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A fire broke out early Monday aboard a cruise ship off the Florida coast, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.The fire was contained to a small area of the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas and had been put out early Monday morning, the agency said.Responders were using equipment onboard the ship to put out the fire as opposed to battling it from a cutter, the agency said.There were no reported inju...
DENVER - Authorities in Canada have arrested a man accused of breaking into his estranged wife's home before blasting her with a stun gun and pepper spray and kidnapping their 3-year-old son.Monty Ray Turner was arrested without incident at a motel in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, said Longmont, Colo., Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur. The boy was found unharmed."We are working with ...
A fire broke out early Monday aboard a cruise ship off the Florida coast, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.The fire was contained to a small area of the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas and had been put out early Monday morning, the agency said.Responders were using equipment onboard the ship to put out the fire as opposed to battling it from a cutter, the agency said.There were no reported inju...
EPHRATAH, N.Y. -- The search for a brain cancer patient who was on the volunteer medical flight that crashed in a wooded area of central New York stretched into a third day Monday.Frank and Evelyn Amerosa of Utica, N.Y., were aboard an Angel Flight on Friday night when the twin-engine aircraft went down in Ephratah, a small town about an hour west of Albany, according to police and family members....
Much of the central United States will be at risk of thunderstorms and flooding from heavy rain on Monday, forecasters warned.The National Weather Service said some of the storms could be “severe.”It also said that heavy rain was possible from the middle of the Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes. The Pacific Northwest was also expected to be wet “as rain showers move in ahead of the next storm ...
By Lisa Riordan Seville and Hannah Rappleye, NBC News Cash-strapped cities and states increasingly are trying to tap a previously overlooked pot of money – uncollected fines, fees and other costs imposed by civil and criminal courts – in order to help them balance their books.And when people don’t pay these court-ordered debts, some local officials have not been shy about tossing them in jail, lea...
A man went on an early morning shooting spree across two Texas counties Sunday, killing a woman and injuring five other people — one of them the Concho County sheriff — before dying in a shootout with law enforcement, authorities said.At least nine state and local agencies chased the man — a 23-year-old North Carolina resident whose name wasn't released because his family hadn't been notified — fo...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A 24-year-old man has been charged with beating an Alaska man and his wife to death and sexually assaulting their 2-year-old great-granddaughter.Jerry Andrew Active was arrested Saturday night as he fled the east Anchorage homicide scene dressed only in boxer shorts and socks. He is charged with first and second-degree murder, sexual assault and burglary in the deaths of T...
