Category: In the news

A Florida woman is being told to take down her Blue Lives Matter flag that’s been flying for several years now by her homeowners association. (FOX)- Jeff Gaddie told Action News Jacksonville that his daughter in St. Johns County has been flying the flag to honor him and many other family members who are law enforcement. “She called to ask why,” […]

Police in Cincinnati say a driver was shot and killed after his car hit a 4-year-old boy who ran into the street. (FOX)- Investigators say they believe the driver got out of his car after hitting the child Friday and a confrontation broke out. Police say 44-year-old Jamie Urton was shot several times and a […]

A man sitting at the back of a public bus on the Las Vegas Strip opened fire “for no apparent reason” as passengers got off at a stop in the heart of the tourism corridor, police said. (FOX)- Gary Breitling, 57, of Sidney, Montana, was shot and killed Saturday before the gunman barricaded himself in […]

The FBI searched a remote location in South Carolina Friday in connection with the disappearance a teenage girl who investigators believe was abducted nearly eight years ago. (FOX)- A jury heard testimony last summer that a jailhouse snitch told the FBI that in 2009 the body of 17-year-old Brittannee Drexel was fed to alligators after […]

A man who police said was inspired by false internet rumors to fire an assault weapon inside a Washington pizzeria has pleaded guilty to two charges. (FOX)- During a hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, Edgar Maddison Welch pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of a firearm and assault with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors […]

Authorities say police in Washington, D.C., shot and critically wounded an armed man who confronted them. (FOX)- Acting Police Chief Peter Newsham said at a news conference Wednesday night that officers responding to a call about a shooting confronted the man with a gun in a hallway on Wednesday evening. He says there was a […]

Authorities say an undercover police officer shot and injured a man in Atlanta after a collision. (FOX)- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says an off-duty Fulton County police officer responded to a report of a theft at a T-Mobile store Wednesday in Morrow, just south of Atlanta. The agency says the officer, driving his personal […]

North Korea link reportedly eyed in $81M cybertheft from Bangladesh bank account at New York Fed (FOX)- Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating if North Korea played a role in last year’s theft of $81 million from a Bangladesh central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The probe opens a new front […]

A 25-year-old man has been convicted of hacking to death his girlfriend, her teenage daughter and their landlord in central Iowa. (FOX)- A Dallas County jury on Tuesday found Carlos Hernandez-Ventura guilty on three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Hernandez-Ventura used a machete on Oct. 29 to kill 34-year-old Lourdes Flor De Leake, 14-year-old […]

A civil trial begins Tuesday for a Virginia police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man who had a knife. (FOX)- The Virginian-Pilot reports (http://bit.ly/2mNIzD1 ) that Norfolk police officer Carl Seger will represent himself. The family of the man he shot, Lawrence Faine, seeks $2.5 million. The shooting occurred in 2014. A […]