Juan Almestica (LANCASTER, Pa.) — A Pennsylvania man who was videotaped being tasered by police while sitting on a curb is suing the department for use of excessive force. Attorneys for Sean Williams, 27, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Lancaster Police Department and the officer who fired the Taser, […]
DigitalVision/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A July 2 report from the National Partnership for New Americans found a “shocking” 88 percent increase in citizenship application processing backlog since 2015. The report, presented at a news conference with House members Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., found that the backlog of roughly 390,000 […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon is looking at additional facilities that could accommodate migrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border beyond housing at U.S. military bases in Texas, officials said Tuesday. “We are looking at additional facilities so we can break up those populations so we can…manage the impact on […]
iStock/Thinkstock (NEW YORK) — Two contractors were shot by a co-worker while installing playground equipment at a Kansas elementary school Tuesday morning, police said, leaving one victim dead and the other in critical condition. The shooting at Sunrise Point Elementary School in Overland Park was the result of an argument […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The man suspected of opening fire at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland had first sent threatening letters to the Baltimore Circuit Court, Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals and a law firm in Baltimore, according to local police. Suspect Jarrod Ramos was taken into custody […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two people are in critical condition Tuesday morning after a shooting at an elementary school in Overland Park, Kansas, Overland Park police spokesman John Lacy said. Two workers were shot but no students were injured, Lacy said, according to ABC Kansas City affiliate KMBC-TV. This story is […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — While Iowa is considering what could become the most restrictive abortion law in the country, the Hawkeye state won’t be one of the states with the longest waiting periods for abortions. The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday struck down a law that required a 72-hour waiting period […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has reversed the initial rejection of a request to lower the White House flag to half-staff to honor the newspaper employees who were killed in a Maryland shooting last week. The mayor of Annapolis had made a personal appeal to the White House over the […]
South Padre Island PD(NEW YORK) — The Florida State Attorney’s Office 20th Judicial Circuit said on Tuesday it will seek the death penalty against Lois Riess, who allegedly killed a woman in Fort Myers Beach in April. Riess, 56, also is accused of shooting and killing her husband in Minnesota […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Veteran journalist Rob Hiaasen, one of five employees gunned down at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland on Thursday, was remembered at a “Celebration of Life” memorial Monday night. Hiaasen, 59, joined the Capital Gazette in Annapolis as an assistant editor in 2010. He was […]
