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Two police officers were shot and injured during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia, NBC News reports. Both officers were taken to a local hospital and are in stable conditions. Video from the shooting shows thousands of people fleeing the scene, which unfolded in the city’s Fairmount Street-Art Museum area. Fireworks can be seen going […]
Over 20 people were shot Monday morning during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb located about 25 miles north of downtown Chicago. Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, whose tweets are embedded below, was present and reports via authorities that five people were killed and 16 were wounded. Local man Miles Zaremski told […]
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Will Smith paid roughly $100,000 for a Fourth of July fireworks display over the Mississippi River in New Orleans. After city officials were forced to cancel last year’s fireworks because of the pandemic, financial woes threatened the annual display for a second straight year. That is, until the Independence Day actor and his Westbrook Entertainment […]
Employees of the fireworks company tasked with running July 4th celebrations in Ocean City, Maryland were injured Sunday after said fireworks unintentionally detonated hours ahead of the planned Independence Day display. WBAL reports the employees suffered minor injuries and refused to be taken to a local hospital, and no other beach or boardwalk visitors were injured as a result of the […]
Indiana Conservation Officers are conducting an investigation into an incident involving Vauhxx Rush Booker, a 36-year-old Black man, who says that he feared a group of white men were trying to lynch him, The Hill reports. In a Facebook post, Booker said that he was headed to Lake Monroe to watch the lunar eclipse with a […]
More than 15 years after he made a movie out of one (and however many years after the several he’s thrown that were not movies) Dave Chappelle held a “block party” over the July 4 weekend that gathered an exclusive list of famous entertainers for an event in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Note that this […]
Police say a guy who allegedly tried to hold up a fireworks stand in Texas was about to count up his would-be haul when an employee, using the suspect’s own gun, shot him. Deputies are on the scene at a fireworks stand in the 14400 block of the North Freeway. Preliminary reports are that a robbery […]
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