Month: February 2020

New Orleans authorities are investigating after a woman was hit by a parade float Wednesday night at the Krewe of Nyx parade, New Orleans police said in a news release. The woman, police said, died at the scene. She was identified Thursday by the coroner’s office as Geraldine Carmouche, 58, of New Orleans. Not much

On a normal weekend, Shanghai’s world-famous Nanjing Road is packed with shoppers and tourists, keen to indulge themselves in China’s thriving financial hub. But this week, the streets are mostly empty and stores are either closed or deserted due to fear of the deadly coronavirus, which has killed more than 2,000 people across the country.

Students at New York’s Syracuse University are occupying a campus building for the second time this school year following several reported racist incidents. #NotAgainSU, a black student-led movement at Syracuse University, launched a sit-in Monday afternoon citing the administration’s handling of previous and recent racist incidents on campus. The organization says Monday’s sit-in at the

A small New Hampshire town’s only lawman was let go Tuesday night. Richard Lee, the now-former Chief of Police of Croydon, was asked to turn in his patrol car and his uniform. He did – and then headed for the snowy walk home in only boots, a hat, and his underwear. Lee says at the

Former sex therapist Amie Harwick appears to have been strangled before she was thrown from a third-floor balcony at her Hollywood Hills apartment, officials said Thursday. Autopsy results show the primary cause of death as blunt force injuries to the head and torso from a fall after an altercation, said Sarah Ardalani, spokeswoman for the

Authorities in Southern California issued an arrest warrant Thursday for a man in the killing of three men who were found at a cemetery earlier this week. Jose Luis Torres Garcia, 33, is wanted on three homicide warrants linked to Monday’s triple homicide at the Perris Valley Cemetery, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. Authorities