Bad weather has forced authorities to postpone the recovery of a car that drove off the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier Saturday. According to a Virginia Beach police spokesperson, adverse water conditions and concerns for diver safety made the recovery impossible Sunday. Crews were out on the water Sunday afternoon, shortly before abandoning the attempt. “The […]
A 74-year-old Idaho man will spend at least the next nine years in prison after he launched his car over an embankment and struck a family’s van head-on in an attempt to die, the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office said. Third District Judge Thomas Whitney sentenced the Nampa man to up to 18 years in prison […]
ASHEVILLE — A Virginia man was sentenced in Asheville federal court Jan. 16 for traveling to Hendersonville to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a toddler, as announced by U.S. Attorney Dena J. King of the Western District of North Carolina. James Edward Whisenant, Jr., 50, of Suffolk, pleaded guilty Nov. 30, 2022, to traveling […]
Jan. 17—When the sun came up on Rococo Hair Co. Sunday morning, a car was parked inside the Santa Fe hair salon. Owner Tiffany Link received a call about the crash that morning and said was surprised to find a vehicle was “literally inside the shop” at 651 Cerrillos Road. The man whose vehicle police […]
A car that had driven off from an attempted traffic stop in Preble County earlier in the day was involved in a serious crash Saturday afternoon. The head-on crash was reported around noon on S. Preble County Line Road near Lower Gratis Road. > 20-year-old man dead after rollover crash in Darke County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>>> […]
A group of people illegally drove along a protected beach in California that’s home to a threatened bird species, park officials said. “A rough start to the New Year out at North Beach,” the Point Reyes National Seashore posted to Facebook on Friday, Jan. 12, including a photo showing the shoreline chiseled by vehicle tread […]
It’s easy to be misunderstood with the word “killer” in your name. Still, this year seemed to be a wild one for killer whales. From “attacking” and sinking several boats off southwestern Europe to hunting great white sharks around South Africa and Australia, the black-and-white behemoths appeared to live up to their moniker in 2023. […]
Another year, another chance to bang your head against the wall, with good reason—and with Reason. Here are 10 incidents from 2023 that will alarm everyone who supports the free-range kids movement. Unspecified danger in Aisle 4: The University of Michigan surveyed parents of children ages 9–11 and found that half wouldn’t even let their […]
Rising rates of suicide among older adults drove the number of such deaths to a historic high in the United States last year, even as suicide declined among youth, according to a report released Wednesday by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 49,000 people died by suicide in 2022 across […]