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(WRANGELL, Alaska) — Alaska state officials have released the identities of the victims of a landslide that left three people dead and another three missing. The landslide occurred shortly before 9 p.m. local time Monday near Wrangell, a city in the Alaska Panhandle, along the Zimovia Highway at mile 11, officials said. Three homes were […]
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said the two-dozen hostages freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday is “only a start,” with more hostages expected to be released soon — with hopes that some of the missing Americans are among them. Early Friday, 24 hostages were freed by Hamas as part of a temporary […]
(WASHINGTON) — West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin’s announcement earlier this month that he won’t seek reelection tilted next year’s Senate map even further away from Democrats’ narrow majority, political analysts say — and underscored how such a victory hinges on Trump country. Manchin’s seat is one of three that his party is defending in states […]
(NEW YORK) — The husband and wife occupants of the car that slammed into the U.S.-Canada border crossing in a fiery explosion on the Rainbow Bridge Wednesday have now been identified. Kurt P. Villani and his wife Monica Villani, both of Grand Island, New York, were killed in the crash, the Niagara Falls Police Department […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A high school senior is in a coma after he was hit in the head by a baseball bat in the campus batting cages, school officials said. Jeremy Medina, a senior at Gainesville High School — located approximately 55 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia — who was a pitcher […]
(NEW YORK) — Former Obama administration adviser and State Department official Stuart Seldowitz has been arrested and charged for allegedly harassing a food cart vendor in New York City. In videos posted online, Seldowitz is heard berating the vendor about his Islamic faith and Egyptian roots. Seldowitz, 64, was charged with aggravated harassment, hate crime […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officials in Wrangell, Alaska, said Thursday they have resumed their search for the adult and two children who went missing after a deadly landslide hit the region. The search was briefly paused Tuesday afternoon due to hazardous conditions, according to officials. “K9 teams will be searching along the waterline […]
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency in Rockcastle County following a multi-car train derailment Wednesday afternoon that resulted in a spill of hazardous chemicals. Around 16 train cars were involved in the incident, including two carrying molten sulfur that ended up on fire, according to CSX, […]
mphotoi/Getty Images (EDINA, Minn.) — A man has been stabbed to death at a bus stop in Minnesota, police say. The stabbing took place around 7 p.m. on Wednesday night at a Metro Transit bus stop in the 6700 block of York Avenue South in Edina, Minnesota, approximately 10 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis. “When […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A woman accused New York Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting her in 1993, according to a new court filing. The woman filed a summons under New York’s Adult Survivors Act that names Adams, the NYPD and two unknown entities as defendants. The filing said the two were working […]
