NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Prayers, hugs, flowers, tears. All those things flowed on Tuesday outside of The Covenant School, the private Christian elementary school in Nashville, where three children and three adults were killed the day before. At Covenant Presbyterian’s entrance, which is connected to the school, signs advertised the upcoming Easter service and a summer camp for…
Tennessee Mourns Day After Nashville Christian School Shooting
Family of US Couple Kidnapped in Haiti Pleads for Release
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Nikese Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see the text message from her sister. All she knew at that point was that their brother and his wife, who live in the U.S., had landed safely in Haiti to visit ailing relatives and prepare for Rara, a colorful and boisterous festival born…
3 Dead, 13 Missing in Caribbean Sinking; 14 Africans Saved
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least 14 people from the African nation of Cameroon were rescued from waters in the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday after their boat capsized, but three people were dead and 13 others missing, authorities in St. Kitts said. The group had departed Antigua early Tuesday aboard a boat carrying…
Prosecutors Seeking Death Penalty in Memphis Shootings
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Prosecutors said Monday that they will pursue the death penalty if a Tennessee man is convicted of first-degree murder in a daylong shooting rampage that paralyzed Memphis and left three people dead and three others wounded. The announcement by Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy came during a press conference in the case of…
Police: Impaired Semi Driver Kills 4 People Changing Tire
KINGSPORT, Tenn.—The driver of a tractor-trailer that hit a van alongside an interstate in east Tennessee—killing four people who were changing a tire and critically injuring another—was impaired, police said. Saul A. Carrera, 60, of New York, was driving a Peterbilt tractor-trailer south on Interstate 81 Sunday when the vehicle veered to the right onto…
New York’s Grand Central Terminal Evacuated Over Hazmat Investigation
Multiple emergency crews responded to a series of suspicious packages at Grand Central Station in New York on Tuesday afternoon that were leaking an unknown substance. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) ushered commuters from a portion of the concourse level out of the station just after 2 p.m. It comes after police found what they…
Report: Student Was Landing When 2 Small Planes Collided
WINTER HAVEN, Fla.—A student pilot was trying to land a small plane at a central Florida airport when it collided with another small plane, sending both aircraft crashing into a lake and killing four people, a preliminary report released Tuesday said. A Piper J-3 Cub seaplane and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee fixed-wing plane were both…
Josh Hawley Calls on Feds to Investigate Nashville School Shooting as Hate Crime
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has called on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27 as a hate crime against Christians. The Nashville Police Department (NPD) identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale as the shooter of six people, including three 9-year-old children, who…
‘We Believe in Prayer’: Top Tennessee Official Defends Prayers After Christian School Shooting
The director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation defended prayer on Monday as an appropriate response to tragedies in the wake of a mass shooting in Nashville that left six people dead. “I want to echo what [the] chief has said in reference to the great support and the great teamwork that has been taking…
Christian School Shooter Audrey Hale’s Text Messages Before Massacre Revealed
A former basketball teammate of Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale has come forward and said she texted her before carrying out a mass shooting that left three children and three adults dead on Monday. Averianna Patton, a former teammate and classmate of Hale, said she received messages from Hale, whose Instagram profile used the…
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