Tag: Crime and Incidents

1 Dead, 3 Injured in Shooting Outside Shopping Center in LA, Police Point to Drugs

A person is dead and three others injured in a shooting at a shopping center in West Hills in the western San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, on Saturday afternoon. Police responded to the shooting around 3:45 p.m. at the parking lot outside Trader Joe’s at Fallbrook Center, according to multiple reports. The shopping center…


Stormy Daniels Eager to Testify in Trump Trial

Adult film actress and stripper Stormy Daniels, whose alleged hush money payments are likely at epicenter of Donald J. Trump’s indictment, has publicly volunteered to “take the stand” in the prosecution of the former president. “Fingers crossed that I do,” she said in an interview on Times Radio. “I have nothing to hide. I look…


Manhattan DA Acknowledges Some Federal Funds Were Used to Investigate Trump

A March 31 letter from the office of Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg stated that some federal funding has gone into the investigation of former President Donald Trump or the Trump Organization by that DA’s office. It was sent to a trio of House Republicans including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who chairs the Judiciary…


Factory Explosion Survivor, on Fire, Fell Into Chocolate Vat

A woman pulled alive from the rubble of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory after an explosion that killed seven co-workers says flames had engulfed the building, and her arm, when the floor gave way beneath her. That might have been the end, if she hadn’t fallen into a vat of liquid chocolate. The dark liquid extinguished…


Fentanyl-Dealing California Police Union Official Charged

A California police union official has been accused of importing fentanyl from India, China, and other countries and then shipping it around the United States from her home in San Jose. Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, the executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, was charged on March 27 for importing synthetic opioids into…


At Least 1 Dead, 28 Injured After Roof Collapses During Death Metal Concert in Illinois

A person was killed and 28 others injured when the roof and marquee of the Apollo Theatre collapsed amid a severe weather warning during a concert in Belvidere, Illinois, on Friday evening. The sold-out concert, which included death metal bands Morbid Angel, Revocation, Crypta, and Skeletal Remains, began at 7 p.m. The collapse occurred about…


Former US Intel Director’s Daughter Gets 35 Years for Murder

ROCKVILLE, Md.—The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison in the fatal stabbing of a friend after a drunken argument at a Maryland home, prosecutors announced. Sophia Negroponte, 30, of Washington, was convicted in January of second-degree murder in the 2020 death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen….


Mourners Gather for First Nashville School Shooting Funeral

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her Friday as a “shining light” and said farewell to a girl who loved art, music, animals, and snuggling with her older sister on the couch. The funeral at the Woodmont Christian…


Gwyneth Paltrow Scores Court Win That Means More Than $1

PARK CITY, Utah—All that for a dollar? Nah, Gwyneth Paltrow’s motivation to go to trial to fight a lawsuit accusing her of sending a fellow skier “absolutely flying” at a posh Utah ski resort in 2016 was about vindication. She got it when a jury found her not at fault in the collision, granting her…


NY Patient’s Ambulance Joyride Ends When Police Spike Tires

TARRYTOWN, N.Y.—A patient stole the ambulance that had taken him to a New York City hospital and took it on a 25-mile joyride that ended when state police used a spike strip to stop him, authorities said. The incident unfolded early Thursday after a 47-year-old man was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in Manhattan…