COLUMBUS, Ohio—In a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought.
62-year-old William Spengler, an ex-con who spent 17 years in prison for killing his grandmother with a hammer in 1980, used the same make and model .223 caliber semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle as the mass murderer in Newton, Connecticut earlier this month.
The search for the missing hiker from Kodiak's Coast Guard base continues this morning as the search enters a new stage.
Four firefighters were shot, two of them fatally, in a trap set for them as they responded to a fire in upstate New York just after 5:30am Monday morning.