Texas authorities have released more details in the line-of-duty death of a Harris County deputy who was hit by a truck while working a crash earlier this week. Deputy Investigator John Coddou, 50, died on Tuesday after he was hit by a man driving a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 while investigating a minor crash in the northbound lanes of Highway 99 …
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Karen Read murder trial: Prosecutors face challenge with 'undetermined' cause of death
A forensics expert zeroed in on two pieces of evidence ahead of Karen Read’s murder trial — the autopsy and the way the victim’s clothes were handled — and said he believes the medical examiner’s testimony will be pivotal. Read allegedly hit her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her car and left him to die in the snow, …
Read More »Disgruntled athletic director accused of framing principal with AI-generated racist, antisemitic recording
A Maryland high school athletic director was arrested after he allegedly used artificial intelligence (AI) to create racist and antisemitic audio in the voice of his boss, officials said Thursday. Dazhon Darien, 31, an athletic director at Pikesville High School, allegedly made the recording to retaliate against his boss, Pikesville Principal Eric Eiswert, who was pursuing an investigation into Darien’s …
Read More »Ex-Giants player, 85, sentenced in New York City drug case
Clyde “Peter” Hall, who played for the New York Giants in the early 1960s, was sentenced recently to five years in prison. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil sentenced Hall after he accepted a plea deal and admitted to an attempted sale of fentanyl-laced drugs in New York City. Prosecutors said Hall tried to sell the drugs to an informant working …
Read More »Police bodycam from quiet Connecticut town shows crazed gunman charge officers: 'This is you, this ain't me'
WARNING: GRAPHIC Behind a closed door, a man “acting erratically” is heard racking the slide of a pump-action shotgun in bodycam footage before bullrushing police with the gun pointed at them. “Here we go. This is you. This ain’t me,” Jared Billard yelled before barging through the basement door of a Colchester, Connecticut, home on April 18. Gunshots rang out. …
Read More »'Killer Clown' John Wayne Gacy's death row attorney reveals why he likely had dozens more victims — and help
John Wayne Gacy killed more than 33 victims, and the “Killer Clown” didn’t do it alone, his lawyer believes. Karen Conti was a fledgling attorney in the early 1990s when she defended the most infamous serial killer at the time during his final death row appeals from 1993 to his execution by lethal injection May 4, 1994. Gacy was convicted …
Read More »Mississippi plaintiff rejects settlement for brother who died after police pulled him out of car
A woman who sued Mississippi’s capital city over the death of her brother has decided to reject a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would pay his survivors, her attorney said Wednesday. George Robinson, 62, died in January 2019, days after three Jackson police officers pulled him from a car while searching for a murder suspect. The …
Read More »Anti-Israel agitators continue nationwide disruptions with escalations at USC, Harvard and Columbia
Multiple U.S. universities were flooded with anti-Israel agitators on Wednesday, with four schools hosting notably chaotic scenes in California, Massachusetts, Texas and New York. The University of Southern California (USC), Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Columbia University in New York City were all backdrops with varying degrees of hostility and unruliness amid fierce campus …
Read More »Arrest made after 3 injured in 'major incident' at school in Wales, police say
A suspect was arrested Wednesday after three people were injured in a “major incident” at a school in Wales, police said. Dyfed-Powys Police said the victims were being treated for injuries at Amman Valley School in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. Police did not disclose what happened, the nature of the injuries or why the alleged suspect was arrested. EUROPE MUST KEEP INCREASING …
Read More »Arizona Gov Katie Hobbs vetoes bipartisan bill to combat squatting, election bills
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbshas vetoeda bill aimed at strengthening the rights of homeowners looking to evict squatters from their property, despite the bill being passed in bipartisan fashion and as a wave of squatting cases continue to terrify homeowners across the country. The bill, SB 1129, would have permitted a homeowner to request law enforcement to immediately remove a …
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