Tag: Public Safety

Suspect in Killing of 5 People in Texas Was Illegal Immigrant Deported Multiple Times: Sheriff

May 1, 2023
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The suspect who shot and killed five people in Texas—including an 8-year-old child—had been deported from the United States multiple times, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers. Capers told Breitbart that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers had deported the suspect—Mexican national Francisco Oropeza—three times, most recently in 2016. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…

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Democrat Cities Have Highest Homicide Rates, Report Finds

May 1, 2023
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Cities governed by Democrat mayors have seen the largest increases in homicide rates over the past year as well as registered the highest homicide rate per capita in Q1 out of 45 cities, according to a new report. Homicide rates in 45 of the most populated American cities rose by approximately 10 percent on average…

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Congress, Marine Corps Want to Give Biden’s US Navy Ship-Building Plan the Heave-Ho

May 1, 2023
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There appears to be growing bipartisan Congressional consensus, and acknowledgment from with the Biden administration, that its shipbuilding plan for the U.S. Navy is headed for an overhaul. The Biden administration’s $886 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $842 billion for the Pentagon, which has earmarked $202.5 billion for the Navy, a…

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DNA Ties Man Who Died in Prison to 1984 NJ Killing, AG Says

April 30, 2023
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TRENTON, N.J.—Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey. The state attorney general and the Mercer County prosecutor’s…

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Police: Armed Man Wounded, 2 Officers Hit but Saved by Vests

April 30, 2023
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PHILADELPHIA—Police say an overnight standoff with an armed man barricaded in a Philadelphia home ended when he was shot and wounded by officers who had been fired upon and struck by bullets in their protective vests. First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford told WPVI-TV that officers were called to the Germantown home at about 4 p.m….

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Roof Collapse at House Near Ohio State University Injures 14

April 30, 2023
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Part of a house collapsed and 14 people were injured near The Ohio State University Saturday evening when people climbed onto a roof that was not designed to hold significant weight, authorities said. Columbus Division of Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin said his department received a report around 7:40 p.m. of a roof collapse…

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Coast Guard Rescues 4 Passengers from 3 Cruise Ships

April 30, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—Four separate passengers were evacuated by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crews based in San Diego from three separate cruise ships off the Southern California coast during a 24-hour period beginning Friday night. At 7:10 p.m. Friday, a 47-year-old woman suffering from a progressive acute illness was hoisted off the cruise ship Carnival Panorama, 100…

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Coast Guard Rescues 4 Passengers from 3 Cruise Ships Near San Diego

April 30, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—Four separate passengers were evacuated by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crews based in San Diego from three separate cruise ships off the Southern California coast during a 24-hour period beginning Friday night. At 7:10 p.m. Friday, a 47-year-old woman suffering from a progressive acute illness was hoisted off the cruise ship Carnival Panorama, 100…

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2 Killed, 4 Wounded in Mississippi Shooting; Man Arrested

April 30, 2023
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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.—Police have charged a 19-year-old man with killing two teenagers and wounding four others in an early Sunday shooting at a house party on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Cameron Everest Brand of Pass Christian is charged with murder and aggravated assault, jail records show. Bay St. Louis Police Chief Toby Schwartz said…

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One Killed When Plane Slams Into Hillside in LA Neighborhood

April 30, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—One person was killed when a single-engine plane slammed into a grassy hillside above homes in a Los Angeles neighborhood amid dense fog, authorities said. The Cessna C172 crashed around 8:45 p.m. Saturday on the city’s west side, about 8 miles southeast of Van Nuys Airport, the Los Angeles Fire Department and Federal Aviation…

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