Oregon Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend During Thanksgiving Following Argument Over Relatives Staying for the Holiday, Sentenced

Oregon Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend During Thanksgiving Following Argument Over Relatives Staying for the Holiday, Sentenced

A 32-year-old man is going to prison after being accused of killing his former girlfriend in 2023, Oregon officials said. Richard David Simms Jr., 32, was accused of killing 40-year-old Nicole Davis in November 2023 after getting into an argument with her, according to an Aug. 20 press release by the Multnomah County district attorney.…

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Anxious Relatives Await News From Vietnam Wreck Rescue

Anxious Relatives Await News From Vietnam Wreck Rescue

Relatives anxiously sat beside ambulances on the wharf of one of Vietnam’s most popular tourist sites on Sunday, waiting for news of loved ones who were on a tourist boat that capsized killing dozens. Fruits and flowers were laid on the coast for the 37 killed in the wreckage on Saturday in what some called…

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Relatives Wait For Remains After Air India Crash

Relatives Wait For Remains After Air India Crash

Indian health officials have begun handing relatives the bodies of their loved ones after one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades, but most families were still waiting Monday for results of DNA testing. While mourners have held funerals for some of the 279 people killed when the Air India jet crashed in the…

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Former DHS Official Says Relatives of ‘El Chapo’ May Seek U.S. Protections Under Humanitarian Parole Program

Former DHS Official Says Relatives of ‘El Chapo’ May Seek U.S. Protections Under Humanitarian Parole Program

A former Department of Homeland Security official says the recent surrender of several relatives of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to U.S. authorities may be tied to a humanitarian parole program offered as part of Ovidio Guzmán López’s plea agreement—potentially paving the way for more family members to come to the United States in the future.…

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Tears In Taiwan For Relatives Hit By Myanmar Quake

Tears In Taiwan For Relatives Hit By Myanmar Quake

As images of destroyed buildings in earthquake-hit Myanmar flashed across her television screen in Taiwan, Yang Bi-ying could only weep for her family there. Yang, 76, has lived in Taiwan for more than half her life and has a daughter-in-law in the central Myanmar city of Mandalay, which was devastated by Friday’s massive earthquake. At…

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‘Devastated’: Relatives Await News From Bangkok Building Collapse

‘Devastated’: Relatives Await News From Bangkok Building Collapse

Three days after a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed in the wake of a devastating earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar, Naruemol Thonglek is still praying that her boyfriend will emerge from the immense pile of rubble where the building once stood. The sudden crumbling of the 30-storey tower, which was under construction at the time of Friday’s 7.7-magnitude…

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