By DIANA MALTAGLIATI and FRANCES D’EMILIO , Associated Press CORINALDO, Italy (AP) — Teenagers panicked before a rap concert at a jammed Italian disco, setting off a stampede that killed five of them and a mother who had brought her daughter to the event, authorities and survivors said. Fifty-three people were reported injured, including 13…
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and ANDREW SELSKY , Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — With scores of people still missing, National Guard troops searched Wednesday through charred debris for more victims of California’s deadliest wildfire as top federal and state officials toured the ruins of a community completely destroyed by the flames. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke…
By DON THOMPSON and GILLIAN FLACCUS , Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A fierce wildfire in Northern California incinerated most of a town of about 30,000 people with flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do, authorities said Friday. Nine people died in what quickly grew into the state’s most destructive…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A law enforcement official says authorities have identified the gunman and the handgun he used to kill 12 people at a Southern California bar. The official told The Associated Press the man was 29 years old and deployed a smoke device and used a .45-caliber handgun when he opened fire inside…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A sheriff says 13 people are dead, including a sheriff’s sergeant and the gunman, after a shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean says sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus responded to the scene and was shot after he entered the building. He died at…
By GARY FINEOUT and TAMARA LUSH , Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man trying to stop a shooting attack on a Florida yoga studio said Sunday that he wrestled with the attacker after his gun jammed, a move credited with giving others time to flee the rampage that killed two people and wounded…
By FRANCES D’EMILIO , Associated Press ROME (AP) — Storms lashing Sicily have killed at least 12 people with torrential floods, Italian authorities said as the country’s leader headed Sunday to the stricken Mediterranean island. Divers pulled out nine of those victims from a home flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The social media site Gab.com says the shooter at a Pittsburgh synagogue had a profile on their website. The company says the account was verified after Saturday’s shooting and matched the name of the gunman mentioned on police radio communications. A law enforcement official identified the shooter to The Associated Press as…
By MIKE CATALINI , Associated Press A severe viral outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation center for “medically fragile children” has left six youngsters dead and 12 others sick, the state Health Department said Tuesday. There have been 18 cases of adenovirus at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, about 30 miles…
By RALPH JENNINGS , Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Seventeen people were killed and at least 132 others injured on Sunday when one of Taiwan’s newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, officials said. The Puyuma express train was carrying more than 366 passengers from a suburb of Taipei…