It’s shark week, and not the good Discovery Channel kind. Six people had shark encounters within about 30 hours in Florida and Texas and four were injured. On July 4, a 21-year-old Ohio man was bitten by a shark while playing football in knee-deep water at New Smyrna Beach, according to a Volusia County Beach […]
Tourists aboard a submersible saw the rare giant phantom jellyfish during a Viking cruise. Viking Octantis is a luxury ship that travels to Antarctica and often has researchers aboard. Viking published its first scientific paper in 2023 based on the jellyfish encounters. Not so long ago, giant phantom jellyfish were an extremely rare sight, with […]
The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur on June 21 at 9:08 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (0108 UTC June 22), according to the U.S. Naval Observatory. Observers in Oceania will see a nearly full moon pass in front of the star Antares, Alpha Scorpii, the brightest star in Scorpius, the […]
Nellie Farrell freaked out when she pulled up to her Grand County ranch headquarters and was “100% sure” she saw a wolf about 30 yards from her sheep and buildings. She honked the horn, yelled at the wolf, waved her hands to scare it away and took a video of the animal that eventually ran […]
A nature photographer captured a rare wildlife encounter on video while hiking through Yellowstone National Park earlier this month — a grizzly bear with quintuplets. “This video contains an extremely rare encounter with a mom grizzly and 5 cubs,” the caption for the video said. “This is my video recorded on June 5, 2024 at […]
The parolee with a loaded machine pistol shot dead by MTA police in Queens in December spoke calmly to the officers before screaming “What did I do?” as cops wrestled him to the ground trying to handcuff him, recently released body-worn camera footage shows. “I didn’t do nothing! What did I do?” Bashe McDaniel, 52, […]
LAKELAND, Fla. – They come from the Island of Madagascar, but this endangered primate can also be found on islands right here in Polk County. Safari Wilderness Ranch has its own lemurs. “We have lots of lemurs in social groups, troops they’re called,” shared Lex Salisbury, the owner of the ranch. “They live in these […]
An animation of a cube-shaped spacecraft with two rectangular wing-like solar panels passing in front of the sun. OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and is now headed […]
A teenager was diagnosed with a concussion after police threw him to the ground during an encounter in downtown Gastonia on May 11, according to hospital records. Davion Winston, 15, said in an interview that he was walking in downtown Gastonia at about 3 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, with a group of friends when […]
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is working to learn the details surrounding the death of a man after an encounter with a school resource officer. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] On May 21, a Glynn County School Resource Officer was made aware of a distressed person on South Port Parkway. […]
A 35-year-old man from Hampton, Virginia, is charged with assaulting two Canal Fulton police officers, accused of fleeing from a traffic stop early Sunday. Complaints filed in Massillon Municipal Court allege the suspect tried to hurt one officer by accelerating his vehicle while the officer was standing in the vehicle’s door frame. He tried to […]
The suspect accused of firing shots in an Ohio Amazon facility is dead, and an officer is hurt after an encounter Sunday night. >>RELATED: Suspect in Amazon facility shooting dead after encounter with Columbus police; 1 officer injured As News Center 7 previously reported, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched just after 4:40 […]