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Two children were feared dead Monday after becoming trapped underneath dirt at a residential construction site near Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday, officials said.An initial attempt to rescue the children, who are trapped below ground, was unsuccessful, according to emergency responders.The East Lincoln, N.C., Volunteer Fire Department said efforts had "moved into the recovery phase."Authorities did n...
Authorities in Denver were hunting a prisoner who walked out of the Denver County Jail at about 7 p.m. MT Sunday night, possibly wearing a deputy's uniform and possibly carrying a gun and a police radio, the Denver Post reported.Police identified the escapee as Felix Trujillo, 24, described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 140 pounds, with neck and chest tattooed, the Post reported. The jail offender lis...
A man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 escaped from a minimum-security correctional facility on Sunday, authorities said. Leeland Eisenberg was discovered missing during an afternoon head count at the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester, state Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Lyons said. Eisenberg was sentenced in May ...
Two children are feared dead after becoming trapped underneath dirt at a residential construction site near Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday, officials said.An initial attempt to rescue the children, who are trapped below ground, was unsuccessful, according to emergency responders.Authorities did not say how the children became trapped, but neighbors told NBC affiliate WCNC that the site was a basement ...
A kayaker in California is being called a hero for rescuing a family after their SUV veered off the road and landed in the middle of a river on Saturday.The SUV carrying three children and their parents went out of control and slammed into a concrete mile marker, a tree and a boulder before coming to rest in the middle of the American River near Sacramento, according to authorities.Mark Divittori ...
A truck caught fire as it approached the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge, prompting an explosion and forcing authorities to shut down the upper level of the span Sunday evening, according to the FDNY.No injuries were immediately reported after the truck erupted in flames at about 7 p.m., the FDNY said.Witnesses reported seeing intense flames and thick black smoke near the bridge.Police and fire offi...
One of the two hikers rescued from the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California said Sunday that he was in and out of consciousness while stuck in a rugged Orange County canyon."The last thing I could tell you was going into a lucid dream," said 19-year-old Nicolas Cendoya. "I can't even tell you when I woke up. I was in lucid dreams and hallucinations for days."Cendoya was released f...
Two Arkansas residents filed a class action lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Friday, demanding to be compensated for damages after a crude oil pipeline ruptured the week before in their subdivision outside Little Rock, Ark.Kathryn Chunn and Kimla Greene, residents of Ledrick Circle, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of themselves and other affected residents and are seeking more than $...
Police in one New Jersey town are putting their foot down for pedestrians.Motorists who failed to yield for people crossing the street in Fort Lee paid the price recently when cops went undercover to nab rude drivers at one of the city’s most dangerous intersections.Police issued 56 summonses during a four-hour period on Friday when a plainclothes officer repeatedly crossed the street in one of t...
The body of Nevada's missing chief insurance examiner was found wrapped in a blanket and bound with duct tape in a river in Carson City on Saturday. Four suspects were arrested in connection to the case, according to the Carson City Sheriff’s Department.Sheriff Deputies were called to the apartment of 62-year-old William McCune after he failed to board a flight with a co-worker and other employees...
