Author: Travis M. Andrews

“Everyone is scared to take the elevator.” That’s how 37-year-old Harold Noel described the elevators in the Bay Park II housing complex, his Coney Island apartment building in the Sea Gate neighborhood, according to the Associated Press. They’d been a plague for years — city records obtained by the New York Daily News show that…

Like so many do following a breakup, a shirtless Erdogan Ceren sat on the edge of his bed, crying. Though the 22-year-old was alone in his bedroom in the Osmaniye Province in southern Turkey on Monday, any one of Facebook’s 1.23 billion users could have seen him. That’s what Ceren sought: He was streaming a…

True to its name, the Dunes Off Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, 1.5 miles south of Farmington, N.M., offers a barren, hilly landscape with no paved roads to be found. Bordered on one side by sharply rising sandstone walls, on another by a gravel pit and dotted with active gas wells, the area is an adrenaline…

Prosecutors claim 52-year-old Kerry Johnson said he has a gambling problem. If the allegations against him — he was charged with felony bank robbery on Wednesday — are proven, that will be an understatement. Johnson told Charleston police that he arrived at the Mardi Gras Casino in the small city of Nitro, W. Va., around…

The room was hidden inside a barn, behind tall hay bales, on James Dean Worley’s three-acre property west of Toledo, Ohio. Its furnishings were chilling: restraints attached to the walls and a freezer lined with blood-stained carpet. Almost as chilling were the contents of Worley’s truck: zip ties, a ski mask, two sets of handcuffs,…

Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates does not have cancer. The 24-year-old former beauty queen never has, nor has she ever undergone the agonizing trials of chemotherapy. She has never shivered in a hospital room, awaiting her prognosis. She has never been forced to wonder if she would live another year. With that in mind, anyone performing a…

A video showing two white police officers involved in a deadly altercation with a 37-year-old black man in Baton Rouge circulated across the Internet early Wednesday morning, prompting peaceful street protests in the city and anger elsewhere. The video showed two Baton Rouge police officers attempting to detain Alton Sterling after the officers responded to…

Three-quarters of a mile or 3,960 feet. That’s how far Esteysi Sanchez drove with a man’s corpse embedded in her windshield in a gruesome hit-and-run that took place early Monday morning in Oceanside, Calif., police said. The 29-year-old, who also goes by the name of Stacy Sanchez, according to her Facebook page, was driving home…

All the lights are down in the empty hall, except those on the Pikes Peak Center stage, where Josep Caballé-Domenech waits for the four tiny cameras trained on his face to begin recording.“I have a camera, too, if you need another,” he said, laughing.The intense documentation — by The Gazette, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and…