Missouri man accused of holding woman captive indicted by grand jury on kidnapping, rape charges
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.) — A Missouri man accused of holding a woman captive for a month in his basement has been indicted by a grand jury on charges including kidnapping and rape, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Timothy …
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ director Peyton Reed on the movie’s ‘Heavy Metal’ inspiration
Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel StudiosOn Friday, Marvel Studios’ next big movie goes small — subatomic, actually. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania primarily takes place in the Quantum Realm, the mysterious region far smaller than most have ventured to an…
Great Lakes reach record lowest ice extent for this time in the season
ABC News(CLEVELAND, Ohio) — For the second day in a row, the Great Lakes are at a combined ice cover low.
On Feb. 13, the combined ice cover across the Great Lakes was 7.3%, breaking the old record from 2002. The historical average for ice cover seas…
Who is Anthony McRae, the suspected Michigan State mass shooter?
Michigan Department of Corrections via AP(EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Law enforcement officials on Tuesday named Anthony Dwayne McRae, a 43-year-old resident of Lansing, Michigan, as the suspect in the overnight shooting at Michigan State University that t…
Suspect in Rep. Angie Craig assault has long criminal record, including 25 bench warrants
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia(WASHINGTON) — The man who allegedly assaulted Rep. Angie Craig last week has a lengthy criminal record, including 25 bench warrants since 2014 and was experiencing homelessness, according to court docum…
East Palestine, Ohio, resident weighs in on fears following train derailment, chemical spill
fhm/Getty Images(EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — Ben Ratner has spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to survive a freight train chemical disaster. After all, he appeared in a movie about it.
In 2020, Ratner and some family members travele…
Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron set to be sentenced to life in prison
John Normile/Getty Images(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother died in the Tops supermarket massacre last May, said he’s not interested in hearing what the gunman has to say when he plans to apologize to victims’ families o…
FBI announces investigation into Harris County Jail amid inmate deaths
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images(HOUSTON, Texas) — The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations of federal rights violations following the deaths of two inmates at the Harris County Jail in Texas after a request by the sheriff’s office….
5 years after Parkland shooting, teachers struggle with ramifications of gun violence
David McNew/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — Five years later, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is still very much on the mind of English teacher Sarah Lerner.
Lerner was teaching at the school on Feb. 14, 2018, when gunman Nikolas …
How Michigan State University shooting unfolded: Timeline
Scott Olson/Getty Images(EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Three Michigan State University students were killed and five more wounded in a mass shooting on the East Lansing campus Monday night.
For several hours, terrified students sheltered in place following …