Hurricane Idalia batters Florida – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hurricane Idalia tore into Florida with powerful winds splitting trees in half, ripping roofs off hotels and turning small cars into boats. After coming ashore in the state’s Big Bend region, the storm swept into Georgia where it flooded roads and sent some residents fleeing to higher ground Read More...
Art and design This article is more than 17 years oldRevealed at last: the $5m Rockwell painting hidden for 35 yearsThis article is more than 17 years oldBreaking Home Ties, which hangs at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is one of the American artist's best-known and most popular works, worth an estimated $5m on the art market. Or it would be, if Rockwell had actually painted it.
In fact, the museum's prized exhibit has been exposed as a fake, almost certainly created by the cartoonist Don Trachte, who bought the original painting from Rockwell in 1960 for a mere $900. Read More...
Maine shootings This article is more than 2 months oldTexts and letter show concerns Maine suspect would carry out shootingThis article is more than 2 months oldNewly released text messages and letter show army reserve members believed suspect had ability to carry out mass violence
A series of text messages and a letter sent from a US army reserve representative sounded the alarm about the suspected Maine gunman’s mental health and fears that he would commit a mass shooting, according to newly released documents. Read More...