By Troy Closson [Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Today and Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high in the low 80s. On Sunday, partly sunny, with an afternoon thunderstorm and a high in the mid-80s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Aug. 15 (Feast of the Assumption). Nearly […]
Last year, nearly two decades after Dennis Perry was convicted of fatally shooting two people in the vestibule of a small church in Camden County, Ga., two hair samples — collected 35 years apart — tipped the scales in his favor. By then, Mr. Perry’s case had achieved some level of notoriety. It was covered […]
Two men at a TJ Maxx store with their arms full of what looked like stolen merchandise did not even bother to run, but rather walked out with the loot. A video of the thieves posted earlier this week showed them carrying jeans, jackets and other items in the latest of a rash of shoplifting […]
An unusually wet spring and early summer across much of the Southeastern United States has soaked the ground and swollen rivers, leading to an increase in flash floods from heavy rains and thunderstorms. Cities across the Southeast, including Atlanta, New Orleans, Raleigh, N.C., and Biloxi, Miss., have recorded more than 150 percent of their normal […]
He was sleep-deprived and nearly out of ammunition, alone in the wilderness of Alaska. Well, not really alone. For several nights in a row, the man had fended off the tenacious advances of a grizzly bear that had attacked him a few days earlier at a mining camp some 40 miles outside of Nome. There […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – One of the most iconic weapons of the American Wild West goes up for auction next month with the sale of the gun that killed 19th century outlaw Billy the Kid. Sheriff Pat Garrett’s Colt single action revolver is expected to fetch between US$2 million (S$2.7 million) and US$3 million at […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Average US life expectancy fell by 1.5 years in 2020, a sharp decline driven by the Covid-19 pandemic affecting males and communities of colour the most, new data showed on Wednesday (July 21). Life expectancy at birth for the total US population was 77.3 years, down from 78.8 in 2019, and the […]
Good morning. Last week, exactly a month after Californians exalted in the state’s grand reopening, Los Angeles County officials announced that masks would be required, once again, in indoor public settings. The move, which came in response to the explosive spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, was an emotional setback for Angelenos, who […]
A couple from California have been charged after their gender reveal party allegedly sparked a huge wildfire that killed a firefighter. The El Dorado blaze spread for 75 miles, destroying five homes, injuring 13 people and claiming the life of 14-year veteran firefighter Charlie Morton. Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr, 41, and Angela Renee Jimenez, 29, have […]
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a strict new law that would ban nearly all abortions, a decision that comes as many states with Republican-controlled legislatures are trying to force the issue before a newly reshaped Supreme Court. Arkansas is one of several states that have passed abortion restrictions challenging the […]