A Seattle man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of his 9-month-old son. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Magnolia neighborhood Wednesday evening, the Seattle Police Department said in a post on its website. A woman told officers her baby had been shot, and firefighters pronounced the boy dead at the scene. HUNDREDS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS IN ENCAMPMENT AT SEATTLE PARK AFTER FUNDING FOR HOTEL STAY RUNS OUT The father was arrested later after police found him...
Former Michigan State University head football coach Mel Tucker is working to keep his divorce proceedings as private as possible, while continuing to pursue a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer. Tucker submitted a request to the judge overseeing the proceedings to prevent media scrutiny of his ongoing divorce, the USA Today reported. Tucker's attorneys filed a motion for a protective order and asked the judge to seal the record of the case. According to court documents,...
Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force has handed over to Baghdad two Islamic State group militants suspected of involvement in mass killings of Iraqi soldiers in 2014, a war monitor said Friday. The report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came a day after the Iraqi National Intelligence Service said it had brought back to the country three IS members from outside Iraq. The intelligence service did not provide more details. The Islamic State group captured an estimated 1,700 Iraqi...
Paul O'Neill's brief "Seinfeld" cameo is still paying off — literally. The former New York Yankees star appeared in the episode "The Wink" in season 7 as just one of several Yankees to be on the hit series throughout its dominance in the 1990s. In case you're unfamiliar, O'Neill's episode is the one where Kramer (played by Michael Richards) promises a boy in the hospital that he would get the right fielder to hit two home runs in a game in an effort to try to get back a birthday card for owner...
Virginia budget negotiators and Gov. Glenn Youngkin have reached a compromise on the next two-year state spending plan that would include 3% raises for state employees and teachers while not raising taxes and risking a potential veto by Youngkin. House Appropriations Chairman Luke Torian confirmed Thursday that the General Assembly's budget leaders have reached a deal with Youngkin that they hope lawmakers will approve during a special session scheduled to begin on Monday. Youngkin’s press...
Kaley Cuoco paid tribute to the life and legacy of her late "8 Simple Rules" co-star John Ritter. On Thursday, the 38-year-old actress, who starred alongside Ritter in the sitcom from 2002 to 2003, spoke warmly of the actor at An Evening From The Heart, a gala that benefited the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. Ritter died in 2003 at the age of 54 from an undetected thoracic aortic dissection. "He was very special to me," the "Big Bang Theory" star told Access Hollywood at Los Angeles'...
A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel before striking a construction vehicle and killing three workers on the shoulder of a Pennsylvania highway in April, authorities said Friday. TRUCK DRIVER CLEARED IN DEADLY NH MOTORCYCLE WRECK TESTIFIES TO GET LICENSE BACK Pennsylvania State Police said the 24-year-old driver from Roxbury, Massachusetts fell asleep on Interstate 83, about 8 miles south of Harrisburg on April 17. Investigators said the man was driving a large box truck at about 3:25 a.m....
A bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, killing seven people, officials said. The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top criminal investigations body, reported the death toll. It did not state how many others were injured, but the emergencies ministry earlier said that six people removed from the bus were in critical or serious condition. AT LEAST 90 INJURED AFTER PASSENGER TRAIN HITS BOXCAR, DERAILS IN ARGENTINE CAPITAL...
Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase "War is hell." General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to bidders Tuesday at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus. Other items that will be auctioned off include Sherman's uniform’s rank insignia worn during the Civil War, a family...
The NBA has fined Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle $35,000 after he called out the officiating in the first two games of an Eastern Conference semifinal series against the New York Knicks. The NBA announced the fine Friday, citing Carlisle’s remarks after the Pacers' 130-121 loss to the Knicks Wednesday night. The league took action against Carlisle’s "public criticism of the officiating and questioning the integrity of the league and its officials," a press release stated. CLICK...
A Michigan woman was found living inside a sign on top of a grocery store recently in a case that a local police officer said "makes you scratch your head." The unidentified 34-year-old woman, who police said was homeless, had not only been living inside the grocery store sign for a year, she also had a desk, a coffee maker, a computer and a printer. She was discovered on April 23, when contractors at the Midland, Michigan, store noticed someone was running an extension cord up to the roof...
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