WISE, Va. -- It usually begins simply enough. A blue-eyed, olive-skinned child asks a parent: Who am I? Where did our family come from? In the mist-shrouded hollows of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the answers have long been evasive.
When Brent Kennedy started questioning his origins, an aunt doused old family documents and photographs with gasoline and set them ablaze. "I hope you burn in hell," another relative told him. Read More...
Getty ImagesOfficer Brian Sicknick died following the 6 January riotsA US police officer who died after January's Capitol riot had two strokes and died from natural causes, the chief medical examiner for Washington DC has ruled.
Two men are accused of using a type of pepper spray on Officer Brian Sicknick.
However, the ruling means they are now unlikely to be charged with homicide.
The autopsy found no evidence of an allergic reaction to chemicals, nor of internal or external injuries, Dr Francisco Diaz said. Read More...
Borna Coric is a famous Tennis Player, who was born on November 14, 1996, in Croatia. A Croatian tennis player who received the ATP Star of Tomorrow award in November 2014 for being the youngest player ranked in the ATP Top 100. Among his most notable victories is his win over Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of the 2014 Swiss Indoors.
In 2013, Coric reached the semifinals of the Australian and French Open junior events and won the boys’ singles event at the US Open. Read More...