The parents of a 15-year-old Oregon boy who killed a classmate when he opened fire in his high school locker room apologized Friday, saying they were “horrified and distraught” by the shooting. The letter from Michael Padgett and his ex-wife, Kristina, was delivered to KPTV, the Fox affiliate in Portland, three days after Jared Padgett […]
A 9-year-old New Mexico girl who got lost after she wandered away from her family’s campsite in a Northern California park was found uninjured and in good spirits Saturday after spending the night alone in the woods, authorities said. Two people on mountain bikes who had joined the intensive search for Ida Rothschild of Santa […]
Police are looking for two people suspected of fleeing a Houston car crash in which three teenagers were killed. KPRC-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/1luTFYH ) the accident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Saturday on a freeway feeder road in the southeast part of the city. READ MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/teens-killed-hit-run-crash-houston-24139630
FLORENCE, S.C. – The large armored truck parked outside the Florence County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina offers deputies more protection than they’re likely to ever need. “But if it exceeds our needs, then it will obviously meet our needs,” explained sheriff’s Capt. John Crouse, adding that his county didn’t have to pay a dime […]
BY DIANE DIMOND News Announcer: “There’s been another school shooting. This time at the Troutdale High School in Oregon, about 16 miles east of Portland.” I don’t want to write about this. It feels like screaming into the wilderness with no one listening. And I feel silly now admitting that I really thought things would […]
BY J. MICHAEL BARRETT Iran recently flight-tested two long-range ballistic missiles, ominously undermining ongoing nuclear negotiations with the West. North Korea is hardly backing off its nuclear and missile developments, either. The Hermit Kingdom recently conducted a third nuclear test and has restarted a major uranium enrichment facility. More ominously, the Heritage Foundation states that […]