iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — Saturday marks the final day that nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans will receive temporary housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA’s transitional sheltering assistance helps natural disaster victims with temporary housing in hotels and motels if their homes were severely damaged during a storm. […]
ABC News(SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif.) — A California man suspected in a decades-old unsolved slaying killed himself when police arrived at his home to serve a search warrant after DNA evidence helped identify him, authorities said. Stephen Blake Crawford, 72, had been linked to the killing of Arlis Perry, 19, […]
Lucille Holt Colden(MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio) — A 12-year-old Ohio boy who operates his own lawn mowing business has gained more customers after one neighbor called the police one him for mowing part of her yard. Maple Heights resident Lucille Holt had employed 12-year-old Reginald Fields, who owns Mr. Reggie’s Lawn […]
Chief Terence Monahan/NYPDChiefofDept(NEW YORK) — Prosecutors lodged criminal charges against an Indiana man after he allegedly dropped his gun in Ikea and a 6-year-old boy picked it up and fired it. Francis T. Wright, 62, of Camby, Indiana was charged Thursday with criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon after […]
Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Thursday’s shooting inside the office of a local newspaper was the deadliest day for the media industry in the United States since the 9/11 terror attacks. Five people were killed when a gunman opened fire on employees inside the offices of the Capital Gazette, a […]
ABC News(LANCASTER, Pa.) — Danene Sorace, the mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said an investigation is underway after a viral video on social media showed a Lancaster police officer tasing a black man in broad daylight. “Like you, when I saw the video I was upset by it and it is […]
Anne Arundel Police(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The alleged gunman accused of fatally shooting five people inside a Maryland newsroom may have been nursing a longstanding grudge against the newspaper. Jarrod Ramos, a 38-year-old resident of Laurel, Maryland, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder, court records show. A judge […]
WJLA-TV(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — A community is reeling a day after an alleged gunman targeted the local Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland and gunned down five unsuspecting employees. The suspect, Jarrod Ramos, allegedly walked into the newspaper office at 888 Bestgate Road in Annapolis with a shotgun and fatally shot four […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — When a gunman stormed into the newsroom of the local Capital Gazette newspaper, intern Anthony Messenger made his first-ever call to 911. The college senior continued to call for help as shots were being fired — but couldn’t speak into the phone. “I thought we were going […]
Twitter/@jessica_roy(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — In the aftermath of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, LGBTQ communities around the country united around the phrase “love is love.” When a gunman opened fire during Sunday service at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, earlier this year, Christian leaders around […]
