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DeAgostini/Getty Images (GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Ariz.) -- An 80-year-old man died in Grand Canyon National Park over the weekend after his boat flipped in the Colorado River, marking the 13th person to die in the park this year.The man was on a commercial rapids trip Sunday and fell into the water at Fossil Rapid, according to the National Park Service.He fell in at around 3:40 p.m., according to officials, with […]

Courtesy of Redlands Police Department/Facebook (REDLANDS, Calf.) -- Police are searching for a couple and their dog who went missing from a California nudist community on Saturday.Stephanie Menard and Daniel Menard were reported missing on Sunday, according to the Redlands Police Department.The couple was last seen at their residence on Olive Dell Ranch -- a family nudist resort -- at around 10 a.m. on Saturday. Their unlocked vehicle was found […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (BOSTON) -- A former Massachusetts police officer is accused of killing a pregnant 23-year-old woman who he began sleeping with when she was a teenager and staging her death to look like a suicide, a federal indictment unsealed in Boston on Wednesday alleges.Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell allegedly strangled Sandra Birchmore to death in February 2021 after she told him she was pregnant with his […]

(GROSSE POINT, Mich.) -- The parents of a teenage passenger killed in a high-speed car crash in Michigan are pushing for authorities to charge the mother of the driver.In November 2023, Flynn MacKrell was riding in a car with his then-16-year-old friend who was driving over 100 mph in a 25 mph residential zone, according to police. The 16-year-old lost control and crashed into a tree, killing the 18-year-old MacKrell, […]

(SALIDA, Colo.) -- A worker on an office hiking retreat to a national forest in Colorado had to be rescued after 14 of his colleagues allegedly left him stranded on a 14,230-foot mountain, authorities said."In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks, one member of their party was left to complete his final summit push alone," Chaffee County, Colorado, Search and Rescue […]

(NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, finding several major issues "impugn the reliability" of the original outcome.The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals faulted the trial judge for dismissing the case before the jury had reached a verdict. The jury was allowed to continue deliberating before ultimately finding the newspaper not liable in February 2022."Unfortunately, several major […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The hottest weather of the season is spreading across the eastern half of the U.S. -- with cities in the Northeast in the bull's-eye on Wednesday -- after baking the Midwest with extreme temperatures early in the week.Chicago's actual temperature hit 99 degrees on Tuesday, breaking the city's daily record of 97 degrees. The heat index -- what temperature it feels like with humidity -- […]

(NEW YORK) -- Police in Iowa are warning residents to stay away from a "dangerous," injured water buffalo that has been on the loose since Saturday.The Pleasant Hill Police Department said officers had responded to a call Saturday about an "animal in the road" in the city, located about six miles east of Des Moines. The animal turned out to be an "aggressive" water buffalo, according to its owner, police […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A 15-year-old was charged after allegedly making bomb threats against his Maryland high school in May, police said.According to the Montgomery County Police Department, the teen allegedly worked with a 12-year-old boy from Pennsylvania to call in the threats to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, prompting the school to go into lockdown.The 15-year-old found the 12-year-old on social media, according to police, and allegedly paid […]