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A 95-year-old resident of an Illinois nursing home died early Saturday, hours after being shocked with a Taser and bean bag rounds in a confrontation with police.Authorities said John Warna was a resident at Victory Centre of Park Forest, on the 100 block of South Main Street in the south suburb.
Three people are dead and several more are critically injured after a bus returning from a church summer camp overturned in Indianapolis, officials said.Forty passengers were on the bus when it overturned, entrapping five people, the Indianapolis Fire Department said on its Twitter feed.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to the ketchup company fortune, was released Saturday from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where she was treated for a seizure she experienced on July 7.
One body has been found, officials say, after a bride-to-be and a best man went missing when a boat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River on Friday night.Four other people remained in the hospital Saturday while investigators continued their search, NBC New York reported.
Two American service members were killed in an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan, Saturday, according to a press release from the International Security Assistance Force.
Trapped by the enemy, calculating his company had 20 minutes to live, the Army Ranger belly-climbed a napalm-fried hill as Chinese bullets peppered the dirt. From that peak, he glimpsed below “the most beautiful sight of my life” — four waiting U.S. tanks. "We are in bad shape," he radioed.
A woman set to get married in August and the best man are missing Saturday after a boat accident in the Hudson River.Four people remained in the hospital while investigators continued to search for the missing man and woman after the boat they were on struck a barge on the river Friday night.
Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday. She was 97.
A good picture can change the world. Photos like "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" can quickly and powerfully convey a message that informs and arouses sympathy and empathy. The Electrical Workers (IBEW) union recognizes that truth every year with its annual photo contest, running now through Oct. 31.
SWAT officers shot and killed a gunman early Saturday after he killed 6 people, ending an hours-long standoff near Miami, Fla., police said.Two people were rescued alive and unharmed from an apartment building where they were being held hostage, Hialeah police spokesman Sgt.
