Jun. 9—Wilkes-Barre Police Chief John Jones assigned nearly half the police force to investigate the fatal shooting of bricklayer John Baltes on June 9, 1903. Baltes was walking to his home at 35 Edison St. with Benedict Kessler and John Weidman, both of Altoona, who were in Wilkes-Barre to attend a German banquet at Memorial […]
The early universe contained far fewer miniature black holes than previously thought, making the origins of our cosmos’s missing matter an even greater mystery, a new study has suggested. Miniature, or primordial, black holes (PBHs) are black holes thought to have formed in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. According to […]
Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) has battled a barrage of issues. Financially strapped tenants have struggled to pay rent while rising interest rates have increased its borrowing costs. Those two factors have made it difficult to refinance existing debt as it matures. However, the healthcare REIT has been working with its tenants to address their […]
A surprisingly low reservoir of methane may explain how a planet around a nearby star grew weirdly puffy, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST(. The finding shows that planetary atmospheres can inflate to remarkable amounts without employing esoteric theories of planet formation, astronomers say. “The Webb data tells us that […]
Two killings connected to Atlanta’s club scene shook the city’s hip-hop community a decade ago. One was solved. But the fatal shooting of one of Atlanta’s most influential DJs was not, and his death continues to haunt friends and infuriate relatives. William Fernando Barnes — who went by DJ Nando — was known for helping […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Nearly 50 years after the brutal stabbing of a teen girl as she was babysitting on a Monday night in 1977, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) has declared the cold case solved, and while justice never came for the suspect, 14-year-old Maria Honzell’s family says she can finally rest in peace. […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Italy’s president told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored. Sergio Mattarella said Italy, which now heads the G7 meetings, and many international partners have come to […]
Hiram Grayam was a beloved milkman at the time of his killing Indian River County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook Hiram Grayam A World War II veteran who became a milkman in Florida was murdered after going off on his delivery route in April 1968. For years the crime remained unsolved, until police discovered that the killer had […]
A Parrish man pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a 2014 Palmetto cold case murder, according to Manatee County court records. Before Ricardo Garcia, 31, could face a scheduled murder trial for killing an innocent man at a Palmetto intersection in a drive-by shooting, he pleaded no contest to lesser charges of manslaughter with […]
Fifty-six years after a Florida milkman failed to return home after his rounds, his homicide has been solved, closing the oldest cold case in Indian River County Sheriff’s Office history. The emergence of two people who say the suspect confessed to them helped investigators determine who killed Hiram “Ross” Grayam, a decorated World War II […]
Terrie Morrow has always considered herself somewhat of a family historian, so when she heard that “Finding Your Roots” was searching for viewers to appear on an episode of the PBS show, she was thrilled. But she almost missed her opportunity to decode a mystery that has troubled her family for over a century. “The […]
Less than a year after its launch, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office claims it’s already seeing great results from its unsolved crimes tips web page. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE