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Up to 1,000 Hells Angels members are making their way into Toronto for a memorial gathering today. The motorcycle club is expected to ride through the city’s east end between 11 a.m. and noon, to honour the life of former member and Toronto boss, Donny Peterson, who passed away in December at the age of 74. […]
Thomas Lane, a former Minneapolis police officer, was sentenced on Thursday following his conviction of violating George Floyd’s constitutional rights. The federal civil rights charge sentencing, per a report from the Associated Press, saw U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson handing down a sentence of two and a half years in prison. Notably, this is lower […]
Multiple people were sent to the hospital following what’s been reported as “severe turbulence” on an American Airlines flight from Tampa, Florida to Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday. Per a report from the Associated Press, the plane was diverted to the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama after encountering “unexpected turbulence” while over the Pensacola region. A […]
An explosion at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday cued an emergency response from a group of Nevada firefighters. Footage of the incident circulating social media shows what appeared to be a fire in a building near the base of the dam, which is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between […]
A herd of cows halted traffic on a turnpike in central Florida after a cattle truck caught fire. According to the Miami Herald, the incident occurred on Monday after the driver of the van, a 47-year-old from Samson, Alabama, pulled off to the the Florida Turnpike South in Osceola County so the truck, which troopers said was carrying […]
A Michigan woman had her lawsuit transferred out of court after she snapped at a judge for questioning her knowledge of the law when she decided to sue a man for taking her out on a bad date. QaShontae Short filed suit against Richard Jordan in 2020, accusing him of intentional infliction of emotional distress caused by the date. Per TMZ, the legal […]
A man believed to have been asleep on the beach at Coney Island was hit and killed by a man driving a New York City Parks Department vehicle on Monday. Per a report on Tuesday from CBS News, the truck in question was finishing up a cleaning of the beach area when the driver “didn’t see […]
A wedding reception in Hawaii got hit by a “historic” swell that brought large waves to various parts of the island over the weekend. Footage of the incident, which took place on Saturday at the Hulihe’e Palace in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii’s Big Island, captures the moment a massive wave dismantled the wedding party’s set-up of tables […]
For locals, it’s no secret that Toronto Pearson International Airport redefines mayhem. However, when the newspaper of record writes about the airport’s disarray, it’s officially reached new lows. “Turbulence on the Ground at Toronto’s Pearson Airport” is the title of the New York Times piece published on Saturday, in which the publication exposes their millions of American subscribers to […]
A children’s theme park based on the wide world of Sesame Street is under fire amid the sharing of quickly-made-viral footage showing a character seemingly declining to provide a high-five or other acknowledgment to two young Black girls. The footage in question was shared by Instagram user @_jodiii__ and shows a park worker (in character […]
