YEAR IN REVIEW: 10 most-read national and world stories

Published 6:15 am Saturday, December 30, 2017

The News Courier’s focus is on community news, but we also publish stories from Alabama, the nation and world to our website, enewscourier.com. The following are the 10 most clicked-on national and world stories from 2017. All can be found at enewscourier.com by simply using the search box at the top right-hand corner of the home page:

• Aug. 1: Pistol-packing Tennessee bride arrested for pointing gun at groom (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

• Aug. 21: Car strikes 2 women watching eclipse, 1 dies (Hyden, Kentucky)

• Jan. 2: Tornadoes, storms threaten Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama

• May 10: Elderly man kills self, said he killed wife with Alzheimer’s (Deltona, Florida)

• Dec. 2: Opossum breaks into liquor store and gets drunk as a skunk (Fort Walton Beach, Florida)

• Oct. 10: Mother, son dead in shooting; second son hospitalized (Bascom, Florida)

• March 20: Cruz says Gorsuch shouldn’t be asked about Trump (Washington)

• Nov. 2: 6 South Alabama students hospitalized after eating laced candy (Bayou La Batre)

• Aug. 24: Hospital worker claims lottery prize, quits job (Braintree, Massachusetts)

• Aug. 15: Lawsuit claims rodent was baked into Chick-fil-A sandwich (Philadelphia)