The mother of missing Jay Slater said “words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing” after searches on Tenerife failed to trace the missing 19-year-old. In a statement issued through the British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global, Debbie Duncan said the land search for her son has been called off, but thanked […]
Jun. 8—Dave Markham sat with his daughter, Ally, front and center Friday morning in a Butler County courtroom, awash with grief and a bit of anger as John Carter — the man who was once his older daughter Katelyn’s finance’ — admitted to his part in her death. It took 13 years from her disappearance […]
My belly had become a liability, prone to swelling up like a balloon and making a spectacle of itself at the most inconvenient moments. When I was chief bridesmaid at my best friend’s wedding, I was congratulated by three different people on my pregnancy. I felt awkward having to tell them that I wasn’t pregnant, […]
A released Israeli hostage whose husband is still being held by Hamas in Gaza has told the BBC she is “screaming” for him to be freed and has called on international mediators to do more. Aviva Siegel was released in November after being held for 51 days. Her husband Keith has now been a hostage […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Iryna Reva stares at her phone, replaying the last video her 25-year-old son Vladyslav sent her from the front line before the volunteer soldier disappeared 19 months ago in a battle with Russian forces in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Reva is one of the thousands of Ukrainians desperately seeking news of […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Photographs of a war unlike any seen in the Middle East have captured 100 days of agony. Scenes from Hamas’ surprise attack on a music festival, farming communities and army outposts in southern Israel are seared into the national psyche. The bloodied bodies of young men and women lying on a highway […]