Body Of 20-Day-Old Baby Believed To Be Missing Child Justin Rees
Police have found the body of 20-day-old baby boy in a swampy region near the Sacramento River in Northern California after dozens of searchers spent the night looking for a…
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Fate Of Christians Abducted By ISIS Unclear
Islamic State militants have moved a large group of Christians they abducted to one of their strongholds as fighting raged on Wednesday between the extremists and Kurdish and Christian militiamen…
Reel-y? 280-pound catfish reportedly caught in Italy’s Po River
That’s the fish story being told by Dino Ferrari, who reeled in a 280-pound (127-kilogram), 8.75-foot-long catfish last Thursday along the Po River, said Davide Valla, who is with Ferrari’s…
16 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident
The boat was packed with at least 100 people when it overturned on the Padma river in the Manikganj district north of the capital Dhaka, local Police Chief Bidhan Tripura…
16 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident
In August, there was another deadly ferry accident in the same river.
Duke Energy faces charges, $102 million in fines over coal ash spills
The case concerns problems at several Duke Energy locations, but the major problem occurred at the Dan River Steam Station in Rockingham County, near the Virginia border. On February 2,…
In Senegal, a Coastal Region Sees a Resurgence
Explorer By STEPHEN MARCHE As the low-slung pirogue hummed along the Casamance River in the remote southern portion of Senegal, dolphins accompanied us. I had first spotted them on the…
Daily Meditation: Wash Your Soul
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life….
NZ South Island’s 13 most beautiful photo ops
The larger of the country’s two main islands is more visually stunning than the North Island. With its smaller population, it’s also more lonely and wild. To get a handle…
Lost Dogs Rescued From Sheet Of Floating Ice Have ‘Learned Nothing’
Two dogs that were thought to be lost for good were rescued this week from a sheet of ice floating down a river. Marci Molloy, 48, feared her two English…
Plane That Crashed in Taiwan Had Trouble in Both Engines, Agency Says
HONG KONG — The plane that crashed Wednesday into a river in Taiwan’s capital, killing at least 35 people, was having problems with both of its engines before the crash,…
Investigators: Repeated stall warnings before TransAsia crash in Taiwan
Flight GE235 crashed into a river in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, shortly after taking off Wednesday with 58 people on board. Authorities say that so far, 35 people have been confirmed…
Rescuers search for 11 still missing from Taiwan plane that crashed in river
One of the bodies was recovered Thursday from the cabin of the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop aircraft, which had earlier been hauled out of the Keelung River in Taipei, the…
Father’s hunch saves toddler, wife from TransAsia plane crash
But a noise made Lin uneasy, and shortly before take-off, he asked cabin staff if they could take an empty row on the rear right hand side of the plane,…
Taiwan Plane Crash Death Toll Passes 30
Rescuers were searching for 12 people Thursday morning after using a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s capital following…
TransAsia flight crashes into Taiwanese river, no reports of casualties
Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) confirmed that the flight lost contact while over the Nangang district of Taipei. Shortly before 11 a.m. local time, the New Taipei City Fire Department…
Angry Florida Man Smashed Car Into Woman On Horse: Cops
A Florida man is accused of ramming his truck into a woman on horseback after an argument early Sunday morning. Authorities say that a group of horseback riders were taking…
All charges dropped in Phylicia Barnes murder case
The body of the 16-year-old was found floating in a Maryland river in spring 2011. Authorities said she was found without clothes and with no “overt” signs of wounds or…
Medical examiner: Actress Misty Upham died from blunt force injuries
Investigators found Upham’s body during a search for the missing actress. It lay at the bottom of a steep embankment near the White River. – CNN’s Todd Leopold and Brandon…
Up to 50,000 gallons of oil spilled in Yellowstone River; residents told not to drink water
The massive oil spill happened when the 12-inch pipeline, which crosses the Yellowstone River, ruptured Saturday about 5 miles upstream from Glendive, Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality said. The Bridger…
Skeletons, decayed bodies surface in India’s holiest river
In Hinduism and some other Indian faiths, funerals are conducted by cremation. The ashes are then scattered into rivers. The Ganges, Hinduism’s holiest river, is dotted with numerous cremation spots…