Police in Idaho said an 85-year-old woman exhibited “heroism, fortitude, and a will to live” after she fatally shot a man who broke into her home, handcuffed her to a chair and made threats to kill her. The woman, identified by local authorities as Christine Jenneiahn, was also shot several times during the home invasion
A 22-year-old woman from Georgia was arrested for allegedly going on a shooting spree on the day of the solar eclipse and telling people that God told her to do it. Taylon Nichelle Celestine faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery for the Monday shootings. She is accused of injuring two people after opening
Descrease article font size Increase article font size In what police have called one of the biggest cash heists in the history of Los Angeles, thieves in San Fernando Valley successfully robbed a money storage facility of up to US$30 million (over C$40.4 million) on Easter Sunday. Authorities in the state have been left scratching
A group of eight cruise passengers were left stranded at a port in West Africa after the vessel didn’t allow them to board due to lateness. Six American and two Australian tourists were supposed to be on a dream vacation, but it quickly turned into a nightmare when they arrived back at port from a
Fans of an Instagram-famous magpie are campaigning for Australian wildlife authorities to reunite him with his best friend Peggy, an English Staffordshire terrier, after the animals’ owners say they were pressured to surrender the wild bird. Molly the magpie was rescued as a chick by Juliette Wells and Reece Mortensen, a couple from Queensland who
Two crew members aboard a Holland America Line cruise ship were killed on Friday following an “incident” in one of the ship’s engineering rooms, according to a statement from the U.S.-owned cruise line. The fatalities occurred on the Nieuw Amsterdam cruise ship while it was docked at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas.Holland America said
Rose Hanbury has entered the chat. Amid the unfolding Kate Middleton drama an additional player has appeared, sending social media off on another tangent of unfounded gossip and conspiracy theories.In Britian’s aristocratic circles she’s known as Lady Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley (pronounced “Chumley”), and has long been linked to the British Royal Family
Paul Alexander, an American man who spent more than 70 years living in an iron lung, died on Monday. He was 78. Alexander, who was also known online as ‘Iron Lung Man,’ spent the last seven decades of his life living in an iron lung after contracting polio when he was a child in the
A photo released by Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, over the weekend was meant to calm speculation as to her whereabouts. Instead, it had the opposite effect. The plan backfired and blew up, after five major news agencies issued a “kill notice” for the portrait of Middleton and her three children, barring the photo over
A recently released family photo of Kate, the Princess of Wales, and her three children was edited, Kensington Palace confirms. “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused,” a statement from the Kensington royals reads.Signed “C,” for