Schools across the country have faced no shortage of challenges since the pandemic. Students are behind academically. Cases of misbehavior are up. Students are absent far more frequently than before. But there is another problem that has left some school districts scrambling. Teachers are also missing more school. Teachers typically receive paid sick days and…
The remains of a child were found encased in concrete in a storage unit in Pueblo, Colo., last month, and the police said Thursday that they were searching for two other children last seen in 2018 as part of the homicide investigation. The grisly discovery was made on the morning of Jan. 10 at a…
Three people, including a girl, were killed and three others were missing after a landslide struck homes in southeast Alaska this week, the authorities said. The landslide took place at about 9 p.m. Monday local time in Wrangell, Alaska, where “the slide covered and effectively closed Zimovia Highway” at its 11th milepost, the Alaska Department…
Authorities in Hawaii released a list late on Thursday naming 388 people who are still unaccounted for in the aftermath of the deadliest wildfires in America in more than a century, which killed at least 115 people. The fires devastated the coastal town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, as well as other areas…
Jason Musgrove has spent every day for the past two weeks trying to find out whether his mother is alive or dead. He and his stepfather drive to shelters, clinics and aid distribution sites around Maui, lurching between hope and despair, like hundreds of other families still searching for relatives and friends in the wake…
A 25-year-old woman in Alabama was last heard from on Thursday night after telling a 911 dispatcher that she saw a toddler walking along the side of an interstate and would pull over to help, prompting a sprawling search for her as investigators raced to find clues about her disappearance. The woman, Carlee Russell, told…
A Massachusetts woman who had been missing for a week was rescued on Monday after she was found stuck in mud in a state park south of Boston, the authorities said. Emma Tetewsky, 31, was found around 6 p.m. Monday after police officers were dispatched to Borderland State Park, where hikers said they had heard…
Underwater banging sounds, detected on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, might be an intriguing clue to the disappearance of a submersible on Sunday near the wreck of the Titanic — or they might just be unrelated noise. Searchers do not yet know which. Carl Hartsfield of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, taking part in a…
Human remains that were discovered last summer at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Nevada have been identified as those of a Las Vegas man who had been missing for nearly 25 years, the authorities said. The man, Claude Russell Pensinger, was 52 when he disappeared on July, 14, 1998, the Clark County Coroner’s…
In what could be a plot from an episode of “The X-Files,” the authorities are investigating the mysterious deaths in three Texas counties of six cattle that were found with their tongues missing. Ranchers found the mutilated remains of a 6-year-old longhorn-cross cow on their property, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook Wednesday.…