By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s “most-wanted prisoner”, the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, disappeared from the jail where he was being held, authorities said on Sunday and launched an operation to locate him. General Cesar Zapata, the national commander of police, told a press conference that the country’s armed forces had […]
Michigan police are searching for a man who they say disappeared into the Kalamazoo River on Jan. 1 while trying to evade arrest. Officers attempted to pull over a motorcyclist for a license plate violation, but the driver fled until he encountered mechanical issues, according to a Jan. 2 Kalamazoo Public Safety Facebook post. The […]
Officials in Alaska plan to resume on Tuesday a search for a woman who went into an Anchorage area river over the weekend to save a dog but disappeared under the ice, Alaska State Troopers said. A man and a woman were walking on the North Fork Eagle River Trail at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday […]
The notion of becoming invisible as an ageing woman has become an accepted trope. My friends and I, from our late 50s onwards, were first gobsmacked then increasingly enraged at being talked over, not served, not replied to, brushed aside and not taken seriously. Small accretions of casual insult that eroded our hard-earned sense of […]