SEATTLE — Ruth Underwood woke up with a start, and realized – to her horror – that she'd fallen asleep on a stranger's shoulder. It was the evening of Christmas Day, 1962. Ruth was traveling via Greyhound bus from her parents' house in Olympia, Washington, to her home in Seattle, Washington. She'd spent a fun
FORT MYERS, Fla. — An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida, was instead put on a flight to Orlando. In an emailed statement to CNN, Spirit Airlines apologized to the family, saying on December 21, the child was supposed to fly from Philadelphia International Airport to
SALT LAKE CITY — A new online initiative wants to help your grandmother with that quilt or blanket she started but was never able to finish. Loose Ends was created by two friends and crafters, Masey Kaplan in Portland, Maine, and Jennifer Simonic in Seattle, Oregon. They were both at a school reunion and helping
BEAVERTON, Mich. — A Gladwin County man has many to thank this year, for keeping the season merry and bright. His simple ask on Facebook quickly turned viral. "It's unbelievable how many people are sending them. To get as many as we got — that tells you something," Beaverton resident, Larry Pratt said. Pratt has
NEW YORK — If anything about Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" annoys you, best to avoid shopping malls now. Or the radio. Maybe music altogether, for that matter. Her 1994 carol dominates holiday music like nothing else. The Christmas colossus has reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart the past
WASHINGTON — When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in an unprepared U.S., states scrambled for masks and other protective gear. Three years later, as the grips of the pandemic have loosened, many states are now trying to deal with an excess of protective gear, ditching supplies in droves. With expiration dates passing and few requests
DETROIT — Donald Trump pressured two election officials not to certify 2020 vote totals in a key Michigan county, according to a recording of a post-election phone call disclosed in a new report by The Detroit News. The former president's 2024 campaign neither confirmed nor denied the recording's legitimacy, insisting in a statement that all
LAS VEGAS — Police officers who responded to a deadly shooting inside the business school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas mistook the gunman for a bystander and urged him to get out of the building amid the frantic search for the suspect and victims, according to body camera footage and police accounts. With
NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, acknowledging severe financial strain exacerbated by his pursuit of Donald Trump false 2020 election claims and a jury's award of $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he defamed. The former New York City mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or potential debts
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the longest-serving inmate to be declared innocent of a crime. Glynn Simmons, 71, who was released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers, was
