A jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four men in 2003. Billy Ray Johnson, 46, lives in a nursing home because of the injuries he suffered in the beating. In the criminal case, the men accused of assaulting him were fined and sentenced to probation and jail time, but none served more than 60 days behind bars.
A tornado ripped up farmsteads in western Nebraska and injured several people as thunderstorms rippled across the Plains. The twister that struck late Friday spread debris along a path that was up to a half-mile wide in places, the Frontier County sheriff’s office said Saturday.
Eight tigers are missing from a reserve in western India, raising new concerns about the country’s dwindling big cat population, a news report said Sunday. The rare adult tigers have vanished from the Ranthambore National Park, which covers 60 square miles in the western state of Rajasthan,
A fast-moving fire tore through an orphanage in Bosnia’s capital early Sunday, killing five babies and injuring 17 others and a nurse, police and hospital officials said. The blaze broke out on the third floor of the Ljubica Ivezic orphanage in downtown Sarajevo around 6 a.m. and rapidly spread to three rooms where the babies were sleeping, according to the Sarajevo fire brigade.
South Korea agreed Sunday to send 400,000 tons of rice to impoverished North Korea despite the communist government’s failure to meet a deadline to shut down its nuclear reactor. The agreement was reached early Sunday after five days of economic aid talks in the North Korean capital.
