CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada couple was found secretly keeping a cache of weapons and living with their two kids at a northern Nevada children’s museum where they worked, authorities said. A janitor at the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada was arrested late last week, KRNV-TV in Reno reported […]
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Production resumes at troubled Abbott baby formula factory
Production of baby formula has resumed at the Abbott Nutrition factory in Michigan whose February shutdown over contamination contributed to a national shortage, a company spokesman said. Damage from severe thunderstorms including flooding had forced the Sturgis plant to halt operations in mid-June just two weeks after restarting production with […]
14-year-old boy fatally stabbed on NYC subway platform, police say
A 14-year-old boy was fatally stabbed while on a New York City subway platform, police said. Police responded around 3 p.m. Saturday to “a crime in progress” inside the 137th Street-City College train station in Manhattan, the New York Police Department said in a statement. Responding officers found the victim […]
Police: Florida woman hides mother’s body in freezer
SEBASTIAN, Fla. — A Florida woman was charged with failing to report her mother’s death more than two months after the woman’s body was found in a freezer in the home they shared. The woman, 64, was arrested Thursday and also charged with tampering with evidence. Her 93-year-old mother’s body […]
Vernon Winfrey, Oprah’s father, dies at 89
FILE – This Feb. 8, 2020 file photo shows Oprah Winfrey speaking at “Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus” tour in New York. Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has died at the age of 89. Oprah confirmed in an Instagram post that her father died in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, […]
Mobile, internet service mostly back in Canada after outage
TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. said Saturday it has restored mobile and internet service for “the vast majority” of customers after an outage that lasted more than 15 hours. The disruption, which the Toronto-based telecommunications company offered no explanation for, started Friday morning. It left many customers without mobile and […]
Man indicted in shooting death of ex Mississippi lawmaker
JACKSON, Miss. — A man has been indicted on a murder charge a year after a former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area where her sister-in-law had died. Republican former state Rep. Ashley Henley, 40, was killed in June 2021 […]
Abe’s death raises security questions as Japan mourns
TOKYO — A top police official on Saturday acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fire his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally, raising questions how could the attacker get so close behind him. Abe was shot in the […]
Group behind first-ever U.S. Amazon union backs campaigns at 2 warehouses
The labor group behind the first-ever U.S. union at Amazon has thrown its support behind organizing campaigns at two additional warehouses. Amazon Labor Union, the worker-led union behind the victory at an Amazon warehouse in New York City in April, reached agreements to provide organizing and financial assistance for workers […]
Amid chaos, some at July 4 parade ran toward gunfire to help
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Bobby Shapiro ran down Central Avenue in socks, moving toward the street corner where gunfire had erupted just moments before. At first, he only wanted to confirm that what he was hearing was real — a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park. […]