Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, angered by U.S. support of Israel, trespassed at the Port of Oakland in California and blocked a U.S. government ship. According to KTVU, approximately 200 protesters with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center gathered close to The Cape Orlando, a merchant marine ship managed by the Department of …
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GARY, Ind. – The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency filed a complaint Friday against a funeral home where the remains of two babies were found inside small boxes above ceiling tiles, a spokesman said. The complaint against Smith, Bizzell and Warner & Son Funeral Home was filed with the Indiana Attorney …
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Miami Beach is installing 50 free sunblock dispensers to help visitors protect themselves against sun damage and skin cancer. The lotion dispensers will be located at public swimming pools, parks and beach entrances near lifeguard stands. Destination Brands and Mount Sinai Medical Center are sponsors of …
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CHESHIRE, Mass. – The fifth-oldest person in the world and Massachusetts’s oldest resident has died. Bernice Emerson Madigan, of Cheshire, died at a Williamstown nursing center last weekend. She was 115. According to the Gerontology Research Group, she was the fifth-oldest person in the world. Madigan had said her secrets …
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The national leader of the NAACP says people should not be deterred from pursuing justice while possible hate crimes are being investigated, including an attempted bombing in Colorado Springs near the headquarters of the NAACP. Cornell William Brooks told hundreds of people in Colorado Springs on …
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast frozen plain. The federal Great Lakes research laboratory in Ann Arbor reports Friday that nearly 81 percent of the five lakes’ surface area is ice-covered. On Thursday, …
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WASHINGTON – Josh Lederman of The Associated Press and Jim Avila of ABC News have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. Lederman won in the print category for his breaking stories about a fence jumper who made it inside the White House before being apprehended. …
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ALBERT LEA, Minn. – The first phase of an autopsy on some skeletal remains found in southern Minnesota is complete, but authorities still don’t know the cause of what they are calling a suspicious death. The Freeborn County sheriff’s officials say a property owner found the bones Monday along Interstate …
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CRISP POINT, Mich. – Two sisters from Oklahoma and Nebraska who were missing for nearly two weeks in Michigan were found Friday near Lake Superior in a remote part of the Upper Peninsula where their car got stuck. “They’re walking. … They’re alive and well, just a little weak from …
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FERGUSON, Mo. – The city of Ferguson has a new acting city manager. The city council on Tuesday named Matt Unrein to the position. He is the public works director and will continue at his current salary of $90,000 while the city seeks a permanent city manager. Unrein replaces interim …
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