A Malaysia Airlines jet carrying nearly 300 people crashed near the border between Russia and Ukraine, according to Reuters and Interfax. The airline company has confirmed that it has lost contact with the plane, a Boeing 777.
When Maren Sanchez, 16, turned down a prom request from a boy she knew, he allegedly strangled her, shoved her down the stairs and fatally stabbed her.
Monday in Sunni, an area north of Iraq, Baghdad AP is reporting a suicide bomb instructor accidentally detonated a car bomb during a lesson on making car bombs and explosive belts. In the explosion, 21 of his own potential suicide bomber students were killed.
John Morales, 41, A Texas actor whose big role was Scruff McGruff the crime-fighting dog, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison this week for drug and gun crimes.
If you're a smoker and you by your smokes at CVS because they're cheap, you're going to have to find a new spot. CVS Pharmacy announced today that later this year, they will discontinue the sale of cigarettes.
Jonathan Carl Jarrell of Lafayette is one of three men arrested for starting the devastating wildfire in California that has caused 2,000 to flee and destroyed at least two homes.
Ethan Couch, a 16 year old teenager from Texas killed 4 people in a drunk driving accident, but the judge only gave him 10 years probation due to "Affluenza". What is Affluenza? Apparently it'a a condition that makes you too rich to understand that your actions have consequences. I wish I was making this up, but unfortunately I'm not.
The sign language interpreter on television for the Nelson Mandela memorial didn’t actually know sign language. Yes, that really happened.
Dr. Mike Butzberger, pastor at Lighthouse Baptist Church in North Palm Beach, Florida, is getting a lot of unwanted attention lately over the sign he put up at his church.
UPDATE 3:15 p.m. EST: The lockdown and shelter-in-place orders have been lifted, according to the Yale alert system. Police have been going door-to-door on campus searching for the gunman, though authorities will not confirm whether it may have been a hoax.
A listener called into the station this morning and asked if we had seen the K-Mart 'Jingle Bells' commercial that's becoming a viral sensation around the internet today. She didn't tell us about it, just told us we had to see it.
UPDATE 2:30 p.m. EST: NBC is reporting that one TSA agent was killed and three others wounded. Airport police shot and may have killed the gunman at the scene. The shooter, whose identity has not been confirmed, was taken into custody after being shot.