Feed items
A couple accused of abducting their two young sons from their grandmother in Florida sailed with them to Cuba before being flown back to the U.S. early Wednesday.Cuban authorities confirmed that Joshua Hakken, 35, and Sharyn Hakken, 34, arrived in the island nation in their sailboat the Salty Paw on Sunday. They notified the U.S. the next day and decided on Tuesday morning to turn over the couple ...
Twenty million Americans consider themselves lapsed Catholics, but Pope Francis is convincing many to test the holy waters again with his bold gestures and common touch.After years of disenchantment with the church's hierarchy and teachings, former members of the flock say they are willing to give the Vatican a second chance under new leadership.Dallas teacher Marilyn Rosa is one of them."It was a...
DETROIT -- A man identified by employees as a former maintenance worker opened fire Tuesday inside a Detroit medical facility, sending workers and visitors screaming and rushing for the doors just moments before the building erupted in flames.Crews digging through the gutted Park Medical Centers building hours after the fire recovered the remains of a man and a woman, Detroit police said Tuesday n...
By Amy Perrette, Producer, NBC NewsISLAND PARK, NY – In a small town on Long Island, still less than half rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy, Little League is finally getting underway. Andrew Barwicki, who has been coaching Island Park Little League for four years, choked up while watching his players take the field for the first time on Saturday.“We have 220 kids that are playing this weekend and tho...
After hanging around underground for 17 years, billions of flying bugs known as cicadas are due to sweep over the East Coast starting sometime in the next month. And although it's too early to predict exactly where or when the brood will appear, this spring's emergence should rate as the most closely watched bug-out in history."For entomophobes, this is the season of despair. For the entomophiles,...
Chrysler is recalling 120,000 of its full-size models because of problems with airbag warning lights that trigger for no apparent reason.It’s the latest in a series of industry-wide safety-related problems involving faulty wiring that reflect the increasingly complexity of today’s high-tech automobiles. In some cases, the issues have been mere inconveniences, but in other instances the problems ca...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday confirmed that Beyonce and Jay-Z's controversial trip to Cuba last week was indeed sanctioned."It is our understanding that the travelers in question traveled to Cuba pursuant to an educational exchange trip organized by a group authorized by (the Office of Foreign Assets Control) to sponsor and organize programs to promote people-to-people contact i...
The city of New York will pay more than $350,000 to settle a lawsuit filed last year claiming that police destroyed the private property of those evicted from a park during an Occupy Wall Street raid. The U.S. District Court in Manhattan announced the $366,700 settlement late Tuesday.Occupy Wall Street organizers brought the suit against the city last year, claiming that in a raid that took place...
At least 14 people were hurt Tuesday in a stabbing spree at a Texas community college apparently carried out by a student who was later taken into custody, authorities said.At least two victims were in critical condition. It was not immediately clear how severe the other injuries were. The stabbing happened at the CyFair campus of Lone Star College, in the Houston suburb of Cypress.Law enforcement...
Casey Anthony’s life story is worth a decent chunk of change, and the trustee in charge of resolving her bankruptcy wants to sell the rights to it to help settle the nearly $800,000 she owes creditors.The big catch is that Anthony doesn’t want to sell. Nonetheless, one bidder has already offered $10,000 – to bury her life story, he says – and more are waiting in the wings, according to her bankrup...
