A girl accidentally shot herself in the arm after finding a gun while playing hide-and-seek, Maryland police say. Jayvon Thomas, the 4-year-old’s relative, was arrested on multiple charges stemming from the incident, the Prince George’s County Police Department said, WJLA reported. Officers responded to a Cheverly apartment shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, June 2, and […]
Barracks believed built by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1777 were recently discovered in Colonial Williamsburg. Experts believe the barracks were burned by British troops under the direction of General Charles Cornwallis in 1781. An archaeology team has started unearthing artifacts that show the life of soldiers in the late […]
May 27—NEW LONDON — City police arrested a resident of a luxury apartment complex on Howard Street on charges he accidentally fired a rifle round into a common area from his apartment. Police in a news release said no injuries were reported. John Dustman, 23, of 221 Howard St., Unit 442, was charged Sunday with […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An investigation is underway after a shooting in Madison sent a suspected burglar to the hospital Saturday night, according to authorities. Metro Nashville dispatch said the shooting was reported at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 25 in the 300 block of Garner Avenue. 1 dead, 1 injured after shooting in […]
You know that thing where a store’s sign is partially burnt out, so it accidentally spells something hilarious? Well, it turns out there’s a whole subreddit for that, so please enjoy these signs that accidentally sent the wrong message: 1.Ice cold?? Is he okay? 2.Heh. Fart. 3.To be fair, London Drugs was really playing with […]
You know that thing where a store’s sign is partially burnt out, so it accidentally spells something hilarious? Well, it turns out there’s a whole subreddit for that, so please enjoy these signs that accidentally sent the wrong message: 1.Ice cold?? Is he okay? 2.Heh. Fart. 3.To be fair, London Drugs was really playing with […]
Emergency responders shut down a portion of Moonstone Drive and evacuated a hotel in Cambria on Thursday afternoon after a hazmat incident in the area. Someone mixed muriatic acid and chlorine in the rear of Cypress Cove Inn in what appeared to be an accident, according to Cambria Fire Department Chief Michael Burkey. The chemicals […]
It’s been 15 years since the last time NASA’s groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope was serviced by astronauts. And the aging observatory, which has been circling our planet in a low Earth orbit since 1990, is looking a little worse for wear. Ongoing technical issues have forced teams back on the ground to halt scientific activities […]
(Reuters) – A subset of key and highly sensitive U.S. inflation data was inadvertently published about 30 minutes ahead of its scheduled release on Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, and a full investigation to the latest data-management misstep at the agency is underway. “In advance of today’s (Consumer Price Index) and Real Earnings […]
(Bloomberg) — The US Bureau of Labor Statistics inadvertently published Consumer Price Index data 30 minutes early on Wednesday, raising fresh questions about how the agency releases some of the world’s most sensitive economic information. Most Read from Bloomberg While there were no obvious signs that the early publication moved markets, the episode is likely […]
A mother accidentally ran over her 2-year-old daughter as she was moving her car, Philadelphia police said. Police said the “heartbreaking incident” happened just after a mother unloaded groceries from her car while double-parked around 6 p.m. on May 8. She took her daughter inside so she could move her car, according to police. Unknown […]
Marissa Mayer is most well-known for her stint as CEO of Yahoo, but before she took the helm of the tech giant, she took a serendipitous dive into the unknown by joining a then little-known startup called Google. Although she would later become Google’s 20th employee and first female engineer, as a graduating computer science […]