A 59-year-old Oklahoma City man is charged in a deadly shooting after he confronted two people he said were trespassing on his empty property. Timothy Smith is being held on charges of first-degree manslaughter and reckless conduct with a firearm, KOCO reported. The shooting happened May 1 near Southwest 44th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The …
An Army veteran who was blinded in service has received the keys to a specially adapted home in Bradenton, Florida. Dozens of people gathered for a ceremony to honor Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Cornelius and welcome him into the house, WWSB reported. He said he was thrilled with the place. Homes for Our Troops, a …
The last living “witness tree” outside Abraham Lincoln’s former home in Springfield, Illinois, an American linden, was destroyed during severe storms Thursday night, according to The New York Times. A park ranger at the home confirmed the damage. The tree had stood beside it since before the Civil War. A line of thunderstorms swept across …
A woman named Megan Perry says the neighbors who bought the land surrounding her rural home have walled it in with mounds of dirt and manure reaching 10 feet high. The mother of five has lived on her property in Dooralong on the New South Wales Central Coast for 12 years. However, she says everything …
Firefighters in Summit County, Colorado, spent the week training for wildfire season. Their message to residents was that a home’s odds of surviving a fire depend heavily on what you do in advance. Summit Fire and EMS, as well as the Red, White, and Blue Fire Protection District, held their joint annual on-the-ground training in …
A Clarksville, Tennessee, homeowner says sinkholes that began on land owned by her homeowners’ association have spread into her backyard. She’s now pushing both the HOA and the city to do something about it. Kimberly Starr told NewsChannel 5 that there were no sinkholes on the property when her family first bought the home and …
A northeast Iowa nursing home has been added to a federal list tracking the country’s worst care facilities. Northgate Care Center in Waukon was added to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ list of candidates for special focus status. That designation is reserved for homes with a history of serious problems in resident care, …
A Tennessee woman took to Reddit to ask for advice, saying her mother gradually emptied her younger brother’s inheritance from a joint bank account. There was roughly $9,000 of what she believes should have been close to $250,000 remaining. She laid out the situation in a post on the r/legaladvice forum, asking what options her …
A Cape Coral, Florida, homeowner is looking to challenge roughly $2,000 in city code fines tied to anti-Trump signs in their yard. The signs drew complaints from neighbors and prompted code enforcement to step in, according to Gulf Coast News. Code officers eventually removed the signs. One neighbor who complained said the signs were placed …
A Vancouver, British Columbia, resident found a full-grown African serval hissing under their porch on Sunday night and called the Vancouver Police Department. Police and provincial conservation officers responded, and they eventually returned the wild cat to its owners. The VPD shared photos and a video of the serval the next day. The home was …