Tag Archives: U.S.

A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board, after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology and even getting support from an acclaimed adventure writer. When Northwest Orient Flight 2501 crashed, it was …

The body of a climber who was ascending Alaska’s Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, has been found two days after he fell approximately 3,000 feet, the National Park Service said. Alex Chiu, 41, was ascending the West Buttress climbing route of Mount McKinley — the tallest mountain in North …

Update: One of the wounded firefighters, Jordan Melton, died on July 17. Read more here. Our earlier story is below.  Two firefighters were shot and seriously wounded Wednesday morning while on duty at a fire station in Birmingham, Alabama, in what the city’s police chief says could be a “targeted” …

New figures shared exclusively with CBS News are offering a detailed look at the scope of decades of discrimination by the U.S. military against gay and lesbian service members, revealing that more than 29,000 individuals kicked out because of their sexuality were denied honorable discharges. There have long been estimates …

Three women in 2017 escaped from the Texas prison where disgraced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is serving her sentence. One of the women, Edith Lara, still hasn’t been found, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Holmes, who lost her fight to remain free while appealing her convictions, reported …

Authorities have captured the last of four Mississippi jail inmates, who wreaked havoc on communities in and around Jackson for almost two weeks after their coordinated escape last month. Corey Harrison, the fourth escapee, was taken into custody Thursday morning, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. A woman …

Less than three weeks after a gunman opened fire inside a bank in downtown Louisville, killing five people and injuring nine, the shooter’s parents spoke out for the first time since the mass shooting in a “Today” show interview that aired on Thursday morning. Lisa Sturgeon and Todd Sturgeon, whose …

A Home Depot employee was shot and killed on Tuesday while trying to stop a shoplifter in Pleasanton, California, authorities said. The victim, 26-year-old Blake Mohs, was a loss prevention employee who was a well-known member of the community, the Pleasanton Police Department said in a statement. “During the investigation, …

The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to consider most of Republican Kari Lake’s appeal in a challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race but revived a claim that was dismissed by a trial court. In an order Wednesday, the state’s highest court said a lower court erroneously dismissed …

Danielle Miller, a 32-year-old Miami social media influencer, has pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft in a $1.5 million COVID relief fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.  The New York-born Miller used the stolen identities of more than 10 …