George Mendonsa, who maintained for decades that he was the sailor in an iconic 1945 Times Square photo, dubbed “The Kiss,” that came to symbolize the end of World War II, has died, his family says. He was 95. The veteran died early Sunday in Newport, Rhode Island, just two days before his 96th birthday,…… MORE
Firefighters are well known for their cat-rescuing skills. But members of San Bernardino County Fire department faced a bigger challenge than your average trapped tabby when called to a home in California on Saturday. Arriving at the house in Hesperia, San Bernardino County, they found a large cougar, or mountain lion, sitting about 50 feet…… MORE
Five people waiting at a bus stop in New Orleans were shot during a police shootout with a robbery suspect Sunday, police said. The suspect was fatally shot by a Louisiana State Police Officer at the end of foot chase with gunfire throughout, Chief Shaun Ferguson said. Ferguson said detectives had been investigating two armed…… MORE
The day after Valentine’s Day, Terra Pinkard received a final text message from the love of her life. She says it read: “I love you, I’ve been shot at work.” “It took me several times reading it for it to hit me that it was for real,” Pinkard wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.…… MORE
Last Thursday, Mary Kay Mace marked the 11th anniversary of her daughter’s death in a shooting spree at Northern Illinois University on February 14, 2008. On Friday, she learned of a workplace shooting that claimed multiple lives not far from NIU’s campus in a manufacturing plant in Aurora. On Sunday evening, she stood in the…… MORE
An inmate in southern Florida used his criminal skills for a good cause. He and a group of four other low-level offenders in Pasco County, near Tampa, broke into an SUV on Thursday to rescue a 1-year-old girl who was accidentally locked in, according to CNN affiliate KABC-TV. The mother of the child, Shadow Lantry,…… MORE
It’s been almost three months since Kelsey Berreth’s toddler has seen her mom. Three months since anyone has seen the Colorado mother alive. During that time, authorities charged Berreth’s fiancé, Patrick Frazee, with murder — even though the body has not been found. Now, Berreth’s parents have updated a wrongful death lawsuit against Frazee, saying…… MORE
Illinois gunman Gary Martin brought a pistol to his termination meeting at the sprawling Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora. When he found out he’d been fired Friday, he started killing the people in the room, authorities said. After fatally shooting several people in the room at the manufacturing business he’d worked for 15 years, he…… MORE
Two men who escaped from a jail in Mississippi have been taken into custody, authorities said Saturday. The inmates, Carlos Sibley, 26, and Donaven Harris, 29, were captured in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, according to the Hattiesburg Police Department. The two escaped from the Forrest County Jail on Friday night, police said Sibley recently pleaded guilty to…… MORE
Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said, beginning Sunday, he will start studying which projects military money may come from to shift funds toward a border wall following President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration. Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to secure federal funds to build a wall on the southern border, bypassing Congress…… MORE
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