A woman is dead after falling from the top of a mast on a nearly 150-year-old ship at a Galveston, Texas harbor, outlets report. the woman, 58, was a volunteer working on the vessel, KTRK reported. She was wearing a safety harness when she fell around noon on Saturday, Jan. 5, according to the outlet. … Read more
A man in his 60s is dead after the van he was sleeping in caught fire in the driveway of a Houston, Texas, home, officials say. The Houston Fire Department responded to the scene, near Tierwester Street and Rebecca Street, around 6 am Sunday, Jan. 6, a spokesperson told McClatchy News. Firefighters found the man … Read more
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — A 91-year-old Israeli woman who was badly wounded by a Palestinian rocket attack last May died Sunday from complications from her injuries, her family said. Naomi Pearlman, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, was injured when a rocket struck her home in the southern city of Ashkelon during last May’s war … Read more
NEW DELHI – Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by a billion people in South Asia, has died, her doctor said. She was 92. Bollywood playback singer Lata Mangeshkar during a birthday party in Bombay in 2003. Sherwin Crasto/Reuters, file The legendary singer died of multiple … Read more
Ruby Boston, of Queensland, Australia, put up a fierce fight against Covid battling the virus for two weeks but her health eventually took a turn for the worst Five-year-old Ruby Boston, pictured with sister Sienna, tragically died with Covid-19 A mum has told of her heartbreak after her five-year-old daughter died with Covid. Ruby Boston’s … Read more
A mother who tragically lost eight babies has died of cancer – and reportedly was being laid to rest without any family present today. Mandy Allwood, who was just 56 and from Solihull, made headlines around the world when she revealed she was expecting the multiple births in 1996. She was offered the chance to … Read more
A boy has died after being hit by a minibus on his way to school. Police and paramedics were called to Northfleet, Kent, at around 08.25 this morning. The child, who is of secondary school age and has not yet been named, was walking along Vale Road when he was hit by a white Mercedes … Read more
“Putting them in that position knowing the bill wouldn’t pass anyway would have further alienated them,” Kalra said on a Monday evening call. But he still faced fury from supporters who had invested their hopes in the bill’s passage, many of whom challenged Kalra’s decision and urged him to name resistant Democrats so they could … Read more
The Walking Dead actor Moses J Moseley has died aged 31, his representatives have said. The actor, known for playing a pet zombie on the hit US show, was described as a “phenomenal actor” and the “kindest, sweetest, most generous person you would ever meet”. Tributes were paid to Moseley online by fans and the … Read more
A 20-year-old student at SUNY Oneonta was found frozen to death outside of a bus garage on Thursday morning when temperatures dropped below -10 degrees, officials said. Tyler Lopresti-Castro was found by Oneonta city employees around 6:50 am on Thursday morning, laying unconscious on the pavement near a bus garage near I-88, according to the … Read more