The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention denied on Monday that an employee who has been missing for a month was passed over for a promotion before his disappearance. Timothy Cunningham, a 35-year-old epidemiologist at the agency, mysteriously disappeared on Feb. 12. Atlanta Police said that Cunningham was told he wouldn’t receive a promotion a week…
WASHINGTON — The federal government censored, withheld or said it couldn’t find records sought by citizens, journalists and others more often last year than at any point in the past decade, according to an Associated Press analysis of new data. The calculations cover eight months under President Trump — the first hints about how his administration complies with the Freedom…
The rate represents a record low, but it could be adjusted later.
NEW YORK — The pilot of a helicopter that crashed into New York City’s East River on Sunday night has told investigators that a strap from a passenger’s harness inadvertently shut off the helicopter’s engine, sending it plunging into the water. Five passengers were unable to free themselves and were killed in the crash. The New York City Police Department…
Godbolt has been jailed without bail since his May 28 arrest.
Authorities have not said whether the latest charges relate to the same victims.
A Shelby County Sheriff’s Office news release says law enforcement found Tracy Ward Austin dead in his home March 5.
The release says police don’t know the cause of the shootout, but that there was an “escalation” before shots were fired.
NASHUA, N.H. — A judge has ruled that a New Hampshire woman who won a Powerball jackpot worth nearly $560 million can keep her identity private. Judge Charles Temple said in a ruling Monday that disclosing the woman’s name would be an invasion of privacy. He ruled, however, that her hometown can be released publicly. The unidentified woman signed her…
British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to address the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury. Speaking at parliament Monday, May is expected to point the blame directly at Moscow, according to one senior lawmaker. Sergei Skripal, the Russian who spied for Britain, and his 33-year old daughter Yulia remained…
Price says the child made threats on social media against Prattville High School and Prattville Intermediate School.
Sixteen people have died in avalanches across the Western U.S. so far this year. At North America’s largest ski resort, Whistler-Blackcomb, in British Columbia, the ski patrol uses a variety of tools — including helicopters and explosives — to keep everyone safe. Recent snowstorms there have filled the mountain’s many avalanche-prone areas with unstable snow. So at 6 a.m., at…
BOSTON — Winter-weary New Englanders are preparing for blizzard conditions, a foot or more of snow and high winds as the third major nor’easter in two weeks bears down on the Northeast. The National Weather Service on Monday issued a winter storm warning for much of New England and a winter weather advisory for eastern New York and Pennsylvania and…
While the suspect was being interviewed, someone stopped to tell deputies about a fire at the victim’s nearby home.
A photo posted to the Instagram account of Mina Basaran shows her (back, center) with friends on a trip to the United Arab Emirates for her bachelorette party. She and her friends are believed to have died when their private jet crashed in Iran on the flight back to Turkey from the UAE, March 11, 2018. Instagram Last Updated Mar…
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LA MARQUE, Texas — A server at a Houston-area diner has received an unexpected $16,000 college scholarship after details of her act of kindness — cutting an ailing customer’s food — spread online. On Thursday, Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston awarded the scholarship to 18-year-old Evoni “Nini” Williams. Williams works at a Waffle House in La Marque and has…
CIA director Mike Pompeo says the U.S. will not make concessions to North Korea before President Trump holds talks with the reclusive country’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Administration officials say the North needs to meet certain conditions, including freezing nuclear and missile tests, allowing U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises to continue, and ensuring that denuclearization is on the table. CBS News…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Authorities have uncovered human remains under concrete in the backyard of a Disney worker who disappeared in 2015. Though Michael Shaver has been missing for three years, he was only recently reported missing, Crimesider previously reported. According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, a friend of Michael Shaver, 35, recently contacted them and said he and Shaver’s…
The work will take place now through Friday, March 16.
The victim died when he ran off River Road and flipped.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Researchers are taking a controversial approach as they try to rid Florida of invasive iguanas overtaking residents’ yards by bashing in their brains. A team from the University of Florida (UF) is using a captive bolt gun that sends a bolt into the brain, similar to what’s used in the livestock industry. They’re also smashing the…
British Prime Minister Theresa May (not pictured) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hold a meeting with other members of the British government and Saudi ministers and delegates inside number 10 Downing Street on March 7, 2018 in London, England. Getty RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s king has established special anti-corruption units of prosecutors to pursue embezzlement cases…
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — It was supposed to be a festive gathering, but then, a former patient walked in with a gun and the horror began. One moment, Pathway Home residential counselor Haley Rekdahl was laughing with co-workers and veterans at a going away party inside the program’s offices at the veterans home in Yountville, California. The next moment is still…