7 Veterans Stories That Touched Our Hearts in 2019

01of 07 George H.W. Bush’s Service Dog Sully Receives Public Service Award for Bringing Love and Joy Evan Sisley Sully was chosen for “bringing not just assistance but love and joy to the former president in the last months of his life.” While he only served Bush for a few months, the pair quickly formeda deep bondthat has extended beyond Bush’s life, as immortalized in a photo of the loyal Labguarding Bush’s coffinafter his funeral....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1560 words · John Garcia

7-Year-Old Chicago Girl in Critical Condition After Being Shot While Trick-or-Treating

Photo: WBBM A 7-year-old girl who was out trick-or-treating with her father on Halloween is “fighting for her life” after being shot in the neck, Chicago police say. At 5:30 p.m., the girl, who has not been identified, was walking with her father down a street full of trick-or-treaters in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood when shots rang out, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said during a news conference Friday morning....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 443 words · Deanna Spears

8 Students and 1 Adult Killed as 14-Year-Old Boy Opens Fire at Serbia School

Eight students and an adult have been killed after a teenage boy opened fire at a school in Serbia.The 14-year-old boy allegedly opened fire in his elementary school in the Serbian capital Belgrade, officials said Wednesday.Speaking in a press conference Wednesday, a police spokesman said the eight students killed were seven girls and one boy, with the youngest children born in 2009,per the BBC.Multiple outlets report that the adult who was killed was a security guard at the school....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 1028 words · Joshua Pacheco

8-Year-Old Boy Among 5 Killed by Hurricane Dorian as Bahamas Is Battered In 'Historic Tragedy'

Photo: Bahama Press/TwitterAn 8-year-old boy is the first named victim of Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall on Sunday in the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm and caused “extreme destruction,” with storm surges up to 18 feet above normal tide levels, reports say.Lachino McIntosh drowned in the Abaco Islands over the weekend, Lachino’s grandmother, Ingrid McIntosh,told Bahamas’ EyeWitness News through tears. Ingrid said a relative broke the news, telling the doting grandmother that Lachino’s mother found his body while searching for her daughter — the boy’s sister — who remained missing on Monday....

March 16, 2025 · 8 min · 1519 words · Laura Gill

9/11 Still Claiming Victims: 10,000 With Cancers, Thousands More With Other Illnesses

Photo: Courtesy Michael O’Connell Michael O’Connellwas a New York City firefighter in his early 30s with his first child on the way when he woke up one morning in 2007 “feeling like someone came into the room that night and beat me up with a baseball bat.” Hours later, doctors told O’Connell he had a rare disease called sarcoidosis, the growth of tiny collections of inflammatory cells — commonly found in the lungs and lymph nodes....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 972 words · Eric Ferguson

90 Day Fiancé: Holly's Wedding Is Almost Ruined by Eyelashes, and Shekinah's Love Bubble Bursts

Holly and Wayne cut their wedding cake on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way.Photo:TLC TLC Wedding bells were ringing… and ringing… and ringing… on Monday night’s episode of90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way. Often a bride is fashionably late to her wedding, but over an hour of standing at the altar leftWaynequestioning ifHollywas running for the hills. Other couples struggled with commitment, too, asMarygave a shockingly awkward answer toBrandan’s proposal, andKimberly and TJ’s families made a “temporary truce” as their own wedding loomed....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1102 words · Megan Yates

90 Day's Armando Admits He Is 'Invested' in Jasmine and Gino's Relationship: 'She's Madly in Love' (Exclusive)

Armando from ‘90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way’, Gino and Jasmine from ‘90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days’.Photo:TLC; Jasmine Pineda/Instagram TLC; Jasmine Pineda/Instagram 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way’sArmando Niedermeier-Rubiois still holding out hope for another couple featured on the TLC franchise. Armando exclusively tells PEOPLE that he doesn’t think it’s over betweenJasmine PinedaandGino Palazzolodespite their breakup on last week’s episode of90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 495 words · James Lamb

99 Cent Only Stores to Close All 371 Locations Due to 'Inflationary Pressures'

99 Cents Only store in Bakersfield, Calif.Photo:Roger Hornback/Getty99 Cents Only is closing all 371 stores in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas, the discount retailer announced on Thursday, April 3.The discount retailer is known for selling a wide variety of products, groceries and seasonal items. Executives cited changing economic conditions for the closures.“This was an extremely difficult decision and is not the outcome we expected or hoped to achieve,” interim CEO Michael Simoncic saidvia a press release....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 937 words · Dawn Bruce

A Bad Breakup and Her Sister's Death Inspire Kalie Shorr to Record Her Daring Debut 'Open Book'

Photo: Catherine Powell Kalie Shorrused to walk into her songwriting sessions ready to do the Nashville thing of “let’s try to write a hit today” — but then life happened. Lots of it. She and her boyfriend of six years broke up. It was bad, as in he-cheated-on-her-and-she-lost-her-health-insurance-and-he-got-the-dog bad. Then, seven months later, things got worse. Her dad called and blindsided her with the news that her sister had died of an accidental heroin overdose....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1074 words · Daniel Freeman

A Dunder Mifflin Reunion! 'The Office' 's John Krasinski, Brian Baumgartner Reunite in Smiley Photo

You can take the boys out of Scranton, but they’ll always find a way back to each other. FellowThe OfficealumsJohn KrasinskiandBrian Baumgartner— who played Jim Halpert and Kevin Malone, respectively, on the NBC mockumentary-style comedy — reunited in New York City on Wednesday, where they posed together. Dressed in a long-sleeved black shirt and aBoston Red Soxbaseball cap, Krasinski, 40, had his arm around his friend and former costar’s shoulders for the photo-op....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Aaron Mills

A Look at All the 'Warm and Feminine' Florals at Britney Spears and Sam Asghari's Wedding

Roses were the name of the game atBritney Spearsand Sam Asghari’s intimate wedding. The Los Angeles-based florist has decorated several star-studded events in the past, including theOscars Governors Ballfor 28 years in a row. The “Toxic” singertoldVoguethat the couple chose to use soft, romantic colors for their wedding decor. “We wanted warm and feminine colors including blush, white, cream, and gold, and a lot of various shades of pinks, blush, and reds,” she told the outlet....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Kathleen Barrett

A Strange Kennedy Connection to Truman Capote's Ashes: From a Bel Air Halloween Bash to Marilyn Monroe's Crypt

Joanne Carson and Truman Capote.Photo: John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty; Keystone/Getty The tangled tale ofTruman Capote’s ashes is worthy of the writer who spent much of his life among the rich and famous. And the details of how his remains ended up with a starring role at a Halloween bash his dear friendJoanne Carsononce threw at her Bel Air home in 1988 certainly match his outsized reputation....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 851 words · Laura Barnett

A Tribute to Horror Icon Tom Savini’s Most Memorable Acting Roles

Tom Savini is one of the greatest special essence make - up creative person ever — a schoolmaster of masque , creatures , prosthetics , imitation blood , andscreamingly gruesome way to conk . But he in reality bugger off his show - biz first as an histrion , and over the years he ’s tapped into those talents and popped up in some very cool places . It can be startling to see Savini appear in a movie that has nothing to do with horror — see : The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Zack and Miri Make a Porno , though there is a logical explanation there ....

March 16, 2025 · 9 min · 1869 words · David Adams