Ellison Barber

An aunt said Hannah Kobayashi sent a text message from Los Angeles indicating she was frightened and may have been coerced into giving away money.

Yahya Sinwar’s appointment sent “a message that Hamas is still united, and its network is still capable of organization and deliberation, despite months of bombing and assassinations,” one analyst said.

A man who was arrested near a Republican National Convention security zone Monday was concealing a firearm in a “tactical” backpack, police said. The arrest took place about 1 p.m. on the 1200 block of North 11th Street, the Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement. Police determined the 21-year-old man did not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, the police department said. The location of the arrest was about two blocks outside the vehicle screening perimeter of the convention, w…

Each day the grisly search becomes more difficult, with spring’s rebirth covering clues and making graves, once easy to spot during the cold, hard winter, much harder to find.

“Our system will tell you about an entire city without any bias for anything. As long as you use the sewer system, we will detect it,” one researcher said.

When the sun rose over the Appalachian Mountains, you would find Terri Ahern on her porch, sitting in her rocking chair and reading the Bible. She liked to wake up early. Her husband, Sam, less so, but once he woke up, they’d move to a nearby swing and drink coffee together. Terri used to say Sam “made the best coffee in the world.” He still remembers the first day they met. Her beauty, he recalled, was impossible to miss. “Just stunning, stop you in your tracks, [but] her outward beauty was ver…