The U.S. Coast Guard rescued an injured man whose sailboat ran aground off the coast of Georgia this week. On Wednesday afternoon, Coast Guard Sector Charleston watchstanders received a distress call from a sailor who said his sailboat was sinking near Sapelo Sound, Georgia, according to a news release. The man radioed that his 36-foot vessel, the Quicksilver, had run …
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A level-headed Air Force veteran thwarted a would-be thief’s attempt to rob his Omaha jewelry store by brandishing his handgun and sending the suspect running. Surveillance footage captured inside Sidrony Jewelers last Saturday shows a black-clad robber smashing one of the store’s glass windows with a rock to let himself inside. The criminal didn’t anticipate that anyone would be inside …
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An Oklahoma judge awaiting trial for allegedly shooting at parked vehicles and rear-ending a woman in Texas now faces charges in his own state, accusing him of shooting into the home of his brother-in-law six months before the road-rage incident. Garfield County Associate District Judge Brian Lovell, 59, was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday on two felony counts …
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Police in Florida have released bodycam footage showing the moment a deputy fatally shot an Air Force airman as he answered the door to his apartment last week. Roger Fortson, 23, a Black senior airman, is seen in the video answering the door while holding a handgun by his side before — the deputy opened fire multiple times at close …
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A Florida man was arrested earlier this week after biting a chunk out of a deputy’s head at an EDM music festival on Sunday. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook one of its deputies was on foot patrol at the Sol Fest 2024 music and arts festival in Ponce De Leon, Florida, on Sunday night when he was …
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A Michigan woman claims her husband’s death could have been prevented by an awareness campaign about a little-known snorkeling danger, according to her lawsuit against the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Hawaii Visitors Convention Bureau. Officially, 64-year-old Ray Johnson’s cause of death in February 2022 was ruled drowning, the leading cause of death for tourists in Hawaii, by a coroner, …
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Search crews on Friday uncovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier and were preparing to bring them off the mountain via helicopter, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said. The men, ages 23 and 32, were killed in the snowslide Thursday …
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More than two decades after a University of Georgia law student was found dead in her burning home, authorities have arrested a man and charged him with murder in her slaying. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Athens-Clarke County police on Thursday announced the arrest of Edrick Lamont Faust, 48, in the January 2001 killing of Tara Louise Baker. Firefighters …
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A judge on Friday sentenced a woman to 55 years in prison for the 2022 killing of a longtime friend who was stabbed nearly 500 times. Kailie A. Brackett, who was convicted of murder, said that she was not responsible and that the real killer or killers could be at large. MAINE WOMAN SCREAMS ‘DON’T THINK I WILL?’ AT BOYFRIEND …
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Police responding to a domestic disturbance early Friday in Memphis fatally shot an armed suspect and an injured man at the scene was hospitalized, authorities said. Officers heard an active disturbance when they arrived around 3 a.m. and found the wounded man, Memphis Police said in a statement on social media. An armed suspect charged at police and one officer …
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