6-YEAR-OLD FLORIDA GIRL ARRESTED FOR BATTERY
A Florida grandmother claims her 6-year-old granddaughter was arrested by a resource officer after throwing a temper tantrum at school — which she says happened because the child suffers from sleep ap ...
ALABAMA GOVERNOR BEING TREATED FOR LUNG CANCER
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced yesterday that she will receive treatment for a malignant spot on her lung. The 74-year-old Republican governor said the spot was discovered in a routine exam and ...
COLT TO SUSPEND MAKING AR-15s FOR CIVILIAN SALE
Colt will suspend production of AR-15 rifles for civilian sales, saying there's an "adequate supply" of the high-powered weapons already in the market. The gun-maker, based in West Hartford, Connecti ...
TOP OFFICIALS DISCIPLINED OVER ANT BITES AT GEORGIA VA NURSING HOME
The Department of Veterans Affairs has disciplined nine employees, including a regional director and a chief medical officer, after a Vietnam War veteran was reportedly found covered in ants and ant b ...
TROPICAL STORM JERRY FORMS IN ATLANTIC
Tropical Storm Jerry formed early this morning and is expected to continue to gain strength becoming a hurricane in the next 24 to 48 hours as the storm moves west. Jerry has maximum sustained winds ...
POLICE OFFICER DEAD, SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER SHOOTING IN ALABAMA
Authorities confirmed an officer with the Tuscaloosa Police Department shot Monday has died from his injuries. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox says 40-year-old Dornell Cousette died in the line of duty. ...
MAKER OF OXYCONTIN, PURDUE PHARMA, FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
Purdue Pharma, the company that made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin, has filed for bankruptcy in White Plains, New York. The move comes days after reaching a tentative settlem ...
TROPICAL DEPRESSION COULD FORM NEAR FLORIDA
A tropical depression is "likely to form" near Florida in the next day or so and move into the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, National Hurricane Center forecasters said last night. Invest 95L -- th ...
DRIVER DEAD IN MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL BUS CRASH, 4 CHILDREN AIRLIFTED
A school bus rolled over in Mississippi yesterday, leaving the driver dead and several children seriously injured. The crash happened on Highway 72 in Benton County The Benton County Superintendent’ ...
N.C. WOMAN CHARGED WITH CUTTING HUSBANDS PENIS OFF
A North Carolina woman was charged yesterday with tying up her husband and severing his penis. Carteret County sheriff's deputies responded to the Newport home of 56-year-old Victoria Thomas Frabutt ...
CARGO SHIP OVERTURNS NEAR GEORGIA PORT, 4 CREW MEMBERS MISSING
Four crew members are unaccounted for after a large cargo ship overturned and caught fire near a major port in Georgia early yesterday. The Coast Guard's Seventh District said on Twitter that it was ...
9 FLORIDA STUDENTS HOSPITALIZED AFTER EATING THC-LACED CANDY
Nine students in Florida were recently hospitalized after eating candy that contained marijuana. The students, from Renaissance Charter School in Cooper City, were hospitalized Friday with stomach pa ...
