Tag: deaths
MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) A man accused of storming into a rabbis home and stabbing five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City was raised to embrace…
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (AP) ? The eruption was so silent that Lillani Hopkins didn?t hear it over the hum of the boat?s engines. She didn?t turn around until her dad whacked her. Then she saw…
Gov. Cuomo did New Yorks women a vital service last week signing legislation creating a new maternal mortality review board, a panel of experts that will examine why so many mothers still die from pregnancy-related…
We take a lot of things for granted. With the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s and 40s, we saw a true change in longevity and a reduction in premature death from infectious diseases. Now…
WASHINGTON For a year we have been telling ourselves we are not the kind of country that separates children from parents and relatives and locks them up without proper adult supervision, adequate food or…
This week marks the first anniversary of the deadliest assault against journalists in U.S. history. On June 28, 2018, a gunman opened fire at the offices of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, killing five…
So far this year, 11 people have died on the worlds highest mountain. Its a deadly traffic jam at the top. But its not only the mountains soaring elevation that has caused the influx of…
MOSCOW (AP) A survivor of the Russian commercial airliner that crash-landed in Moscow on Sunday, killing 41 people, says a flash of lightning was heard moments before the plane began its emergency descent. Investigators…
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) One of several people charged in the deaths of a couple who disappeared from a Kansas county fair has pleaded guilty. The Great Bend Tribune reports that 54-year-old Michael Fowler…
NEW YORK (AP) Its early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winters unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses…
