For the past 10 years, as each May gives way to June, Jennifer Byrum has celebrated her sobriety. Each year is a reminder of the life she left behind and the life she has now. This past year has been the most difficult as she’s had to wade through shock and grief after her father […]
May 30—U.S. Coast Guard officials say they tracked an aluminum boat carrying four people in rough seas miles from Seward for hours before what started as a daylong fishing trip turned into a disaster last week. The 22-foot Hewescraft was taking on water in Aialik Bay, where the group spent the night in a sheltered […]
SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) — A Carnival cruise ship responded to calls for help and detoured from its normal vacation route on Saturday to help two dozen people stranded at sea off the coast of Mexico. Sailing from its homeport of Long Beach in Southern California, the cruise ship responded to a call from the U.S. […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife previously said the inverted American flag flown at the couple’s house in January 2021 was “an international signal of distress,” The Washington Post reported Saturday, detailing an encounter during that time between the Alitos and a Post reporter outside the couple’s home. The flag was no longer displayed when the reporter, Robert Barnes, […]
(FOX40.COM) — The UC Davis Police Department is asking for the public’s help to find a student who is “thought to be in distress.” Diane Shoyeon Min was last seen as she left campus on the evening of May 17 and took Amtrak to Mission Street in San Francisco, according to police. She was reported […]
The National Transportation Safety Board this week released more information about the May 2 plane crash inside the residential Summerville neighborhood in Augusta, confirming no distress calls were made prior to the crash. The airplane, a single-engine Beechcraft 36 piloted by Jason McKenzie, crashed on the outskirts of a resident’s yard at the intersection of […]
Katie Meyer’s jersey number 19 is carved into a tree at Borchard Park in Newbury Park. Steven and Gina Meyer reminisce about their soccer star daughter, who played at the park’s soccer field hundreds of times with her friends and younger sister, Siena Meyer. Katie Meyer celebrated her 22nd birthday in January 2022. Two months […]
Lutheran Social Services CEO Bill Brim is joined by board chairwoman Kym Hammer as they cut a ribbon to celebrate the March 6 grand opening of the organization’s first community services center. The center offers a range of services through local nonprofit partners CAN Community Health, WeCareJax and JaxCareConnect, among others. There’s a quote I […]
A hiker needed medical assistance on a “difficult and rugged” trail that leads to beautiful flowers — a popular destination North Carolina rescuers have had to warn travelers about before. McDowell County responders received a call Saturday, Feb. 24, about a “hiker in distress” at Pinch-In Trail, a hiking path in Linville Gorge Wilderness that […]
The parents of Gabby Petitio, the 22-year-old travel blogger who was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, settled Wednesday with Laundrie’s parents and their attorney in an emotional distress lawsuit and will avoid a civil trial, according to a statement. Nichole Schmidt and Joseph Petito, Gabby Petito’s parents, filed a lawsuit against Brian Laundrie’s parents, […]
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank warned that the commercial real estate sector faces a crisis on par with the 2008 downturn.Reinhard Krause/Reuters Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG said it’s bracing for an ongoing decline in commercial real estate. It called the downturn “the greatest real estate crisis since the financial crisis.” Shares of the German bank have declined about 25% […]