TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Residents of Florida’s capital prepared to evacuate their homes and stocked up on sandbags, food and supplies Wednesday as Hurricane Helene sped toward the Gulf Coast as what the city’s mayor said could be the “strongest hurricane in recorded history ever to hit” the Tallahassee area. Helene was forecast Wednesday evening to … Read more
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania Democratic state senator denied claims from Republicans that he made racist and homophobic remarks about Black, Asian and LGBTQ people on social media more than a decade ago. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Campaign Committee released a statement accusing Sen. Jimmy Dillon (D-Philadelphia) of writing a string of offensive posts on Twitter … Read more
An “all-clear” was declared Wednesday in a township near Cincinnati, a day after a chemical gas leak from a rail tanker prompted fears of an explosions and triggered hundreds of evacuations. The evacuation orders that had been issued Tuesday within a half-mile radius of the incident in Whitewater Township — about 22 miles west-northwest of … Read more
A boy kidnapped from a California park more than seven decades ago was found alive and well as a senior citizen and reunited with surviving loved ones after his niece found him across the country through her own DNA research, police said Monday. Luis Albino was only 6 when he was taken from Jefferson Park … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Brittany Furlan, the comedian and wife of rocker Tommy Lee, says her dog’s extra flab saved it from being carried off by a coyote that snatched it near the pool of their Los Angeles home. Ring surveillance camera video posted Tuesday to Instagram by Furlan shows the coyote snatching the small dog, … Read more
The U.S. Forest Service says it will not hire seasonal employees in the next fiscal year because of expected cuts to its budget, just as fire seasons grow longer, hotter and deadlier. Rank-and-file employees and union representatives have warned for years that low pay is leading firefighters to find employment elsewhere, contributing to high attrition … Read more
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday — but nobody knows whether he’s truly guilty of the crime for which he was condemned. Littlejohn was convicted of murdering Kenneth Meers, 31, during a robbery at the Root-N-Scoot convenience store Meers owned in Oklahoma City in 1992. Meers was shot and … Read more
The son of the man accused of plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his golf course has been arrested in connection with a child sex abuse images case. Oran Alexander Routh was charged in federal court Monday with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. … Read more
Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a stunning disclosure made to Congress on Tuesday while testifying about his potential misuse of taxpayer money. Favre, appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of improperly using political connections to redirect public money to his alma mater … Read more
A hurricane watch and warnings of storm surges up to 15 feet high were issued Tuesday for almost all of Florida’s western coastline as Tropical Storm Helene formed over the Caribbean Sea, and heads towards the Gulf Coast. Helene, previously called Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine, officially formed Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said in an … Read more