KANSAS CITY, Kan. — As the sun set on the Friday before Christmas, a small group met at Carlos Ambriz-Garcia’s final resting place at Highland Park Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. His mother, Amapola Garcia, designed his massive gravestone which bears images of his face on it. The grave marker, erected over the summer, represents […]
Dec. 22—The sister of a man who was shot and killed by Rio Rancho police officers in January 2022 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the police department. The lawsuit accuses Rio Rancho police of multiple forms of negligence including failing to adequately train its officers, failing to have adequate safety […]
Dec. 22—STONINGTON — The state Office of the Inspector General continues to investigate a Thursday night officer-involved shooting on Mechanic Street that left a man dead and law enforcement mourning the death of a state police K-9. State police arrived at the Stonington home at approximately 7:33 p.m. to serve a felony arrest warrant held […]
The three Israeli hostages had been in captivity for 65 days when they received a glimmer of hope. A group of Israeli soldiers arrived at the building in Gaza where they were holed up with their captors. The soldiers released a combat dog into the building equipped with a GoPro camera. The Hamas militants killed […]
An 84-year-old shot and killed at his convenience store in Virginia is being remembered as a pillar of the local community. James Carter was wounded during a dispute in front of his convenience store the evening of Dec. 20, the Norfolk Police Department said in a news release. He was taken to a hospital, where […]
A storm has brought heavy rain and strong winds to northern Europe, felling trees and prompting warnings of flooding on the North Sea coast. A woman in Belgium was fatally injured by a falling Christmas tree, while another tree killed a person in the Netherlands. The 65ft Christmas tree collapsed onto three people at a […]
Pre-Christmas rail travellers in parts of Germany faced disruption as a storm swept across northern Europe, bringing down trees and prompting warnings of flooding on the North Sea coast. In neighbouring Belgium, a woman was killed by a falling Christmas tree. German national railway operator Deutsche Bahn said there were cancellations on routes from Hamburg […]
Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip say more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas. The figure, amounting to nearly 1% of the territory’s pre-war population, is a new reflection of the staggering cost of the war, which in just over 10 weeks has displaced more than 80 […]
Foreign nationals were among at least 14 people killed after a student opened fire at a university in Prague, authorities have said. Police are investigating a possible motive for the attack, one of the Czech Republic’s worst mass shootings, which left more than 20 others injured. The bloodshed took place in the Czech capital on […]
Two 10-year-old Wisconsin boys were killed when their father sped away from a traffic stop, was chased and then crashed late Wednesday, the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department said. Two other children and the driver, the boys’ father, were in critical condition, officials said. A sheriff’s deputy pulled the driver over around 11:49 p.m. for speeding […]
Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip say more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas. The figure, amounting to nearly 1% of the territory’s pre-war population, is a new reflection of the staggering cost of the war, which in just over 10 weeks has displaced more than 80% […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Four Indian soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in an ambush by militants fighting against New Delhi’s rule in disputed Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. The Indian military said militants fired at two army vehicles in southern Poonch district late afternoon on Thursday. The area is close to the […]