A lion has escaped from an enclosure at a North Carolina wildlife non-profit and killed one person

A lion escaped from an enclosure and killed a worker at the Conservators Center, a wildlife non-profit in North Carolina. The lion was shot and killed after it attacked the worker in an enclosure that was being cleaned, Associated Press reports. Officials are withholding the name of the victim until the family is notified. A […]

Escaped prisoner attacks Istanbul butcher shop, injures 11 people

An escaped prisoner has stabbed nearly a dozen people in Kadikoy, a neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. Ali Kardaş set out to stab two former co-workers and injured at least nine more who tried to intervene before he was caught. The perpetrator entered a butcher’s shop with a knife and stabbed the two employees repeatedly as […]

The woman who narrowly escaped the alleged Border Patrol serial killer said he grew enraged after she mentioned her murdered friend

Webb County Sheriff’s Office via Associated Press The woman who escaped a Border Patrol agent and accused serial killer has spoken to police and relatives about how she survived the ordeal. Juan David Ortiz, a supervisory Border Patrol agent, was arrested in Texas on September 15 and quickly confessed to murdering four women and abducting […]

Scottish police are still looking for the protester who paraglided stunningly close to Trump, then escaped

PA/John Linton via Associated Press Scottish police said they still haven’t found the Greenpeace protester who paraglided over President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Friday. The protester wielded a large banner reading, “TRUMP, WELL BELOW PAR #RESIST.” Some 10,000 other protesters demonstrated against Trump on Saturday, chanting slogans like “Trump is a racist! Trump […]

‘Hero’ helps capture escaped killer & rapist who battered woman in graveyard

An escaped prisoner, who is serving a life sentence for raping and killing a woman, is back behind bars thanks to the intervention of an “eagle-eyed” member of the public. An extensive manhunt was launched after Keith Whitehouse failed to appear for roll call at Leyhill open prison in South Gloucestershire on Saturday night. He […]

See inside the luxurious resort GOP members stayed in for their retreat — and where Congress would have escaped to during the Cold War

Wikipedia Commons Every year, Republican members of Congress and their staffers convene for a three-day retreat — away from the hubbub of Washington — to socialize and discuss their party’s agenda. On Wednesday, GOP lawmakers traveled to this year’s venue: The Greenbrier, a luxury resort in West Virginia, established during the 18th century, that has […]

DNA from an escaped slave who ended up in Iceland ID’d in his descendants

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Hans Jonatan left Denmark in 1802 and eventually started a new life as an immigrant in Iceland. But he was an unusual Icelander. Unlike most Icelanders—and even most immigrants to Iceland—Hans Jonatan was mixed-race and a former slave. By piecing together genetic information from his descendants, scientists in […]

Escaped teen helps rescue 12 starved siblings, parents charged with torture

Some of the 13 victims, aged 2 to 29, were starving, chained and bound in their California home. Police initially assumed the adults were children, as they were so emaciated. The 17-year-old who escaped was thought to be 10. David Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, are each being held on $ 9 million […]

Julio Jones fell down on the Falcons’ biggest play of the season, and the Eagles escaped with a win

NBC/NFL The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Atlanta Falcons, 15-10, on Saturday to advance to the NFC Championship. On 4th-and-goal, with 1:05 to play, the Falcons attempted to go for the go-ahead touchdown, but wide receiver Julio Jones fell on the play, messing up the timing. The pass was incomplete and the Eagles took control of […]