North America Conflict & Tragedy News

Follow up to one of the most widely-read and controversial reports I have submitted to Allvoices: "Iowa Girl, Age 11, Arrested. Why? Health Care Reform!" This summer forty activists filled the lobby at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield in Des...

A police officer testified November 18th that Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor confessed to the crime, saying that she did it so she would "know what it felt like to kill someone." October 21st,...

Heavy rains combined with unusually high tides have flooded large areas of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The town of 27,000 sits near the mouth of the Cowichan River and the river estuary is not far off. The Koksilah...

Pakistan’s intelligence service is secretly sheltering the Taliban’s top leader, US intelligence sources tell the Washington Times. Helping Mullah Omar escape from the town of Quetta, along the Afghanistan border, to the port city of Karachi, deep within Pakistan. The...

You might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold...

Hillsboro Police say a report of a man shooting a gun out of his vehicle after ramming into several other vehicles Saturday, ultimately led to a series of incidents that left one bystander and the suspect, mortal injured from gunshot...