A man with a history of mental health issues was killed by police officers after he attacked patrons inside a movie theater in Tennessee with a hatchet and pepper spray. Vincente Montano was killed by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's SWAT team Wednesday afternoon outside the Carmike Hickory 8 Theater in Antioch, a community southeast of Nashville. … [Read more...]
Ferguson Sees Change a Year Later, but Doesn’t Know if It’s Real
Brianna West stepped before the judge as her daughter Morgan, 3, fidgeted beside her. Ms. West had waited weeks to get this case behind her, facing citations that included failure to comply with a police officer. She worried about steep fines, even jail time, on charges she felt were baseless. But the hearing brought relief. … [Read more...]
L.A. to Transfer Airport Ownership Back to Ontario
After years of litigation and contentious negotiations, Los Angeles has agreed to transfer ownership of struggling LA/Ontario International Airport back to the city of Ontario, The Times learned Wednesday. … [Read more...]
China Killing the World’s Forests for Fancy Chairs
While China clamps down on logging within its borders, illegal Chinese loggers are felling the world’s forests with abandon for the sake of teak floors and fancy chairs. In late July, 153 Chinese nationals were sentenced to life in prison for illegal logging in Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin state, a region rife with coveted teak, padauk, beechwood, ebony and rosewood species. … [Read more...]
Clean Power Plan: Republicans Just Don’t Get It – But the Voters Do
A recent poll of Republican presidential primary voters in the early voting states of New Hampshire and South Carolina finds an unexpected result for the 17 candidates campaigning there. Most of these voters support regulating carbon pollution — even using President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). … [Read more...]
Trains Derail in India Killing 24, 300 Rescued
Two passenger trains derailed minutes apart on the flooded tracks of a bridge in central India, killing at least 24 people while more than 300 survived, officials said Wednesday. … [Read more...]
Mystery Surrounding Finnish Woman Found Dead in Biscayne Bay Escalates
The body bobbed to the surface of Biscayne Bay right along a seawall behind Mount Sinai Medical Center February 6. Judging by her blond hair and small frame, passersby at first told the media that a teenager had been pulled from the cool water. But five days later, police announced she was actually a 27-year-old Finnish woman named Essi Puhakka. … [Read more...]
Whale Lured Out of Glitzy Buenos Aires Marina
Argentine authorities have successfully guided a whale out of the marina of a glitzy area in Buenos Aires and hope that it will now return to sea. Roxana Schteinbarg is the executive coordinator of the Whale Conservation Institute in Argentina. She tells The Associated Press that the whale had left the marina of the Puerto Madero neighborhood. … [Read more...]
Poster Campaign in Stockholm Triggers Protests
A poster campaign by the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats at a subway station in central Stockholm has stirred outrage in the Nordic country. The posters plastered above the escalators at Ostermalmstorg subway station are directed to tourists visiting the Swedish capital. … [Read more...]
Father and Daughter Dead, 22 Injured in New Hampshire Tent Collapse
Officials said a father and his daughter were killed, and at least 22 others were injured, after a circus tent collapsed when a severe storm raked a New Hampshire fairground Monday night. The accident happened at around 5:30 p.m. ET as the first of two scheduled circus shows was getting underway. … [Read more...]