Sean M. Higgins, the driver charged with killing NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew while they biked on a rural road, had a blood-alcohol level of .087, above the .08 legal limit in New Jersey, a prosecutor said Friday. The brothers had gone for a bicycle ride in Carneys Point, N.J., on…
Lawyers for Colin Gray, the father of suspected Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, have asked for special jail protections amid an “incalculable number of threats” from other inmates. Colin, 54, was last week charged with suspicion of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. He was arrested one day after his 14-year-old son was…
In 2011, Shannon McKenney, a singer from Burnaby, B.C., suddenly fell violently ill at a dinner party. Thinking it was food poisoning, the now 51-year-old went to the emergency room with severe pain and nausea, only to be sent home with a diagnosis of the stomach flu. But when her appendix ruptured days later, her…
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The removal of a containment curtain — installed in Clear Lake last month in the fight against invasive zebra mussels — has cottagers at the popular Manitoba destination concerned for the future. The curtain was intended to isolate a section of the lake where live mussels had been found as recently as July, but it…
Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the Kenyan border. Military officers played a prominent role in the funeral because Cheptegei held the rank of sergeant in…
Springfield, Ohio, has been dealing with bomb threats for two straight days after the city was catapulted into the international spotlight on Tuesday when former president Donald Trump pushed a narrative, without evidence, about Haitian immigrants during the presidential debate with Vice-President Kamala Harris. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in,…
Ukraine made a new call Saturday on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between U.S. and British leaders a day earlier produced no visible shift in their policy on the use of long-range weapons. The renewed appeal came as Kyiv said Russia launched more drone and artillery attacks…
A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on charges that included attempted coup, terrorism…
The 12,132,647 tickets across both Games represented 95 per cent of crowd capacity at the venues, said Tony Estanguet, the head of the Paris organizing committee. Source link
