On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the Secretary of War the authority to evacuate to designated military areas anyone deemed a US security threat. For about the next four years, more than 100,000 people of Japanese origin — most of them US citizens — were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated…… MORE
A 62-year-old blind man was found in the woods by a police drone on Saturday after he went missing for about 33 hours, a Connecticut police department said in a statement. A brother of Richard Doty alerted the Enfield Police Department after not hearing from him since Friday morning, Lt. Bryan Nolan said. “Due to…… MORE
Chicago’s weekend began with a girl reportedly shooting her 11-year-old brother, who had to be rushed to the hospital. By the time Monday morning rolled around, 25 people had been shot, 11 of them minors, police said. Three died in the weekend violence, all of them adults, according to police. The shootings occurred between Friday…… MORE
Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout has joined the list of Major League Baseball players criticizing the league for how it handled the Houston Astros cheating scandal. Speaking to reporters, Trout called the situation “sad for baseball.” “I don’t agree with the punishments, the players not getting anything,” Trout said. “It was a player-driven thing.…… MORE
Good sneakers, sturdy gloves, and a strong grocery cart. Those are the essentials of Chicago Crosby’s job. She’s a canner, someone who collects cans and bottles off the street and redeems them for 5 cents apiece. “This is New York,” she says. “There are all sorts of ways to make money.” Crosby has been canning…… MORE
A man has been sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted of putting an 8-month-old puppy in a cage and leaving it along the waterside. Aaron Davis, 36, of Long Branch, New Jersey, was sentenced on Friday after a court found him guilty in December of fourth-degree animal cruelty, according to a news…… MORE
Amie Harwick, a Hollywood sex therapist and ex-fiancée of comedian Drew Carey, was killed over the weekend, Los Angeles police said. An ex-boyfriend has been arrested as a suspect in her death, police said. Harwick, 38, was found unresponsive in her home early Saturday with injuries consistent with a fall, according to a statement from…… MORE
Texans have dubbed a high-rise office building the “Leaning Tower of Dallas” after it failed to come down during an implosion on Sunday. The strategically placed explosives went off without a hitch. Each side of the 11-story building on the corner of North Central Expressway and Haskell Avenue came crashing down. But the center of…… MORE
Fire and rescue officials converged on the scene of a ruptured gas line in Texas that shot 150-foot flames into the air Monday morning, Corpus Christi Deputy Fire Chief Richie Quintero said. After about 30 minutes, the fire was extinguished and the shelter in place advisory lifted, according to Assistant Fire Chief Randy Paige of…… MORE
A 6-year-old girl is recovering from minor injuries after a suspected mountain lion attacked her at a California Park. WIldlife officials are now searching for the animal. The attack happened Sunday morning, when a group that included the victim, her parents and several other adults and young children were hiking on a trail at the…… MORE
