Bodycam footage captured the moment a Florida deputy smashed a car window to rescue a 1-year-old who was accidentally locked inside a car without its engine running. The incident happened around 5 p.m. outside a Palm Coast Walmart on May 20, Flager County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) said. When deputies arrived on scene, a man and woman were standing outside a …
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Millions of people in the U.S. report using marijuana daily or nearly every day, according to an analysis of national survey data, and those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or nearly-daily drinkers of alcohol. Alcohol is still more widely used, but 2022 was the first time this intensive level of marijuana use overtook daily and near-daily …
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Six men have been charged with staging a string of armed robberies across Chicago and its surrounding suburbs so that the victims of these allegedly fake crimes could apply for special U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims, federal authorities said Friday. The two men accused of organizing and carrying out the staged robberies were identified as Parth Nayi, 26, …
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A raft of hypothermia hospitalizations and other questionable conditions at a Virginia prison uncovered in a recent report deserve further scrutiny, leading Democratic state lawmakers said this week. Lawmakers pledged to press Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration for answers and called for a newly created prisons watchdog to look into the findings of an Associated Press report, which found at …
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Illinois Democratic state lawmakers are aiming to change the word “offender” to “justice-impacted individual” with a new bill. House Bill 4409 will amend the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 to change “references from ‘offenders’ to ‘justice-impacted individuals,'” among other changes, according to a summary of the bill. “Over and over again, we keep changing the name of how we …
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A grizzly that accidentally inflicted itself with a burst of pepper spray while attacking a hiker in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park won’t be captured or killed because it may have been trying to protect a cub, park officials said in a statement. While mauling a hiker on Signal Mountain, the grizzly bit into the man’s can of bear repellent …
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The FBI on Wednesday raided a local prosecutor’s office and business in Mississippi’s capital city, although officials declined to say whether Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens is suspected of wrongdoing. FBI agents spent hours searching a cigar bar owned by Owens in downtown Jackson. They also removed items from his office in the Hinds County Courthouse. JUDGE UNSEALS FBI …
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A training exercise conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office took a negative turn after dozens of students and staff at a nearby elementary school were exposed to chemical agents on Tuesday. Tara Moriarty, Director of Communications for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, told Fox News Digital that deputies were participating in a two-hour crowd control training session on Tuesday …
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Two people have died and three others have been injured after a disgruntled former employee opened fire Wednesday inside a linen store in Chester, Pennsylvania, officials say. The shooting happened at Delaware County Linen, which describes itself on its website as a family-grown “full service linen company that was founded in 1988,” serving restaurants, country clubs, hotels and other businesses. …
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A wealthy Chinese businessman who left China a decade ago and became a U.S.-based outspoken critic of his homeland’s Communist Party went on trial in New York on Wednesday for what prosecutors say were multiple frauds that cheated hundreds of thousands of people worldwide of over $1 billion. Guo Wengui, 57, once believed to be among the richest people in …
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