Police are searching for a gunman who opened fire and injured four students during a college block party in Atlanta. Atlanta Police responded to a report of multiple people shot just after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, authorities told CNN. On arrival, officers found Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College police giving aid to three wounded women.…… MORE
Almost 50 large wildfires are burning in a dozen US states from Texas to Alaska. The McKinley Fire, which has now spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far, the Alaska Division of Forestry reported Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, at least 48 large fires are actively burning in…… MORE
A former doctor at an Arkansas veterans hospital has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deaths of three patients. Robert Morris Levy, a pathologist, entered false and misleading diagnoses into the medical records of patients in his care, contributing to the death of three of them, according to a criminal indictment. In…… MORE
A New York City woman has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing her aunt with a meat cleaver. Elizabeth Sanchez, 32, pleaded guilty in June to first-degree manslaughter, according to the Queens County District Attorney’s Office. She had initially been charged with murder. She was sentenced on Tuesday to 23 years in…… MORE
A New Jersey man who had been in a car accident was arrested and charged with having an arsenal of weapons, as well as white supremacist material, after police spotted the weapons while giving him medical treatment, according to a criminal complaint. Joseph Rubino, 57, was arrested after New Jersey State Police on July 24…… MORE
For 50 years, residents of a New Hampshire town speculated what might be inside a time capsule from 1969. Moon-landing memorabilia? Local artifacts from the era? Perhaps a letter to the future? Turns out, they’re all wrong: The capsule was empty. For years, the unopened safe sat on a dusty shelf in a Derry library.…… MORE
Two young men arrested this month for threatening mass shootings posted those threats to a website known more for its memes than its menaces: iFunny. Created in 2011, iFunny describes itself as a “community for meme lovers and viral memes around the Internet.” And indeed, the iFunny homepage is full of your standard internet schlock,…… MORE
The federal judge overseeing the case against Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday ordered a hearing to discuss prosecutors’ effort to dismiss the indictment against the alleged sex trafficker in the wake of his death. In a court filing, US District Court Judge Richard Berman said he believed the August 27 hearing would help shed light on…… MORE
David Wright was a bus driver for almost 50 years, and almost everyone in Lebanon, Tennessee knew him. Families going back three generations had ridden his bus, and he was beloved in the city — dubbed a “Lebanon legend,” according to Bart Barker of Wilson County Schools. When Wright died on August 13 at the…… MORE
Kalena Boller smiles and gestures proudly around her at the leafy street we’re standing on. “We’re on Broad Street,” she explains. “It’s a main hub of downtown Atlanta. It gives you a feel of any major metropolitan city. It’s where you’d grab a coffee, a quiche, a glass of wine and sit on the sidewalk.…… MORE
