D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city’s metropolitan police announced the launch of a program that will provide drivers free digital tracking tags for their vehicles in the event they are stolen. Drivers in selected police service areas (PSAs) of the District, where police have seen the greatest spike in …
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Authorities outside of Houston were searching Monday for those responsible for a shooting at a large college homecoming party that left seven people wounded. Gunfire broke out around 10 p.m. Sunday at a Prairie View A&M University homecoming party near the school’s campus, about 50 miles northwest of downtown Houston, …
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OAKLAND, Calif. – When gunfire rang out in her San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood, a 30-year-old mother shouted at her two children to run to safety before she was hit by a stray bullet and killed. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1NIP2YE ) that Chyemil Pierce died Monday afternoon outside …
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GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police say a man strangled a woman and her two children with a dog lead in a northern Michigan trailer then used it to hang himself from a TV antenna outside the home. State police on Tuesday released details about Saturday’s deaths in Oscoda County’s Greenwood …
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A former Gary police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to violating a handcuffed man’s civil rights by using excessive force while arresting him. A U.S. District Court judge in Hammond sentenced Terry Peck to one year and one day in prison followed …
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The prison stabbing of George Floyd’s convicted killer, the disgraced ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, was a predictable attack on a high-profile target at obvious odds with many of his fellow inmates, according to experts. Meanwhile, Chauvin’s mother blasted federal authorities on Facebook Monday, days after paramedics rushed her son to …
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A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore teen and his parents on allegations they brought a gun to a high school campus in October and beat up a student shortly before classes were to start, prompting a shootout that left three young people wounded, city prosecutors said Tuesday. The shooting …
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Van Brett Watkins, the man who spent about 20 years in jail for his role in former NFL player Rae Carruth’s plot to kill his pregnant girlfriend, has died, according to online prison records. He was 63. Watkins was serving his time at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. He …
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A stolen 17-inch Bigfoot statue – or maybe it was a trade for marbles – and a chicken-wielding woman’s alleged poultry pounding of her boyfriend were among a few of the most head-scratching crimes of 2023. In Glendale, Wisconsin, officers chasing a stolen car cuffed a feces-and-urine-covered suspect who hid …
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Vili Fualaau, the now-40-year-old whose illicit relationship and post-conviction marriage to his sixth-grade teacher made international news, said he is “offended” by the hit Netflix movie based on the ’90s scandal. Although the movie diverges from its real-life counterpart, with the couple meeting in a pet shop rather than a …
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