Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lori Erica Kennedy Ruff (born Kimberly Maria McLean, October 16, 1968 – December 24, 2010) was an American identity thief who committed suicide in the driveway of her former in-laws' home in Longview, Texas on December 24, 2010.
The settlement was named after two officials of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), Christiaan Johannes Joubert and Johannes Rissik, [citation needed] who both worked in land surveying and mapping. The two men combined the name they shared, adding 'burg', the archaic Afrikaans word for 'fortified city
Named San Angela by founder Bartholomew DeWitt after an unknown woman named Angela, possibly a nun sister-in-law or a wife Carolina Angela. Emended to San Angelo after the postal service complained of the ungrammatical construction. San Antonio: Bexar: Named for the San Antonio River, discovered on the Catholic Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua ...
Johannesburg was established in 1886, [18] following the discovery of gold, on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold deposits found along the Witwatersrand, [19] within ten years, the population had grown to over 100,000 inhabitants.
A Texas teen died after the state’s ban on abortion stopped her from getting life-saving medical care while experiencing pregnancy complications. On October 28, 2023, the day of her baby shower ...
Thai labor leader Tanong disappeared after his car was found abandoned in Bangkok's Rat Burana District, shortly after a military coup. Repeated inquiries from his family to the police and other government agencies received no reply, and his fate remains unknown. [27] 19 July 1991 Jared Negrete: 12 San Gorgonio Mountain, California, U.S.
The 11-year-old died by suicide on February 8 – five days after her mother found her unresponsive at their home in Gainesville, Texas, according to an online obituary. Her mother says Jocelynn ...
She was a woman from the South Texas town of San Patricio who furnished travelers with meals and a cot on the porch of her lean-to on the Nueces River. She was accused of robbing and murdering a trader named John Savage with an axe. However, the $600 of gold stolen from him was found down river, where Savage's body was discovered in a burlap bag.