A female student suspected of shooting a classmate at a West Texas high school Thursday morning has died, authorities said. The shooting prompted a lockdown at the school, NBCNews reported.The armed suspect, a 14-year-old freshman, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, and the victim was taken to a hospital, Brewster CountySheriff Ronny Dodson told reporters....
South Korea and other international monitoring agencies reported an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear site in the northeastern portion of the country on Wednesday, indicating a fifth atomic test explosion, according to The News & Observer...The U.S.Geological Survey called the event "an explosion" on their website ... mainland ... - WN.com, Maureen Foody....
(CNN)A Russian river located by the Arctic town of Norilsk turned bright red Tuesday, looking more like an enormous blood vessel than a body of water. Stunned residents shared photos online of the bizarre scene at Daldykan River. Authorities are trying to determine why the river changed colors and are evaluating possible environmental damages ... Read More ... ....
Taliban forces engulfed the capital of Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province early Thursday The Associated Press reported, sparking fierce clashes and sending all government officials fleeing from the city, an Afghan official said ... The city, he added, will soon completely fall to the insurgents.However, within hours, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said forces loyal to the Afghan government had regained control of Tirin Kot....
Authorities held 1,300 students, teachers, and first responders beginning on Wednesday for testing by the Environmental Protect Agency after a small amount of mercury was found, according to The Associated Press. Hundreds of parents waited outside after students were held for up to 17 hours to screen for neurotoxin exposure after a student brought the substance to Walter JohnsonJunior High School on Wednesday. "They were laughing....
What, was “the Fresh Kills” taken?. The Staten Island Yankees asked fans Thursday to help them pick the team’s new name, pitching them a bullpen full of miserable monikers ... While Staten Island is a BronxBombers stronghold, Smith said the team would benefit from a new identity — apart from its parent club ... ....
The Yankees coaching staff hasn’t been able to get AaronJudge going since his call-up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Maybe the minor league staff will have better luck ... He succeeded enough that Judge overcame that slump to get to The Bronx after Carlos Beltran was dealt to the Rangers, but if the Yankees are going to remain contenders in the American League, they can hardly afford the black hole that Judge has become ... ....
The nonbinding resolution, introduced Thursday by City CouncilmanAndrew Cohen of The Bronx, condemns “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel” and the boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israeli companies and groups ... Opponents also argued that the measure seeks to stifle a form of protest protected as free speech — but they didn’t win over lawmakers by shouting over those who testified in support of the measure ... ....
Tuesday’s primaries will effectively decide the final winner in legislative races across New York. In many Democratic districts, the nominee is unlikely to agree with us on taxes, crime or other issues. But Democrats are divided on one of our top concerns — creating new and better options for New York’s schoolchildren ... Democrats who care about kids should vote for these candidates in tight races.. STATE SENATE ... SD-33 (WestBronx)....
She’s picking up trash with surgical precision. The cancer doctor accused of clipping an NYPD officer with her car and declaring, “I’m the hero; the cops are not,” is putting her fine motor skills to new use — by cleaning up city parks as part of her community service. Dr ... Dr ... Christopher Sadowski ... 18 arrest in Hell’s Kitchen, after which she was fired as senior breast surgeon at Montefiore Einstein Center for CancerCare in The Bronx....
Buried within Tim Tebow’s signing with the Mets, underneath enough secret agendas to fill the House of Representatives, lays the simplest reality..It’s on Tebow now. He wants his baseball career to be more than another entertaining chapter in his polarizing narrative? He can make that happen in the most concrete way ...SethLugo, a 34th-round draft pick in 2011, and T.J.Rivera, a non-drafted free agent from The Bronx ... Makes sense ... AP....
Suddenly, these New York baseball teams just might be the most interesting in the entire sport. They're living charmed lives, both of them, the Yankees and Mets. No big deal there. Both were built to win in 2016. It's how they're winning that's so amazing. Here's to youth and energy. Here's to talent, too ... He only knew that the Yankees weren't good enough as they were built and that it was time to deliver the Baby Bombers to the Bronx ... ....
A judge compared allegations that residents are being denied their constitutional right to a speedy trial because of the snail’s pace of Bronx criminal court to segregation in the south at a hearing Wednesday over whether to toss a lawsuit against Gov ... was no official policy to deliberately impede people’s rights in Bronx state court....
Security footage shown to the court in the Bronx captured Nash attempting to rape Mrs Diallo before her husband entered and chased the attacker into the building’s lift, where he administered the fatal beating....