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The family of a Maine man who lived like a hermit in the woods for 27 years thought he had run off to New York City, a neighbor says.Police said Christopher Knight's relatives didn't report him missing when he vanished as a 19-year-old in 1986. He didn't surface until last week when he was nabbed during a burglary not far from a makeshift campsite he'd called home for nearly three decades.Robert M...
A Florida couple charged with kidnapping their sons and sailing to Cuba were ordered jailed without bond Thursday during their first court appearance.Joshua and Sharyn Hakken's boys, age 2 and 4, have been turned over to their grandmother, who had custody of them when they were abducted last week.Joshua Hakken allegedly barged into the home, tied up the grandmother and fled with the children, sett...
A Tennessee high school student was shot and killed Thursday waiting for the bus to school.The shooting happened just before 7 a.m. near downtown Nashville. Police were looking for the shooter, described as a black teenager wearing a hooded sweatshirt and khakis, NBC affiliate WSMV reported.The victim was 17 years old, WSMV reported. The Tennessean newspaper reported that the shooter came from a v...
Alexander Heit's final text cut off in mid-sentence.Before he could send it, police say, the 22-year-old University of Northern Colorado student drifted into oncoming traffic, jerked the steering wheel and went off the road, rolling his car.Heit died shortly after the April 3 crash, but his parents and police are hoping the photo of the mundane text on his iPhone will serve as a stark reminder to ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent the following message about Social Security to her supporters:My brother David has always had the special spark in our family.Like our two older brothers, David served in the military. When he got out, he started a small business—and when that one didn't work out, he started another one. He couldn't imagine an America where he wasn't living by his wits every single day.
By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC NewsThis past winter has been exceptionally rough for honeybees — and although it's too early to say exactly why, the usual suspects range from pesticides that appear to cause memory loss to pests that got an exceptionally early start last spring.Friday marked the start of an annual survey that asks beekeepers to report how many bees they lost over the winte...
A man cut his arms to the bone with handsaws at a California home improvement store and was found in a pool of blood, authorities said.Pasadena fire Capt. Art Hurtado was among horrified shoppers in the aisle Wednesday. He was shopping with his wife on his day off and jumped in to help.Hurtado and his wife, Isabelle, saw West Covina police officers rush to the man, and he joined them."The office...
A woman who was rescued by a lifeguard when she nearly drowned in a pool as a 5-year-old has found her hero, almost 50 years after her brush with death.Eady Rothstein, from Ramsey, N.J., was sitting on the edge of a pool at a club near Lido Beach on New York’s Long Island in 1964 when she suddenly slipped in."I can picture being underwater, screaming," recalled Rothstein. A young lifeguard jumped ...
Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mazda are recalling 3.4 million vehicles worldwide – including at least 1 million in North America - over a defect in passenger airbags, the companies announced Thursday.Toyota said “improperly manufactured” parts could cause the front passenger airbag to “rupture” and “deploy abnormally in the event of a crash”Japanese parts maker Takata supplied the airbags related to t...
CHICAGO -- The daughter of President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on charges of money laundering and lying to federal authorities, a Justice Department spokeswoman said.Jeri L. Wright, 47, the daughter of Jeremiah Wright, was accused of participating in a fraud scheme led by a former suburban police chief and the chief's husband that involved a $1.25 million...
