1 Year After Abduction and Parents' Murders, Jayme Closs Says She's Feeling 'Stronger Every Day'

Jayme Closs’life changed forever on a dark October night last year when a 21-year-old gunman stormed into her house in quiet Barron, Wisconsin, killed her parents and sped off with the terrified teen in his trunk.After 88 days in captivity,the courageous middle schooler – just 13 at the time –became the heroine of her own storywhenshe escaped her kidnapper’s cabin in the frigid January cold.Jake Patterson of Gordonpleaded guilty tokilling Jayme’s parents, Denise Closs, 46, and James Closs, 56,and kidnapping Jayme.

1 Year After Being Rescued From California House of Horrors, Siblings 'Take Every Day as a Gift'

One year ago, a 17-year-old girlslipped out the window of a Perris, Calif. homeand dialed 911 shortly before 6 a.m. What she told dispatchers shocked them — and would soonshock the nation. Responding officers were shocked at the teen’s frail appearance and at theunspeakable abusethey encountered inside the house: Some children were shackled while the others were in cramped, foul-smelling rooms. Theyranged in age from 2 to 29. Soon after, parentsDavid and Louise Turpinwere arrested and charged with nearly 50 counts of torture, false imprisonment and child abuse.

1 Year After Deadly Great White Attack, 'Shark-Smart' Cape Cod Works to Prevent More Deaths

Photo: Charles Krupa/AP/Shutterstock As the busiest season on Cape Cod begins, this year the local community has bigger problems to consider than dealing with traffic and making Fourth of July plans. Arthur Medici’s death marked the first fatal attack in Massachusetts since the 1930s and was the only fatal shark attack in the United States in 2018. His death cameonly a month afteranother man was attacked at a beach a town over, theCape Cod Timesreported.

1 Year After George H. W.'s Death, How the Bush Family Is Asking Others to Give Back

The family ofGeorge H. W. Bushis paying tribute to his altruism — and the organization that carries on that giving spirit still — on the one-year anniversary of his death. The former 41st president died on Nov. 30, 2018, at the age of 94, just seven months after wifeBarbara Bushdied. To honor President Bush’s “unrelenting service to others,” his daughter Dorothy Bush Koch, 60, and son Neil Bush, 64, are urging others to be a “point of light” in their own communities, just like their father had been.

1 Year Ago: A Look Back at the Santa Fe High School Shooting That Killed 10 and Wounded 13

01of 08EARLY MORNING REPORTS OF ACTIVE SHOOTERAt 7:32 a.m., police responded to 911 calls about an active shooter at Santa Fe High School in Sante Fe, Texas, a town of about 12,000 in the eastern part of the state.Armed with a shotgun and a .38 revolver, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, walked into a first-period art class and opened fire. Moving between classrooms, he looked for people to shoot, yelling, “Surprise!” as he flung open the door of a supply closet where eight students were hiding and killing two students inside.