Category: In the news

A sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a man following a 911 call about an attempted robbery in central Florida. (FOX)- Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey told reporters the shooting happened around 8 p.m. Sunday when deputies spotted the suspect a short distance from the site of the attempted robbery in Cape Canaveral. Ivey says the man […]

Federal authorities arrested 50 people for violating immigration laws in Detroit Saturday as part of an investigation into an alleged cockfighting and illegal gambling ring. (FOX)- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls told the Detroit Free Press that 86 people were found inside an abandoned building. He added that those arrested will be […]

Sixteen people have been indicted and accused of running a massive home-grown marijuana operation in the greater Denver area. (FOX)- Authorities say that over about three years, the group used houses in places like Colorado Springs, Elbert County and Denver to cultivate marijuana and then make big-dollar deals to sell it in Illinois, Arkansas, Minnesota […]

A federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against the lawyer for the leader of the armed occupation at an Oregon wildlife refuge. (FOX)- U.S. marshals tackled Marcus Mumford and zapped him with a stun gun as he argued with a judge last fall over releasing his client, Ammon Bundy, shortly after his acquittal in the […]

Armed robbery goes wrong, captive breaks free and shoots and kills one suspect, wounds the other This is luck. The owner of the home who broke free, is seriously lucky here in this story. The fact that he was able to get loose and get to his firearm is a miraculous event that could have […]

Four people were killed and another was critically injured in a grisly shooting and stabbing spree early Wednesday at a New Orleans-area apartment complex, officials said. (FOX)- The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Department said it received a call around 3:30 a.m. local time from a woman who said she was shot at the apartment complex in […]

A teenager was shot and left for dead Wednesday in the middle of a Brooklyn street – where his body blocked a passing snow plow that became caught in the middle of the crime scene. (NYPost)- Trevon Dickens, 19, was found shot one time in the head outside 752 East 91 Street near Avenue B […]

Sheriff Wayne Ivey will never be mistaken for Vanna White or Pat Sajak. (FOX)- And his weekly “Wheel of Fugitive” broadcast in Brevard County, Fla., posted to Facebook, isn’t a game contestants want to win, either. But each Tuesday, a new fugitive is singled out for attention – based on the luck of the spin. […]

Employers across Europe can now ban workers from wearing visible religions symbols including the Islamic headscarf, the European Union’s top court ruled on Tuesday, finding it would not constitute “direct discrimination.” (FOX)- The ruling, seen as a victory for many in the political right wing, was the first of its kind amid a series of […]

Florida will now require a unanimous jury recommendation before the death penalty can be imposed under a bill signed late Monday by Gov. Rick Scott, who has remained relatively quiet about the problems with the state’s death penalty law in recent months. (FOX)- Lawmakers rushed to get the bill passed on the fourth day of […]