Hundreds of mourners lined the streets Monday to say farewell to a Chicago police officer who was shot to death while off-duty and heading home from work. Police officers, firefighters and others gathered along the funeral procession route to St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago to remember 30-year-old officer Luis M. Huesca. The six-year veteran of the police …
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An abandoned, dead baby was found in a garbage bin near a freshman dormitory at University of Tampa’s campus on Sunday, police said. Tampa police officers found the infant’s body wrapped in a towel in the receptacle at the school’s 401 W Kennedy Boulevard campus around 7 p.m., WTSP reported. A Tampa Police Department spokesperson said there was “no threat …
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A teenage gunman wounded 10 people when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out during a private event at a Florida party venue, authorities said. A security guard tackled and disarmed the shooter almost immediately, and a second guard handcuffed him until sheriff’s deputies arrived, according to an arrest report from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. None of …
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Karen Read’s lawyer dropped bombshell accusations during opening statements in Read’s murder trial, including an investigator’s search for nude photos of her and “revealing texts” to friends on his personal phone. Read allegedly killed her boyfriend – Boston police officer John O’Keefe – when she backed over him with her car after an alcohol-fueled fight during a snowy night on …
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Two Florida sheriff’s deputies were seriously wounded and the man who shot them was killed when a gunfight erupted at a public park, according to the sheriff. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd praised his deputies as heroes, saying they were shot while trying to pull an uncooperative man from his car after he refused commands to get out on his …
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A bus crash on the outskirts of Mexico City killed 18 people on Sunday, while another 32 were injured, according to the state of Mexico’s civil protection agency. The accident happened in Malinalco in the southern region of Mexico state, which surrounds the capital on three sides. A bus traveling from San Luis de la Paz, in Guanajuato State in …
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte, North Carolina, residents who live just a few doors down from the scene of a deadly Monday shootout are in a state of shock after their quiet neighborhood erupted into gunfire on Monday afternoon. The shootout began around 1:30 p.m. Monday while members of a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force were serving a warrant for firearm …
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Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned …
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Colleges across the U.S. are reporting that some of the anti-Israel protesters participating in and getting arrested at demonstrations are not part of the school community and instead are outsiders. Emory University in Atlanta released a statement Thursday that 28 people were arrested during a demonstration at the Emory quad, 20 of whom were members of the school community. In …
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A Georgia man allegedly shot and killed a woman, believed to be his ex-wife, before shooting her new husband and himself at a shopping plaza Saturday night, according to police. A heavy police presence was observed at the Merchants Walk Plaza in Lilburn, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. Lilburn Police said in a news release that the suspect, 62, entered …
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