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An out-of-control hayride tractor crashed at a weekly youth outing in upstate New York, leaving three people critically injured and more than a dozen hurt. The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Wellsburg, a small Chemung County village just…
Christa Pike’s lawyer says the death row inmate remains unconscious and critically ill four days after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her. Stephen Ferrell, an attorney for Pike, 50, said on Friday that he has been unable to see his…
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Marseille after video captured him shooting flames into a woman’s face during France’s spiraling student protests. The masked teenager used what appeared to be an aerosol can paired with a lighter to create…
Lital Hirschl-Shahar has spoken out about the moment she told her four daughters to pray as their flydubai flight plunged toward the earth. Hirschl-Shahar, 39, was returning from a family vacation in Singapore and Thailand with her girls — ages…
A Tampa man in his mid-20s will not face criminal charges for fatally shooting 15-year-old Heitor Amaral, who had been searching for his lost cellphone in a gated apartment complex, police announced Thursday. The Tampa Police Department said a “comprehensive…
Two people are dead and at least 35 others wounded after gunfire erupted at a massive homecoming block party in rural Georgia. The shooting broke out around 1:25 a.m. Sunday near Pine Street in Vienna, Ga., where more than 1,000…
A young bear was euthanized along with its sibling and suspected mother after injuring two Idaho residents on their porch in a pre-dawn attack last Friday. The mauling occurred at approximately 3:30 a.m. In the Sunset Heights subdivision near Salmon,…
Shane and Hannah Burcaw are mapping out how to shield their baby from online hostility before the child even arrives. The interabled couple, known to millions as Squirmy and Grubs, said that guarding their unborn child’s privacy has become their…
Stephen Ferrell, Christa Pike’s attorney, has spoken publicly for the first time since Tennessee’s botched execution of his client. Ferrell said on Sunday that Pike, 50, remains hospitalized and dependent on a ventilator after two failed lethal injection attempts. The…
Ruth Peterson has spoken out ahead of the one-year anniversary of her best friend’s death, describing the moment she watched Joyce Tomlinson get shoved down a flight of stairs outside a South Carolina beach bar. Peterson, who had been friends…
Edimari Hernandez Chacon, 7, was fatally stabbed on a Chicago street by a stranger who attacked from behind in broad daylight. The child was walking hand-in-hand with another woman in the South Side neighborhood of Chatham shortly before noon on…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has launched a petition for federal legislation she calls “Kenan’s Law” after her partner Ken Urker died at 34. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed Urker was found unresponsive at his Louisiana home on October 1, his…
Wreckage from a missing medical flight has been located off the Massachusetts coast after the aircraft vanished during its approach to Boston. The Gulfstream G100, bound for Boston Logan International Airport from Bermuda, disappeared early Saturday with six people on…
Dominick Critelli returned to UBS Arena on Saturday night to play the national anthem on his saxophone for the New York Islanders home opener. The 105-year-old World War II Army veteran, a Floral Park resident, was honored as the game’s…
Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballad, 20, was arrested Sunday in Okinawa on suspicion of robbing and murdering a 39-year-old woman at a local hotel. The US Marine, assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, allegedly killed Anna Yagi early Saturday…
Fada Concepcion, 52, flashed a double thumbs-up to her attorney after a judge slashed her bond Friday. The veteran science teacher had just learned she would walk out of the Seminole County courtroom on $1,000 bond rather than the $5,000…