All news by author: Fiona Leishman

Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph David Emerson allegedly attempted to shut down the engines on a Horizon Air flight from Washington to California before being subdued by on-board crew

Four family members have been found guilty in a plot involving terrorism, exorcisms and kidnapping that resulted in a three-year-old boy being found dead in the underground tunnels at a compound they built

An expert has warned about the dangers children face from their own parents when they are part of the family vlogger subgenre with pressures to perform and intimate information and images being uploaded to be accessed by anyone, with any intent

Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue president Samantha Woll's younger sister, Monica, broke down as she delivered a eulogy at the prominent activist's funeral

Grace Rose Baez began her career as a police officer more than 10 years ago, but has now been charged with distributing drugs after arranging to sell fentanyl and heroin to a police informant whilst she was on duty

Real-life Goodfellas mobster Vincent 'Vinny' Asaro, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, has died at the age of 86, three years after being released from prison early due to ill health and Covid fears

Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue president Samantha Woll was found with multiple stab wounds outside her home in Detroit, Michigan, early on Saturday morning with no suspect or motive identified

Christian and Michelle Deaton, from Portland, Oregon, were cycling on the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley, California, when they were struck by lumber that fell off the back of a flatbed truck overtaking them

The Library Restaurant is located in the Rockingham building in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and has a long and very haunted history as well as having welcomed many famous political faces over the years

A surfer was out enjoying the waves at Hawaii's Hanalei Bay when a 15 foot tiger shark hit him and clamped down on his leg before he stuck his finger in its nostril to get it to let go

David Tronnes beat and strangled his wife Shanti Cooper-Tronnes to death at their home in Orlando, Florida, after a disagreement about appearing on home renovation reality show Zombie House Flippers

Pepperdine University students Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams were all killed after a BMW crashed into them along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu

Picasso and Newt are two rescue pups that live with nine other dogs, three cats and a pig in Eugene, Oregon, after having been saved from 'doggy death row' and an abusive situation

After losing her mum, getting divorced and losing her job of 10 years, Barbara Barto, from Fort Worth, Texas, was at a crossroads in her life and though she was ready to retire, staying in the US was just too expensive

In the middle of a former flooded mine in Ottawa, Illinois, near Chicago, lies a strange and peculiar sight... a 2001 Volvo S80 sitting atop a tiny, rocky island in the middle of the man-made lake

US pharmacy chain Rite Aid has officially filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey putting more of its 2,100 stores at risk of closure as the company announced billions in net losses over five years

The second-largest ever Powerball jackpot was won with a ticket bought in the quaint mountain community of Frazier Park in California where residents are eager to find out if the new billionaire is one of their own

The parents, from San Diego, California, watched on in horror as their one-year-old son fell to his death from their ninth-floor hotel room in Mexico onto a concrete deck area

Researchers from UCL used virtual reality as part of their study which showed those with early Alzheimer's were more likely to have difficulty with turning and navigation

Nicholas Rossi pretended to be an Irish orphan called Arthur Knight in an effort to avoid extradition to the US over a 2008 rape charge having even faked his own death, telling his friends he had cancer

Warning: Contains contents that may some may find graphic and disturbing. Lee Sasi from California was enjoying Supernova festival with her family when Hamas fighters descended, forcing Lee to spend hours hiding under dead bodies in a bomb shelter

Warning: Contains content some may find distressing. Isabella Sesto, from Melbourne, was fishing off the coast of Cape Jaffa in South Australia when her 100kg bluefin tuna was snatched by a shark

Rachael Woolsey, from Queen Creek, Arizona, gave birth to her first child on February 19, 2018, he died in her arms just 18 hours later but exactly a year to the day later at the same hospital, she welcomed a healthy daughter

At least 27 Americans have been killed so far, according to officials. The Israeli defence minister has vowed to "use every measure at our disposal" in response

Kaylee Timonet, student government president and scholarship candidate at her school near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was punished after a video of her dancing at a Homecoming party off-campus was seen by the principal