YUROK RESERVATION, Calif.—The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast. But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her…
Tribe Grapples With Missing Women Crisis on California Coast
Woman Killed by Man Who Followed Her Into NYC Apartment
NEW YORK—A woman was stabbed to death inside her lower Manhattan apartment by a man who followed her from the street into her building, authorities said. Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was found fatally wounded in her bathtub at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. The suspected killer was taken into custody after he at first…
Tampa Woman Convicted of Killing Her Kids Seeks New Trial
TAMPA, Fla.—A woman serving two life terms for killing her teenage children in 2011 while her husband was deployed overseas is seeking a new trial. A Tampa jury rejected the insanity defense for Julie Schenecker, 61, and convicted her in the shooting deaths of her 16-year-old daughter Calyx and 13-year-old son Beau. Schenecker is seeking…
Memphis Woman Says Youth Deserve Praise After Young Man ‘Insisted’ on Paying for Her Gas
A 59-year-old Tennessee native was touched when a young man she’d never met before insisted on paying for her purchase in line at the gas station. She snapped a selfie with the stranger on the forecourt and claims it’s about time the goodness of her city’s youth made headlines. On the morning of Dec. 28,…
Pregnant Woman Rejects Abortion After 71-Year-Old Man’s Pro-Life Sign Convinces Her
An interaction with a 71-year-old pro-life advocate outside a provincial hospital in Canada provoked a young mother-to-be into making a life-changing decision: reading his sign, she changed her mind and opted not to abort her baby. In November last year, advocate Barney Sullivan was protesting peacefully on the sidewalk outside Saskatoon City Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada,…
Police in England Say Young Vernon, BC, Woman Murdered in Essex, Man in Custody
Police in Essex, England, say a 19-year-old British Columbia woman has been murdered and a man is under arrest. A statement from Essex Police says 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth of Vernon died Tuesday, shortly after officers were called to a disturbance at a home in Chelmsford, northeast of London. A 23-year-old man was arrested at the…
19-Year-Old Woman Sets Record for Solo Global Flight
BRUSSELS—Home! And no longer alone. The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday—155 days after she departed. She made it count for herself, her family and dedicated it to all young women trying…
Lone Freezing Woman Asking for Ride on Her 80th Birthday Gets Treat From 2 Strangers
Upon meeting an elderly woman standing alone on a busy Idaho street, asking strangers for a ride to her favorite eatery, two men decided to help her out. When they learned it was her 80th birthday, they went one step beyond, treating her to breakfast themselves. Benjamin Whiteleather of Boise, Idaho, told The Epoch Times…
Suspects Who Abducted Woman in Wasaga Beach, Ont, Claimed to Be Police
Three suspects who abducted a woman in Wasaga Beach, Ont., last week were dressed in police gear and claimed to have a warrant to arrest her, investigators said on Tuesday. Ontario Provincial Police Det.-Insp. Matt Watson said Elnaz Hajtamiri, 37, was abducted from a home last Wednesday evening by three men wearing police gear, but…
New Yorkers Remember Michelle Go, Who Was Pushed to Her Death in Front of a Subway Train
Scores of people gathered on Tuesday for a vigil in Times Square to honor Michelle Go, who was pushed to her death on subway tracks on Saturday. The family of Go, who was an executive with Deloitte, have said they are still in shock at losing their daughter in a “senseless act of violence”—as they…
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