4 children saved from St. Louis fire; apparently left alone ST. LOUIS (AP) — Four children under the age of 5 who fire officials believe were left without adult supervision have been pulled from a burning home by St. Louis firefighters. One child is in critical condition. There was no immediate information on the conditions…
By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA and PETER PRENGAMAN , Associated Press BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — Firefighters on Monday carefully moved over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies, four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose…
BETHANY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Humane Society says it rescued 16 horses but 11 other horses were found dead on a property in Harrison County. The organization said in a news release that the Harrison County Sheriff’s office contacted them after visiting the property early this week and finding 11 horses dead and decaying.…
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY , Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Sirens wailed while workers piled sandbags in front of hotels and police blared warnings to tourists to leave the world-famous Waikiki Beach as Hurricane Lane barreled north after dumping nearly 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rain on Hawaii’s mostly rural Big Island.…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan forces rescued nearly 150 people Monday, including women and children, hours after the Taliban ambushed a convoy of buses and abducted them. The quick response marked a rare if limited battlefield success for the troops after weeks of unrelenting insurgent attacks. The militants escaped with 21 captives following the battle…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two people are being treated for injuries after entering a neighbor’s burning home to rescue a child in south St. Louis. The St. Louis Fire Department says a blaze broke out Thursday afternoon at a home in the 1400 block of Graham. The department says two neighbors rescued a child and…
CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) — The 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from a cave in northern Thailand left the hospital where they had been recuperating and appeared at a news conference Wednesday, looking healthy as they answered questions from journalists from around the world. The group entered the news conference to applause from…
By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA and STEPHEN WRIGHT , Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — “Everyone is safe.” With those three words posted on Facebook the daring rescue mission to extricate 12 boys and their soccer coach from the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in Thailand came to a close on Tuesday — a grueling…
MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s navy SEALs say all 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in far northern Thailand, ending an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks. They say the four boys and coach rescued Tuesday, after other rescues in the previous two days, are all…
MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — A total of four ambulances have left the area around the flooded cave in northern Thailand where members of a youth soccer team have been trapped for more than two weeks, suggesting eight of the 13 trapped people have now been extracted. Authorities have been rushing to extract the boys,…