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Police investigate death of girl whose body was found in pipe after swimming at a Texas hotel

Mar. 26, 2024 18:21 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Houston are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found inside a large pipe for a lazy river at a Houston hotel where she'd been swimming with her family. Aliyah Jaico's death on Saturday was ruled an accidental drowning by the Harris...

UN agencies fear about 70 missing or dead from capsized Rohingya refugee boat

Mar. 22, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies said. A statement issued jointly by U.N....

Today in History: March 22, Jimmy Carter becomes longest living US president

Mar. 22, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Friday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2024. There are 284 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 22, 2019, former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94...

Detroit-area man convicted of drowning his 4 children in car in 1989 seeks release from prison

Mar. 21, 2024 19:20 PM EDT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man convicted of driving into the Detroit River and drowning his four children in 1989 pleaded with the Michigan parole board for a shorter prison sentence Thursday, insisting the deaths were an accident. Lawrence DeLisle, 63, said during a public board...

A migrant boat sinks off the Turkish coast, killing at least 22 people

Mar. 15, 2024 14:20 PM EDT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 22 people, officials said. Turkish coast guard personnel rescued two migrants from the sea off the town of Eceabat in Canakkale province, while two others...

At least 2 are dead and 24 missing after a fishing boat capsized off Indonesia's Sulawesi island

Mar. 13, 2024 02:19 AM EDT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fishing boat carrying 37 people capsized in rough seas off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least two people and leaving 24 others missing, rescuers said Wednesday. The Dewi Jaya 2 was on its way from a port in Jakarta to Lombok Island near Bali...

Today in History: March 13, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina becomes Pope Francis

Mar. 13, 2024 00:22 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 74th day of 2024. There are 293 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis. he was the first...

At least 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, the most in a decade

Mar. 06, 2024 20:02 PM EST

GENEVA (AP) — At least 8,565 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, the highest number since the U.N. migration agency began counting deaths a decade ago. The biggest increase was on the treacherous Mediterranean Sea crossing, to 3,129 from 2,411 in 2022, the...

New attacks by IS-linked group in Mozambique leave over 70 children missing. Thousands have fled

Mar. 06, 2024 14:41 PM EST

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants as thousands of families fled, local authorities and...

Father pleads guilty to manslaughter in drowning death of son

Mar. 04, 2024 17:14 PM EST

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — A Vermont man pleaded guilty Monday to three charges including manslaughter in the death of his 2-year-old son, who police say fell into a fast-moving stream as his father fled the scene of a car crash in Massachusetts last April. Darel Galorenzo, of...