In a sad story out of Chicago, Illinois, a 16 year old boy with Down Syndrome has fallen down a trash chute at the Gold Coast luxury high rise. Charles Manley, who also has autism, fell 46 stories down into a trash compactor. Investigators are trying to determine how the teenagers got into the trash [...]

It’s a tradition that is almost as old as New Orleans itself. The celebration began on Fat Tuesday and in an atmosphere that is most like the Rio Carnival, the annual Mardi Gras celebration got underway. For revelers, there were trinkets, music, beads, and of course, alcohol. The French Quarter of the city devastated by [...]

Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has taken power in Yemen. The election today was simply a formality, as there was no other candidate for voters to choose. This presidential election is the result of an uprising in the country that lasted over a year and ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.   Yemen is the poorest country in [...]

  A fire at the Comayagua prison in Honduras killed 360 inmates on Valentine’s Day. An investigation by the country’s attorney general’s office has revealed that the fire was likely caused by a cigarette or a candle that caught a mattress on fire. Danelia Ferrera, who is with the attorney general’s office, said that the [...]

Last August, a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair. Seven people were killed and another 40 were seriously injured. A storm brought down scaffolding into the crowd just moments before the country duo Sugarland was to go on stage to perform.  Several families have sued Sugarland, saying that the group was negligent because they [...]