Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Naomi Judd died by suicide following a longtime struggle with mental health, according to a new report. The country legend took her own life on Saturday, multiple sources […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The outskirts of Kharkiv have the feel of an open-air morgue, where the dead lie unclaimed and unexplained, sometimes for weeks on end, as Ukrainian and Russian forces fight for control of slivers of land. There is the charred body of a man, unidentifiable, propped on an anti-tank barrier made of […]
Ross Reynolds and Lana Reynolds, with their dog, Frodo. After the death of Marine Corps Capt. Ross Reynolds during a training exercise in Norway on March 18, widow Lana Reynolds found herself not only grappling with the devastation of loss but also with financial burdens, according to her father, Tom Wando. The couple were married […]
Texas border crossing reopened Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) 10-day-long “enhanced” safety inspections of commercial trucks entering the state from Mexico may have cost Texas $4.2 billion in economic damage, as estimated by Waco-based Perryman Group, but it’s been great for business in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, a border crossing just across […]
Russian troops stole nearly $5 million worth of farm equipment from a John Deere dealership in Melitopol. The stolen equipment was located by remote GPS and locked, preventing it from being used. “When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on,” a source told CNN. […]
Harrison Jozefowicz quit his job as a Chicago police officer and headed overseas soon after Russia invaded Ukraine. An Army veteran, he said he couldn’t help but join American volunteers seeking to help Ukrainians in their fight. Jozefowicz now heads a group called Task Force Yankee, which he said has placed more than 190 volunteers […]
Retired Adm. James Stavridis, former NATO supreme allied commander for Europe, claims that the Russian military’s “amazing incompetence” in Ukraine has resulted in a loss of generals and other top officers that is unprecedented in modern history. “In modern history, there is no situation comparable in terms of the deaths of generals … Here, on […]
Headliner Carrie Underwood and special guest Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses perform at Stagecoach country music festival in Indio, Calif., on Saturday, April 30, 2022. County superstar Carrie Underwood is no stranger to the Stagecoach country music festival Mane Stage, and she had a warm homecoming on Saturday night. Underwood came out packing a […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Naomi Judd, whose family harmonies with daughter Wynonna turned them into the Grammy-winning country stars The Judds, has died. She was 76. Her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, announced her death on Saturday in a statement provided to The Associated Press. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother […]
A Delta Air Lines plane on final approach for landing in New York.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images A first-class Delta passenger is accused of hurling homophobic abuse and assaulting a flight attendant. The passenger, said a criminal complaint, became angry after being refused an alcoholic drink. The passenger told FBI agents that his self-professed “homophobia” […]