Mar. 16, 2025
In October 1990, the mayor of Miami presented Yahweh Ben Yahweh with a key to the city in recognition of the local religious leader’s contributions to the region and his sect’s efforts to revive impoverished pockets of the community.
One month later, FBI agents slapped handcuffs on him and soon charged the former Hulon Mitchell Jr. and 15 of his followers with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, racketeering, arson and extortion.
Mar. 16, 2025
Four toddlers were injured in Pennsylvania on Thursday, one critically, after a car smashed through the front window of a strip mall daycare center, authorities said.
A black BMW crashed through the Children of America Educational Childcare Center in Upper Southampton Township around 1:30 p.m., the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said in astatement.
The car traveled between 30 to 40 feet into the building, according to thePhiladelphia Inquirer, and ultimately “came to rest against a back wall of the room,” the statement said, reportedly in the area where the children take their naps.
Mar. 16, 2025
The scene in Atlanta Tuesday night.Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP/Shutterstock
According to police, the victims killed at Young’s Asian Massage outside Acworth, Ga., have been identified as Delaina Ashley Yaun González, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta; Xiaojie Yan, 49, of Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44, whose hometown was not immediately known.
Police have yet to release the names of the other four fatal victims from Tuesday’s shootings. Six of the eight people killed were Asian women, police have said.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo:NASA’s Johnson Space Center/Twitter
NASA’s Johnson Space Center/Twitter
“Four volunteers are about to embark on anout-of-this-world experience without leaving Earth!” NASA’s Johnson Space Center wrote on Twitter before the378-day missionbegan on Sunday.
The experiment, taking place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, is designed to help NASA understand what it would be like for humans to live on Mars during extended space travel and to set a precedent “for one-year missions to the Martian surface,” perNASA’s website.
Mar. 16, 2025
A chemical explosion at an industrial park in Newburyport, Massachusetts left four workers injured, according to the Newburyport Fire Department.
911 operators received a call about an explosion at around 12:45 a.m. on Thursday at 9 Opportunity Way, theNewburyport Fire Departmentsaid in a press release.
After fire crews arrived on the scene, they noticed that an “industrial-sized vat from inside the building” had moved 30 ft into an adjacent parking lot after the explosion.