Mark Price

2 days ago | beaconjournal.com | April Helms |Mark Price

An Akron woman who became a motivational speaker and national advocate for plane crash victims and their families after surviving a plane crash in 1992 has died. Kendra St. Charles died died May 6 at age 73 due to complications from a stroke, according to her obituary. St. Charles was born in Akron on March 24, 1952, to Bob and Mary Sweeney (nee Yanko), according to her obituary. Her grandparents, Nick and Mabel Yanko, owned Yanko’s Restaurant in Highland Square in the 50s and 60s.

4 days ago | charlotteobserver.com | Mark Price

A joint strike team of Tennessee State Troopers and National Park Service rangers carried the "injured hiker several miles through rugged, rain-soaked terrain to safety," the Tennessee Highway Patrol says. Tennessee Highway Patrol photo A hiker with a broken leg was forced to wait until the next day for rescue due to treacherous weather in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials say.

5 days ago | sacbee.com | Mark Price

One of Florida’s alligators drew attention to itself in the worst way when it began “knocking on doors” and peeping in windows at the crack of dawn. It happened Friday, May 9, in the Tortuga neighborhood in Fort Myers and Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived to find it sitting on someone’s porch — with a red lawn chair awkwardly stuck on its head. When the alligator moved, the chair moved with it, even as the gator tried getting in someone’s front door. “The call came in ...

5 days ago | miamiherald.com | Mark Price

A creative theft ring managed to pull off multiple heists in plain sight by masquerading as utility workers, according to investigators in North Florida. It happened in Jacksonville, and deputies say some of the nine suspects “were caught red-handed” during a theft, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said in a May 8 news release. The group targeted fiber optic cable, which is prized for its “copper content,” officials said. “What started with five arrests ...

5 days ago | kansascity.com | Mark Price

A home health care nurse committed "heinous" acts of abuse when she repeatedly taped her "nonverbal" patient's mouth, then ripped off the tape, according to police in Florida. Getty Images/iStockphoto A home health care nurse committed "heinous" acts of abuse by repeatedly taping her "nonverbal" patient's mouth, then ripping off the tape, according to police in Florida.