Click here for updates on this story FARMINGDALE, Long Island (WABC) — A Black apprentice electrician is speaking out after he says he found two nooses hung in his work area on Long Island, allegedly put there by white co-workers. Kyrin Taylor said he showed up to Cooper Power & Lighting Corp. in Farmingdale in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore County man said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for not wearing a mask while eating Twizzlers and wants to share his story in the hopes things will change. Avi Mandel said he was a frequent Southwest flyer until his flight
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey is responding to criticism after she released redacted files about a former police officer accused of child sexual abuse. “That would not happen under my watch,” Janey said. She was talking about disturbing new information showing Patrick Rose kept his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Massachusetts (WBZ) — A decades-old rumor leads to a nice payday for one family in Massachusetts. For years they were told money was hidden somewhere in their house. They hired carpenters in the past but could never find anything. So they brought in a real-life treasure hunter –
Continue Reading Chicago police on Thursday shot a suspect who was wanted in connection to last week’s shooting death of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams in a McDonald’s drive-thru, authorities said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said in a news conference Thursday that officers shot the suspect following a vehicle pursuit, crash and attempted carjacking. He confirmed the individual
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — A Midland County man won $2 million on a scratch-off ticket from the Michigan Lottery one year after losing everything in a flood. “Last year, I lost everything in a flood, so to win this prize is so overwhelming to me,” the 29-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men accused of leading deputies on a vehicle chase Thursday evening, April 22, in the area of Smokey Park Highway and Asbury Road in Candler. Deputies were initially responding to a breaking and entering call, and
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Multiple high school students in Texas are facing disciplinary action after they created a social media group pretending to auction off their Black peers. The group, called “N***** Auction” on the app Snapchat, was started by a handful of students at the Aledo Independent School District, just outside of Fort Worth. One student bid $100
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the
Continue Reading A Nevada death row inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the beginning of June, but he’s fighting his sentence, and in a recent court filing, he said he’d prefer to die by firing squad rather than a deadly drug cocktail. In a document filed this month, attorneys for Zane Floyd, sentenced to
Continue Reading Protests over deputies’ fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. kicked off for a third straight day Friday in North Carolina’s Elizabeth City, with demonstrators calling for authorities to release officers’ body camera footage of Wednesday’s killing. Demonstrators stood in the streets early Friday afternoon, blocking a few intersections in a commercial section of the city
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A former Waukesha South High School student who brought two pellet guns to school agreed to a plea deal. Tyrone Smith, who was 17 at the time of the incident, allegedly pointed the weapon at a student’s head and was shot after police said
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A fresh manicure makes Trevor Wilkinson feel a little more like his true self. And now, after a fight that lasted most of his senior year, the teenager can breathe easily in his Texas high school knowing that he fought for the right to be unapologetic about who he is. Wilkinson, 18, an openly gay
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Another gender reveal party turned dangerous, this time in New Hampshire, with an explosion that shook nearby homes. The partygoers detonated around 80 pounds of explosives, Kingston police said in a statement. They used an explosive called Tannerite, a target used for firearms practice that also comes in a gender-reveal variety. After Kingston police arrived
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KAUAI, Hawaii (KITV) — A spearfisherman went diving off the east coast of Kaua’i and came up with a big catch. Kawika Kau’i speared a 117-pound ulua or giant trevally, in one shot and he has video to prove it. “I just seen it just stay stiff and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A man is in custody after he allegedly shot a customer at a gas station and opened fire on several vehicles traveling down a busy northeast Atlanta roadway. The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. at the Exxon gas station at the intersection of Ponce De
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — The Mobile Police Department on Thursday conducted underage drinking compliance checks at eight locations to see if they would sell alcohol to minors. Police said four locations completed the sale of alcohol to a minor. The four locations that sold to the minors were
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Clashes between Palestinians from east Jerusalem and Israeli police around the Damascus gate entrance to the Old City erupted in a night of unrest that earlier saw Jewish extremists marching through another city street shouting “Death to Arabs.” The violence marks a high point so far in a new phase of complex heightened tensions in
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A female police official has been killed in a knife attack at a police station in a suburb of Paris, French officials said Friday. The attack took place at the station in Rambouillet, 35 miles southwest of the capital. The suspect is dead, officials said. The anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office, which usually handles investigations of terrorist
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Neighbors on Thursday described a chaotic scene of North Carolina deputies trying to serve a warrant, a car pulling away and shots fired — leaving one man dead. The shooting took place Wednesday morning in a working-class neighborhood of Elizabeth City in the northeastern corner of the state. The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday
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