A man fearful he'd become homelessness after the death of his doting 85-year-old grandmother five months ago kept her corpse wrapped in plastic bags inside her house, masking the smell with air fresheners and a fan, police said Thursday.
A New Jersey Transit train that crashed into Hoboken's terminal last week, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others, was going twice the speed limit at the moment of impact, and the train's engineer hit the emergency brake less than a second before the crash, federal investigators said Thursday.
No one ever really knows another's pain over the loss of a loved one, but Nicole Hockley probably has, more than most, a "sense of the journey" Renae Hall is now taking.
In what might eventually be more a psychological blow than a meteorological one, there's a decent chance that Hurricane Matthew could loop back full circle for a second, unwelcome visit to South Florida next week, meteorologists says.
Many police departments have specially trained officers and mental health professionals whose job is to help defuse the sometimes-volatile "5150" calls that involve people in the throes of mental illness.
One major U.S. department store is pulling drug-themed clothing from its stores following complaints the fashion line glamorizes prescription drug abuse.
A Louisiana grand jury has indicted a school's assistant principal on charges he killed a pregnant co-worker whose body was found in a ditch with a gunshot wound to her head.