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Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez fired 11 employees and put six more on unpaid suspension in connection to the in-custody death of a Black man in February, Gonzalez announced Friday. Gonzalez said Jaquaree Simmons, 23, was found unresponsive in his cell February 17 after detention officers used force on him. “I have fired 11 employees

More than 22,000 rounds of ammunition, a dozen firearms, suspected Molotov cocktails and multiple cans of gasoline were found in the home of Sam Cassidy, the gunman who took nine lives at his workplace on Wednesday, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. The motive for Cassidy’s rampage has not been determined, but authorities

Investigators are trying to determine what led a gunman to open fire Wednesday at his workplace — a public transit rail yard in San Jose, California — killing nine people before killing himself, officials said. Eight miles away, authorities are looking into the gunman’s home, which officials said was burning around the time of the

Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD is trying to identify a man seen on video punching a 75-year-old Asian woman in Queens. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near 97th Place and 57th Avenue in Corona. Surveillance video shows the suspect randomly sucker punch the woman. She falls

A 26-year-old farm worker was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the abduction and fatal stabbing of college student Mollie Tibbetts in July 2018. The verdict comes nearly three years after the body of the 20-year-old woman was found in an Iowa cornfield. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, wearing headphones as interpreters translated the decision in

The Coast Guard said Friday it will continue searching for 10 people thought to be missing after a boat overturned a day earlier about 16 miles southwest of Key West, Florida. The Coast Guard rescued eight people on Thursday around 1 p.m., the military branch said in a tweet. Two bodies were recovered. When crews

Russian President Vladimir Putin cemented his support of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko in a meeting on Friday, saying that the West’s reaction to the interception and forced landing of a passenger jet “was an outburst of emotion.” The meeting comes as international condemnation of Belarus continues to grow following what leaders have described as the

Washington state’s attorney general on Thursday filed felony charges against three police officers in connection with the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died in March 2020 in the custody of the Tacoma Police Department. Officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins are charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter while Officer Timothy Rankine

Two people are dead and 10 are still possibly missing after a boat overturned in 18 miles southwest of Key West, Florida. The US Coast Guard rescued eight people Thursday afternoon around 1 p.m., the military branch said in a tweet. Two bodies were discovered and crews are searching for a possible 10 people still

San Jose officials said Friday police were not informed that Sam Cassidy, the gunman who killed nine coworkers this week at a rail yard facility, had been stopped in 2016 by US Customs officers and found to have books on terrorism and a memo book full of hateful writings about his workplace. A Department of