Michelle Krupa

A Maryland sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Sunday night while chasing a fugitive, according to authorities.

Jun 26, 2023 ... So, a place with a predicted temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit and relative humidity of 73% can expect it to feel like 111 degrees, she said ...

A Texas man reported missing eight years ago as a teen actually returned home a day later and has been there all along with his mother, who deceived police by giving fake names and insisting he was gone in the years before his discovery last week at a Houston church, city police said Thursday.

They’d never really had a solid tuba player. The legendary New Orleans music family, of course, had its trumpeters and trombonists, saxes and drummers. But the tuba – namely the circular kind called a sousaphone – is big. And it requires a lot of air. And it scares little kids. And it’s not exactly cool. Still, Revell Andrews, even as a shy young teenager, picked up on the need for the instrument’s stable foundation in the brass band arrangements his kin play virtually every day in their city’s…

The conquering heroes had just rolled down Grand Boulevard, waving to a crowd packed more than a dozen deep – a sea of red, gold and white against a clear blue sky, celebrating their Kansas City Chiefs’ second-in-a-row Super Bowl victory.

A woman in hospice care was declared dead, a sheriff’s official said. Hours later, something truly astonishing happened

Lyela Sayarath was in her second period Algebra 1 class in Winder, Georgia, Wednesday morning when the quiet boy sitting next to her got up and left the class, the door closing and automatically locking behind him. The boy was known to skip class, and she thought nothing of it. Until he came back.

Angelina Madut’s drive home from work landed her in the middle of Helene’s flood waters. Then came an unlikely rescuer.

A week after a 14-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle killed two other students and two teachers at a high school in Winder, Georgia, cell phones started buzzing about 50 miles away.

For a generation now, New Orleanians have been tested by a bevy of high-profile scourges. And so many have internalized, perhaps too well, a hard and potent lesson that often gets celebrated here as “resilience” but really boils down to this: How to carry on in the face of the unimaginable.