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The Pasquotank County sheriff on Thursday identified three deputies he said fired shots at Andrew Brown Jr. and four other deputies involved in the incident in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, who have returned to duty from administrative leave. Sheriff Tommy Wooten said in a news release that he looked at body camera footage and other

Israeli investigators are examining what caused a crush that killed at least 44 worshipers and injured 100 more at a mass religious gathering in Mount Meron overnight. Thousands of worshipers had crowded onto the mountain burial site to celebrate the Lag B’Omer holiday, an annual event where participants sing, dance and light fires in homage

A murder suspect who was being extradited to Arizona from Georgia and escaped while handcuffed walking to a tram connecting to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been captured, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Arizona murder suspect J’Saan Carlos Strover, 20, was taken into custody shortly before 11 p.m., after College Park Police received

Click here for updates on this story     Oakland, CA (Bay Area News Group) — OAKLAND — Chinatown Chamber of Commerce president Carl Chan was attacked on a public sidewalk Thursday afternoon, and police officers were able to detain a suspect, authorities said. In preliminary information, authorities confirmed that officers responded to reports of a victim,

The family of a Black man fatally shot by Delaware police officers after he was found resting in his rental car earlier this year filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the officers used excessive and deadly force and they are demanding a trial by jury. Lymond Moses was fatally shot by New Castle County Police (NCCP)

At least 44 people have been killed in a crush at a mass religious gathering on Mount Meron in northern Israel, emergency responders say. Attendees were celebrating the religious Lag B’Omer holiday, the largest annual public event in Israel. It commemorates the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Mishnaic sage whose book “The

Almost half of Myanmar’s population could be forced into poverty by the end of the year as the country teeters on the brink of economic collapse caused by the double shock of a bloody military coup and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. Rising food costs, significant losses of income and

A former Louisiana police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly punching, pistol-whipping and kicking a man who was under arrest. Dylan Hudson of the Shreveport Police Department was arresting a man in Caddo Parish in August 2019, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice, when he allegedly

At least 28 people have been killed in a crush at a mass gathering in northern Israel, according to a spokesman for the ZAKA emergency service. Attendees were celebrating the religious Lag B’Omer holiday, he said. Another emergency service, Magen David Adom (MDA), said through a spokesman that at least 50 people had been injured