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Content warning: This article contains footage and descriptions of police detaining a child. Viral footage showing cops in Syracuse, New York detaining a child for (in their words) “stealing stuff” is drawing widespread criticism. In the clip, which had been shared to Twitter and Reddit at the time of this writing, a child can be seen and heard crying […]
A newly released field report on a teen’s fatal fall from a Florida amusement park ride shows the attraction had been rendered “unsafe” due to manual adjustments, investigators said this week. Per a report from CBS News, Quest Engineering and Failure Analysis had been enlisted by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to […]
A Florida federal judge on Monday voided the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national mask mandate covering airplanes and other forms of public transportation. CBS News reports U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle argues the CDC overstepped its authority in requiring, calling it “unlawful” that travelers must wear masks on airplanes, buses, and trains. Mizelle argued […]
An ex-principal at a Queens, New York high school who was allegedly involved in a scam to fraudulently hike up his school’s graduation rate will still get paid. The New York Post reports that Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir was previously the principal for Maspeth High School—at least until July 2021, when he was prohibited from his former […]
Bianca Lyons goes back to that same hospital room in Virginia every time she tells what happened to her and her baby. That day, eight doctors, nurses, and her husband Will all filled the room. London was there too, but she hadn’t arrived. Her baby’s heart rate dropped seven times before she was delivered. […]
Frank James, the suspected gunman who opened fire in a Brooklyn subway train, reportedly cried “like a little baby” shortly before his arrest. Gentrid Hasangjekaj, 21, told the New York Post he was in the middle of his shift at Stromboli Pizza when a teary-eyed man walked in asking for help. Hasangjekaj said the man, whom […]
For the first time in about 10 years, the mortality rate among Los Angeles County’s Latino population has surpassed that of white residents. According to new data shared by the LA County Department of Public Health, the rates for Latinos living in the area increased by 48 percent between 2019 to 2020, going from a rate […]
A Georgia man has been arrested in connection with the shooting range that resulted in three deaths last week. Jacob Christian Muse, 21, of College Park, Georgia, has been charged with three counts of malice murder, according to a statement from Georgia Bureau of Investigations, the ATF and the Grantville Police Department. The triple homicide took […]
Multiple injuries have been confirmed in connection to a Saturday mall shooting in South Carolina. The Columbia Police Department say officers responded to reports of “shots fired” at around 2:30 p.m. at the Columbiana Centre Mall near Harbison Boulevard. Officers have since started evacuating the building, while emergency personnel provide medical aid to victims. CPD Chief William H. […]
The United States Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard on a Carnival cruise headed for Florida. TMZ reports the vessel was on its last leg of the voyage between Grand Turk to Port Canaveral, which is east of Orlando, Florida, when the man went overboard. A passenger told the outlet that she was […]
