27 C Yahoo
Elections 2026Others / Yahoo
While Christa Pike didn't act alone in the crime that landed her on death row , the two others involved in the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer met less severe punishments. Pike, Tadaryl Shipp and Shadolla Peterson were all students at Jobs Corps, a training program in Knoxville, Tennessee, when they lured Slemmer, a classmate, into the woods on Jan. 12, 1995. There, Pike and Shipp, a couple at the time, tortured Slemmer and bludgeoned her to death. They were both later convicted of the crime, whi
Christa Pike is feeling angry and confused after waking up in the hospital in the wake of a failed execution attempt that left her with severe physical health challenges that put her on a long road to recovery, her attorneys said on Wednesday. Pike had been unconscious and in critical condition in the days after two doses of pentobarbital failed to end her life on Sept. 30, they said. On Monday night, it was our understanding that Christa was brain-dead and that life support would be removed the
An Ohio man who was found guilty of murdering his wife and staging the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken into their home and fatally shot the mother of two was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Caleb Flynn, 40, a former pastor who once appeared as a contestant on American Idol in 2013, was found guilty of aggravated murder and multiple counts of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of his wife, 37-y
A 12-year-old girl was killed in Baltimore over the weekend during an apparent disagreement over a parking space, police in the US city said. The victim, Khloe Ishway, was caught in the crossfire of bullets between two men who police said were allegedly fighting over a parking space in a park where children were playing American football. I'm gonna just miss my baby whole, Ishway's mother told CBS, the BBC's US partner, a day after the deadly shooting. In addition to the young girl, four adults
The Atlantic Ocean hasnt seen a hurricane yet this year in a season that remains among the quietest on record, driven by a strong El Nio pattern thats getting even stronger. But the Gulf of Mexico may be about to cook up a storm, and theres at least some chance of U.S. impacts. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a nascent disturbance in the Bay of Campeche, or southwestern Gulf of Mexico, west of the Yucatn Peninsula. The agency estimates development odds at 70 percent, with weather mod
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits something's clearly not working with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections and he doesn't expect President Donald Trump's rebrand of the technology to improve his industry's image with the American public, either. I get why AI has a really negative perception right now, Altman told Brendan Bordelon in an exclusive interview marking the launch of Decoded by POLITICO . I don't think spending money on politics is what's going to make