Category: In the news

About a dozen officers fired at a teenager who’s accused of shooting at patrol cars during a chase and hitting a sheriff’s deputy with a stolen car, a suburban New Orleans sheriff’s spokesman said. (FOX)- Two Gretna police officers and about 10 Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies fired at Ray John Brown, 17, of New Orleans, […]

A man accused of bringing an assault weapon to a Washington pizzeria while investigating false internet rumors of child sexual abuse is set to appear in court. (FOX)- Prosecutors have argued that 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch is dangerous and should remain in jail. His attorney will have an opportunity Friday to argue for his release […]

Attorneys for a Minnesota police officer who killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July are asking that charges against him be dismissed, saying Castile was negligent in his own death and claiming he was high on marijuana while driving and did not obey the officer’s commands. (FOX)- In court documents dated Wednesday and […]

A federal judge has denied an Iraqi refugee’s request to have his life sentence on terrorism-related charges vacated. (FOX)- News outlets report that U.S. Magistrate Judge Brent Brennenstuhl wrote in an opinion on Thursday that 29-year-old former Bowling Green resident Mohanad Shareef Hammadi failed to prove his attorney, James Earhart, was ineffective in representing him. […]

In one of the stranger chapters of Mexico’s drug war, townsfolk have kidnapped the mother of an alleged drug gang boss to demand the release of their loved ones. (FOX)- The government of the southern state of Guerrero said Tuesday it dispatched 220 soldiers and police in hopes of defusing the situation in the town […]

Officials say the suspect who was shot by officers at a Walmart in West Virginia has died. (FOX)- According to a statement from the West Virginia State Police, the shooting occurred Sunday afternoon in the Walmart parking lot in White Hall. The incident involved two officers from two separate, unspecified agencies. The statement says officers […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is visiting Israel as it’s about to receive the first two next-generation F-35 fighter jets. (FOX)- Carter was welcomed with a military honor guard at a Tel Aviv army base on Monday. The jets are meant to maintain Israel’s military edge over its Mideast neighbors for years to come. Israeli […]

Syrian government troops and allied militiamen seized more ground in Aleppo’s ancient quarters on Wednesday. (FOX)- Further widening their control over an enclave in the divided city that has been in rebel hands since 2012, Syria’s state media and an opposition monitoring group said. The state news agency SANA said the Syrian forces established control […]

With the execution Tuesday of a man convicted of killing his father-in-law, Georgia has put to death nine inmates this year — more than any other state. (FOX)- William Sallie’s time of death was 10:05 p.m., after an injection of compounded barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, Warden Eric Sellers told witnesses. Sallie, […]

Police said Tuesday that a Las Vegas smoke shop worker was arrested on a murder charge for fatally shooting an unarmed 13-year-old who ran into the shop to steal items last week. (FOX)- Clerk Raad Sunna, 24, was arrested Monday night after police reviewed surveillance video from inside the smoke shop recorded during the Friday […]