DENVER (AP) — A man who was attacked by a mountain lion while running on a northern Colorado trail fought back and killed the animal by choking it, wildlife officials said Tuesday. The man was running alone at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space near Fort Collins on Monday when he heard something behind him on the […]
Following a contentious 11-hour hearing last week, Ventura County planners unanimously voted to recommend a resolution supporting safe passage in Southern California — for wildlife. The advisory resolution backing a network of protected “wildlife corridors” and other limits to land use in the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Padres National Forest is considered a key […]
Thousands of cartons of fresh peaches, nectarines and plums distributed to stores across the country are being recalled because they may be contaminated with listeria, which can cause serious illness. New York-based fruit distributor Jac Vandenberg Inc. announced the recall on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s website on Thursday after routine checks revealed samples […]
A 3-year-old boy who was found alive after having been missing for days told family members that he had spent the time with a bear. Casey Hathaway had been playing with other children on Tuesday when he vanished from his grandmother’s yard in a rural part of eastern North Carolina. He was found alive two […]
UPDATE: Chicago police said on Feb. 16 that their investigation into Jussie Smollett’s reported attack “shifted” after they received information from two individuals they questioned. Citing anonymous law enforcement sources, CNN reported that police believe the actor may have paid two men to orchestrate the attack. Read more here. PREVIOUSLY: Jussie Smollett broke his silence on […]
This article is the third installment of “One Year Later: Larry Nassar And The Women Who Made Us Listen,” a seven-part series that commemorates the seven days women stood in a Lansing, Michigan, courtroom last year and faced their abuser, former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State trainer Larry Nassar. Read more installments: One | Two | Four | Five | Six | Seven […]
Nina Kouprianova and Richard Spencer were married during a small ceremony in Niagara Falls in August 2010. Spencer’s father is a doctor in the Dallas area. His mother, Sherry, is a socialite and artist whose home on Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana, is full of tiles she painted herself. Kouprianova, an artist and photographer, got […]
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday declined to say whether President Donald Trump directed a senior campaign official to instruct longtime confidant Roger Stone to contact WikiLeaks, after Stone was arrested early Friday. “A senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday condemned Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) racist remarks in The New York Times last week, but refused to say he wouldn’t support the openly racist lawmaker in the future. Cruz, who picked King to co-chair his 2016 presidential campaign, railed against King’s comments published in the Times on Thursday, which […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Detectives reviewed surveillance footage of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, but so far none of the video shows him being attacked by two masked men, although investigators have obtained images of people they would like to question, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted photos […]