On the morning of Oct. 8, 2022, the serene Mississippi River town of Bellevue, Iowa, population about 2,500, woke up to a calamity — news of an apparent homicide, the first in nearly a decade. Dozens of investigators from six different law enforcement agencies were combing the crime scene at the Mississippi Ridge Boarding Kennels … Read more
This story originally aired on Sept, 21, 2024. Investigators say they will never give up looking for the body of Sara Anne Wood. The 12-year-old was abducted in 1993 in central New York. Even though her killer, Lewis Lent, is behind bars, authorities say he refuses to give her family the peace of knowing where … Read more
Tens of thousands of people descended on Belgrade on Saturday as part of a mass rally seen as a culmination of months-long protests against Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government. Large crowds of flag-waving protesters converged after meeting up at several agreed-on protest venues in various parts of the capital, which was placed … Read more
Sara Adair knows the symptoms of aortic dissections. The hospital analyst’s father and sister each experienced the dangerous cardiac condition, when the inner lining of the body’s main artery tears and causes the aorta to come apart. Aortic dissections can be deadly, and are hard to diagnose. Both Adair’s father and sister survived, but after … Read more
The threat of tornadoes moved east into the Mississippi Valley and Deep South on Saturday, a day after a massive storm system moving across the country unleashed winds that damaged buildings, whipped up dust storms that caused deadly crashes and fanned more than 100 wildfires in several central states. Fatalities were reported in Missouri and … Read more
The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. “The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,” Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia … Read more
A Canadian woman who had appeared in an “American Pie” movie was detained for several days by U.S. immigration officials while attempting to cross the border from Mexico to the U.S. to renew her work visa, according to her mother. The woman’s father expects his daughter to be able to return to Canada as early as … Read more
A huge storm system crossing the U.S. threatens to unleash tornadoes Friday in the Mississippi Valley, blizzards in the northern Plains and dry, gusty conditions in Texas and Oklahoma that pose a high risk of wildfires. The National Weather Service predicted extreme weather across a vast swath of the U.S. with a population exceeding 100 … Read more
Homeowners have an opportunity to use their home equity strategically (and potentially see big returns) this spring. Getty Images The spring season is typically a time of renewal, and, fittingly, homeowners across the country are realizing that tapping into their home equity — which the average homeowner has about $313,000 worth of right now — gives … Read more
When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its mission was to protect the environment and human health. Since then, scientists, health experts and advocates have worked to implement regulations aimed at protecting and cleaning the air we breathe and the water we drink. Many of these regulations, which were aimed at cleaning up … Read more