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L.A. medical examiner calls for more transparency in high-profile deaths
Autopsy reports rarely come with barbed comments.
Pamela Smart, serving life, seeks a new trial as a New Hampshire judge weighs her latest petition
CONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who’s serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, hope that a New Hampshire judge on Monday will allow her latest petition for a new trial to move forward.
3 women’s world records set at the annual Lumberjack World Championships in Wisconsin
HAYWARD, Wis. — Three new women’s world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships competition held in a small Wisconsin community, full of high-powered sawing, chopping, log-rolling, speed climbing and cheers of “Yo-Ho!” This year, 66 men and 40 women attended the three-day competition in Hayward that ended Saturday.
United Airlines employee threatens to call ICE on Bay Area family at SFO
A viral video captured the confrontation during a ticketing dispute, leaving the family fearing detainment upon their return from Canada.
Nolan Wells’ funeral to be held Monday in Mississippi
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The funeral for Nolan Wells, the teenage football star whose body was found on the shores of Mississippi’s Horn Island days after he went missing July 4, will be held Monday morning.
Inside the fierce courtroom tactics of the prosecutor trying Luigi Mangione
Prosecutor Joel Seidemann strode briskly up the length of the courtroom’s center aisle with an accordion file under one arm and a line of eight younger colleagues rushing to keep up.
Tropical storm watch issued as depression in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to strengthen
Tropical Storm Fausto formed Sunday well off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast, while a tropical depression meandering in warm Gulf of Mexico waters south of the Florida Panhandle was threatening to strengthen into a named storm.
Texas residents say timely alerts and last year’s catastrophic floods helped them prepare for this year’s deluge
The Texas Hill Country has been lashed with another round of catastrophic flash flooding, eerily reminiscent of last year’s devastating inundation over the July Fourth holiday that killed more than 100 people.
Before Nolan Wells’ death, Mississippi island was full of fun, friends and an unspoken danger
When locals think of Horn Island, they think of pristine beaches, summer boating trips and peaceful fishing.
Two U.S. Forest Service employees rescued after being zip-tied and held hostage at gunpoint
Two U.S. Forest Service employees were rescued with the help of negotiators after being zip-tied and held hostage for nearly 15 hours in Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California, officials said Friday.