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Charles O’Rear/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A Philadelphia man who was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the 1994 arson murder of a woman is now exonerated 30 years later, the District Attorney’s Office announced. On Wednesday, Daniel Gwynn, 54, was exonerated and released from state prison in Pennsylvania after the DA’s office said […]
Giles Clarke/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, was spared from death on Wednesday after the medical team assigned to administer a lethal injection failed to establish an IV line, preventing the execution from proceeding, officials said. The 73-year-old was to be executed at Idaho Maximum Security Institution […]
Josefiel Rivera/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (LONDON) — Mali, an elephant dubbed as the world’s “saddest” has died at a Philippine Zoo, Manila’s Mayor Honey Lacuna has announced. Vishwa Ma’ali — commonly known as Mali — was the only captive elephant in the Philippines. She passed away aged 43. “Just to set the record straight, […]
Alaska Department of Public Safety The body of an 11-year-old girl missing after a landslide in Alaska has been found, increasing the death toll to four, according to state officials. The body of Kara Heller was found on Saturday just after 6:30 p.m. local time after a scent detection K-9 indicated an area of debris […]
Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since war broke out between Israel and Hamas last week, a Palestinian-American apparel store owner in San Diego, California, has received a spate of death threats online, she said. The founder of a chain of Palestinian restaurants in the Northeast U.S., meanwhile, said a person last week screamed […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on Saturday, sirens echoed across the country just before dawn, and citizens soon realized it was not a false alarm. A full-fledged surprise attack was being waged from the air, sea and ground by hoards of Hamas militants. Thousands […]
ABC News The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to over 1,023, with more than 1,600 injured, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization said Sunday. A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, […]
David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images (PERSHING COUNTY, Nev.) — A death has been confirmed at Burning Man after thousands of attendees were left mired in mud from torrential rains and were being advised to conserve food and water as all roads in and out of the desert arts and “self-reliance” festival remained shut off […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — Po’omaika’i Estores-Losano normally texts in a group chat with his family every day. But since the wildfires tore through Lahaina last week, his family hasn’t heard from the 28-year-old father of two. “He would text us every day like, ‘Hope you have a good day,’” his sister, Jayna Barut, […]
KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — The death toll after an apparent suicide bombing in Pakistan has risen to 54, officials said on Monday. No organization has yet taken responsibility for the apparent suicide bombing, which injured dozens of others when it rocked a political rally in the country’s northwest, local officials said. “Those responsible will be […]
