Author: Sarah Larimer
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Shooting reported at South Florida high school; multiple fatalities reported
PARKLAND, Fla. — A heavily armed 19-year-old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said. The violence unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a school of more than 3,000 students in…
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Confederate flag posters, with cotton attached, found at American University
Confederate flag posters bearing chunks of cotton were found Tuesday on the campus of American University, according to school officials, who decried the latest racially charged display to appear at the institution. Fanta Aw, AU’s vice president of campus life, said in the statement that 10 posters were reported at three campus locations, including the…
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Texas A&M cancels ‘White Lives Matter’ rally planned for Sept. 11
Texas A&M University has canceled a “White Lives Matter” event scheduled to be held on its campus on Sept. 11, citing safety concerns. The university said in a statement Monday that it canceled the event scheduled by Preston Wiginton after “consultation with law enforcement and considerable study.” The event was expected to be held outdoors…
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Four nuns form a band, and yes, it’s called Force of Habit
WASHINGTON – One Saturday afternoon last month, a band gathered to jam at the Dominican House of Studies, not far from the Catholic University of America. The drummer, a Dominican friar, counted them down. Brother Brad Elliott, dressed in a habit behind his drum kit, was joined by Sister Miriam Holzman on the piano. Sister…
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Hailed a hero after Kansas bar shooting, victim said he did ‘what was naturally right to do’
In the video posted to YouTube, Ian Grillot has his neck in a brace and his surgically repaired hand bandaged and protected. He has heard, he says in the footage, that some have called him a hero. “No, it’s not like that,” Grillot says. “I was just doing what anyone should have done for another…
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Police have released a new clue in the deaths of two girls – a chilling recording of three words
The audio clip released by Indiana State Police on Wednesday contained a voice, and just three words. Authorities hope it will be enough for someone to recognize the person speaking. “If you hear this today, and you think, ‘My God, that sounds like fill-in-the-blank,’ call us, make an anonymous tip, tell us who you think…
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A boy found a rattlesnake in a toilet. Then a snake catcher found 23 more
Texas – Jason McFadden was at work one morning in late January when he got a text message from his wife, Cassie. “What the crap do I do?” it read. That text was followed by a picture — of a rattlesnake inside a toilet at their Texas home. “Like everybody else,” Jason McFadden said, “my jaw dropped.”…
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A police officer rushed to save a suicidal woman from a river. She survived, but he did not.
Officer Eric Mumaw was always smiling, said Sgt. Robert Weaver. “He just enjoyed what we do,” Weaver said. Weaver told reporters a story about Mumaw, an officer with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department who was in Weaver’s wedding: Mumaw once took notice of a man on several calls, and knew he was a person who “needed just…
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50 years ago, three astronauts died in the Apollo 1 fire
Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home. Then Collins emerged and Chaffee and her brother were sent in to speak with their mother. “So we went back there, and she told…
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Prosecutors dismissed his domestic violence charges – then, police say, he killed his wife
For years, friends said, Tara O’Shea-Watson had been a victim of domestic violence. She had shown up on their doorsteps, battered and bloodied after alleged violent encounters with her estranged husband, they said. She had talked to them about taking her children and fleeing from their home in Commercial Township, New Jersey, but the courts…