Two people were killed when a single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee crashed into a house in Akron, Ohio, on Thursday afternoon, officials said. No one on the ground was injured.
Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms.
The victim was a seasoned outdoorsman who “had no problem being alone in the woods,” his father said. He was found with injuries “consistent with those sustained by a bear encounter,” the National Park Service said.
Anthony Pollio was last heard from on May 3 while hiking in Glacier National Park. He left his father a voice mail message that said: “It is wild out here. I love you dad.”
Tanner Horner kidnapped and strangled the girl, Athena Strand, after delivering a package to her home in Texas. The package was her Christmas gift, a set of Barbies.
Five students were injured, four of them critically, after an altercation at Foss High School in Tacoma, Wash., the authorities said. A security guard was also injured.
A 57-year-old officer was “fighting for his life,” after the shooting on Saturday at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, the police superintendent said. A suspect was in custody.
Teresa Peroni, 27, was last seen on July 4, 1983, in Selma, Ore. Marcus Sanfratello, the man seen with her that day, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter after his arrest last year.
A California man was charged with grand theft after the police said he reaped about $34,000 in what an official called an “off the charts” pasta-and-switch scheme involving Lego kits.
The case of the missing Martin family was unsolved until a diver found a car in an Oregon river in 2024. Officials, relying on DNA tests, said Thursday that they had identified the remains of three people.
Remains recovered from an Oregon river in 2025 were identified as three family members who went missing in 1958, the authorities said on Thursday. The bodies of two other family members had been found in 1959.
James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, had at least 10 victims, according to the authorities. He pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and other charges covered by the Take It Down Act.
The downtown in New Iberia, La., in 2023. The driver of a vehicle who plowed into a crowd of people at a parade was taken into custody on Saturday, officials said.
Officials searching the home of a Massachusetts man said they found several blades. The man, who was arrested in connection with threatening to kill the president, also appeared with a sword when agents arrived at his home, officials said.
The employee’s condition was not immediately disclosed. The Department of Veterans Affairs said the clinic would be closed for the rest of the week, while the authorities investigate.
A gunman was fatally shot after he opened fire inside the Pickens County V.A. Clinic in Jasper, Ga., on Tuesday, wounding a worker there, the authorities said.
The ground delays, which also affected the airport serving Richmond, Va., were expected to last until at least midnight, according to the F.A.A., which said the smell had affected air traffic controllers.
The former Missouri police officer, Julian Alcala, was sentenced to two years in prison and now faces civil lawsuits from several of the 20 victims the authorities identified.