By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — Relatives of the limousine driver involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York said Tuesday they believe he was unwittingly assigned an unsafe vehicle. The family of Scott Lisinicchia released a statement through a lawyer shortly after another attorney representing the limousine company, …
Officials are now offering $20,000 for information about the person behind two fatal shootings in one Illinois neighborhood in two days. WFLD reported that the ATF’s Chicago Field Division announced this weekend that they’re contributing $5,000 to a $15,000 fund raised by the Jewish Federation of Metro Chicago, community activist Raul Montes Jr. and Cook County …
Hours after a limousine crash led to the death of 20 individuals — including the driver, 17 passengers and two pedestrians — on Sunday morning, some of the victims had been identified by relatives and other sources. According to Fox News, two of those killed when an SUV limo reportedly blew through a stop sign …
By The Associated Press A limousine carrying 18 people crashed over the weekend in upstate New York, killing all the occupants and two pedestrians, making it among the nation’s deadliest ground-traffic accidents. A look at some others: — Sept. 23, 2005: A bus ferrying nursing home residents away from Hurricane Rita caught fire and exploded …
By MICHAEL HILL and BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A limousine on its way to a birthday party blew a stop sign at the end of a highway, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians in the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in almost a decade, officials and a relative of …
By MICHAEL HILL and JOHN KEKIS, Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A limousine blew a stop sign at the end of a highway and plowed into a parked and unoccupied SUV, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians in the deadliest transportation accident in the United States in almost a decade, officials …
Authorities are investigating after a masked gunman fatally shot two men in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in a 36-hour period. The Chicago Tribune reported Eliyahu Moscowitz, 24, was shot to death Monday evening on the 1100 block of West Lunt. His death came a day after Douglass Watts, 73, was reportedly shot and killed while walking his …
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A car exploded on a downtown street, killing at least one person and leading to a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, and federal authorities are helping local officials in the investigation. The blast happened in Allentown around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Assistant Police Chief Gail Struss said early Sunday. “We can confirm …
Police in California have confirmed that the decomposing headless body found in a fish tank belongs to a homeowner who’s been missing since late July. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that officers discovered the body of Brian Egg, 65, in his San Francisco home on August 17, three days after neighbors saw a hazardous materials cleanup crew …
Although the body of missing boy Maddox Ritch was likely found in North Carolina on Thursday, authorities indicated that the investigation is hardly over. They’re still seeking a possible witness seen in a white truck on the day the boy disappeared. The Charlotte Observer reports that the FBI, along with local law enforcement, are searching …
Georgia police are searching for a man accused of attempted robbery at a Villa Ricca Waffle House restaurant on Thursday, who dropped a BB gun and managed to escape after a customer shot him. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the incident occurred at the Highway 61 Waffle House a little after midnight, when a would-be robber entered …
UPDATE: Police in Texas revealed that the woman who reported finding an hours-old baby girl in the woods Wednesday afternoon was the newborn’s mother, according to KTRK. “The initial reportee is actually the one who had delivered the infant. She had reported the infant was found here. That was concocted. That was not accurate,” Harris …
