Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, the three women who Cleveland police said were held captive in a home for almost a decade have issued a YouTube video in which they thanked the public for the encouragement and financial support that are allowing them to restart their lives.
An air taxi crashed on Sunday at a small Alaska airport in Soldotna, a community about 75 miles southwest of Anchorage, killing all 10 people on board and leaving the aircraft engulfed in flames.
Secondary schools have been ordered to close across Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe after the Islamist organization killed at least 22 students, and then torched their school, BBC News reported. Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam condemned the 'cold blooded murder' attack on Saturday on the Mamudo boarding school. Many schools have been terrorized and burned by Islamists since 2010.
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized at least 148 female inmates between 2006 and 2010 with required state approval. There are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s.
