MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota man living at a halfway house while awaiting sentencing on a terror charge was returned to custody in April after a box cutter was found under his bed, according to a court document filed Monday. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis ordered Monday that because Abdullahi Mohamud …
Read More »California becomes the second state where Latinos outnumber whites, census figures show
LOS ANGELES – The long-expected moment when Latinos surpass whites as California’s largest racial or ethnic group has come and gone. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in late June, Hispanic Californians began to narrowly outnumber white Californians sometime in the first half of 2014. As of July 1, …
Read More »Police: ATM workers forget bag of cash outside New Jersey business, man drives off with $150K
MAHWAH, N.J. – Police say a man drove off with a bag containing $150,000 in cash after two employees who were replenishing ATMs mistakenly left it on a lawn in northern New Jersey. Mahwah police say in a news release that the ATM employees had stopped at a business on …
Read More »Engine trouble keeps Newark-bound flight from taking off at San Francisco airport
SAN FRANCISCO – Officials say a flight bound for Newark, New Jersey, never made it off the runway after engine troubles forced the plane to abort takeoff at San Francisco International Airport San Francisco airport duty manager Nancie Parker said the craft was towed back to the gate and there …
Read More »Lawyer: Chelsea Manning faces possible solitary confinement for alleged prison infractions
WICHITA, Kan. – The lawyer for convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning says her client faces charges for alleged prison infractions that carry a possible maximum sentence of indefinite solitary confinement. Defense attorney Nancy Hollander said Wednesday an Aug. 18 hearing is set at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, …
Read More »Ohio trooper advertised 'traffic stop sex' on Craigslist, pursued female victim on Facebook
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Records show that an Ohio state trooper accused of forcing female motorists into sexual acts in exchange for dropping traffic charges used Craigslist to offer “traffic stop sex.” The records also show that trooper Bryan Lee sent multiple Facebook messages to a female passenger he photographed without …
Read More »Truck drives over embankment, crashes into fisheries pond in Washington state; 4 people killed
TULALIP, Wash. – Authorities say a truck drove off a roadway, over a concrete embankment and into a fisheries pond in western Washington state, killing the driver and all three passengers. A spokeswoman for the Snohomish (snoh-HOH’-mish) County sheriff’s office says a call came in around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday that …
Read More »Deputies in wrongful-death case dispute autopsy finding that disabled man died from asphyxia
Three Maryland sheriff’s deputies are disputing the state medical examiner’s conclusion that a man with Down syndrome died from asphyxia as they struggled to remove him from a movie theater in 2013. In a U.S. District Court filing, the deputies contend the evidence shows that 26-year-old Robert Ethan Saylor probably …
Read More »Bike-riding youths terrorize Dem-run city as mobs swarm roads, while mayor stays silent on chaos
Boston motorists captured the moment over 100 bikers filled a local highway, stopping traffic and wreaking havoc on the roads. The incident was initially reported just after 2 p.m. on Saturday, after Massachusetts State Police received a call regarding a group of people on bicycles, electric scooters and dirt bikes …
Read More »'Yogurt Shop Murders': Austin’s unsolved cold case continues to raise questions decades later
More than 30 years after the brutal murder of four teenage girls in an Austin yogurt shop, a crime that stunned the city and remains unsolved, a new HBO Max docuseries is shining fresh light on the cold case. On Dec. 6, 1991, firefighters responding to a blaze at the …
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