Category: Dead

Off-Duty Officer Dies Hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo.—An off-duty police officer in Colorado died in a 200-foot fall while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park this week. Park rangers responded Thursday to Mount Lady Washington, about 70 miles northwest of Denver. The rangers were helped in their search by a helicopter crew assigned to a wildfire near Steamboat…


Tennessee Inmate Found Dead After Execution Date Request

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Tennessee death row inmate Stephen Hugueley was found dead early Friday morning, three days after the state filed a motion to set his execution date. A statement from Tennessee Department of Correction spokesperson Dorinda Carter said he appears to have died from natural causes, although the exact cause of death is pending. Hugueley, 53,…


Mom Arrested Weeks After 2 Girls Found Dead in Florida Canal

LAUDERHILL, Fla.—A 36-year-old South Florida woman has been arrested, weeks after the bodies of her two young daughters were found floating in a canal. Tinessa Hogan, 36, was arrested Tuesday night on two counts of first-degree murder, news outlets reported. The bodies of Destiny Hogan, 9, and Daysha Hogan, 7, were found June 22 floating…


Mike Gravel, Former US Senator for Alaska, Dies at 91

SEASIDE, Calif.—Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, has died. He was 91. Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier. Gravel had been living in Seaside, California, and was in…


UK Infected Blood Probe Focuses on School Where Dozens Died

LONDON—A public inquiry into Britain’s contaminated blood scandal, which led to the deaths of more than 2,000 people in the 1970s and ’80s, began hearing evidence Monday from former students at a disabled children’s school where dozens died after being given blood products tainted with HIV and hepatitis. Former students and parents from Treloar’s College,…


Missing American Woman Found Dead in Russia, Suspect Arrested

MOSCOW—A 34-year-old American woman who had been missing in Russia since Tuesday has been found dead, and a Russian man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the state Investigative Committee said on Saturday. Russia’s RIA news agency said the woman, who it named Catherine Serou, had been studying law at a university in the…


Reports: US Student Found Killed in Russia, Suspect Arrested

MOSCOW—Russian news reports said searchers on Saturday found the body of an American student who went missing several days earlier and that a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The body of Catherine Serou, 34, was found in a wooded area near the city of Bor, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow,…


Search Resumes After 3 Tubers Died, 2 Disappeared on River

EDEN, N.C.—A search resumed Friday on a North Carolina river for two missing tubers after three others were found dead and four were pulled from the water, authorities said. The group of nine people was floating down the Dan River on inflatable tubes and went over a dam that’s about 8 feet high next to…


Woman Killed, 3 Injured After Car Plows Into Protesters In Minneapolis

A woman was killed and three people injured after a car drove into protesters in Minneapolis on Sunday, according to police. Minneapolis Police said in a statement that, shortly before midnight, someone had driven into protesters in the area of Lake Street and Girard Avenue, and that the driver had been taken into custody. In…


3 Dead in Mexico Mine Collapse, 3 Still Missing

MEXICO CITY—The bodies of two miners were pulled from a small coal mine in a northern Mexico border state by early Sunday, bringing to three the number confirmed dead in the flood and partial collapse of the shaft. Three miners remain missing, and search efforts continued. The dead miners were found at the small coal…