New York City officials say retailers and food delivery companies must do more to halt the proliferation of unsafe e-bike and e-scooter batteries, after a fire blamed on an electric scooter’s lithium ion battery killed three people over the weekend. “There is blood on the hands of this private industry,” …
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Tom Weitzel was a three-year “rookie” of the Riverside Police Department in Illinois in 1987 when he was ambushed by an armed Chicago gang member in a car who shot him in the chest and left him for dead. “The back door of that vehicle swung open … and a …
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California authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with the murder of a young woman found dead in an alleyway off Ocean Avenue in Laguna Beach last weekend. The Laguna Beach Police Department on Wednesday announced the arrest of suspect Dino Rojas-Moreno on a murder charge in connection with …
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BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Craig Ross Jr., the 46-year-old New York man accused of abducting a nine-year-old girl from her bicycle and holding her for ransom, is now accused of raping the child while he kept her captive in a camper behind his mom’s double-wide trailer. A Saratoga County court …
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A Florida woman who was last seen more than a week ago has been found dead in a storage unit, deputies say. It is believed Shakeira Rucker, a 37-year-old mother of four from Winter Springs, was last seen Nov. 11. Her body was found Saturday, turning her disappearance into a …
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Two people were killed Sunday in a shooting at a Walmart store in Anchorage, Alaska, and the gunman has not yet been taken into custody, according to police. Anchorage police said officers responded just after 5 p.m. Sunday to the Walmart parking lot near Dimond Boulevard following reports of a …
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A high school baseball player in Georgia is in a coma after he was accidentally hit by a baseball bat. Gainesville High School senior Jeremy Medina was accidentally hit in the head by a baseball bat while at a batting cage on campus on Monday at around 1:20 p.m., according …
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — One person was dead in an officer-involved shooting outside Salem, Oregon, on Friday after police responded to a report of a male suspect firing a gun. STRIKING PORTLAND TEACHERS TEMPORARILY BLOCK DOWNTOWN BRIDGE The shooting happened at about 11 a.m. Law enforcement from the Marion County …
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A man who was shot at by police was found dead late Friday outside a Maryland home where a woman also was found shot to death, authorities said. Baltimore County Police were called to the home in Parkville to check on a domestic disturbance and heard a woman screaming and …
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A man has been arrested on murder charges after he allegedly shot three of his relatives dead inside a New Jersey condo on Monday. Om Brahmbhatt, 23, is facing three counts of first-degree murder for fatally shooting three adults – two men and a woman – at a condo in …
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