Mike Coppola/Getty Images(HOLLYWOOD) -- Adam West, best known as the actor who portrayed TV's camp, original Batman, has died at age 88. A family statement posted to West's official Facebook page reads: "It's with great sadness that we are sharing this news...Adam West passed away peacefully last night after a short but brave battle with leukemia. He was a beloved father, husband, grandfather, and great-grandfather. There are no words to […]
Kena Betancur/Getty Images(SEATTLE) -- Police in Seattle and St. Paul, Minnesota, made arrests after fighting broke out during a series of marches across the U.S. on Saturday against Sharia, a strict form of Islamic law, that were confronted by counter-protests.Police in Seattle used pepper spray and made several arrests for assault after a brief scuffle near the city's Occidental Square, according to ABC affiliate KOMO-TV."Neo-Nazi scum go home!" counter-protesters shouted […]
KTRK-TV(GALVESTON, Texas) -- The U.S. Navy has commissioned a new warship, the USS Gabrielle Giffords, in honor of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011. In a ceremony in Galveston, Texas, on Saturday, Giffords was joined on stage by her husband, former Navy captain and retired astronaut Mark Kelly, as well as several Democratic friends including Hillary Clinton and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "You make […]
Kala Brown/Facebook(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- Prosecutors have released chilling video footage of the rescue of Kala Brown after she was kidnapped by alleged serial killer Todd Kohlhepp in South Carolina in 2016.The disturbing video, released by prosecutors late Friday along with dozens of pictures and hundreds of pages of evidence, shows the moment on Nov. 3, 2016 when officers discover Brown, who authorities say was “chained up like a dog” inside […]
Noah Webster Library (WEST HARTFORD, Conn.) -- A long-overdue library book now has its own happy ending.Fifty-two years after being checked out at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, Connecticut, the book “Who Has Seen The Wind” by W.O. Mitchell is finally back on its shelf.It was originally due on Sept. 29, 1965.The library’s director, Martha Church, doesn’t know who returned the weathered book after all these years. But […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN ANTONIO) -- A Texas mother is accused of intentionally leaving her two young daughters inside a car for more than 15 hours, leading to their deaths, authorities said.Amanda Hawkins, 19, was arrested in San Antonio on Thursday and faces two counts of abandoning or endangering a child, the Kerr County sheriff said in a statement. Bond has been set at $35,000 for each count. Hawkins is being held at […]
Medioimages/Photodisc(CHATSWORTH, Ill.) -- At least one person was injured after high winds forced hot-air balloons to collide in Chatsworth, Illinois.A bystander took a cellphone video of the dramatic incident on Thursday night at a Sesquicentennial Heritage Days event in the town, located some 90 miles southwest of Chicago. The footage shows several hot-air balloons on the ground preparing to launch when a gust of wind suddenly tossed one of them […]
Roland Magnusson/Thinkstock(ORLANDO) -- The onePULSE Foundation, established after the mass shooting a year ago at Orlando's LGBT Pulse Nightclub, is honoring on social media this weekend the 49 people who were killed by gunman Omar Mateen."Throughout the weekend the onePULSE Foundation will be paying tribute to each of the 49. #WeWillNotLetHateWin," the onePulse Foundation tweeted Friday, followed by a series of tweets featuring one victim per tweet. Each photo is […]
The city council in Sioux City has unanimously voted to spend $50,000 to help commission a new Navy vessel that will bear the city’s name. “For demonstrating a relationship between a naval vessel, her crew and the namesake city,” said Chris McGowan of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce. The USS Sioux City will be launched […]Powered by WPeMatico
