A 15-year-old girl in Baltimore recovering from stab wounds after escaping an abduction
Last Thursday a 15-year-old girl in Baltimore accepted a ride from an unlicensed cab driver, who police say took her to his basement, assaulted her and stabbed her. She fought him off and escaped to a neighbour's home, where she called for help. She was treated in hospital for five stab wounds and a...
Nyla Primeau, 14, missing from Woodinville, Washington since August 19
Nyla Primeau, 14, disappeared from Woodinville, Washington on August 19. Newly released security footage shows her in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighbourhood on September 17, her last confirmed sighting. Investigators believe she may still be in the area. Her mother Rachel says she thinks and prays...
The sick, the bereaved and the health workers in the DRC's Ebola outbreak, now past 10,000 cases
Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now infected more than 10,000 people and killed almost 4,900 since May, across eight provinces. More than 2,700 of those infected are children. This strain has no vaccine, and cases have now reached Kenya and Nigeria. Last week a nurse was killed and...
Unidentified man missing after being swept into the sea at Largs, Scotland
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday 27 October, a young man was seen being dragged into the Firth of Clyde by heavy waves at Largs in North Ayrshire. Police, the coastguard, firefighters and RNLI crews from Largs and Troon searched through the night, but he was not found and the search was paused that...
Residents still stranded by flooding around Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Floodwater has caused widespread damage across Archuleta, Conejos and Rio Grande counties in southwest Colorado. The Archuleta County sheriff says people are still cut off along County Road 500 near Pagosa Springs and on First Fork Road, and National Guard members are going door to door checking on...
A 46-year-old lorry driver seriously hurt after crashing into a parked plane in Sao Paulo State, Brazil
On Saturday a lorry driver, 46, appears to have suffered a sudden medical episode at the wheel on the Raposo Tavares highway in Sao Paulo State. His truck crossed the road and struck a Boeing 727 kept on display at a petrol station. Firefighters had to cut him from the crushed cab, and he was taken...
Kevin Bleyer, Daily Show writer, dies at 54 in a car accident
Kevin Bleyer, a television writer known for his years on The Daily Show, died on Sunday in a car accident on a rural road near his country home in Millrift, Pennsylvania. He was 54. Raised in Seattle, he had lived in New York City for twenty years, and he also wrote speeches, books and satire...
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