinosaur eggs have been unearthed and represent an all new type of dinosaur species. Six small non-avian dinosaur eggs, no bigger than grapes, were discovered during a field study in Ganzhou, a city in southeast China, in 2021, according to a report published by…