Month: September 2019

A man running a 50K race in Independence, Kansas, died after he was struck by lightning shortly before he finished the run. Thomas Stanley, 33, died Saturday afternoon while running in the FlatRock 50K trail race at Elk City Lake Park, a Facebook post from the organizers of the race said. The post said he

Police say the fatal shooting of a New York Police Department officer was the result of friendly fire. “This is a tragic case of friendly fire, but make no mistake, we lost a life of a courageous public servant solely due to a violent criminal who put the lives of the police and all the

A disbarred Georgia attorney, who is accused of killing his mother, was captured Monday in Nashville, Tennessee after months on the run, the US Marshals Service said. In February, Richard Merritt had been sentenced to 15 years in prison and 15 years on probation after being convicted of stealing money from his clients and elder

Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal made such a profound impact on his community, fellow Texans are carrying on his legacy of service. The Harris County sheriff’s deputy was gunned down Friday during a traffic stop, ending a historic career. “He touched countless … lives along the way,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. “We will aspire to be as

Boulders put out by a group of San Francisco neighbors to deter homelessness and drug dealing have been removed by the city, Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru said Monday. The neighbors raised more than $2,000 through Facebook for 24 boulders, which they put on the sidewalks after they said the city wouldn’t help them. Nuru

Channing Smith, a 16-year-old from Manchester, Tennessee, took his own life on September 23 after two classmates publicized screenshots of explicit text conversations he had with another young man. Now, the Smith family is demanding justice for the teen — and in the process, they’re raising awareness of the dangers of cyber bullying. Channing’s story

One Ohio county had an “unusually high number” of overdose deaths in a little over a day, the county’s coroner said. “As of about 10 am this morning we have had 10 people die of overdoses in about 26 hours,” Franklin County Coroner Dr. Anahi Ortiz said on Facebook on Sunday. Ortiz told CNN on

A migrant father stands tall beside his wife and child in a new monument in downtown Los Angeles. City Councilman Jose Huizar says the 19-foot-tall sculpture, unveiled Sunday near the city’s historic Olvera Street, is the first monument to honor the Mexican migrants known as braceros — a group, he says, that officials feel is

NASA’s next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life — or there is life — on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an extraterrestrial concept? NASA chief scientist Jim Green doesn’t think so. “It will be revolutionary,” Green told the