Authorities said Friday they believe the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush. The escaped prisoner, Skylar Meade, and the accomplice, … Read more
An inmate who escaped from an Idaho hospital with an accomplice who opened fire on the correction officers transporting him in a “brazen” attack have been captured, Boise police said. The Idaho Department of Correction inmate, Skylar Meade, and shooting suspect Nicholas Umphenour were located in the Twin Falls area around 2 p.m. MT Thursday, … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Authorities in the eastern Caribbean said they were trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht that was hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada. The Royal Grenada Police Force said in a statement released Friday that they were working on leads “that … Read more
TOKYO — A pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped, officials said Wednesday. The killer whales, also known as orcas, were initially spotted by a local fisherman who reported them to officials in the nearby town … Read more
DODGE COUNTY, Wis. (WFRV) – An escaped Huber inmate in southcentral Wisconsin has deputies asking for the public’s help in finding her, authorities say she was last seen at an approved medical visit. According to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, 44-year-old Jennifer P. Petersen left the jail, presumably the Dodge County Detention Facility in Juneau, … Read more
In March 1943, on the island of New Guinea, a young Australian pilot was put on a truck by his Japanese captors. It was twilight, and the young man gazed out wistfully at the hills and sea, lost in thought. When the truck eventually came to a halt, he was ordered down and told he … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A Japan Airlines passenger jet and a coast guard plane collided on an airport runway in Tokyo on Tuesday, killing five of the six people on board the coast guard aircraft. The Airbus A350 landed in flames. But all 379 people on board, including 12 crew members, … Read more
The company began the year with a ton of turmoil This year did not start off great for Salesforce, with an unusual level of turbulence and uncertainty surrounding the company. But as the year comes to a close, Salesforce finds itself in surprisingly good shape financially: Its stock is up over 96% year-to-date. Earlier this … Read more
DALLAS – Standing around the kitchen table, everyone agrees, the large clear zip-lock bag the North Texas parents are holding is disturbing. The contents are telling. “… a shirt, some underwear, a makeup brush,…” says Brooke Morris who has collected these items from her teenage daughter’s room. Investigators had asked them to put it together … Read more
Half the staff at a jail from which a terrorist suspect escaped are off sick or unavailable to work on any one day, a report by watchdogs has found. Security is so lax that Wandsworth prison, from which Daniel Khalife escaped last month, is rife with drugs, illegal phones and illicit alcohol, said its independent … Read more