An Illinois woman who went to a yoga retreat in the Bahamas has gone missing, and her family and friends say they are baffled by her disappearance and frustrated by the police response. Chicago youth program director Taylor Casey, 41, vanished from a beachside yoga retreat on Paradise Island and was reported missing on June […]
A stock trader at work at the New York Stock Exchange on February 24, 2020.Johannes Eiselle/Getty Images Short bets against funds that track major US indexes have declined to record lows, JPMorgan said. There are three main reasons short sellers are withdrawing from the market. Low levels of short-selling could spark volatility in the market […]
RI should restore COLAs to retired state employees Rhode Island’s Independent Man standing atop the beautiful Rhode Island State House in all its golden glory has been weeping for the public employees of the Rhode Island Pension System since 2011-2012. Many former Rhode Island public school teachers, state workers, and municipal employees were led to believe they could count on […]
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making without the light and fury of a supernova. To understand why this is important, we must begin with a crash course on stellar evolution. Stars generate energy […]
May 13—Starting May 16 and running through the last week of June, the Vanishing Texana Museum will once again be hosting an exhibit of both historically and locally significant quilts. The collection has been organized by Larry Lydick, museum curator, and Deborah Burkett,a member of the Cherokee County Historical Commission and author of “Quilts and […]
On May 6, when a tornado hit the town of Barnsdall in Oklahoma, Lindsay Crowder and her family decided to head to the town shelter. However, they left behind their pets as they never expected their house to disappear altogether. Fortunately, their cat Pikachu survived the ordeal and reunited with her owners. Oklahoma cat vanishes […]
An Atlanta family is desperate to find a 16-year-old who they fear could be a trafficking victim. Mekiya Smith hasn’t been seen since she got into a red Lyft after leaving Coretta Scott King Academy on Friday afternoon. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Police are investigating Smith’s disappearance and say […]
While the A380 superjumbo is enjoying a steady resurgence after having been on the brink of retirement during the pandemic, its older sibling – another four-engined aircraft from Airbus – seems dangerously close to being grounded for good. The A340 was introduced 30 years ago with Lufthansa and Air France, but only 380 have been […]
A 19-year-old man seen by security guards swimming in a lake outside SoFi Stadium has been found dead, California police told news outlets. Guards at a concert at the stadium saw him walk into the water and begin swimming just before 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, Inglewood police told KTTV. He went under and did […]
Police are searching for a missing North Carolina mother of five who made a distressed 911 call before vanishing, the Greensboro Police Department said on Monday. Marissa Carmichael, 25, was last seen on Jan. 14 at an Exxon gas station wearing a white Tweety Bird t-shirt, blue jeans and yellow sneakers, police said on a […]
A convicted felon is back in jail after he disappeared more than two months ago after being released to visit his dying grandmother. Umatilla County sheriff’s deputies arrested Michael P. Nelson, 33, on Wednesday, according to a Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post. “We want to thank all the police agencies in the area who […]
While South Florida slept on any given night this fall, so many birds migrated overhead that they were regularly visible on weather radar. More than half of America’s birds make the journey to Latin America and the Caribbean and back each year, everything from tiny hummingbirds to globetrotting shorebirds, powerful peregrine falcons to jewel-colored warblers […]