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Altus Air Force Base marks 70 years of KC-135 Stratotanker
The KC-135, the first all-jet engine air refueling aircraft, made its debut on Aug. 31, 1956, and still remains vital even as the Air Force continues to modernize its air refueling fleet.
US forces hit three Iranian tankers after carrier attacked
American forces hit three Iranian oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked two U.S. warships. U.S. Central Command said that the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at an American aircraft carrier and...
83-year-old husband kills his wife because he didn't want her to end up in a nursing home eating 'oatmeal until she died'
Inset: Joseph Scrofne (Sumner County Sheriff's Office). Background: The area near where Scrofne killed his wife in Portland, Tenn. (Google Maps). An octogenarian Tennessee man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his octogenarian wife because he was...
Man stabbed visiting mother to death, then asked food delivery worker to call 911, police say
Inset: Stefano Cremasco-Cicero (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: Law enforcement officers investigate a reported attack at a Solitair Brickell apartment on Southwest Eighth Street in Miami, Fla. (WPLG/YouTube). A man in Florida greeting...
Man shot and killed his cousin during dinner after complaining about how hot the enchiladas were: Police
Inset: Ervin Gutierrez (Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office). Background: Copper Hills Apartments on Spanish Bit Street Northeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Google Maps). A man in New Mexico shot and killed his cousin because of a fight that started over how...
Judge says Trump's federal takeover of mail-in voting is unconstitutional and states cannot 'feasibly' comply with proposed rule in time for upcoming midterm elections
President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon). The states of the union cannot "feasibly" implement the changes the Trump administration is demanding with regard to mail-in voting...
Grandma left infant in hot car parked between 2 patrol cars on 96-degree day and then 'asked about receiving free kittens' after her arrest, sheriff's office says
Inset: Dedra McManus (Union County Sheriff's Office). Background: The Union County Animal Services building in Monroe, N.C. (Union County Animal Services). A North Carolina woman was arrested after she left her 8-month-old granddaughter in her car with the engine off...
Weekend Wrap-Up: The State Matched the Outbreak Strain to the Farm’s Barns and Asked for an Egg Recall That Has Not Come. A Second Sprouter Has Sixteen Sick and No Recall Either. And CDC Is Switching Off Weekly Updates on the Largest Outbreak of the Year.
Saturday, September 5, 2026This is the ninth Saturday column. Last Saturday’s edition ran under the headline The Federal CyclosporaOutbreak Added 528 People, 41 Hospitalizations and Three New States on the Last Thursday of the Season, and it...
Thirty-Seven Sick, Thirty Hospitalized, Eleven Months of Illnesses: The Hepatitis A Clam Outbreak Nobody Talked About
There is an open multistate hepatitis A outbreak in this country linked to imported frozen clams, and unless you read outbreak pages for a living you have almost certainly never heard of it. As of September 3, 2026, CDC counts 37 illnesses in four states...