Investigators believe former NFL player Phillip Adams shot and killed five people — including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren — at a South Carolina home on Wednesday evening, a South Carolina state official confirmed to CNN Thursday. Adams, 32, was later found dead in a nearby home outside the city
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BOSTON (WCVB) — A former Northeastern University track and field coach who worked at several universities is accused of tricking female student-athletes into sending him nude photos and cyberstalking at least one student-athlete. Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of cyberstalking
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Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — The Nebraska Humane Society gets a lot of calls about abandoned pets, but the one it received last Friday stood out. “People don’t abandoned their pets at a groomer,” Kisha Witherspoon said. Witherspoon, an animal control officer at the humane society, responded to the
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Investigators believe former NFL player Phillip Adams shot and killed five people — including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren — at a South Carolina home on Wednesday evening, a South Carolina state official confirmed to CNN Thursday. Adams, 32, was later found dead in a nearby home outside the city
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Police arrested a Brooklyn, New York, resident on assault and reckless endangerment charges after he allegedly struck a 7-Eleven worker in the face multiple times while making anti-Asian statements, according to the NYPD. The alleged assault occurred at a 7-Eleven in midtown Manhattan early Saturday morning, police said. Gregory Jacques, 33, was later arrested Wednesday
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Officers were originally called to the 1800 block of Juniper Drive around 11:15 p.m. after receiving reports of shots fired in the area.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MASON CITY, Iowa (Globe Gazette) — The photo fairly oozes with tension as you look at it. In the background, a Ford F-150 is in flames, heavy black smoke billowing into the sky. The man in a red shirt in the foreground has burnt-red hands smudged with soot.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOLINE, Illinois (Quad-City Times) — Four Moline police officers received a Valor Award from the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police on Tuesday for saving a woman from a burning building, according to a news release from the Fraternal Order of Police. Sergeant Derrick Cullison and officers Joshua McManus,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — For Mao Lor, 65, getting a COVID-19 vaccine was painless and will make her feel safer leaving home, she said. “There’s no hurt,” the resident of the Bayview apartments in Downtown Madison said after receiving a shot Wednesday. “I need to protect
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[Breaking news update, published at 12:47 p.m. ET] Former NFL player Phillip Adams is the suspect in Wednesday’s shooting that left five people dead — including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren — in Rock Hill, a South Carolina state official confirmed to CNN Thursday. Adams, 32, was found dead of
Continue Reading Travis Rudolph, a former wide receiver for the Florida State Seminoles, is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with a shooting early Wednesday morning, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a double shooting in Lake Park, Florida, soon after midnight Wednesday, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. One
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Facing pressure to act after a recent spate of high-profile mass shootings, President Joe Biden unveiled a package of moves Thursday that seek to address the scourge of gun violence.
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Five people were killed — including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren — in a shooting at a home near the South Carolina city of Rock Hill on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. A sixth person also was injured in the shooting, and authorities eventually found a suspect in the suspect’s home
Continue Reading The majority of American eagles likely have rat poison in their systems, a new study reported Wednesday. Bald eagles once had faced grave threats to their survival in the 1960s due to hunting and DDT poisoning, but are now thriving thanks to past protections afforded by the US Endangered Species Act. The eagle population has
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Gwinnett County Solicitor General Brian Whiteside announced this week that, despite what Georgia’s new election reform law says, his office will not prosecute people who hand out food and water to voters waiting in long lines if the action was not motivated
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WABC) — 15-year-old Mireille Lee and her sister Elodie, who is just 13, have rocked the adult world of publishing from their home base more than 3,000 miles away from New York City in Brighton, England. What’s got everyone’s attention is their TikTok account called “A
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — LSU Health Shreveport admits to a mistake that left a lot of people without their scheduled second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. KTBS 3 News was told dozens of people went to the fairgrounds, only to find an empty parking lot. Two
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection to the January murder of a local father and his 7-year-old daughter. Javonn Nettles, 28, is facing two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action. Officials said Darrion Rankin-Fleming, 26, and Dmyah
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She is the fourth woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. Personal Birth date: April 28, 1960 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Elena Kagan Father: Robert Kagan, attorney Mother: Gloria (Gittelman) Kagan, teacher Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1981,
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Dr. Martin Tobin, a renowned pulmonary critical care doctor based in Chicago, took the stand on Thursday morning to offer his expert analysis of why George Floyd died while under Derek Chauvin’s knee last May. “Mr. Floyd died from a low level of oxygen,” he testified. “This caused damage to his brain that we see,
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