U.S. Border Patrol agents on Monday found four bodies in the desert surrounding Sunland Park, New Mexico, among about 20 lives lost in the area in just over a month. As day-after-day of 100-degree heat continues to blanket the Borderland, deaths in the desert are being discovered every few days in the border migrant smuggling […]
DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Department of Transportation confirmed that the drivers who illegally weave in and out of express lanes on Interstate 25 are seeing the repercussions, and it’s leading to fewer violations. Last September, CDOT began issuing warnings for drivers who were caught weaving through the solid white lines on C-470 from I-25 […]
The Kenyan military remains in the streets of the capital Nairobi a day after protesters stormed parliament over a tax plan that would increase the cost of living – an act of defiance that President William Ruto called an “existential” threat. At least 22 people were killed during the unrest, a human rights group said. […]
TOPEKA (KSNT) — As Kansas transitions to cashless tolling next month, some drivers may be concerned about how the new ‘way of the road’ could impact their commute. However, if they’re searching for how much they’ll be paying online, they may come across an error in how it’s calculated. 27 News uncovered the mistake, after […]
The death toll in an attack by Islamic militants in the Dagestan region of southern Russia has risen to 21 after an injured police officer died in hospital, officials said on Tuesday. The militants attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship and fired at police in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the predominantly […]
MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll in the attack by Islamic militants in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan has risen to 21 after a wounded police officer has died in a hospital, officials said Tuesday. Sunday’s attack, in which militants attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship and fired at police in the cities of […]
Saudi Arabia says that 1,301 Muslim pilgrims died in the annual Hajj pilgrimage that ended earlier in June amid extreme heat. Some 83% of the fatalities were unregistered pilgrims, Saudi Health Minister Fahd al-Jalajel said on Sunday without providing a breakdown of their nationalities. The temperature in the Saudi city of Mecca and other nearby […]
The confirmed death toll among Muslim pilgrims hit by soaring temperatures during the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia continued to rise on Friday. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said that 75 Jordanian pilgrims had died due to heatstroke, while Tunisia’s Religious Affairs Ministry put the North African country’s toll at 49. Hundreds of Egyptians have reportedly died, […]
STORY: The death toll from the latest case of tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has risen to at least 47. That’s according to a government official on Friday (June 21), who added that over 100 were still in hospital. Since Wednesday, more than 150 people, suffering from vomiting, stomach aches […]
Eleven people have died after a fire that started in crop stubble spread through settlements in south-east Turkey overnight, officials and news reports said. In neighbouring Greece, authorities evacuated several villages south of Athens and in the southern Peloponnese region because of wildfires. The blaze in Turkey broke out in an area between the provinces […]
Six months after her daughter’s death, Jenele Hughes and her family attended what would have been the teen’s graduation from Grandview High School. Like many seniors, her daughter Amauri Hughes had been excited to graduate and start the next phase of her life. She had planned to attend Florida A&M University, and then become a […]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — As the daytime highs rise, so do calls to the Emergency Room. 28/22 News spoke with someone who responds to those calls and found out the heat has been taking a toll on his team as well. With the high volume of calls emergency services have been receiving, they too […]