Month: August 2020

In May 1989, a bizarre murder attempt in Austin, Texas, gripped the nation and made worldwide news. The details of the case were unusual, and unlike anything police had seen before. The victim? Austin’s oldest resident, a nearly 600-year-old tree known as Treaty Oak. Treaty Oak is a spectacular specimen. It is centuries older than

It is elk mating season and finding a partner could get dangerous. Yellowstone National Park warned visitors Friday that the season, called the elk rut, has begun and aggression could be turned toward humans passing by. The rut stretches from early September to mid-October, when bull elk “bugle” or call out to “announce their availability”

For a few hours every Saturday morning, Los Angeles’ Skid Row — home to one of the nation’s largest concentrations of homeless people — transforms into an outdoor beauty salon. There, where tents line entire city blocks, homeless people gather to get free makeovers from Shirley Raines, or a member on her team of volunteers,

A one-year-old boy is safe and back at home with his mother after being abducted from his stroller at gunpoint Saturday, authorities said. Mateo Mantufar-Barrera was being pushed in his stroller by his mother near their apartment in Chamblee, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta, Saturday afternoon when an SUV pulled up next to them, according

A Girl Scout troop in Colorado has come to the aid of a local elementary school by making personal protective equipment to fend off the coronavirus — and they used money made from cookie sales to do it. Emma Bangerter, a 5th grader at Wildcat Mountain Elementary School in Highlands Ranch — and a member

When the coronavirus pandemic forced Erin and Ben Cohen to change their wedding plans, the New York couple thought their wedding cake dreams were over, until Publix stepped in to help them make their own. Erin and Ben got engaged on February 29, and were planning a perfect, big summer wedding. Being from Florida, Erin

BEIJING, China — Rescue efforts ended at a two-story restaurant in a northern Chinese village that collapsed during a local resident’s 80th birthday celebration, leaving 29 people dead, authorities said Sunday. The Ministry of Emergency Management said another 28 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when the building suddenly crumbled on Saturday. There was

Marie Delus had not touched her mother since she took her to a New York City emergency room in March. But after more than five months in a hospital and nursing home, Delus’ mother, Marie Jean-Pierre, was released on Saturday, her family told CNN. Jean-Pierre, 73, was admitted to Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn on

A sheep sold for a record 350,000 guineas — or around $490,000 in American money — at an auction in Scotland this week. The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a news release from the Texel Sheep Society. Bidding started at 10000 guineas