A gunman fatally shot two people and seriously wounded another at a Wisconsin casino on Saturday night before he was shot and killed by police, according to Lt. Kevin Pawlak of the Brown County Sheriff's Office.Investigators believe the suspect had…
An Oregon state lawmaker accused of allowing protesters into the closed state Capitol building while lawmakers were debating Covid-19 restrictions is now facing two misdemeanor charges.Republican Rep. Mike Nearman was charged Friday with first-degree official misconduct and second-degree criminal trespass,…
Medina Spirit won the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday.The 3-year-old brown colt was trained by the legendary Bob Baffert, who becomes the winningest trainer in the history of the Derby with his seventh victory.…
A 39-year-old woman was found dead Friday night after an apparent bear attack in southern Colorado, according to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife news release. "The woman, a Durango resident, was believed to have gone walking with her two dogs…
The United States has placed a new fish on its foreign endangered species list.The US Fish and Wildlife Service determined the Yangtze sturgeon warranted listing as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, according to a press release.The freshwater fish is…
A former player for the New York Jets died in an accident during a fishing tournament in Texas on Thursday, according to tournament officials and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.Pete Lammons, 77, played six seasons for the Jets, including…
Lance Bass wants in on Justin Timberlake's "It's Gonna Be May" meme.The former *NSYNC member posted a video on TikTok of him dancing to the boy band's song "It's Going To Be Me."In the caption, Bass made a nod to…
The door was open and a "frail little voice" called out for the brothers to come inside.Sitting in a medical lifting chair was their mother, a woman in her late 80s who Martin Hauser had never known.After 30 years searching…
One of America's most famous sporting events takes place Saturday in front of a reduced crowd, a sign that the country is returning to normal but the pandemic remains dangerous,The 147th running of the Kentucky Derby returns to its position…
For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr.Civil rights leaders and attorneys have converged on Elizabeth City demanding…
The first time I felt someone making assumptions based on my ethnicity, I was no older than 7, standing outside my ballet class in Foster City, California. A woman asked me a question about the dance studio, and I hesitated…
As a staff member wheeled 102-year-old Laura Jerstad into a sunny room in her Kissimmee, Florida, nursing home, she reached out her hand to her loved ones who'd been eagerly waiting to see her.The April 21 reunion was the first…
Eli Broad, an entrepreneur and businessman known for creating two billion-dollar businesses and establishing the iconic Broad Museum in Los Angeles, has died at the age of 87, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation said Friday."As a businessman, Eli saw…
Prosecutors for the state of Minnesota and an attorney for Derek Chauvin argued in separate filings Friday whether additional factors should affect Chauvin's sentence.The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted on April 20 of murder and manslaughter in the killing…
A California family was awarded nearly $1.8 million after an Anaheim jury ruled that police officers were primarily responsible for the death of a 35-year-old man in 2018.Christopher Eisinger died in March 2018 in an encounter with officers from the…
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday pardoned a man who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder and first-degree arson in 1995, a news release from the governor's office said.Darryl Anthony Howard can now file a claim for compensation for…
A former Georgia sheriff's deputy who pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge also previously discussed assaulting a Black person and wanting to charge Black people with felonies in order to prevent them from voting, federal investigators allege in court…
Joe Liuni felt a little strange in a room full of mental health professionals in New York state.As a gun owner, general manager of a gun store and shooting range, and president of a federation overseeing local hunting, fishing and…
Workers building a new swimming pool for a Las Vegas couple got a bit of a shock when they dug up a set of bones that are believed to date back to the Ice Age and may have been buried…
Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar has been banned from Major League Baseball following an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct in 2014, the league announced Friday.Alomar, who retired before the 2005 season, has also been terminated from his…
