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Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found shot to death inside their Forney home Saturday, nearly two months to the day after his top assistant was gunned down on his way to work earlier this year.Kaufman County Sheriff's Department investigators confirmed the deaths to NBC 5 Saturday evening, but officials have had little else to say about the investigation s...
History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster.No, not that one.Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive cry, "Oh, the humanity!" made the 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station probably the best-known crash of an airship.But just four years earlier, a U.S. Navy airship seemingly jinxed fro...
Prominent U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan acknowledged Easter Sunday that the Catholic Church needs to forge a better relationship with the gay and lesbian community.“We gotta do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gay people,” Dolan said. “And I admit, we haven’t been too good about that. We try our darndest to make sure we’re not anti-anybody.”Dolan, the charism...
Five members of a Southern California family were killed in southern Nevada when their van was rear-ended by an 18-year-old driver who was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said.The five dead were among seven family members who were in the van, authorities said. The other two — the 40-year-old female driver and a 15-year-old boy — were hospitalized in critical...
Miami-Dade Police are investigating after a 4-year-old girl died after she was shot inside a car Saturday night.The shooting happened just after 6 p.m. in the 12000 block of Northwest 20th Avenue, as the girl was sitting in a parked Mercedes Benz with several other small children, police said.Somehow the girl, later identified as Rahquel Carr, was shot in her upper body. Carr was taken to Ryde...
Several people were hurt when a car jumped the curb and struck some scaffolding at the corner of Utica and Church avenues in Brooklyn Saturday, officials said. Four of the injured are critically hurt, including a child, two are serious and five have minor injuries, the FDNY said.The scaffolding partially collapsed and rescuers worked to secure it while others tended to the injured, officials s...
Police are searching for a man who allegedly tasered and then attempted to sexually assault a 23-year-old woman in a park in NEw York's Queens.Authorities say the victim was jogging in Forest Park around 7:30 p.m. Friday night when the man grabbed her from behind, threw her to the ground and began to remove her clothing.A couple walking their dog came upon the attack in progress, startling the man...
More than 700 children and their families hunted for eggs and chatted with the Easter Bunny at the Monroe/Lenawee County AFL-CIO Central Labor Council and the United Way of Monroe County's sixth annual community Easter egg hunt at Munson Park last Saturday.
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found shot to death inside their Forney home on Saturday, exactly two months after his top assistant was gunned down on his way to work.Kaufman County Sheriff's Department investigators confirmed the deaths to NBC 5 Saturday evening, but had little else to say in the early stages of the investigation.See original report ...
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found dead inside their Forney, Texas, home at about 9 p.m. Saturday, police say.Investigators with the Kaufman County Sheriff's Department confirmed the deaths to NBC 5 Saturday evening, but had little else to say in the early stages of the investigation.Police have not said what brought them to the McLelland's home Saturda...
