A juvenile fell to their death while running from police in Texas, officials said. The chase started on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 30, when officers with the San Marcos Police Department spotted a stolen Hyundai with two people inside, police said in a news release. The driver and the passenger were identified as juveniles, […]
Inside a cave beneath a medieval German castle, researchers have discovered a pit of bones that they say unlock secrets of the earliest humans. The remains — buried in layers of soil in the collapsed cave — contained the genetic material of cave bears, hyenas and 13 bones of early humans who died some 45,000 years […]
Ethan Crumbley was 15 when he opened fire at his suburban Detroit high school in November 2021, armed with a semi-automatic handgun that his parents helped purchase as an early Christmas present. The rampage left four students dead and several others injured, shattering the close-knit community of Oxford, Michigan, and resulting last month in a […]
A worker at an Ohio manufacturing plant is dead after molten steel was spilled in an apparent workplace accident, police told news outlets. It happened Jan. 13 at Ellwood Engineered Castings, in Hubbard Township, during a “routine” night shift operation, the company said in a news release, the Tribune Chronicle reported. “Elwood Engineered Castings expresses […]
Re: “Think Dolly Parton has Tennessee’s most popular specialty license plate? Think again,” by columnist Brad Schmitt, Dec. 22 Specialty license plates allow Tennessee motorists to show causes they support, like Agriculture or Friends of the Smokies. But some plates, authorized by the State, serve as yet another way to divide us on our increasingly tense and […]
Read the full story on The Auto Wire Police PIT On Fleeing Mustang Turns Fatal Why people run from the police, even when they’re wanted for serious crimes, still doesn’t make sense to us. After all, any time you drive at high speeds you’re literally putting your life on the line, not to mention the […]
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A man who fled a Hillsborough County deputy and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper at 100 mph early Saturday morning was arrested. Around 1:40 a.m., a trooper watched the driver of a small white sedan, identified as 22-year-old Christian Bernard Joinville, go through the intersection of US-41 and Gibsonton Road […]
The Communist Party of Russia, the second largest party in parliament, on Saturday selected a 75-year-old to stand next March in presidential polls against Vladimir Putin. At a party congress in the Moscow region, the members held a single-candidate vote backing Nikolai Kharitonov. He won just under 14 percent of the national vote when he […]