By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA , Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself. The comments from Sergei Aksyonov, the regional leader in Crimea, were the latest…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top investigative body says it has identified the man who opened fire in a college in a Crimean town, killing 18 people and wounding more than 40. The Investigative Committee said an 18-year old student identified as Vladislav Roslyakov arrived at the vocational college in Kerch early Wednesday afternoon with a…
By MICHAEL HILL and JOHN KEKIS , Associated Press . SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A limousine on its way to a birthday party blew a stop sign at the end of a highway and plowed into a parked but unoccupied SUV, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians in the deadliest U.S.…
By THOMAS GRANING , Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Two police officers were shot and killed following an early Saturday morning confrontation in Mississippi, authorities said. Warren Strain of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at a news conference that the officers were called to a house in the city of Brookhaven at…
By NINIEK KARMINI , Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — An earthquake-spawned tsunami swept away buildings and killed at least several hundred people on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi, dumping victims across a devastated landscape that rescuers were struggling to reach Saturday, hindered by damaged roads and broken communications. Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo…
FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — A man and his adult son were killed when their small plane crashed near a Jefferson County airport, even as the pilot’s fiancee tried to guide in the plane with a flashlight. The wreckage was discovered Friday morning in woods near the airport runway in Festus. The victims’ names haven’t been…
By JONATHAN DREW , Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph (155 kph) winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Friday in what could be just the opening act in a watery, two-part, slow-motion disaster. At least four people were…
By EUGENE HOSHIKO, HARUKA NUGA and MARI YAMAGUCHI , Associated Press SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — A powerful earthquake Thursday on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido triggered dozens of landslides that crushed houses under torrents of dirt, rocks and timber, prompting frantic efforts to unearth any survivors. At least nine people were killed, Prime Minister…
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN , Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Three children, including two infants, were among the dozens of passengers seriously injured when the commercial bus they were riding in was hit head-on by a semitruck on a New Mexico highway, killing eight people, hospital officials said Friday. Officials at University of New Mexico…
St. Peters, MO (KTRS) The deaths of a St. Peters couple is being called a murder-suicide. That’s according to investigators who say 41-year-old Kimberly A. Adams suffered a fatal gunshot wound inflicted by her husband, 48-year-old Leslie C. Adams, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officers found the couple in their home on Southwinds…