Texas shooting suspect tried to escape from jail after deadly rampage
Shane James has been charged with capital murder in the wake of Tuesday's shootings in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
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Shane James has been charged with capital murder in the wake of Tuesday's shootings in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
The suspect, Jason Eaton, is accused of shooting and wounding three 20-year-old men of Palestinian descent.
A rare menu from the Titanic's first-class restaurant sold at auction along with a pocket watch from a man who died in the 1912 disaster at sea and a deck blanket from the ill-fated ocean liner.
After the passenger saw the plane was missing a window, the pilots turned the jetliner around and landed without anyone onboard suffering any injuries.
With Veterans Day falling on a Saturday this year, some banks weren't open on Friday and others will be closed on Saturday in observance of the federal holiday that honors Americans who served in the military.
A rare menu from the Titanic's first-class restaurant and a pocket watch owned by a man who died in the catastrophe are being sold at auction in the U.K.
Alcohol was believed to be a factor when an off-duty U.S. Park Police officer killed another officer in a shooting over the weekend, police said.
Joro spiders were first found in the U.S. in 2014. Since then, the invasive species that's native to east Asia has been spotted in several states.
Leaders of the Maine gunman's unit said he was "behaving erratically" while training at the U.S. Military Academy in New York last summer.
Authorities pressed their manhunt for Robert Card, the suspect in the shooting that killed 18 people and injured 13 more at a restaurant and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine.
Authorities said they identified a suspect after the gunfire in Lewiston and asked people in at least three communities to shelter in place.
Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson caused a San Francisco-bound flight to make an emergency diversion to Oregon, authorities said.
An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency diversion to Portland, Oregon, after an off-duty pilot in the cockpit unsuccessfully tried to shut down the plane's engines midflight.
The freed U.S. hostages are Judith and Natalie Shoshana Raanan from suburban Chicago, officials announced.
Joran van der Sloot's confession that he killed Natalee Holloway ended the nearly two-decade-old mystery about what happened to the Alabama teenager who disappeared in Aruba in 2005.