Month: February 2021

The New York State Department of Health has released updated data on Covid-19 deaths among the state’s nursing home residents, several days after a state Supreme Court judge ordered the department to fulfill a watchdog group’s Freedom of Information request. The data released Saturday comes over a week after the state attorney general said in

Click here for updates on this story     Milwaukee (WDJT) — A Milwaukee police officer gets a 45-day suspension without pay for an incident during a protest last summer. Officials say Matthew Willmann threw a punch that broke a photographer’s camera long Old World Third Street. He is also accused of punching another woman and giving

About 115 inmates at a St. Louis jail escaped their cells, broke windows and set small fires in their unit on Saturday, officials said. The disturbance at the City Justice Center began around 2:30 a.m. when a “defiant detainee” got into a scuffle with a corrections officer, St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards said

Click here for updates on this story     Sallisaw, Oklahoma (KFSM) — Warning: Details in this story could be disturbing for some readers. Former Sallisaw Police Officer Billy Oliver is accused of raping a woman in November 2020., according to an affidavit. Oliver turned himself in on Friday (Feb. 5) and is out on bond, according

Less than five minutes’ drive from downtown Salt Lake City sits the quiet neighborhood of Fairpark. The area hosts an annual state fair, a regional campus of Utah State University and modest homes with small yards. On one of those yards sits a random group of tents where people experiencing homelessness have set up camp.

A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy died by suicide on Monday after recording and posting to social media videos of himself condemning institutionalized racism and describing his struggle as a Black law enforcement officer in a system that he says condones police brutality against Black people. Lafayette Parish Deputy Clyde Kerr III, 43, died from a self-inflicted

Click here for updates on this story     Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — If 2-year-old Sandy could talk, she’d probably have quite the story to tell. This young golden retriever had been missing since Thanksgiving. She was just recently reunited with her family in Tobyhanna. “Everyone kept the faith and told me that if I stayed positive,

Two men who appeared on the Netflix docuseries “Cheer” have been arrested and charged in separate sex crime cases involving minors, authorities said. The arrests on Wednesday of Mitchell Ryan and Robert Joseph Scianna came nearly five months after federal prosecutors in Chicago accused “Cheer” star Jeremiah “Jerry” Harris of “enticing an underage boy to