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Jury awards $176M for wrongful deaths of young brothers struck by California socialite's car
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury has awarded $176 million to the parents of two young brothers killed in a hit-and-run collision when a California socialite's car struck them in a crosswalk nearly six years ago.
The jury found both Rebecca Grossman and Scott Erickson, a former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, negligent in ... (full story)
As Ebola spreads in Congo, a radio station tries to stop health misinformation
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola that Congo is battling took locals by surprise after weeks of spreading unnoticed. Hundreds of cases were suspected when Congolese authorities announced the outbreak on May 15, but many dismissed the news as a “Western conspiracy.”
At least 63 people have di ... (full story)
Fuel prices are shaping summer plans as US boaters get ready to hit the water
DEXTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — On the kind of warm, bright afternoon that Michigan boaters wait all year for, Malik Amine and his brother readied their family’s pontoon boat for the summer.
The cover was off and Portage Lake sparkled in the sun. But before the brothers could leave a narrow wooden dock, they had a deci ... (full story)
Murder charge dropped for Arkansas sheriff nominee who killed daughter’s alleged abuser
A judge on June 4 dismissed a murder charge against an Arkansas man who won the GOP nomination for sheriff while awaiting trial for the shooting death of his teenage daughter's alleged abuser.
The ruling came weeks before Aaron Spencer, who will be on the November ballot, had been set to face a jury on a second-degree murder cha ... (full story)
Today In History: June 15, over 1,000 killed in New York steamboat accident
Today is Monday, June 15, the 166th day of 2026. There are 199 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat PS General Slocum in New York’s East River; it remained the deadliest individual event in the New York area until 9/11.
Also on ... (full story)