Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Twelve major US cities top annual homicide records
MicroStockHub/iStock(NEW YORK) -- At least 12 major U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021 -- and there's still three weeks to go in the year. Of the dozen cities that have already su...
Dec 08, 2021
Kim Potter trial updates: Trial begins over fatal shooting of Daunte Wright
DNY59/iStock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter charged in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot during a traffic stop, be...
Dec 08, 2021
Thirteen-year-old boy killed, 9-year-old girl wounded in Los Angeles triple shooting
carlballou/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- A shooting outside a Los Angeles elementary school left a 13-year-old boy dead and two people critically wounded, including a 9-year-old girl who was hit by a stray b...
Dec 08, 2021
Hawaii governor declares state of emergency over 'catastrophic' weather
P_Wei/iStock(HONOLULU) -- Following a forecast of "catastrophic" rainfall, flash floods and landslides, Hawaii Gov. David Ige declared a state of emergency for the tropical state. “Now is the ti...
Dec 07, 2021
Delphi murders: Police investigating fake model profile who contacted underage girls
iStock/ChiccoDodiFC(NEW YORK) -- Police investigating the mysterious Delphi, Indiana, murders are looking for the person who, they said, created fake Snapchat and Instagram profiles, posed as a wealth...
Dec 07, 2021
Football player, 16, slain in Michigan school shooting to be mourned at funeral
diephosi/iStock(OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich.) -- Family and friends are gathering Tuesday to remember 16-year-old football player Tate Myre, who was killed one week ago in a shooting at his Michigan high sc...
Dec 07, 2021
Government witness ‘Kate’ testifies Ghislaine Maxwell groomed her for sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein
iStock/CatEyePerspective(NEW YORK) -- As the criminal trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of serial sex offense Jeffrey Epstein, entered its second week, a woman ident...
Dec 06, 2021
Wisconsin law to curb rape kit backlog with standardized collection, tracking system
iStock/CatEyePerspective(NEW YORK) -- For years, thousands of sexual assault kits sat on the shelves in Wisconsin crime labs, leaving victims and investigators desperately waiting for crucial data, ac...
Dec 06, 2021
Man arrested for threatening to attack LGBTQ community with guns, bombs
iStock(NEW YORK) -- A suburban New York man threatened to attack the 2021 New York City Pride March with "firepower" that would "make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk," f...
Dec 06, 2021
Family of Emmett Till reacts to DOJ closing investigation into his murder
iStock/PeopleImages(NEW YORK) -- In a report shared with the family of Emmett Till, the Justice Department said that it had concluded that the investigation into the 14-year-old’s murder and dec...
Dec 06, 2021