One of the most memorable columns from “Austin Untold Stories,” an American-Statesman series about city parks and a predecessor to the current “Austin Answered,” was a report about three families who raised their children in the Zilker Caretaker’s Cottage, a sweet house located just downstream from Barton Springs Pool. Once hidden behind overgrowth and stored […]
New Delhi — At least eight people were killed and more than others 50 injured when a freight train slammed into a passenger train Monday in India. The crash happened in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, when the goods train hit the Kanchanjunga Express in the New Jalpaiguri area, derailing at least three […]
HILLSBORO, Ore. (KOIN) — After surviving a 300-foot fall on a hike in Washington over the weekend, a Hillsboro woman is sharing her cautionary tale every outdoor enthusiast should hear. “The only thing that came to mind was, ‘God, you’re gonna have to stop me,’ because I could tell I had momentum,” 63-year-old Rebecca Halley […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar were supported Monday in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings. The bloodshed on Saturday morning in Let Htoke Taw village […]
Apr. 1—Nearly 50 years later, the Greene County Archives has collected and filmed new video oral histories of those who lived through the 1974 F5 tornado — people whose ages ranged from 6 years old to about 25 at the time of the storm. The new oral histories will join several curated collections by the […]
Darlene Weber has a cut to her face that’s been closed with four stitches. Her daughter, Cathy Gilfillan, has a larger cut to her face that’s been closed with six stitches. The pair consider themselves lucky after surviving an attack from what Weber called “the devil.” “The devil” showed up at the family’s Cleveland Avenue […]
SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic — Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Mitch Albom said he was trapped in chaos-ridden Haiti and had to flee in the dead of night on a helicopter with nine others, including his wife. Albom, the author of the blockbuster book, “Tuesdays With Morrie,” said in an interview with NBC News’ Gabe Guiterrez […]
The Odysseus spacecraft has dispatched new images it captured of the lunar surface during the lander’s harrowing approach to the moon. The vehicle softly touched down on the moon on Thursday, becoming the first US-made lander to do so since the Apollo era. The grainy images were shared by Intuitive Machines, the company that developed […]
A man at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade described the harrowing moment when he tackled a man suspected in the deadly shooting that broke out Wednesday amid the celebration. Paul Contreras told media outlets that he was at the parade with his daughter near Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, when he heard […]
SAN FRANCISCO – In San Francisco on Thursday evening, several organizations hosted two survivors from the Kibbutz Be’eri to share their harrowing experiences of surviving the attack on Oct. 7 near the Gaza border. Over 200 people showed up at Congregation Emanu El to hear two men tell of their experiences when terrorists showed up […]
Taking care of and being responsible for an aging parent can definitely be difficult, both mentally and physically, so needing assistance isn’t uncommon. Of course, putting a parent in an eldercare facility is an option for those who are unable to properly tend to their parent’s needs, but how financially accessible is it in the […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in the Gaza Strip says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear throughout the weeks she was held hostage. Mia Schem, a 21-year-old dual citizen of Israel and France, was attending a music festival in southern Israel when Hamas […]