Two adults and two children were found fatally shot Sunday in a suburban Chicago home. Their bodies were found about 8:40 p.m. in Romeoville by officers sent to the home to conduct a well-being check, police said Monday. 3 TACOMA OFFICERS CHARGED IN BLACK MAN’S POLICE-CUSTODY DEATH Police officers found …
Read More »Los Angeles woman robbed at gunpoint after suspect follows her into parking garage, video shows
A Los Angeles woman was robbed of about $100,000 earlier this month after an armed man followed her into a gated underground parking garage in the exclusive Hancock Park neighborhood, according to a local report. Surveillance video released this week shows the woman driving her car into the garage under …
Read More »University of Maryland surgeons perform second pig heart transplant in attempt to save dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday. The 58-year-old …
Read More »In Montana, deputy kills man who was being served an arrest warrant
A Yellowstone County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who fired a gun while officers were trying to serve him with an arrest warrant from another Montana county, the sheriff’s office said Thursday. Officers went to a residence about 22 miles northeast of Billings, near Ballantine, at 11:30 p.m. …
Read More »Cocktails fly when wild bar brawl breaks out, spills out into street: police
A security guard was hospitalized after a “verbal argument” devolved into an all-out brawl at a North Carolina cocktail bar, with nine of 20 participants facing a slew of criminal charges, police said. Winston-Salem Police said the fight erupted around 1:30 a.m. at the Thirsty Pallet on Sept. 23, when …
Read More »Crew member burned, passengers evacuated from small cruise ship in Maine after explosion
A crew member aboard a small cruise ship was injured and hundreds were evacuated from the vessel, following an explosion in the engine room, according to reports. It happened Wednesday on the American Queen Voyages’ Ocean Navigator docked in Maine’s Portland Harbor, officials said. The injured crew member was taken …
Read More »Louisville officers shoot, critically wound, break-in suspect who disregarded commands to drop gun
Kentucky police officers shot a suspect in a residential break-in who did not comply with commands to drop a gun during a foot pursuit, officials said Tuesday. KENTUCKY DEPUTY WOUNDED AND SUSPECT KILLED DURING ATTEMPTED ARREST The shooting happened as officers responded to an early morning call from the home …
Read More »3 teens shot, injured outside west Baltimore high school
Three teenagers were wounded in a shooting outside a west Baltimore high school around the time classes were starting Friday morning, officials said. The shooting adds to a recent uptick in youth violence plaguing the city this year, including several instances of Baltimore public school students being shot on or …
Read More »Coroner: Boy died of blunt force, compression injuries when gate closed in North Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – A coroner says an 8-year-old boy died of blunt force and other injuries when he was struck by a metal gate in North Las Vegas. The Clark County coroner’s office said Thursday that compression injuries also were involved in the death of Matthew Cattlet. The child was …
Read More »Wildlife officers resuscitate sturgeon, cite poaching suspect in Sacramento County
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – State wildlife officers resuscitated a 66-inch sturgeon and cited the man who pulled the fish from the Sacramento River. Janice Mackey of the Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday that officers spotted the suspected poacher along the river near Clarksburg last week. The man hooked a …
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