YouTube download / AP video / Jimmy Kimmel to host the Emmys; Famous feline of "A Street Cat Named Bob" dies ; Stassi Schroeder announces pregnancy. (June 17)
-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer - Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, FL
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff's deputy was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland during a protest last month. Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo was charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53.
Highlights of this day in history for June 17: The Watergate scandal begins to unfold; The Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution; O.J. Simpson arrested in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman; Singer Kate Smith dies.
The Six-Day War ends in the Middle East; Yugoslav troops leave Kosovo after NATO's campaign of airstrikes; Alcoholics Anonymous founded; Actress and singer Judy Garland born; Singer Ray Charles dies.
Two endangered Mexican gray wolves housed at the Albuquerque zoo are the proud parents of seven pups. The pups recently came out of their den for the first time (June 9).
Veteran astronauts Pamela A. Melroy, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Scott Kelly have been selected for induction into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in Merritt Island, Florida (June 8).
YouTube download / AP video / Protesters in Minneapolis on Tuesday filled the intersection in the street where a black man named George Floyd died in police custody. Protesters later damaged the windows of a police precinct and a squad car. Police responded with tear gas (May 27).
YouTube download / AP video / Today in History for May 27: Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public; U.N. Tribunal indicts Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; the British Navy sinks Nazi Germany's battleship Bismarck; Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed.
A black bear named Takoda at the Oregon Zoo got a chance to splash around in a tub of water while waiting for zoo visitors to return. The 10-year-old, 400-pound bear hopped into the 300-gallon tub after keepers filled it with water (May 7).
