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(NEW YORK) — Edith Kanaka’ole, a Native Hawaiian teacher, will be featured on U.S. quarters next year, along with five other women, as part of the 2023 American Women Quarters project from the U.S. Mint. Kanakaʻole, who died in 1978, was an internationally acclaimed hula teacher, composer, chanter and performer. She is credited for playing […]

Photography by Deb Snelson/Getty Images (ALPINE, Texas) — A woman died while visiting a Texas national park with her family Monday as hot temperatures arrived in the area. Big Bend National Park officials said they received a call around 4:20 p.m. requesting help near the Hot Springs Canyon Trail. When crews arrived at the scene […]

(NEW YORK) — Two people were killed Thursday in the Florida Panhandle when their mobile home was toppled by a suspected tornado, one of nearly 30 that has wreaked havoc across seven South and Midwest states, officials said. The deaths in Washington County, Florida, were the first fatalities reported from the outbreak of severe weather […]

(DELPHI, Ind.) — New details have come to light in the unsolved Delphi, Indiana, double murder investigation with the publication of a police interview with a man who, according to transcripts, admitted to communicating with 14-year-old victim Libby German. Libby and her best friend Abby Williams, 13, were on a local Delphi hiking trail when […]

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sophia Simons (NEW YORK) — One crew member is dead and two were rescued after a Navy aircraft crashed off the Virginia coast Wednesday, according to the U.S. Navy. The E-2D Hawkeye, which was assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Control Squadron, crashed at 7:30 […]

(NEW YORK) — The body of a Nevada teenager who was allegedly kidnapped from a Walmart parking lot over two weeks ago has been found, authorities said. Naomi Irion, 18, was last seen inside her car outside a Walmart in Fernley, Nevada, outside Reno, on March 12, according to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office. Surveillance […]

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill into law this week as expected, but some opponents of the legislation say they were taken aback by the move to sign it so suddenly. Taking effect July 1, HB 1557 — dubbed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” […]

(NEW YORK) — Severe weather on Wednesday has prompted tornado watches for parts of eight states, including some areas still cleaning up damage from a swarm of twisters that hit last week. Portions of Arkansas, northern Louisiana, east Texas and southeast Oklahoma have been under a tornado watch issued by the National Weather Service since […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK ) — Eve Wilkowitz was 20 years old in 1980 when she was kidnapped, raped and strangled to death after she took a train home to Bay Shore, New York, from her secretarial job in Manhattan. Her body was found near her apartment on Long Island. On Wednesday, Suffolk […]

(NEW YORK) — Severe weather on Wednesday has prompted tornado watches for parts of four southern states, including some areas still cleaning up damage from a swarm of twisters that hit last week. Portions of Arkansas, northern Louisiana, east Texas and southeast Oklahoma were under a tornado watch issued by the National Weather Service, which […]