On this day, Sept. 15 … 1963: Four Black girls are killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen would be eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.) Also on this day: 1776: British forces occupy New York City during the American […]

A man died Monday when his motorcycle rear-ended a car that slowed down to make a right turn, Aurora police said. The preliminary investigation indicates that a Mazda sedan and motorcycle were traveling east on Alameda Avenue in the right-hand lane and approaching South Peoria Street, when the car slowed to turn right onto Peoria, […]

A voter-outreach effort by the U.S. Postal Service drew a growing backlash on Monday as election officials in several states warned voters that the embattled agency was providing inaccurate information about how to vote in the Nov. 3 election. The statements by officials in West Virginia, Maryland, Utah and Washington state come after a federal […]

DRIVERS have to pay £135 for eight hours in Britain’s most expensive car park. And if they leave their car there for 24 hours, it will set them back £455. The short-stay Lime Street Station car park in Liverpool was named the dearest in research by car finance firm Zuto. But its operator — Apcoa […]

Where’s the beef? That’s the question Alberta RCMP are grappling with after a semi-truck trailer full of meat was stolen from one of Canada’s largest meatpacking plants. The theft from the JBS meatpacking plant near Brooks, Alta., happened two weeks ago. RCMP said on Aug. 30, a transport truck that was subcontracted to haul a […]

Ambushed Los Angeles deputies expected to survive Manhunt underway for gunman; Kristin Fisher reports. As the search continued Monday for a brazen gunman who ambushed two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, the anti-cop rhetoric from at least one local leader has softened. Both deputies, shot in the head as they sat in a marked squad car, were […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg reported hitting a deer with his car on Saturday night but actually killed a pedestrian whose body was not found until the next day, state investigators said Monday. Ravnsborg’s office has said he immediately called 911 after the accident on a rural stretch of […]

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero is charged with terrorism, complicity in murder and forming an armed rebel group Rwandan court charged Paul Rusesabagina with terrorism, complicity in murder Rusesabagina, 66, pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges against him  He is credited with saving more than 1,000 lives during the 1994 genocide A Rwandan court has charged Paul […]

Britain’s testing fiasco hits a new low: NO tests are available in Bolton or ANY of the 10 Covid-19 hotspots in England as Nicola Sturgeon accuses Matt Hancock of trying to restrict testing in Scotland Tests have been withdrawn from Bolton, Salford, Bradford, Blackburn and others The testing website greets users with a message saying […]

Britain could become a nation of beach bums with millions set to skip work for the seaside to bask in 31C temperatures – making it hotter than Hawaii. A 1,500 mile-wide 'Saharan spurt' of hot air which has settled over the UK promises to deliver the most sweltering September 15 in nearly 200 years. The […]