President Donald Trump talks after meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Every generation has technological habits that confuse the next. Recording TV shows on a thing called a VCR. Sending free SMSes from a bootleg site….
A Florida couple killed in Kenya in a helicopter crash during safari. Within 24 hours, thieves broke in and ransacked their house 55-year-old Henry Parra and 42-year-old Adam Hlavaty, a same-sex couple from Florida, were among the seven people who were killed when a helicopter they were in while on a safari in Kenya crashed…
In 2021, Pennsylvania removed a failing 128-year-old dam; beneath the drained reservoir The restoration project, led by conservation group The Nature Conservancy (TNC), focused on the aging O’Conner Reservoir dam inside the Dick and Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain. Built in the late nineteenth century, the dam had held back water across a six-acre…
Toni and Jim Amey of Canfield donated their collection of Idora Park artifacts to the Mahoning Valley Historical Society. Work on the outside of a new $11.5 million museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Idora Park amusement complex has been completed in downtown Youngstown. The Mahoning Valley Historical Society (MVHS) said contractor Boak…
Corey Houge (middle) killed an Indian-origin grocery store owner (left) and a Bangladeshi gas station worker in two separate incidents in Tennessee. The man who opened fire and killed Suresh Patel, an Indian-origin grocery shop owner, in Tennessee’s Jackson on August 20, faces the death penalty in another murder. Corey Houge was arraigned in Crockett…
Raelynn McMurchy (left) with her husband, Tucker, and daughter, Ella, launched an online petition over high power bills When Raelynn McMurchy opened her electricity bill this month, the amount was more than twice her family’s monthly rent. The bill totalled $1,373, including a $598 security deposit that her power company required after she fell behind…
In 2002, city engineers in Albany moved a 1,500-foot section of Patroon Creek into a large underground pipe, covering the urban stream to make room for nearby development. Eighteen years later, the city changed direction. In 2020, workers removed the culvert inside the 72-acre Tivoli Lake Preserve, bringing the stream back to the surface as…
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) A California judge has suspended criminal proceedings against a former US Marine who was arrested near President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course with a loaded gun and ammunition, ordering him to undergo…
Australian man Michael thought he found his soulmate in Melanie and transferred money. But it was a deepfake. A retired psychologist in his 70s has been scammed out of $180,000 while he believed he had found his soulmate online. Queensland’s Michael continued his long-distance courtship with Melanie, a nurse in South Africa, until she turned…
Scott began the project as a school assignment and asked his uncle, Brandyn Lewis, a mechanical engineer, to help him. For 14-year-old Scott Merrow of Auburn, New Hampshire, playing video games has always meant finding his own way to use a standard controller. A gamer who enjoys playing virtual reality games with his friends, Scott…
