President Biden was interrupted while speaking with reporters in downtown Wilmington, Del., on Sunday when a sedan slammed into a parked vehicle in the president’s motorcade, as he was leaving his re-election campaign offices. Mr. Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, were not injured, according to the White House. They had been attending an…
Let this be a warning to those of you who long to hit the open road with a 2,200-pound steer riding shotgun: Observe all traffic laws, especially when passing through Norfolk, Neb. Lee Meyer, 63, a retired machinist, learned that lesson on Wednesday. For seven years, Mr. Meyer has been chauffeuring his 2,200-pound Watusi-longhorn mix…
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A day after a sport-utility vehicle plowed through a group of migrants in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight people, police officials identified the man behind the wheel as George Alvarez and said they were still trying to determine whether the crash was intentional. Mr. Alvarez has been charged with eight counts of manslaughter,…
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — At least eight people were killed after the driver of a vehicle plowed into a crowd of migrants on Sunday outside a center that serves homeless people in this city near the border with Mexico, the authorities said. Seven of the people who were struck “were dead on the spot” when police…
Ken Block, a sports marketing executive who took the wheel for himself and became an acclaimed pro rally driver and YouTube stuntman, died in a snowmobile accident on Monday. He was 55. The company he co-founded, Hoonigan, and the sheriff’s office in Wasatch County, Utah, confirmed his death. Mr. Block, who lived in Park City,…
Colonel Davis said on Thursday that the case had already spurred “fundamental improvements to our operations, training and administration” inside the state police. The case reached the grand jury in November, brought by John Belton, the district attorney for Union Parish. Mr. Belton had said that federal prosecutors did not object to him moving forward…
A search for a missing 7-year-old Texas girl ended with the discovery days later of her body and a FedEx contract driver being charged in her kidnapping and killing, the authorities said on Friday. The search for the girl, Athena Strand, began on Wednesday in Paradise, Texas, about 40 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Nearly…
In a pair of horrific scenes on Saturday that compounded the tragedy of a recent fatal fire in eastern Pennsylvania, a man plowed his car into a fund-raising event for families affected by that fire, killing one and injuring 17, then drove off and fatally beat a woman before the police arrested him, the authorities…
The former NASCAR driver Robert East, known as Bobby, was fatally stabbed on Wednesday in Westminster, Calif., the authorities said, and the suspect in the stabbing was killed on Friday in “an officer-involved shooting.” According to a statement from the Westminster Police Department on Saturday, officers responded just before 6 p.m. on Wednesday to a…