NEW YORK (AP) — Dina Merrill, the rebellious heiress who defied her super-rich parents to become a movie star, often portraying stylish wives or “the other woman,” has died at age 93. Merrill, raised in part on the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida now owned by President Donald Trump, died Monday, May 22, according to a … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — A man steered his car onto a sidewalk running through the heart of Times Square and mowed down pedestrians for three blocks Thursday, killing a teenager, then emerged from his wrecked vehicle wild-eyed and waving his arms before he was subdued by police and bystanders. The driver, a 26-year-old U.S. Navy … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alexis Arquette, the transgender character actress and sibling of actors David, Rosanna, Richmond and Patricia Arquette, died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles. She was 47 and surrounded by family who serenaded her with David Bowie’s “Starman,” her siblings said in a statement Sunday. No cause of death was given. “Alexis … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died. She was 89. Lee died peacefully Friday, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement. It did not give … Continue reading
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A police officer shot during a traffic stop in Albuquerque died early Thursday, October 29 just more than a week after an ex-convict opened fire on the decorated police veteran outside a pharmacy, police said. Chief Gorden Eden said in a statement that Officer Daniel Webster, who was shot on Oct. 21, … Continue reading
NC man working on Tesla charging station in Va. found dead NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A North Carolina man who was working on a new Tesla Motors auto charging station in Virginia has died. Emergency personnel arrived at Janaf Shopping Yard in Norfolk on Tuesday morning and pronounced the man dead. On Wednesday, Norfolk police … Continue reading
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a prominent women’s rights activist in Pakistan just hours after she held a forum on the country’s restive Baluchistan region, home to a long-running insurgency, police said Saturday. While investigators declined to speculate on a motive for the killing of Sabeen Mahmud, friends and colleagues immediately … Continue reading
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police released the identity of an 18-year-old man on Thursday who was shot and killed by a Portsmouth police officer in a Wal-Mart parking lot a day earlier. Police said the person killed Wednesday morning was Portsmouth resident William L. Chapman II, who lives about three miles from where … Continue reading
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Five years after U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s mother died of Alzheimer’s, he is still haunted by what he might have done differently for her — if only he had known her wishes. When the disease first took hold of Marjorie Warner in about 2000, her son was already a wealthy, self-made … Continue reading
LONDON (AP) — The sheer scale of the migrant exodus across the Mediterranean forced the issue higher on the agenda of European governments during the week, especially after 400 desperate people were believed to have died in one shipwreck. In South Africa, migration by land was an explosive issue, as resentful residents of Johannesburg turned … Continue reading
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — Police in Portsmouth say an officer fatally shot a drug suspect who fled when they attempted to question him. Department spokeswoman Misty Holley tells media outlets the man was shot Tuesday during a foot chase after he initially fled police in his vehicle and led them on a long pursuit through the … Continue reading
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) — A 14-year-old boy died Tuesday after being shot in the head during an anti-government protest in Venezuela’s restive western region. The student was injured during a confrontation between police and protesters in the city, and died on the way to the hospital, according to local human rights workers. Officials … Continue reading
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