It's a wild story about a wild animal, but you won't find this tiger tale on Netflix.A Bengal tiger last seen in a west Houston neighborhood on Sunday is still missing, according to police.Investigators have fielded hundreds of calls in…
A Virginia nurse recruited her sons to work with her at Arlington County Public Health to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Michele Fletcher, 58, has lived her entire life helping others, including first and foremost as a mother to seven children,…
Delaware State University is cancelling more than $700,000 in student loans for recent graduates hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.DSU will cancel $730,655 for more than 220 people, the school announced this week."The average eligible student will qualify for about…
Five people were shot, two fatally, during a gathering early Saturday on the South Side of Chicago, police said.Detectives were searching for a yet to be identified person who fled the scene -- described by the fire department as a…
A climber was killed and another injured when a block of ice fell from a glacier in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, the National Park Service says.The ice fell from Ruth Glacier, hitting the two-man rope team Thursday morning, the park…
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit is set to race in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday evening, days after failing a post-Derby drug test.The 146th running of the Preakness will once again be the second…
To Bob Baffert, there's no better place than one he has visited a record seven times — the place where the Kentucky Derby winner gets adorned with roses and sport proclaims the horse and humans as heroes."If there's a heaven…
Seven of the nine people who were injured in Thursday's shooting in Providence, Rhode Island, remained hospitalized Friday, the city's police chief said.The shooting that began shortly before 7 p.m. on Thursday at a house was between two feuding groups…
Following the release of footage showing the death of a Black man as deputies forcibly removed him from his cell, a South Carolina sheriff announced changes to address the safety of mentally ill inmates."Our responsibly was the safety of Jamal…
Pioneering space journalist Jay Barbree died Friday, according to his former employer, NBC News. He was 87.Barbree joined NBC News in 1958 and covered every non-commercial manned spaceflight in the US, from Freedom 7 to the final space shuttle mission.…
Three Nashville police officers who raided the wrong apartment last summer will be suspended without pay as well as face other disciplinary measures, the city's police chief said Friday.Initially, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake stripped the officers of their…
From gravity-defying dunks and in-air acrobatics to an unquenchable thirst for dominance and an overt disdain for anything shy of excellence, Kobe Bryant spent much of his life following in the footsteps left by Michael Jordan's iconic Nike sneakers.This weekend…
The bodies of two contract workers were recovered Friday after they died following an explosion in an Oklahoma dam that was undergoing maintenance, officials said.Three workers were doing maintenance work Thursday at the Robert S. Kerr Dam near Tulsa when…
The federal trial for former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane, accused of civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd, is scheduled for August 2, a judge said Friday.The three men -- who…
A Colorado man who was recently charged with murder in the disappearance of his wife a year ago has also been charged with voter fraud for voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election using his wife's mail-in ballot,…
It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads and tied in a bun at the…
The wreckage of a cargo ship off the Georgia coast caught fire during salvage operations on Friday and seawater is being used to extinguish the blaze, according to the US Coast Guard.The wreckage of the 656-foot Golden Ray caught fire…
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit can race in Saturday's Preakness Stakes after the final two rounds of blood samples from the horse were deemed clear, officials said Friday.All three of trainer Bob Baffert's horses scheduled to run at the Pimlico…
It looks like a $26 million dollar lottery jackpot will go unclaimed in California because no one came forward with the winning ticket.The winner of the SuperLotto Plus drawing on November 14, 2020, had 180 days to claim their prize…
Former Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and billionaire Marc Lore have agreed to a deal to purchase the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx from owner Glen Taylor."Glen Taylor has reached an agreement with Marc Lore &…
New York City police are searching for the person who vandalized a mosque in Brooklyn with anti-Palestinian graffiti on one of the holiest days in the Muslim faith.Muslims in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood arrived to Tayba Islamic Center early on…
The city of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay a record $10 million settlement to the family Andre Hill, a Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer.The settlement, the highest amount the city has ever agreed…
An MIT graduate student wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Yale University student in February has been arrested, authorities said Friday.The US Marshals Service did not provide details of the arrest other than to say that "Gulf…
Authorities in South Carolina have released new footage showing how a mentally ill Black man died while sheriffs forcibly removed him from a jail cell earlier this year.Jamal Sutherland died at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston…
The US Coast Guard said Friday that transit on the Mississippi River waterway under Interstate 40 bridge in Memphis has reopened after a crack forced the closure of the vital highway bridge.Earlier Friday, the Coast Guard said more than 60…
