Margie Quin, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, photographed on June 2, 2023. (Photo: John Partipilo) A three-year-old boy shot himself in the head after getting ahold of his father’s unsecured Ruger 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. A 4-year-old girl was discovered stuffed in a trash can, dead. And a 3-month-old infant was found […]
Two soldiers who were killed more than a century ago in World War One have finally been laid to rest. Gunner Charles Lightfoot and Sgt John Smith died two months into the war. They were killed during the Battle of Aisne in France in September 1914 but their bodies were not found until 15 year […]
Homes charred to the ground, pine trees once standing tall now collapsed and cars completely burned: images shared in a recent video of a Ruidoso neighborhood reduced to rubble by destructive wildfires. The Facebook video posted by the village of Ruidoso on Thursday, June 27, illustrates the devastation left behind by the South Fork Fire […]
New Hampshire is seeing “an alarming increase” in fire-related deaths, and the state fire marshal is warning residents to have working smoke alarms in their homes. The Granite State has seen 13 fire-related deaths in the first half of this year. That’s more than the 12 fire-related deaths in the state in all of 2023, […]
Calls for Cambridge to make the city safer for people on bikes brought out a large crowd before Monday night’s City Council meeting. More than 100 people packed the steps and front lawn of Cambridge City Hall following the deaths of two women who were riding bikes in the city. 24-year-old MIT doctoral candidate Minh-Thi […]
Following state legislation passed in 2021 that essentially banned abortion in Texas, the rate of infant deaths rose by almost 13%, compared to a much smaller 1.8% rise nationwide, a new study finds. The number of Texan babies whose deaths were specifically linked to birth defects also jumped by 22.9% in 2022, the year after […]
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.2% in the first three months of 2024 — the lowest number since the same period in 2020 — but crash fatalities still remain sharply above pre-COVID levels. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday estimated 8,650 people died in traffic crashes through March […]
The number of deaths during this year’s hajj pilgrimage totalled 1,301 people, Saudi Arabia’s health minister Fahad Al-Jalajel said on Sunday. The minister, quoted by state television, said that deaths were caused by pilgrims “walking long distances under direct sunlight without adequate shelter or comfort”. Fatalities also included a number of elderly people and those suffering […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the North African country’s minister of religious affairs after 49 Tunisian pilgrims were confirmed dead in the annual Islamic Hajj in Saudi Arabia amid scorching heat. Saied has decided to terminate Ibrahim Chaibi’s tasks, Tunisia’s official news agency TAP reported on Friday, quoting a presidential statement that did not […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the country’s minister of religious affairs after 49 Tunisian pilgrims were confirmed dead in the annual Islamic Hajj in Saudi Arabia amid scorching heat. Saied has decided to terminate Ibrahim Chaibi’s tasks, Tunisia’s official news agency TAP reported on Friday, quoting a presidential statement that did not give an […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the Revs. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and […]
The step-son of Malawi’s ex-President Peter Mutharika has been acquitted of all charges in a case in which he was accused of human trafficking and aggravated manslaughter. Tadikira Mafubza and seven other men were arrested in November 2022 after police said they were linked with the deaths of 29 suspected Ethiopian immigrants whose bodies were […]