Author: Jill Bleed
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Police: Tulsa gunman targeted surgeon he blamed for pain
TULSA, Okla. • A gunman who killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office blamed the doctor for his continuing pain after a recent back operation and bought an AR-style rifle just hours before the rampage, police said Thursday. The gunman called the clinic repeatedly complaining of pain and specifically targeted…
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Storms tear into Texas, Oklahoma then move into Deep South
ELGIN, Texas • A tornado has touched down in New Orleans and the city’s suburbs Tuesday as part of a line of severe weather that started in Texas and Oklahoma and moved east into the Deep South. The National Weather Service retweeted a video of the tornado in the eastern part of New Orleans that…
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As winter storm moves across U.S., ice becomes bigger concern
CHICAGO • More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power across the U.S. on Thursday as freezing rain and snow weighed down tree limbs and encrusted power lines, part of a winter storm that caused an apparent tornado in Alabama, dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest and brought rare…
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Winter storm packing snow, freezing rain moves across U.S.
CHICAGO • A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central U.S. on Wednesday as airlines canceled thousands of flights, officials urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses. The blast of frigid weather, which began arriving Tuesday night,…
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Texas power outages below 500,000 but water woes persists
AUSTIN, Texas • Power was restored to more homes and businesses in Texas on Thursday after a deadly blast of winter this week overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold. But the crisis was far from over, with many people still in need of safe drinking water. Fewer than a half-million…
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Power outages linger for millions as another icy storm looms
AUSTIN, Texas • Utility crews raced Wednesday to restore power to nearly 3.4 million customers around the U.S. who were still without electricity in the aftermath of a deadly winter storm, and another blast of ice and snow threatened to sow more chaos. The latest storm front was expected to bring more hardship to states…
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Attorney’s cat filter faux pas brings instant internet fame
Texas attorney Rod Ponton’s appearance as a fluffy kitten during an online court hearing provided a moment of levity to a pandemic- and Zoom-fatigued world. But that specific, adorable filter may be tough to find for anyone looking to replicate the viral moment. Ponton told The Associated Press that he was using his assistant’s 10-year-old…
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1 child dead, 45 injured in bus crash
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. • One child was killed and at least 45 people were injured when a charter bus carrying youth football players from Tennessee rolled off an interstate and overturned before sunrise Monday in central Arkansas, authorities said. Arkansas state police said the bus crashed along Interstate 30 near Benton, about 25 miles southwest…
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Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A man yelled “Freedom!” as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas’ new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma’s monument at its state Capitol, authorities said. The privately funded Arkansas monument had been in place outside the state Capitol in Little…