A court in Athens has convicted five former senior firefighting and disaster response officials over a 2018 wildfire outside the capital that killed more than 100 people. The fire that swept through the seaside town of Mati, east of Athens, was the deadliest in the country’s history. Residents and tourists, many trapped in their cars, […]
After hours of interrogations that started on Dec. 11, 2020, Lori Ackerman confessed to killing her fiance at their home in Smithville. Last week, Ackerman, 50, was acquitted of second-degree murder by a jury in Clay County. When the jury’s verdict was read on April 8, “It was like the world was lifted off my […]
The artist representing Israel at the Venice Biennale called Tuesday for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas and said her exhibit would remain closed until the hostages were released. Ruth Patir’s video installation “(M)otherland” was due to open on Saturday at Israel’s national pavilion at the international art show, but the day before a […]
After months trapped underground in an extended hibernation, this Hilton Head alligator finally got to stretch its legs. The six-foot gator had been stuck in a small drainage pipe since October, when Port Royal Plantation residents first spotted its snout through the roadside grate on South Port Royal Drive. Matt Kraycar, owner of the Bluffton-based […]
A humpback whale known to locals as “Ivy” was freed on Sunday after being trapped in fishing ropes in Cornwall’s Mounts Bay, at the southwestern tip of the United Kingdom. And miraculously, both the whale and rescue crews were unharmed in the operation. Dan Jarvis, director of welfare and conservation for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani appeals court on Monday suspended a 14-year prison sentence for former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a corruption case, but the couple won’t be released because they are already serving prison terms in other cases, officials said. However, the court order was a legal victory for Khan, […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he tried to protect her, according to authorities. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board’s handling of the case prompted […]
At least 137 of nearly 300 Nigerian children abducted more than two weeks ago from their school in the north-western state of Kaduna were released on Sunday, military officials have said. An earlier statement from the Government had suggested all the students were freed. Motorcycle-riding gunmen invaded the Kuriga school on March 7 and marched […]
Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been freed more than two weeks after they were seized from a school in the north-western state of Kaduna, local officials have said. Kaduna state governor Uba Sani did not give details of the release of the 287 students, who were taken from their school in the remote town […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state have been released, the state governor said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school. Kaduna Gov. Uba Sani did not give details of the release of the 287 students abducted on Mar. 7 […]
It is a crowded field of 18 in the battle for Senegal’s top job, but two men – recently freed opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Faye and the ruling party’s heir apparent Amadou Ba – look most likely to win over voters in Sunday’s presidential election. Their rivalry underpins a massive divide and clash of outlook […]
What was it like for 10 captured Oregon wolves when Colorado Parks and Wildlife opened their crates on a December day last year? The wolves had been chased by helicopter, drugged, blindfolded and collared, then moved to remote public land in central Colorado. One of those animals might have had this experience. The grey wolf […]