On This Day: April 20

April 20, 2023

Girl Shot After Ball Rolled Into Yard: 'No Place Is Truly Safe'

The shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl last week by 84-year-old Andrew Lester—who said he was "scared to death" of the Missouri teen when he showed up at Lester's home in error to pick up his younger brothers—was followed soon after by the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis for turning down the wrong driveway in upstate New York; the shooting of two cheerleaders after one of them tried to get into the wrong car in a Texas parking lot; and, most recently, the shooting of a North Carolina 6-year-old and her parents after a ball accidentally rolled into a neighbor's yard.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2022

Judge Who Dumped Mask Mandate Got One Term Wrong: Experts

As the feds consider appealing the judicial ruling that ended the mask mandate on public transportation, legal experts who spoke to NPR say the judge who issued the ruling misinterpreted the law.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2021

Ted Nugent: 'Everybody Told Me I Should Not Announce This'

Months after claiming there was "not a real pandemic," Ted Nugent found himself sicker than he'd ever been in his life.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2020

Prince Harry, Meghan Deliver Bad News to UK Tabloids

Prince Harry and Megan Markle are putting more than an ocean between them and the UK's tabloid press.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2019

Female Marine Uses the Bathroom. And There It Is

The US Navy is probing the case of an apparent camera hidden in the woman's bathroom on the USS Arlington, NBC News reports.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2018

‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’

New York Times reporter Amy Chozick has a new book on Hillary Clinton and the 2016 election, and one anecdote in particular from it was getting attention on Friday.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2017

Mich. Cops May Lose 'Right' to Have Sex With Prostitutes

Time may be running out for cops in Michigan to have sex—legally—with prostitutes.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2016

Harriet Tubman to Replace Jackson on $20 Bill

Earlier rumors had it that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was soon to announce a major change to the new $10 bill—specifically, that a woman would replace Alexander Hamilton as the main mug.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2015

'We Have a Terror Recruiting Problem in Minnesota'

A yearlong FBI investigation into alleged ISIS-related activities resulted in the arrest of six Somali-American men in Minnesota and California yesterday, officials tell CNN.  Keep reading >>

April 20, 2014

Couple Who Never Spent a Night Apart Die Together

Helen and Kenneth Felumlee didn't spend a night apart in 70 years of marriage—including one night they spent on an overnight ferry trip, during which they shared the bottom of a bunk bed to avoid being separated, the Zanesville Times Recorder reports.  Keep reading >>