Mitchell G. Patton

The lifeless body of a British woman who had disappeared in Mexico during Hurricane Odile was found this Saturday.The woman, Simone Wood, disappeared along with her husband Paul Whitehose, with whom she lived on their sailboat in La Paz, on the Baja California peninsula.

WASHINGTON — The new House Republican majority plans to create a special committee that could serve as a one-stop shop for investigating perceived wrongdoing by the federal government against conservatives, including former President Donald Trump.The new panel, structured as a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, is expected to be chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, according to a source familiar with the matter. With subpoena power, he will be tasked with investigating law enforcement agencies as part of a mandate to investigate the "weaponization of the federal government."Language to set the panel is tucked inside a house rule pack It…

A 12-year-old girl was being held at a juvenile facility after fatally stabbing her 9-year-old brother, police said.The stabbing was reported just before midnight Thursday at a residence in the St. Thomas Square community south of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa police said in a statement released Friday. "Officers learned that the boys' parents were sleeping upstairs when the 12-year-old daughter woke them up and told them that she had stabbed her 9-year-old brother," the Tulsa Police Department said.Tulsa police investigate the scene of a stabbing involving two children.KJRHCity firefighters and emergency medical technicians from a contracted ambulance service administered CPR…