CHICAGO (AP) — Eight people, including six children, were killed when a fire broke out early Sunday at a Chicago apartment, officials say. Two other people were hospitalized in very critical condition, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt said. At least one firefighter was injured and was hospitalized in good condition. Officials have not released…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An investigation is underway after two sisters in their fifties were found dead in their north St. Louis home. Police say the boyfriend of one the sisters found made the discoveryTuesday morning at a home in the 3100 block of Whittier Street. Haz mat was called in after preliminary tests of air…
By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BRIAN MELLEY , Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — The death count from a rapidly growing Northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead. “My babies are dead,” Sherry Bledsoe said through tears after she and…
By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BRIAN MELLEY , Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, officials said Friday. Residents who gathered their…
By: ROB GILLIES , Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A man clad in black fired a handgun into restaurants and cafes in a lively Toronto neighborhood, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman and wounding 13 others in an attack that has shaken the confidence of many in the normally safe city. The mass…
By DENISE LAVOIE , By The Associated Press Duck boats like the one that sank in Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people, have a long history of safety problems and have been linked to the deaths of more than 40 people since 1999. The deadly sinking in Missouri brought back painful memories of a similar accident…
LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — The parents of three children who died along with two of their cousins in a southern Missouri mobile home fire said they still aren’t able to grasp what has happened. The children died Wednesday in a mobile home fire in Lebanon. A 20-year-old woman who was the mother of the other…
By SONIA PEREZ D. and MARK STEVENSON , Associated Press ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (AP) — Lilian Hernandez wept as she spoke the names of aunts, uncles, cousins, her grandmother and two great-grandchildren — 36 family members in all — missing and presumed dead in the explosion of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire. “My cousins Ingrid, Yomira, Paola,…
FLORRISANT, Mo. (AP) — A woman and baby have been found dead inside an apartment north county.. St. Louis County Police say the 24-year-old woman and a boy believed to be about 1 year old were found dead by officers around 8 p.m. Friday. Police had not released the identities of the victims by Saturday…
BRUSSELS (AP) — The police chief in the Belgian city where a prison inmate on 48-hour leave grabbed the service weapons of two officers and then fatally shot them and a bystander has identified the slain officers, one of whom had twin daughters now orphaned. Liege Police Chief Christian Beaupere named the two female officers…