Police Fatally Shoot Allegedly Armed Motorist Who Crashed Into Multiple Cars in South Los Angeles. A male motorist who struck multiple vehicles before crashing into a light pole was fatally shot by police in the Florence neighborhood of South Los Angeles Monday night, LAPD said. The incident began shortly after 6...
At least eight migrants have died and 86 have been rescued from a smugglers' boat after it starting sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the Italian coast guard said. A search is ongoing to find any possible survivors. Italy's coastguard said an aircraft on patrol for a European anti-smuggling...
Matthew Edward Riehl, gunman livestreamed shootout that killed one deputy, wounded 6 others. The gunman who shot and killed 29-year-old Douglas County sheriff’s deputy Zackari Parrish recorded a 911 call he placed to dispatchers and livestreamed the moments he opened fire. In the video, which was posted to the streaming service...
Police and community members have banded together to replace a family's gifts robbed by a Grinch on Christmas Day. Cheshire officers collected donated presents for the Maher family and delivered more than 100 gifts to them Saturday aboard emergency vehicles with lights and sirens blaring. The Republican-American reports the family spent...
U.S. citizens among 10 dead in southwest Mexico car crash. Three vehicles crashed into each other and burst into flames on a highway in south Mexico's Guerrero state, killing 10 people, including five members of a vacationing family visiting from the U.S., officials reported on Saturday. The accident, involving two SUVs...
Lindy Lou Layman accused of destroying three paintings and two sculptures belonging to Houston attorney Tony Buzbee and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage appeared in court. Lindy Lou Layman was arrested on Dec. 23 on criminal mischief charges after allegedly damaging several painting and sculptures in...
Woman shot in the head in Christmas Day shooting in South Richmond. Anthony Milan Ross, 45, the woman's estranged spouse and the father of the children, was taken into custody shortly after 10 p.m. Monday after exchanging fire with officers after a six-hour standoff, Phoenix police said Tuesday. Ross did...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s ruling party United Russia wants the “ultimate victory” of President Vladimir Putin at the presidential election in March, party head and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday. Putin, 65, said earlier this month he would run for re-election as a self-nominated candidate, in...
WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The United States on Friday backed the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, a conservative and U.S. ally, who was certified the winner of last month’s presidential contest despite widespread misgivings about the vote count. The Honduran electoral tribunal declared Hernandez winner of the...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations announced on Friday the appointment of Henrietta Fore, an economic development advocate and former U.S. State Department official, as executive director of its Children’s Fund, effective Jan. 1. Fore, 69, who currently is the chief executive officer of manufacturing and...