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Police near Tacoma, Wash. say they discovered two people shot in the head after a 69-year-old man called authorities and told them he had shot his two adult children.Police arrived at a home in Puyallup, Wash. where they talked the man into putting down his gun after receiving the call around 3:30 a.m. local time, according to King5.com.Inside the home, police found an adult male and an adult fema...
Capitol Hill will play host to a springtime clash over gun rights, as lawmakers prepare to take up significant gun control legislation for the first time in years. The Senate will take up a new bill next month intended to require background checks for every firearm purchase in the country — and proponents of the legislation are girding for a major political showdown against supporters of gun right...
Just weeks after a sinkhole swallowed a Florida man, killing him in his sleep in his Seffner home, another sinkhole has opened between two houses in the same town.The latest sinkhole appeared in the 1400 block of Lake Shore Ranch Drive around 7 p.m. Saturday. It's estimated to be about 8 feet in diameter and 10 feet deep, according to WFLA.Both homes on either side of the hole were evacuated as ...
There were rumors that he was dead, but former homeless man Billy Ray Harris, 55, showed his family he was very much alive and thrilled to see them in a reunion Sunday on TODAY."I never would've thought this," Harris said as his family gathered around him. "This was a total shock."Harris hadn't seen his family in 16 years, but his sister recognized him after his story of returning an engagement ri...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Few signs of spring are being found in parts of the Midwest as a snowstorm tracks mostly along Interstate 70, bringing heavy snow and high winds. The National Weather Service said parts of Colorado and northwest Kansas saw 10 to 15 inches of snow Saturday, and southwestern Nebraska had up to 7 inches. The system moves east Sunday. A winter storm warning has been issued for much...
Want to spend your summer learning about social and economic justice and working for change? The Union Summer internship program just might be the place for you. Union Summer is an educational internship in which participants are introduced to the labor movement and organizing. Listen to what Union Summer participants have to say about the experience in the video in this blog or here. The application deadline is April 30. Click here for more information about Union Summer. Apply to Union Summer here.
A Glendale man lost control of his vehicle Saturday, sending the car down an embankment and landing on a neighbor's roof. The incident happened about 5:45 p.m. in 400 block of Audraine Drive in Glendale. After the vehicle came to a stop on the roof, a neighbor rushed over with a ladder, helping the driver and a female passenger off the home. "There was a gentleman that was in the house that was ho...
When a fire broke out in a church in Mesa County, Colo., in September 2011, the police department was ready with its flight team. Strapping a thermal camera to a Draganflyer X6, they flew the drone above the burning building. Together, police and firemen identified hotspots in the structure, and traced the direction in which the fire was spreading.In 2010, a 5-pound Marcus drone was loaned to fore...
A 9-year-old boy is alive thanks to the heroic efforts of several police officers. On Saturday, around 3:45 p.m., police were dispatched to a home on Billows Drive in East Greenwich, New Jersey. When they arrived, they learned that a 9-year-old boy with autism had wandered from the home in an unknown direction around 3:30 p.m. East Greenwich police, along with the police departments, fire dep...
A winning ticket for Saturday night's $338 million Powerball jackpot was sold in New Jersey, lottery officials said early Sunday.The winning numbers in the drawing were: 17, 29, 31, 52, 53, 31. The drawing took place Saturday.Before the drawing, the jackpot had been estimated at $320 million, but late ticket sales pushed that to $338 million -- the fourth-largest Powerball prize ever. The lump-sum...
