The Latest on the Philippine assault against militants who laid siege to a southern city (all times local): 12:15 p.m.
Monthly Archives: May 2017
{FD} Pulse nightclub massacre: Orlando police release bodycam footage of attack
Newly-released video from bodycams on officers responding to a mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub shows shattered glass inside the club, the sounds of automatic gunfire and an officer shouting to the gunman, “Come out with your hands up or you wi…
{FD} 22 nations allow same-sex marriage
On May 24, Taiwan’s Constitutional Court issued a ruling that will make the nation the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
{FD} Philippine airstrike kills 11 soldiers in besieged city
A Philippine military official says an air force airstrike killed 11 soldiers and wounded seven others in “friendly fire” as government forces struggled to rout the remaining Islamic extremists who laid a siege in a southern city for a week.
{FD} Orlando nightclub massacre: New police body-cam video released from mass shooting
New videos released Wednesday from body-cams on officers responding to the attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando show shattered glass inside the club, the sounds of automatic gunfire and an officer shouting to the gunman, “Come out with your hands up or…
{FD} Mexico extends gillnet ban to help save endangered porpoise
Mexico’s agriculture and fisheries department says it is extending a ban on gillnets in much of the upper Gulf of California as part of an effort to save the endangered vaquita porpoise.
{FD} Students who put noose on black teddy bear identified
Authorities have identified four students who they say hung a black teddy bear from a noose at a North Carolina high school.
{FD} Bounty hunters, fugitive shoot each other dead at car dealership in Texas
Two bounty hunters and the fugitive from Minnesota they were tracking shot each other dead in a hail of bullets at a Texas car dealership in front of panicked customers, officials said Wednesday.
{FD} Woman who survived Orlando nightclub massacre dies in car crash
A young woman who survived a massacre at a gay Florida nightclub has been killed in a highway car crash.
{FD} New police bodycam video released from nightclub massacre
Newly-released video from bodycams on officers responding to a mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub shows shattered glass inside the club, the sounds of automatic gunfire and an officer shouting, “Come out with your hands up or you will die!”
{FD} Man pleads guilty in police officer’s slaying, gets life
A man who killed a police officer in Ohio has pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and other charges and has been sentenced to life in prison plus 35 years without the possibility of parole.
{FD} Ohio man pleads guilty in death of New Mexico police officer
An Ohio man pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder in the shooting death of a police officer during a traffic stop last year in New Mexico.
{FD} Trapped pregnant deer pulled from rocks by US Coast Guard in Michigan
A routine training exercise for the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday, ended with the rescue of a wild animal.
{FD} Probe of university official cost more than misspending
An investigation into the misuse of funds by an outgoing chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley cost 10 times more than the misspending.
{FD} I-25 fire: Huge blaze involving tanker shuts down interstate outside Denver
Interstate 25 is shut down in both directions between Orchard Road and Belleview Avenue due to a massive fire in the roadway.
{FD} 16-year-old girl accused of hacking Uber driver to death
Authorities say a 16-year-old girl has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder and accused of stabbing her Uber driver to death in suburban Chicago.
{FD} Police: New charges brought in case of Iowa teen’s death
Police say three more people have been charged in the death of a 16-year-old central Iowa girl who weighed only 56 pounds at her death.
{FD} Trial opens for man accused of abusing girl he got as a gift
The mother of six girls a Pennsylvania man is accused of assaulting, fathering two children by one, says she knew about the sexual activity but believed it “could be a good thing.”
{FD} 1st prison sentence given in Bundy armed standoff in Nevada
A judge called a New Hampshire man a “bully vigilante” and sentenced him Wednesday to more than seven years in prison for his role organizing armed backers of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after a standoff with U.S. agents in 2014.
{FD} SpaceX taking recycling all way to orbit for NASA
SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm — all the way to orbit.