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Montreal police retrieved 80 shell casings from two crime scenes. One woman was shot three times. Montreal police at the scene of a shooting Aug. 12, 2022. Four men were sentenced in connection with the random shooting.Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette Four men were sentenced to prison terms of between eight and 12 years … Read more

People carry the coffin of Hezbollah senior commander Taleb Sami Abdullah, 55, who was killed late Tuesday. (Bilal Hussein / Associated Press) Of all the mysteries surrounding a sophisticated and startling attack against an avowed adversary of Israel, one question stands out: Why? After hundreds of hand-held pagers used by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah exploded … Read more

A 12-year-old Wisconsin boy heroically shot and killed a 200-pound black bear that was mauling his dad while pinning him to the ground. Owen Beierman shot the bear in its vitals, saving his 43-year-old dad, Ryan Beierman, as he was being bitten in the face in the attack in woods near the family’s western Wisconsin … Read more

A man wounded in Tuesday’s wave of explosions of handheld pagers is carried to an ambulance in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. On Wednesday, booby-trapped walkie-talkies in Lebanon began exploding. (Associated Press) A fresh wave of explosions caused by booby-trapped communication devices wracked Lebanon on Wednesday, the second such attack in as many … Read more

Election officials in more than a dozen states have received suspicious packages in recent days, triggering security fears fewer than seven weeks before millions of Americans go to the polls to elect the next president and Congress. Several state election offices, including in Kansas and Iowa, were briefly evacuated after receiving the parcels, which have … Read more

The Angel of Harmony sculpture outside the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis was knocked off its base and badly damaged by a man using construction equipment. (Christian Gooden / Associated Press) A man used construction equipment to drop a heavy boom lift onto a sculpture that has stood for 25 years outside St. Louis’ Cathedral … Read more

He slithered away with the big win. Hunters removed nearly 200 invasive Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during 2024’s Florida Python Challenge this summer – and the winners got some cash to take home, too. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 pythons from the swamp during the 10-day hunt in … Read more

The cargo ship Dali stuck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March. (Maryland National Guard via Associated Press) The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the Baltimore bridge collapse recklessly cut corners and ignored known electrical problems on the vessel, the Justice Department alleged Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to … Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris came under fire Wednesday as an old tweet of her thanking disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs for hosting a fundraiser for her first presidential campaign resurfaced after the hip-hop mogul’s arrest on sex crime charges. Harris’ message of gratitude was sent during her previous run for the White House after Diddy … Read more

The pagers reportedly beeped for around 10 seconds before exploding, prompting some to put the pagers close to their faces to check for a message A photo taken on Sept. 18 shows the remains of exploded pagers. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon on Sept. 17, killing at least nine people and … Read more