Month: February 2020

Police in North Carolina found the body of a 6-month-old baby near a cemetery Saturday. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police discovered the remains of Chi-Liam Cody Brown-Erickson, who went missing with his mother Thursday evening. Police had arrested the mother, Tamara Jernel Brown, Friday night after an incident. She was charged with common law robbery and two counts

Ara Zobayan, the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in California, killing NBA legend Kobe Bryant, violated weather-related flight rules in 2015, according to Federal Aviation Administration enforcement records obtained by CNN. Bryant, Zobayan and seven other people died when the helicopter crashed as it headed to a youth basketball game on a foggy morning

White supremacists are officially more of a threat to New Jersey than both ISIS and al Qaeda, according to state security officials. In New Jersey’s annual Terrorism Threat Assessment report, released Friday, the state raised the threat level for white supremacist extremists to “high” — the topmost category for threat levels for any extremist group

More than half of South Korea’s novel coronavirus cases are linked to a branch of a controversial religious group in the southern city of Daegu. At least 231 of the country’s 433 confirmed cases are associated with the Shincheonji religious group, according to South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC). The total number

Concerns are growing over the global spread of the novel coronavirus after a spike in cases outside of mainland China among people with no connection to China or the city of Wuhan, ground zero for the outbreak. World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that there was still a chance

The mother of two children missing in Idaho repeatedly lied to police and asked others to lie as detectives began investigating the disappearances, according to newly released court documents. Lori Vallow, 46, was arrested in Hawaii on Thursday, months after her two children, Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, were last seen. She’s

Evelyn Boswell is a 15-month-old girl missing in Tennessee. Andrew Caballeiro was a week old when he was last seen in Florida. Osiel Rico, 3, has been missing from New Mexico for nearly two months. To try and find them, authorities are using a system created nearly 25 years ago: AMBER Alerts. The alerts, short

Today is George Washington’s birthday. But does it seem like it? Americans haven’t celebrated the first US president’s birthday on his actual birthday for nearly 50 years. Instead, the US celebrates his birthday on Presidents’ Day, the third Monday in February. Here’s why. Washington’s two birthdays Don’t you wish you could celebrate your birthday twice

If you see a 70-year-old woman digging through a trash can for discarded banana peels in Florida, you may have spotted one of the world’s most unique collectors. Becky Martz, of Orlando, has spent the past 29 years fastidiously collecting and cataloging more than 21,000 banana labels from around the world. Martz’s hobby has led

For decades, the remains of thousands of Native Americans have been resting at a university in Tennessee. But this spring, they will finally go home. Archaeologists unearthed more than 2,000 Arikara and Mandan ancestral remains in South Dakota during the mid-20th century as part of the Missouri River Basin Survey, according to a November Federal