Month: December 2019

Bill Ebeltoft’s life could be divided into three parts: before the Vietnam War, during the war and after the war. That’s how Paul, Bill’s younger brother by three years, chose to approach his obituary — which was published in The Dickinson Press, the local paper of Dickinson, North Dakota, where Paul and Bill grew up.

The men who planned a massacre which rocked the Philippines’ political establishment more than a decade ago have been found guilty of murder. On November 23, 2009, 58 people were killed in the town of Ampatuan, in the southern province of Maguindanao. Their bodies were buried in three shallow graves on a hilltop. The wife

A 7-year-old Texas boy temporarily living in a domestic violence shelter with his mom wrote a letter to Santa, the shelter shared, with a heartfelt plea for presents and something money can’t buy. The boy asked Santa for chapter books, a dictionary, a compass and a watch — but perhaps the biggest ask from the

Police in Vancouver, Washington, said Wednesday a missing teenager was killed by a man after he learned she was transgender. The family of 17-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen reported her missing in June, telling police they hadn’t heard from her since June 5. This month, investigators say, a person walking in the heavily wooded area of Larch

A former American Airlines mechanic accused of trying to sabotage a commercial airliner pleaded guilty to attempted destruction of an aircraft in federal court. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, admitted that he intentionally tried to damage or disable an aircraft’s air data module (ADM) system, which reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical data, on