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Dole08/iStock(FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.) -- A tourist has died in a skydiving accident near the Grand Canyon after suffering a “hard landing” when his parachute failed to open.Christopher Swales, a 55-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was on a sky-diving trip on Sept. 8 with Paragon Skydive, a company at the Grand Canyon National Park Airport when authorities said he and his sky-diving partner who worked at the company “encountered difficulties."Deputies were […]

ilbusca/iStock(EL CENTRO, Calif.) -- A group of Southern California church leaders were arrested on Tuesday in a forced labor case involving homeless people who were allegedly held against their will and coerced to surrender their welfare benefits to the church.Twelve leaders of Imperial Valley Ministries, based in El Centro, California, were arrested on charges of conspiracy, forced labor, document servitude and benefits fraud, accused of recruiting dozens of homeless people […]

danielfela/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A former top Federal Emergency Management Agency official tasked with restoring power to a devastated Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria was arrested on disaster fraud charges for allegedly taking bribes from the president of a company that had received more than $1.8 billion in contracts to conduct infrastructure repairs on the island. She was among three people arrested in connection with fraud Tuesday. Ahsha Tribble, the former […]

AlexandreFagundes/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Most children attending public school in New York state were not alive on Sept. 11, 2001. But current students and the generations to come will have a way to honor and understand the lives lost on 9/11. A new law "allows for a brief moment of silence" in the state's public schools when the school day starts each Sept. 11. It's a way for students to learn […]

mari_art/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A California man is facing criminal charges for the killing of a protected mountain lion. Alfredo Gonzalez, 60, is accused of fatally shooting a collared mountain lion, known as P-38, back in July. The animal was found dead in the Simi Valley area with a gunshot wound to the head and its GPS-enabled radio collar vandalized, according to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.P-38 was part of […]

wekeli/iStock(SANTA FE, Texas) -- A chimpanzee is on the run in Texas and not letting anyone get in its way, officials said on Tuesday. The animal, which has been on the loose since Monday, has been harassing people and dogs, as well as trying to take cats in the Santa Fe area, according to Houston ABC station KTRK-TV.However, the Bayou Animal Services shelter wrote on Facebook that they do not […]

jetcityimage/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A man in Mississippi suffered a medical emergency before the school bus he was driving crashed, leaving several children injured on a Mississippi highway, according to authorities.The children were on their way to classes Tuesday morning in Benton County when the bus rolled several times before overturning and ending up in a ditch off Highway 72, Mississippi Highway Patrol said."Shortly before 8:30 this morning, we received notice […]