Lebanon’s health minister said 51 people were killed and 223 wounded Wednesday in Israeli strikes.
The count comes on top of 564 who were killed and more than 1,800 wounded in the previous two days… including around 150 women and children.
This week has been the deadliest in Lebanon since the bruising month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
Tropical storm Helene was rapidly strengthening in the Caribbean Sea and expected to become a hurricane Wednesday while moving north along Mexico’s coast toward the U.S..
The storm is so large that states as far inland as tennessee… Kentucky and Indiana could see rainfall.
A Minnesota judge sentenced a woman to 20 years in prison Tuesday for her alleged role in the 2019 New Year’s Eve killing of a Minneapolis real estate agent.
Elsa Segura pleaded guilty to kidnapping to commit great bodily harm or terrorize as part of an agreement with prosecutors in the case of the death of Monique Baugh… the Hennepin county attorney’s office said.Segura had been found guilty of murder and other counts in 2021, but the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned the conviction this year… citing faulty jury instructions.
Miles Schiffer can be reached at schi9629@stthomas.edu.