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Month: September 2024

Runner, 27, dies after collapsing at Minneapolis half marathon, police and organizers say

By Cole Premo, Stephen Swanson, WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — A 27-year-old man has died after collapsing during Sunday’s City of Lakes Half Marathon in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Park Police Department says the man collapsed along Bde Maka Ska Parkway, with first responders rushing in to help

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Lost and found, but not in time: Family heartbroken after missing dog euthanized at North Texas shelter

By J.D. Miles Click here for updates on this story     DENTON COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — A head-scratching decision by a Denton animal shelter has elicited outrage across the country. There are a lot of questions and criticism on social media after the shelter’s staff euthanized a family dog shortly after he was brought in. “Just

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A Texas official gets probation for accidentally shooting his grandson at a wedding

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Texas county commissioner will spend one year on probation for accidentally shooting his grandson during a Nebraska wedding he was officiating. Michael Gardner, 63, of Odessa, Texas, was sentenced Monday for misdemeanor child abuse in the 2023 shooting. His grandson, then 12, survived the shoulder wound. The shooting happened when

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Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg’s Cold War spy case

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did not engage in the work herself,” according to a recently declassified memo that her sons say proves their mother was not a spy and should

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