A busy Colorado zoo was closed Tuesday as officials assessed damage from a severe hail storm that sent five people to the hospital and killed two zoo birds. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo suffered extensive property damage in Monday afternoon’s short but intense storm. The storm with baseball-sized hail hit as… Read More
Suspected Islamic radical faces trial, his young son still missing
A plea for help and the search for a missing boy drew sheriff’s deputies to a desolate New Mexico compound, walled off by stacks of old tires, wooden pallets and other debris. Just past the crude “no trespassing” sign, the officers found 16 people — including 11 children — living… Read More
Biggest ever California wildfire still growing (pics)
Wildfires tearing through trees and brush, rampaging up hillsides and incinerating neighborhoods: The place-names change but the devastation is showing signs of becoming the new normal in California. On Monday, twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443… Read More
NASCAR boss steps down after arrest
NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France announced on Monday he was taking an indefinite leave of absence following his arrest in the Hamptons on charges of driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of oxycodone. France was seen blowing through a stop sign in Sag Harbor on Sunday and later had… Read More
Trump’s Hollywood star to be removed?
So much for the tolerant left. They’ll put up with convicted rapists like Bill Cosby on the Hollywood Walk-Of-Fame — but not the President of the United States. The West Hollywood City Council has unanimously approved a resolution seeking to remove President Donald Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of… Read More
Good guy with a gun stops mass school shooting
A good guy with a gun saved the day when an armed suspect opened fire at a Florida park filled with children enjoying their back-to-school cookout on Saturday. According to a news release, the suspect was engaged in a fist fight with another person at the park prior, and left,… Read More
Twin California wildfires rage on, threatening 9,000 homes
Twin wildfires fueled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather have continued to grow in Northern California. California fire officials said Monday that the two fires about 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of San Francisco were 30 percent contained and have scorched 428 square miles (1,108 square kilometers). The two… Read More
PepsiCO’s high-profile woman CEO is stepping down
With Indra Nooyi exiting PepsiCo as its longtime chief executive, the circle of CEOs in the Fortune 500 is losing one of its highest profile women. Nooyi, who was born in India, is a rarity on Wall Street as a woman and a minority leading a Fortune 500 company. She… Read More
What to know: Rocket City, Alabama
The birthplace of NASA’s rockets lies in the land of cotton, hundreds of miles from Cape Canaveral’s launch pads. From the first U.S. satellites and astronauts, to the Apollo moon shots, to the space shuttles and now NASA’s still-in-development Space Launch System, rocket history inundates Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville’s nickname, Rocket… Read More
Police: Baby’s body found floating near Brooklyn Bridge
Authorities are investigating the death of a baby who was found floating in the water near the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday. A family visiting from Stillwater, Oklahoma, spotted the approximately 8-month-old boy wearing only diapers in the shallow water near the Manhattan shoreline at about 4 p.m. Chiropractor Monte Campbell… Read More