MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Two Russian tourists died when they were swept away by strong undercurrents while scuba diving in waters south of Manila, with one believed to have drowned and the other attacked by sharks, a Philippine coast guard official said Friday. Two other Russian tourists managed to swim back safely to their dive […]
A Cal Fire captain with connections to the Coachella Valley died on Monday after being stabbed multiple times in her San Diego county home. Authorities are investigating it as a possible domestic violence incident. Deputies from the San Diego Sheriff’s Office responded to a radio call about an assault with a deadly weapon in the […]
A New Jersey man was killed in a hit-and-run involving “multiple vehicles” Friday night, authorities said. The incident occurred on the Garden State Parkway in Middletown Township, the New Jersey State Police said Saturday in a news release. Officials say a Honda Pilot was traveling southbound in the parkway’s express lanes near milepost 112.8 just […]
A 14-year-old boy has been killed after a man stabbed five people at random in Austria. Authorities said the suspect – a 23-year-old Syrian national with legal residence in Austria – has been detained by police after the attack in the city of Villach on Saturday. Police spokesperson Rainer Dionisio said a motive was not […]
Dick Kramlich, founder of New Enterprise Associates, discusses on “Sexism in the valley” during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena on Nov. 8, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images Dick Kramlich, the venture capital pioneer who co-founded New Enterprise Associates almost 50 years ago and built […]
A man who was reported missing from his pizza delivery job in Apple Valley last week died by suicide on Tuesday in St. Paul, police said. St. Paul officers responded to the 1100 block of Rice Street after a relative of Shuefuab “Shue” Xiong, 42, called 911 about 12:10 p.m. and asked for help with […]
Nathanial George/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Jack Hoffman, who helped inspire millions of dollars of donations to aid pediatric brain cancer research as a seven-year-old Nebraska fan who ran for a touchdown in the 2013 spring game, died Wednesday at the age of 19. ESPN’s Elizabeth Merrill reported he was first diagnosed with a cancerous […]
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries of fashion imagery as the creative mastermind of Benetton’s advertising campaigns, died on Monday. He was 82. His death was announced by his family on Instagram. They did not say where he died or cite […]
Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy. He was 85. The cause was a brain hemorrhage, said Antonio Rinaldis, who wrote a 2023 book with Mr. Morandi about his life on the island. Unlike Daniel Defoe’s […]
Pippa Garner, a conceptual art provocateur whose radically modified consumer goods — like a midriff-baring men’s “Half Suit” and a ’59 Chevy with its chassis reversed — offered witty commentary on gender, body modification, American car culture and the boundaries of fine art, died on Dec. 30 in Los Angeles. She was 82. Her death, […]
