Daniel Griffin and Isabel Cleary 4 hours ago COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – One person is dead after a shooting was reported at a Dairy Queen restaurant on the north side of Columbus Saturday afternoon. Columbus police dispatchers said the shooting happened at the restaurant on the 1500 block of Schrock Road at approximately 2:23 p.m. … Read more
ST. LOUIS — A searing week concluded with a vengeance on Friday, with temperatures hitting a daily record of 104 degrees, and the heat index tying a record six-day run. The effects throughout the week were widespread: Schools sent kids home. Construction crews postponed work. Firefighting teams rotated frequently when battling a blaze. The heat … Read more
ST. LOUIS — A searing week concluded with a vengeance on Friday, with temperatures hitting a daily record of 104 degrees, and the heat index tying a record six-day run. The effects throughout the week were widespread: Schools sent kids home. Construction crews postponed work. Firefighting teams rotated frequently when battling a blaze. The heat … Read more
CNN — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday reiterated his pledge to send US Special Forces into Mexico to confront drug cartels if he is elected president, saying, “We are going to act.” Speaking to reporters at Saturday’s first stop of the “Never Back Down” bus tour through Iowa, the Republican presidential hopeful said, “It’s … Read more
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Some thunderstorms tore through the Louisville area Friday night, many of them with high, gusty winds. As they moved out, they left a lot of damage, leaving some without power. Several trees were snapped as well, falling on streets, yards, narrowly missing houses as well as one even falling on a LMPD … Read more
A man is dead after apparently being shot and crashing in Clairton overnight.Allegheny County police said county dispatch was alerted to a single-vehicle wreck in the 600 block of Miller Ave around 10:54 p.m. Friday. There, first responders found a 51-year-old man inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chest.The man was taken … Read more
On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people walked in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – the same march that saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his seminal “I Have a Dream” Speech. Now, 60 years later, the march is being recreated as advocates highlight the fight still … Read more
A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said. Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Connecticut, was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and shooting, according to a Columbia Police Department … Read more
An Arizona woman who was kidnapped on Monday was rescued after passing a note asking for help to a bystander, the local authorities said. The woman, who has not been named by the police, got into a blue Honda van that she believed to be her Uber on Monday morning at a Phoenix-area car dealership, … Read more
More than 57 million people in the American South and Southwest were under an excessive heat warning on Saturday afternoon — the most severe category for heat conditions — as temperatures across the Gulf Coast and parts of the Southwest soared to record-breaking levels and were expected to remain high through early next week. The … Read more