World Jun 19 Search underway for missing submersible that carries people to view the Titanic “We are deploying all available assets to make sure we can locate the craft and rescue the people on board,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger, a commander for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Politics Jun 08 Pat Robertson, religious broadcaster and GOP political influencer, dies at 93 For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms. Money poured in as he solicited donations, his influence soared, and when he moved directly into politics by seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 1988, he…
Nation May 27 Analysis: How Memorial Day came to have a history of contentious meanings Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of retail discounts.
Nation Apr 10 Virginia grand jury indicts mother of 6-year-old who shot teacher Prosecutor Howard Gwynn said in a news release that a grand jury sitting in Newport News on Monday charged the boy's 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a…
Nation Feb 17 Power outage cancels, diverts flights at New York’s Kennedy Airport A power outage in a terminal of New York's Kennedy International Airport has stretched into a second day. The outage has stranded passengers and forced flights to be canceled or diverted to other airports.
Nation Jan 30 Virginia school reopens with new security weeks after young student shot teacher The school reopened after being closed for more than three weeks following the Jan. 6 shooting. Police have said the boy brought a handgun to school and intentionally shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner, as she was teaching her first-grade class.
Nation Jan 09 WATCH: Police chief describes 6-year-old student’s shooting of teacher in class The 6-year-old Virginia student who shot and wounded his teacher pulled the handgun from a backpack and shot her while she was teaching his first-grade class, a police chief said.
Nation Jan 07 6-year-old student shoots teacher in Virginia classroom, police say A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said.
Nation Nov 29 Survivor of Walmart mass shooting files $50 million lawsuit A Walmart employee who survived last week's mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company for allegedly continuing to employ the shooter — a store supervisor — “who had known propensities for…
Nation Nov 25 Walmart shooter bought gun morning of shooting, left ‘death note’ on his phone The Walmart supervisor who shot and killed six co-workers in Virginia left behind what he called a “death note” on his phone that apologized for what he was about to do while simultaneously blaming others for mocking him.