One person was killed in a shooting at a middle school in Marion County, Florida during a school awards program on Wednesday evening, police said. Officials with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release that the shooting happened at North Marion County Middle School in Citra, Florida, which is 30 miles south of Gainesville, on Wednesday evening. …
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Students, staff sickened by chemicals during sheriff's office training exercise in California
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 …
Read More »Blue state Dems look to buck party's crime policies, get major backing from police groups in swing races
A group of Democrats running for Congress in three of California’s most competitive swing House districts are trying to flip the script on their party’s traditional approach to crime. Former federal prosecutor Will Rollins, state Sen. Dave Min and former state Assemblyman Adam Gray are making a tough on crime approach central to their campaigns, and they have secured endorsements …
Read More »Dog bed DNA could put death penalty into play for Gilgo suspect Rex Heuermann – here's how: cold case expert
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is under new scrutiny as investigators have returned to his home nearly a year after his arrest on multiple murder charges in the Gilgo Beach case, which perplexed authorities for over a decade until last year. After a New York task force placed Heuermann under arrest last year, he …
Read More »RNC evacuated due to suspicious package containing vials of blood
The Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., was evacuated on Wednesday morning due to a suspicious package, police confirmed.U.S. Capitol Police confirmed to Fox News “the suspicious package has been cleared.” With the security posture now loosening, police have since opened up the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street of the RNC and the Capitol Hill club. …
Read More »Florida deputy smashes window to rescue 1-year-old locked in hot car
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 …
Read More »New Jersey State Police 'never meaningfully grappled' with discrimination, comptroller finds
New Jersey State Police didn’t do all they could to prevent discriminatory policing practices from their ranks, the state’s comptroller said in a new report issued Tuesday. The report found that while the state police regularly issued lengthy reports on racial profiling, “leaders never meaningfully grappled with certain data trends that indicated persistent, adverse treatment of racial and ethnic minority …
Read More »Suspect who fatally shot California UPS driver 10 times in truck was coworker, childhood friend: DA
The suspect who shot a UPS driver in broad daylight in an ambush killing as the victim was on his delivery route in Southern California was a childhood friend of his and a coworker, prosecutors said. Rhean Jalipa Fontanoza, 46, allegedly shot 50-year-old Expedito De Leon 10 times “in a matter of seconds as he sat seat belted in his …
Read More »Parole hearing delayed for former LAPD detective who killed ex-boyfriend's wife
A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986. Stephanie Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her …
Read More »15-year-old Florida girl’s wakeboarding death opens lid on state’s lax lagoon laws
The death of 15-year-old ballerina Ella Riley Adler, who was struck and killed by an oncoming vessel after she lost hold of a tow-rope while wakeboarding in Florida last week, has brought the disparity in punishments between hit-and-run incidents on the road and at sea to light. Last week, Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 78, owner of the 42-foot Boston Whaler, hit …
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